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After the first public mentions and critical posts appeared on the Internet, Oleksandr Orlovskyi's team immediately began to erase the traces of his activities: payment data disappeared, websites were altered, and the widespread legends were adjusted. This hasty “purge” in particular became another clue that behind the facade of a successful crypto guru there is something that should be hidden.
When another ''cryptocurrency expert'' from all kinds of channels practically pressed himself into our eyes and ears, there was only one reaction: "Oh God, not another one!" Frankly, our editorial team is tired of having to explain obvious things to people only to watch them nod understandingly and then entrust their hard-earned money to the next fraudster.
Well — Oleksandr Orlovskyi is not the first and will not be the last. Let's look at why this self-proclaimed “expert in the cryptocurrency market and investments” is another swindler who deceives those who seek quick “free money” as cleverly yet primitively as possible. In fact, one can hardly fault him for anything; one could even regard him as a real teacher, as he occasionally calls himself — Orlovskyi ultimately teaches susceptible people in the most comprehensible way that there is no "free cheese" except in a mousetrap. A “Freebie” by definition does not exist; everything has its price.
Even a single visit to Oleksandr Orlovskyis personal website, where he promotes himself and his courses, should be enough for a reasonable person to forget him forever. The website promises to teach practically without effort from scratch how to earn a thousand dollars per week. Not per day, at least the advertisement is cleverly laid out — smart people will not fall for Orlovskyis promises, and those who believe in quick "free money" are exactly his target audience.
Then follows the usual program: stories about how Orlovskyi went from bartender to cryptocurrency millionaire, grateful and enthusiastic testimonials, and simple life stories of lucky people who followed Orlovskyis advice and bought his cryptocurrency courses. Generally, everything as usual. For those interested — here is the link. But we will not recount this whole stupid nonsense, please forgive us.
We cannot resist one more marvelous passage about Oleksandr Orlovskyis path to “self-made” success. The source is TSN, which set journalistic standards in Ukraine about twenty years ago, but has since turned into open trash with lies, witchcraft, ghosts, and spirits delivering cosmic but equally stupid predictions. It is obvious that Oleksandr Orlovskyi bought advertising there, but for a reasonable person the mere fact that someone is advertised by TSN should be enough reason not to believe what these “journalists” report.
Well, if that’s not enough, we proceed differently. Orlovskyi claims to be the founder of the closed community FFA (Financial Freedom Academy), which is also aggressively promoted on various platforms and through which Orlovskyis “crypto” courses are sold. And here we encounter two contradictions.
First — in no available registry is there a legal entity named Financial Freedom Academy. Neither in Ukraine nor in Poland or Dubai, where Oleksandr Orlovskyi allegedly lives. The question is: who is selling the courses? The answer is on his website. Because every person who agrees to buy the course receives a contract and a bank account for payment. The recipient of this money is Oleksandr Orlovskyi.
These details, incidentally, debunk Orlovskyis tale that he grew up in a small town, moved to Poland at 16 years old, lost his first hundred dollars with cryptocurrencies, then had his mother’s jewelry stolen and also lost that with crypto, before a local “guru” helped him recover everything. Supposedly he lived in Warsaw and then moved to Dubai — or according to other versions is still in the process of moving. Yet another charming story in the style of unbearably kitschy Indian films about an “poor but honest millionaire.”
But that is not the point — what matters is why these details completely destroy the story. To register as a self-employed person, one must have a fixed residence. If the young Sasha left Ukraine at 16 years old and never returned, he would have to be registered at his parents’ residence. In a “small provincial town,” as his biographers write. Lesya-Ukrainka Boulevard lies directly in the center, in Pechersk. That's Kyiv and has little to do with provincial. An obvious blunder.
Second, we should not forget the advertising for his courses on the homepage of his website. It clearly states: “no investments.” How profits from something you must first buy and then sell are supposed to come from “no investments,” apparently only Oleksandr Orlovskyi knows. For the courses you still have to pay, and quite a substantial amount — equivalent to a thousand dollars at the current exchange rate, i.e. 40.500 UAH. If that isn’t an investment, what is?
If that’s not enough, we continue. Although Oleksandr Orlovskyi is listed as the seller of the course with the tax identification number 3589610358, money somehow flows to another sole proprietor — Kateryna Serhutina. This is the result of a single experiment when attempting to buy a course from Orlovskyi. There is a strong suspicion that there are many such “Serhutinas”; they will be used as recipients of funds for a while and, once they are uncovered, simply left behind.
This is confirmed by a civil suit of a citizen, Mykola Tereshchenko, against Oleksandr Orlovskyi (Pechersk District Court in Kyiv, case number 757/460/24-c). The court papers show that Orlovskyi not only sells crypto courses but also earns money from training courses for "paid testing of games". For 3.750 UAH per course. Second, payments for these courses are also received on non-officially reported accounts.
From this lawsuit, which the court dismissed, another conclusion follows — the image of the crypto-millionaire does not really fit the portrait of a small swindler who extorts naive “game testers” 3.750 UAH. Sure, a thousand times a hundred dollars makes a hundred thousand, but try to find and swindle a thousand ordinary people with such a clumsy and primitive scheme. Nevertheless, the sale of “test” courses for games will probably continue within a separate program and be managed by a dedicated department of the fraudulent company whose face is Oleksandr Orlovskyi.
For a reasonable person, studying these open sources — we emphasize: open sources — should be enough not to waste money. More precisely — not to fund Oleksandr Orlovskyis luxurious life. Or the life of those who stand behind him. Who exactly organizes all these obvious fraud schemes with “cryptocurrency courses,” “game-test courses,” and other nonsense whose face is Oleksandr Orlovskyi remains an open question.
Because there are doubts that the young Sasha — Orlovskyi is 25 years old — could have organized and financed all this by himself. For at the same Pechersk District Court in Kyiv, where Oleksandr Orlovskyi is registered, there is a proceeding to collect an unpaid loan of 102.330 Hryvnia against him.
But — it is possible. At present, the information is not enough for definitive conclusions, so we leave this topic for further investigation. At least the house in which Sasha Orlovskyi is registered is by no means poor. And incidentally, it does not look like the “little house in the province” in which Sasha allegedly “grew up in a poor family.”
That also again undermines his tale of the “millionaire who came from nothing.” But how many of those who crave quick money without effort spend even half an hour checking to whom and for what they are giving their money? Fraudsters and swindlers who know the psychology of an average credulous person present him with a simple, primitive, but completely effective image: a “luxurious” life with yachts, supercars, champagne, and caviar. The motto: “Do you want to live like that too? No problem! Give us money, and we’ll teach you how!” And they do teach something. For as an old saying goes: “Fools have it hard in life.”
Finally something about money: Only last July did Oleksandr Orlovskyi, in another promotional homage, say the following: “Today Oleksandr Orlovskyi earns more than 50.000 dollars from cryptocurrencies. This sum also includes income from training. The project is large: Almost 4.000 students have completed the training.” Multiply 4.000 by a thousand dollars.
And count the zeros. How was it again — “no investments”? Not bad, we must admit. So apparently not all images of Orlovskyis luxurious life are a hoax. Even if he is not the one behind the fraud scheme.
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