NI investigation: how a stripper and an actor cheat people out of their money on the Web

Recently, Internet deceivers have become so insolent that they are no longer embarrassed to “shine the faces”! True, not theirs.

Veronika Pukhova

Ostap Suleiman Ibrahim Berta Maria Bender Bey knew, as you know, four hundred relatively honest ways to take money from the population. Modern scammers also do not waste time and do not sit idly by, but come up with new schemes of how to fool the gullible.

In December 2021, for research purposes, so to speak, I joined the telegram channel “Dare and grow rich”. Of course, initially clearly understanding that this is a “divorce” of pure water. Out of journalistic curiosity, I wanted to see how it "works" and try to figure out, well, why, why people are being led and pecking at this nonsense of lawless people.

YouTube slipped me an advertisement for the channel, I immediately realized: this is it, this is it, another “scam”!

I clicked on the link and ended up in the above-mentioned telegram channel. Communication here was carried out unilaterally: the author of the channel, all such a sparkling well-groomed guy with a fashionable haircut and tie, posted witty video messages every day, as well as screenshots of correspondence with people who were already happy with huge sums of money, grateful to him.

It seemed amazing to me in this story that the key person of the “Dare and Grow Rich” channel, this handsome Alexei Buinov, 22 years old, personally broadcasts and daily produces videos about his luxurious life. In particular, she shows luxurious apartments in Moscow City, an expensive car, and even presents her “mother” to the public, who talks about how poor they, they say, used to live in a tiny town and how her smart and talented son put an end to these torments and started making millions.

That is, all this is not at all a faceless voice-over or some unintelligible avatar. It turns out, I thought, that the scammers of the new wave have completely lost their fear? After all, everything was presented as if this particular person, with his full name and biography, is this most beautiful benefactor who dreams of the long-suffering people of Mother Russia quickly and easily getting rich.

In the very first post fixed in the channel, Aleksey said that he had been interested in the field of cryptocurrency all his life and succeeded in this so much that by his twenties he became a prosperous businessman.

Some kind of sophisticated software helps him to earn money on the crypt - unique superbots that are able to perform thousands of operations per minute, and not just anywhere, but on Korean exchanges that are about to close, and therefore it is especially profitable to work for them now (which did you understand?).

For greater persuasiveness, a friend of Alexei demonstrated the enrichment mechanism in a video: a scammer (in front of the astonished Internet public) launched a cryptobot on a Korean site, turning a modest investment into a huge amount. How many of you, by the way, know Korean?

And so, they say, so and so, it turns out, the author of the channel, Alyoshenka Buinov, argued with his friend - also a young millionaire, of course - for a whole 50 million rubles that, out of the kindness of his soul, he would help a bunch of Russians become millionaires in a matter of weeks. After all, it's so simple! So the idea of creating a super-honest telegram channel “Make up your mind and grow rich” arose.

Nicely thought out, right? No catch, the cards are revealed - he told it like it is, a friend took it to "weak". Everything is clean and transparent. And now the very essence of the mechanism of taking money from the population.

A cunning blond with shifty eyes, who called himself Alexei Buinov, offers subscribers of the telegram channel to transfer some "meager" 1,500 rubles to their card, and as a result, in a few hours, earn about 380,000 rubles, thanks to the Korean crypto-exchange, on which he has these 1,500 rubles will successfully invest and multiply with the help of his superbot "especially for you". Or you can transfer a larger amount, then the return, of course, will be over a million rubles. Tempting...

In total: the funds received from citizens, the enterprising fellow puts into action, and as a result, from the desire to make everyone “just as rich” - remember, he argued about this with his friend “as much as 50 lyams”! - returns hundreds of thousands of rubles, millions to people.

In support of his tales, Alyoshenka cites screenshots from enthusiastic Sergey Ivanovs and Marinas Bobrovs, who extol the kindness of the young enthusiast-oligarch to the skies and show their acquisitions: Cartier jewelry, new iPhones, and even "long-awaited rental housing." For some reason, no one repaid a bank loan, bought medicines, paid bills for an apartment, did not fill the refrigerator with food. Omission, however!

