Reputation clean-up for real money: how FFA academy founder Alexander Orlovsky buys media outlets to cover up fraud in his crypto courses
The investigators have concluded that the Financial Freedom Academy (FFA), through which Alexander Orlovsky markets expensive cryptocurrency wealth-building courses, is highly likely to be a fraudulent operation.
Obviously, after the publication of our article, "What is crypto crook Alexander Orlovsky hiding," both the cryptocurrency "students" and his potential victims might have asked the logical question: "Sasha, are you kidding us?"
"Of course not!" Alexander Orlovsky replied with a sincere smile, like all crooks, and ordered several hundred more dollars’ worth of "image-building" articles to be placed on more or less popular information resources.
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At the same time, Orlovsky’s Telegram bot, which had been deathly silent for some time, began gushing with ads and positive news. We noticed this post:
As you can see, Alexander Orlovsky is calling on members of his crypto-sect (and those who haven’t yet joined it) to reread articles about him posted in the popular online publications tsn.ua and focus.ua.
Both of these articles, written by Orlovsky’s PR people, appeared last fall, when the cryptocurrency expert was first accused of fraud. Back then, negative reviews about Orlovsky were purged with great difficulty and the internet was "concreted" with positivity.
The fact that these are precisely “ordered” pieces, and not editorial articles, is indicated by the headings under which the opuses were published.
That is, the publications that published the "positive piece" don’t even acknowledge, but rather emphasize, that info-gypsy Alexander Orlovsky paid them, and, as the advertiser, is personally responsible for the paid stream of consciousness.
If we take the latest articles praising Orlovsky, then his servants didn’t bother, but took last year’s “PR” as a basis (and, moreover, they made a mistake with the title of the “original” article).
Readers who search for "Alexander Orlovsky" are asked to form their own opinion of the man based on an article published under the "PR" banner, placed in the "press releases" section (that is, again, for a fee). See:
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Anyone tempted to shell out their savings for this mentor’s courses should ask themselves a number of questions. Why is a successful crypto entrepreneur, as Alexander Orlovsky claims to be, forced to pay the media to report on his "successes"? If the article is paid for, how accurate is it? If it’s not entirely accurate, then why is Alexander Orlovsky paying to disseminate something "not entirely true"?
It should be noted that, according to the investigation, there are signs of financial fraud in the activities of the Financial Freedom Academy. The fees for Orlovsky’s tuition are not even collected by Alexander Orlovsky himself, but by individual entrepreneurs who bear the hallmarks of being "front companies."
Specifically, the sole proprietor Katerina Olegovna Sergutina, whose account Orlovsky’s accomplices attempted to use to obtain over 40,000 hryvnias from the author of the investigation. This individual was registered only a month before sending the invoice to the author.
The author suggests that most payments from students promised quick and easy enrichment by Alexander Orlovsky are routed through similar "front" entrepreneurs, possibly to cover their tracks in the event of legal action.
The author concludes that Alexander Orlovsky is a typical example of a type of scammer known as "infogypsies." These are scammers who, posing as successful professionals, sell information products for large sums of money that offer absolutely no value. Essentially, this involves the seizure of someone else’s property (money) through deception or abuse of trust. This constitutes a crime under Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud). Since Alexander Orlovsky himself is clearly not involved, it’s most likely that we’re dealing with Part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine—fraud committed on an especially large scale and/or by an organized group. This carries a sentence of five to twelve years in prison with confiscation of property.
According to various estimates, Alexander Orlovsky could have gotten his hands on approximately $4.5 million in this way.
At the same time, the investigation suggests that Alexander Orlovsky is not the ultimate beneficiary of the fraud at the Financial Freedom Academy; more experienced crooks may be behind the scam.