Wiseling CEO Matias Lappo confirmed Russian actor
Following on from identifying where Wiseling shot its staged marketing videos, BehindMLM can now confirm the identity of the actor playing Matias Lappo.
I received a tipoff on Lappo’s identity from Javier Saavedra. The photo I was sent is presented below:
That’s Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in the background. The man in the foreground, who we know as Matias Lappo, is Andrey Ovchinnikov.
The image was used by Ovchinnikov (lit: Андрей Овчинников), as a profile photo in a series of 2019 photo uploads of Nevsky District, St. Petersburg.
St. Isaac’s Cathedral is also in St. Petersburg. St Petersburg was also where Wiseling had Andrey Ovchinnikov shoot his Matias Lappo videos.
Armed with a name I went on the hunt for more information. I was able to confirm that at one point Ovchinnikov had a VK profile.
The following is a list of archived hits on Ovchinnikov’s profile photo from several vKontakte profiles:
Unfortunately Ovchinnikov has covered his tracks. As far as I can tell the referenced VK profile has been deleted.
Whether the VK profile was deleted before or after the St. Petersburg office outing is unclear.
Ovchinnikov/Lappo hasn’t been seen since approx February 24th. Following Wiseling’s collapse, he’s believed to have gone into hiding.
Other than the continuous stringing along of investors on Telegram, there have been no updates on Wiseling’s collapse.
Absent of unexpected action from Russian authorities, Wiseling investor losses are unknown.
#jessesinghisacontentthief
Imitation may be the highest form of flattery but plagiarism is the lowest form of thievery.
I wonder why Jesse Singh has to make videos by stealing contents to drive traffic to his millionaire website.
He’s already a millionaire by following all the proven marketing techniques in his website right?
He’s living off whatever he scammed through Digital Altitude. Things took a nosedive after that.
I assume you Oz would be ok if Jesse Singh would mention the content he copies is originally from BehindMLM. It’s good that the information spreads, but Singh is an a-hole for portraying your articles as his original content, when many times it isn’t.
I noticed this also, but didn’t say anything.
I also noticed before that he also copies comments directly from BehindMLM comment section and portrays those as his own research…
This is maybe less bad than stealing an article, but still kinda against good practice. Oh well, can’t get rid of a-holes in this world.
I’ve never refused anyone who’s asked to use BehindMLM’s content.
The only condition I impose is acknowledgement and a link back to the source. This is so there’s no confusion about where the information came from and exactly what was published.
Jesse Singh firstly never asked, he just began stealing content. And the hack presents my research as his own.
That I have a problem with. Stealing anyone’s work and passing it off as your own is not on.
BehindMLM quotes from a ton of sources. I’m always meticulous to link back to a source (where available).
I wasn’t aware Singh was stealing comments too. As a comment author you own the copyright to anything you contribute on BehindMLM.
I have to say, Javier Saveedra who provided this tip about “Lappo” being infact Andrey Ovchinnikov, is an amazing scam investigator.
Everybody should subscribe Javier’s Youtube channel, as he is very actively creating new content about different scams there.
His videos are in spanish, but Youtube’s auto-translate to english works decently.
I would say Javier is the most important person spreading updated scam information in spanish on Youtube especially to the Latam area of the world.
I just wish he would create an english channel as well, as his videos are truely high quality up-to-date scam news.
youtube.com/channel/UC5juDQ9kcr-WWd0JF4XyHkw/videos
Not only the whole copying-of-research-everywhere-uncredited.
Adding ads to his own “Get rich” method inbetween just ads to the scum level.
Matias Lappo actor Andrey Ovchinnikov is a decent singer also:
youtu.be/_VsSSNina7w
I had photos of Ovchinnikov’s family sent in. Not going to publish them as I don’t think his wider family has anything to do with it.
This is out in the public though so I’ll permit it. No doxxing beyond his name please.
^ The video was of course removed. Here’s a copy of the video. Andrey Ovchinnikov alias “Matias Lappo” singing in russian in 2017.
youtu.be/JBGTPDYRvDc
Here’s a screenshot of the original video on Youtube: i.imgur.com/tk10R3x.jpg
Some of you hobby sherlocks need to cool down a little.
What’s the point of uploading stuff like that, particularly when there are children and/or people totally unrelated to Wiseling in this material?
There was no new material put on Youtube…
But anyway, Oz can of course decide.
Besides that same video was uploaded as public video 12 hours earlier by some Wiseling/Beurax scam promoters to Youtube.
It’s everywhere already, also in Telegram groups all the videos, all the information, and a lots of pictures.
The above link which I posted is 720p compared to the public copy link of the video which is 360p.
youtu.be/qPf5xTfJkAc
You think something like this can just disappear when the original uploader makes it private? Don’t be childish.
Also all the names are out there in public for example in the Twitter video thumbnails etc..
twitter.com/petterij/status/1369523790158397442
The point is, these scammers should think about the kids before they start scamming. Once it’s out there, it’s out there..
My take is while it’s not something I’d include in an article, anything in the public domain is fair game.
The video in question predominantly features Andrey Ovchinnikov. If it was 5 seconds of him and 10 minutes of family members I might reconsider.
Here’s a collection of many of the Wiseling videos including those which disappeared from the official Wiseling channel.
youtube.com/user/rahoua/videos