In general, literally after a few days of my observations of the telegram channel “Make up your mind and grow rich”, Aleksey Buinov posted a video about how an annoyed friend gives him a bag stuffed with wads of money - the same lost 50 million rubles. After all, Aleksey did win the argument, because in reality, through his “cart”, he has already made several hundred people millionaires!

My friend was so shocked and outraged by the story about this bunch of "Horns and Hooves" - that is, excuse me, "Dare and Grow Rich" - that she wanted to help me bring the scammers to clean water and find out the details of the deception. We attracted a few more friends, chipped in (for a total of 1,500 rubles) and entered into correspondence with Alexei Buinov.

An interesting nuance: his Tinkoff card turned out to be blocked - the Sberbank portal informed us about this when trying to transfer funds. Apparently, the banks have already noticed some suspicious activity on the account. We wrote to Alexey about it. He said, it doesn't matter, anything can happen, they say, and promptly provided the number of his other card (without indicating a name on it). As soon as he received money from us, the scammer replied that he was “getting to work, wait!”.

I had to wait about two hours, and then Alexey sent a joyful message that “everything worked out!”, “Soon you will have money!”, But there is one little trick. And he showed a screenshot of the notification that the withdrawal of the crypt to Russia, it turns out, is taxed at 7,500 rubles: “Move it to me soon, wait, and in a matter of minutes you will receive your 380,000 rubles!”. So this is how the further promotion of the fool caught on the hook takes place!

The fraudster also said: you, this, don’t think for yourself, I’m a businessman with an excellent reputation, I’m not going to get dirty, substitute and violate the laws of the Russian Federation, so the only way to withdraw money is by paying a fee. “Do not miss the chance, what are you, otherwise you will regret it later!”, - added the scammer.

Then everything became completely clear and uninteresting to me and my friends, the correspondence with Lyokha was over. So, in short.

As the rest of the subscribers lost their hard-earned money from Alexei Buinov, they unsubscribed from his telegram channel. Let me remind you that it was impossible to leave comments there, the scammers prudently turned off the function, so the only way to show the rest of the gullible citizens, hoping to quickly get some money, that all this is an ordinary scam is to leave the audience of readers who have joined.

When I joined the channel, there were more than five thousand followers, and just a few days later, “Dare and Grow Rich” had only about two thousand subscribers left, which, of course, spoke eloquently for itself: PEOPLE DECIDED, BUT NOT GOT RICH.

Detail: after I unsubscribed, the channel could no longer be found. The scammers made it "secret" and it is not searched through the telegram search engine.

But for every such unscrupulous company of scammers, there will always be people who will get to the truth!

Portal "League of cappers" exposed the boy with giblets: Alexey Buinov - he is Ilya Mirnov, he is Artyom Smolin, he is Konstantin Shakhinov, he is Roman Fetisov, he is Ilya Mirsky, he is Ilya Mirtsev and so on.

All these comrades, who are portrayed by the same person with a mocking smile, have dozens of channels with different names: "Exit for the money", "A million for the lazy", "Leave with millions", "Get rich before our eyes", "Savvy and profit”, “Personal cash”, “Dare and get rich”, etc. The names of the channels and the names of the dandy millionaire, of course, are constantly changing, and his videos, texts and screenshots of correspondence are the same.

And now - ta-dam! - the main thing: who is hiding behind fictitious names and on a sugary positive broadcasts about easy millions, thus helping a gang of virtual schemers to extort money from naive Russians?

“Because the scammers behind the network of Telegram channels with fake traders hide their identities, they hire actors. On such videos and photos, we see models who responded to orders from exchanges or sites with profiles. The role of the pseudo-trader Ilya Mirnov (and Alexei Buinov and others - approx. "NI") is played by Alexander Malakhov.

This person, like all other actors hired for such schemes, is not the real author of the channel - other people run it”, - explains the League of Cappers . “In addition to “Exit to the Money”, there are other channels in Telegram with Alexander Malakhov’s materials, so be careful if you see them anywhere else.”

