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When people are in financial distress and looking for ways to earn money, reliable scammers appear — they exploit hope and make false promises of quick money.
That was the case in the 1990s with the rise of financial pyramids, of which MMM, created by Sergei Mavrodi, was the most infamous. And exactly that is happening again today, during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, with promises of quick wealth through crypto trading.
Oleksandr Orlovskyi is currently one of the most prominent crypto fraudsters online. He lures people with stories of earning thousands of dollars per month with an investment of just 100. But as is often the case, he ends up with the money — while those who trusted him are left empty-handed.
Who Oleksandr Orlovskyi is and how he uses his success image to sell his courses
Oleksandr Orlovskyi gained notoriety through a project called Financial Freedom Academy. This “academy” presents itself as the “largest crypto community in Ukraine” and as an educational platform where people allegedly learn to invest in cryptocurrencies and benefit from crypto trading. Orlovskyi is marketed as the founder of the project and as a crypto expert who “earned his first million dollars by age 24.”
In an interview, he claimed to have been born and raised in Kyiv, but after his family faced financial hardship, he moved to Poland at the age of 16 — to the small border town of Zgorzelec. There he completed his schooling and moved at the age of 18 to Wrocław to study. During his studies, he survived on odd jobs: at a gas station, in a restaurant kitchen, and as a bartender. In most interviews, Orlovskyi tells of a life-changing encounter: a Polish client named Mateusz, who turned out to be a crypto investor, introduced him to the world of cryptocurrencies and became his first mentor in crypto trading.
Thus allegedly arose the talented crypto trader Oleksandr Orlovskyi, who today runs an aggressive PR campaign on social media and portrays himself as a successful crypto investor and financial expert. “With 26 I live the life many dream of: two brand-new cars, residences in two countries, a high income, and travel around the world. But all of this is not luck — it is the result of the right mindset and habits,” Orlovskyi writes on his Telegram channel.
He posts continually photos of himself in designer clothes, with expensive watches, in luxury apartments, beside exclusive cars, and even in front of private helicopters.
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