Ekaterina Kondratenko - Chess Arts Club - Scams and Lies
Chess Arts Club
The well known Russian "Crytpo Mama" she now found a new passion and new way to fraud people through chess game events in Dubai. To refresh your memory, Ekaterina Kondratenko, aka "Crypto Mama", was founder and Chief Editor of Bitnovosti, a Russian crypto magazine that has been shut down after the infamous WEX exhchange scam that was associated with her and her co-founder in 2019. For more details you can refer to this series of articles.
After being in the crypto shadow for few years she now found a new love for chess through her "members club". A love at first sight apparently since there is no apparent passion for the game by her from before 2025.
But we know Katerina is use to fall in love very quickly....at least where she sees opportunities to make some quick cash without too much work. And she found Dubai to be her breeding ground.
Ekaterina Kondratenko
Founder & Curator
Since 2016, Ekaterina — also known as Cryprowitch has been shaping elite ecosystems at the intersection of Web3, private capital, and cultural influence. At her curated events, global investors, founders, and visionaries sit side by side — and alliances are born through candlelight, chess, and conversation. As the founder of Chess Arts Club, she designs experiences that merge elegance with strategic influence — where presence becomes positioning, and every gesture is a signal
Source www.chessartsclub.com
Oh really Katerina?? you've been shaping the elite ecosystem at the intersection of Web3, private capital and cultural influence? How exactly? by promoting scams all over the internet? Which private capital deal have you closed other than the one you've taken from your multiple sugar daddies? Unfurtunately a ChatGPT written fake biography is not enough to make you part of the elite and not enough to make a shaper.
Membership includes:
• 12 months of access to all private curated events
• Invitation-only dinners, chess evenings, salons & investor gatherings
• Access to our private members group
• Symbolic rituals, custom gifts and priority RSVP
• Founder-level introductions & strategic circles
Membership fee:
From $5,000 per year.
Prices vary depending on your tier and level of access.
Selected applicants may be invited into the Founder’s Circle or Patron Tier.
Source www.chessartsclub.com
Oh wow! She organizes Elite events!! too sad to realize that she actually organized only 2 events in almost 10 months. No private dinners, no rituals, no custom gifts, no investors, no grandmasters. Just the same old people that you meet at any networking event in Dubai. However this didn't stop her from raising the joining fee.
I took a step that felt truly scary. This season I raised the annual membership to $10,000 per year. It wasn’t an easy decision but it allowed me to narrow the circle even further to people you simply can’t bump into by chance: top founders, investors, champions, and grandmasters. Our club is growing and we are stepping into a new level of sophistication and old-money elegance: strict dress code, candlelight, chessboards, private dinners, classic music, dark noir jazz, and deals that aren’t closed at conferences or after-parties, but over a game of chess.
And now global brands are reaching out to host private experiences for their VIP guests at our club and I can’t wait to share their names with you soon.
If you want to be part of this world - this is your invitation ♟️ #chessartsclub
source: https://www.facebook.com/cryptowitch
Ohh how sad Katerina that you had to go through this horrible experience of having to raise your members fee! Otherwise who is going to pay for your expensive nails and jewelry?!?
But wait a minute, did you even bother registering the "club" or getting an actual Dubai license??
Chess Arts Club is currently operated as a curated private initiative prior to full company incorporation in Dubai, UAE.
source: https://chessartsclub.com/privacy
Of course not! Our CryptoWitch is above the law of any country! She can run scams without license, collect money without a business account and pay no coporate tax whatsover! Those eyelashes and fillers cost money, how can she afford them if you even have to pay for a license like everyone else!!
But how did our former crypto expert with no education or experience felt in love with chess so quickly? Where has she been from 2019 to 2025?
Looking at her Instagram Katerina toke a long break in Bali in 2020 to then reappear in Dubai around 2023 to work as a sales representative for Mastercard. Unfurtunately that job didn't last too long as she was fired after not showing up at work repeatedly:
Unfortunately Ekaterina Kondratenko was terminated in 2023 after 2 months after multpiple warnings for unjustified absences and delays at work
(Source: Private conversation with Mastercard HR Dubai)
This must have been a really traumatic experience because after that Katerina had to take a long vacation in Italy where she has been associated with an Italian crypto business man in a relationship that lasted not longer than a year.
My relationship with Katerina lasted about a year until November 2024. During the time I've been supporting her financially as she had no apparent job.We met in 2023 and we had a tumultuous relationship with several break ups
(Source: Private Conversation)
And it's around that time that our hero falls in love with the game of chess. A thunderstruck apparently. In December 2024 she starts to promote a Dubai based chess club called "Fersz". After a couple of events she decided to start a copy cat called "Win Chess Club" with another co-founder, but things must have not gone very well for her because after just one post she goes silent for a couple of months and deletes all her post about Win Chess Club. And of course, after this traumatic experience she had to take a holiday in Italy, France and Maldives. Poor her!
But in March 2025 a genius idea stroke her! Another chess club! Why not!! and why not making it absolutely identical to the previous ones? After all talent copies, genius steal!
And then she starts with all her circus of Instragram posts promoting her non-existent club, talking about how she was betrayed by her previous founders, her closest friends and lovers, how her chess events gather the Dubai elite, how she will announce new partnerships that never happened. Poor Katerina...your life must have been so difficult from the outskirt of Siberia to Dubai with no other qualification other than massage therapist!
The Crypto Witch
But if you think that the newly found love for chess would at least distract her from promoting crypto scams and rug pull, you are defenetly wrong. Within her busy agenda she also finds the time to curate a "CryptoWitch" Telegram channel where she gives trading advice with zero trading experience and promotes tokens that have gone to zero in the matter of minutes. But of course...this is not financial advice!
After all during this enlightening interviews our "real real (self proclaimed) witch" confirmes that she has real talent to make money quickly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urneJpeG7S4
In fact she even tell us to buy Solana and to hold it....at 250$ :D
Just bought this coin, and as always, one of the devs is my buddy. Gonna sell when the market cap hits $200 million — diamond hands till then
The same token is now worth 25k.... well done diamond hands :D (https://dexscreener.com/solana/amladj11kr9a6w2b9dbaa8zx17fmw1lrxvfmnhdff4dk)
Buying some $MIA here - Made In America - hit an ATH of 9m and launched shortly after Trump came into office
The branding reminds me of Trump coin & is very patriotic
Lots of Trump related coins should continue doing well especially those with good teams which dont give up.
Oh another good rug pull developed by Katy's friends....now worth 38k (https://dexscreener.com/solana/cbgkrknhuvd2piz9uyot6ny2q8vr2vf78ato1rajg1w)... and no need to say...al Trump related coins went basically to zero.
She has also been associated with notorious meme scams like BEER, WATER, GDOG all from the same developer.
Conclusion
The new Dubai life of our crypto/chess queen leaves with no doubt and unfurtunately she doesn't seem to have found peace yet and continued on her journey of scams and frauds covered with lies and fake achievements.