"Novye Izvestia" studied Alexander Malakhov's page on VKontakte , and also found hisinstagram .

This is really a young actor. "22 years old. RGISI (former SPbGATI) '20,” his profile says, which features many pictures from various photo shoots.

Alexander even has his own page on the popular thematic acting portal Kino-teatr.ru.

It is unfortunate that this, apparently, really talented young man, for some reason, went the wrong way, took part in a criminal scheme and, in fact, helped scammers rob hundreds, and most likely thousands, of people .

Yes, of course, one can try to assume that Alexander himself became a victim of swindlers - and simply out of ignorance he got "casting for the role of a dream." But, given the number of videos recorded by him on a smartphone, in selfie mode, and what exactly he says in them, one cannot believe in the complete "unawareness" of his actions.

Or maybe you, gentlemen-actors, have already written a collective statement to the prosecutor's office that you unwittingly turned out to be accomplices in a grandiose fraudulent scheme that is rapidly spreading on the Internet?

There are only 17 posts on Alexander's Instagram, it is not difficult to check them. Not a single penitent among them: sorry, good people...

So, unfortunately, everything looks just like that, that money and fame do not smell. Your moment of glory, Alexander, turned out to be, alas, with a smell. Apparently, you don’t remember the epigraph to Pushkin's "The Captain’s Daughte"... Between filming - re-read it.

Another character who very often flashes in YouTube advertising is the handsome moneybag Evgeny Abramov, who talks about his Quantum System Management project and claims to be a member of the Forbes list .

By a curious irony of fate, Yevgeny Abramov is somewhat similar to Alexei Buinov from the telegram "Make up your mind and grow rich."

The other day, YouTube again gave me an advertising video with the participation of Evgeny Abramov against the background of his personal helicopter, and I decided to google who he is. Information, it turns out, the sea. There are even video analyzes, for example, "Balabol from Forbes" .

It turned out that Quantum System Management is a fraudulent company that steals personal data. After registration, the trader starts receiving spam and redirects the person to fraudulent brokers, including: Goldberg Trade, Omega Capitals, HBC Broker, KBCapitals, Vospari, Optek and SuperBinary.

“Quantum System Management is a copy of the old scam The Quantum Code, which appeared in the West several years ago. The Russian "office" stole everything from foreigners: the plot of the video with a helicopter, an office and a country house; words of the CEO; the very concept of divorce.

What does Quantum System Management offer? Access to a "unique, 100% working guaranteed profit system." In fact, we are talking about automating the game on binary options with certain brokers. But the fact is that most of them do not have an automation function, ”says the Smart Guide portal.

One of the sites of scammers - quantum-system.org - has already been blocked with the wording "Access to the information resource is limited on the basis of the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 No. 149-FZ "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection"" . There were only two registration buttons - in a standard form and through VK. And also that disgustingly concocted video with dolce vita attributes.

I note that now these deceivers have a different website , and they still continue to rob people further, which is why advertising with Evgeny Abramov still pops up here and there. Registration buttons have been changed.

An attractive man with colorful gray hair continuously repeats several paraphrased theses in the video: he is very rich and very successful; all other millionaires except him are bad; he is very good and the only one who sincerely wishes people well and financial well-being.

Evgeny Abramov constantly reminds of how lucky the one who watches the video with his participation. Because it will only be available for one day: then the video will be deleted. But only for me, in less than two months of 2022, it caught my eye ten times already!

"The pseudo-billionaire says: Quantum System Management has a top-secret system. And it works great. Everyone who watches the video will have access to it. And absolutely free. Why? Yes, because he is a very good person who wants people to stop being the poor and earned as much as he did," Smart Guide , the largest portal in the CIS on the topics of investment and earnings on the Internet, warns about the scam.

On the site (the address, I remind you, changes as it is blocked), where the “billionaire” invites , there are two counters. One counts the number of people on the page, and the other counts the number of places left to get "access to the system." The first one keeps going up. The second is down. But it is worth refreshing the page, as all values are reset. Using these counters, as Smart Guide explains, scammers push victims to "impulse purchase" - an action performed under pressure: "A good example is when there are fewer and fewer free places to access the system or the goods in the online store run out."

The CEO of Quantum System Management begins his video by admitting to being on the Forbes list. Smart Guide has verified this information. For all the time of its existence, of course, there was not a single Yevgeny Abramov.

"Yes, I'm not yet George Soros, not Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, but I strive to become the same as them, and maybe even better. I like charity and I want to help people like these, everyone famous billionaires.And I hope my name will soon be along with them in the list of the biggest philanthropists in the world.I am a co-founder of a fund for helping orphans, and I also constantly help hospitals....If you read about me in Forbes, you know that I I selflessly help people earn big money," says Yevgeny Abramov in the video, claiming that he recently bought equipment for the hospital for $ 200,000.

Usually such broad gestures are reported in the media. But this is also not true, there is no mention of this. In the video, Abramov also states that Quantum System Management is often featured in the financial press. And again - a lie, of course.

So who is this Evgeny Abramov? Everything secret, sooner or later, becomes clear.

You can’t hide a needle in a haystack: in reviews of Quantum System Management on the Internet, the identity of the “Russian wolf from Wall Street” was revealed in the same way as the person of the aspiring actor and fashion model Alexander Malakhov, who was described above.

So, Evgeny Abramov is a Muscovite named Alex Lukash, who worked in the ladies' club "Marusya"; it was closed a few years ago.

On the page of the playboy scammer VKontakte , there are still photos of Alex Lukash, as well as an advertisement for Marusya.

Obviously, the naughty Alex abandoned this page a long time ago, but people still write comments to the cheating stripper. Here are some examples:

- Complete scum!

- You didn't understand what you were doing? Ignorance of the law is no excuse!

- To rot such **** in HELL who deceive people!

- And how the earth wears such bastards!

- Because of this man, Abramova, they took 400,000 thousand rubles from me. I am a disabled person of the 2nd group. This is credit money from Sberbank. I transferred one of Abramov’s people and I can’t return my own money. I filed an application with the prosecutor's office, they went to the sea to rest, two months passed and the case was closed. God judge this Abramov. I now have -100,000 thousand in my account. And in fact - this is Alex Lukash.

And here is what Kirill Fadeev, a professional BO, FX, CFD trader, who has been blogging about trading and everything connected with it since 2014, wrote about Evgeny Abramov and his free cheese:

“ In conclusion of the review of Quantum System co, Evgeny Abramov, Maxim Ferzin and other “scammers” of this project, I would like to say the following. It’s more accurate to repeat, because I have already written so many letters about robots and the Grails that it’s scary myself. Guys, don't fall for the scammers. Yes, they promise money. Yes, guaranteed. Yes many. So what? And on the fence, you know what is written. No one will give you money, no one. You don't have to believe in fairy tales. Watch a dozen videos with different similar characters, they all offer the same thing, just in different words. This is a whole area that is engaged in a scam on an industrial scale. Do not let yourself be treated like a “loha”, bypass such divorces.”

And now, attention, a question to our law enforcement agencies and, in particular, to the Internet police: why such advertising and dozens (more precisely, hundreds) of such telegram channels continue to exist quietly, and those who came up with all this continue to engage in outright deception with impunity and robbery?

Yes, of course, to all those who voluntarily gave their money to scammers (and judging by the comments, there are many desperate people among them who are in the most difficult life situation and therefore clutching at any chance, no matter how absurd and unrealistic it may be), you can to say: they themselves are fools, they themselves are to blame, you have to answer for stupidity - in your case, pay. But still, stupidity is not prosecuted by law, but deceit, especially of a financial nature ... A thief, as you know, should be in prison.

Finally, we recall that the intention to create a cyber police in Russia as soon as possible - just to solve this kind of issues - was announced in December 2020 by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Well, until that happy time, could one rely on the Safe Internet League and Mizulina Jr.? Not sure. As you know, they are not engaged in scammers, but in the protection of spiritual bonds on the Web...