TVI Express: 9 reasons why it is the biggest Ponzi scheme ever

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You may have heard from someone you know or been recruited on Facebook and such about this "wonder exciting opportunity to earn a lot of money" called TVI Express. To put it plainly, it is a Ponzi scheme, and if you fall for it, you are an idiot. And if you continue to recruit people if you KNOW it is a Ponzi scheme, you are ACTIVELY COMMITTING FRAUD, and may be subject to CRIMINAL PROSECUTION in your country. And if you do NOT see why TVI Express is a Ponzi scheme, you are both stupid AND self-delusional. Let us look at the facts:


FACT 1) Even TVI Express's own website states that you do NOT sell anything, but you do have to recruit/sponsor people to join. That is the classic definition of a Ponzi (or Pyramid) scheme.

Counterpoint: I don't care! I'm getting paid!

Response: did you know that if you KNOWINGLY participating in a fraudulent scheme, such as a Ponzi scheme, you are just as guilty in the eyes of the law?

FACT 2) TVI Express claims to be in London, England. However, there is NO SUCH BUSINESS registered in England by that name according to the UK business registry, and the office address they listed is NO LONGER VALID, confirmed by building receptionist.

Counterpoint: Somebody (unconfirmed) posted something about TVI Express is moving to another facility, and expect an update in 2-3 weeks.

Response to that: Hello! It takes 5 minutes to update a website, and it's been OVER A MONTH since that issue was raised! What ******** excuse is that? And why can't you leave a forwarding address at the former location? Huh? This screams "shady operation".

FACT 3) Nobody knows ANYTHING about who owns / leads TVI Express. It's NOT on their website and as they're nowhere to be found in England even though they appear to be a British business. All "messages" are signed as "Management Team".

Counterpoint: What does THAT have to do with anything, as long as I am getting paid?

Response: are you dense, or are you blinded by greed?

FACT 4) You are encouraged to register MULTIPLE accounts, to sponsor even MORE people together, says so on the TVI Express website FAQ.

Counterpoint: That's not proof of fraud and you know it!

FACT 5) The voucher you get are NOT actually for travel, but for recruiting other people. The way this works is as follows:

You join by one of two ways: you can pay TVI Express $271 through one of their approved methods, via credit card, or through an outfit called Liberty Payment (based on Costa Rica, by the way), or you can buy a $250 voucher off of an existing member and redeem it at their website. If you "cycle through" the A board, (and fill it up with other people at the bottom) you get $250 cash and $250 voucher (which you can then sell to some other people to use to join).

Counterpoint: That's still not fraud.

Response: just keep reading...

FACT 6) The payment processor for the credit card is a small bank in Cyprus, island just off of Greece in Europe, NOT England.

Counterpoint: So? It's cheaper to operate in Cyprus. Business tax there is a mere 10%.

Response: So why does the company say they're based in LONDON, not Cyprus?

FACT 7) On TVI Express's website, the "complaint" link goes to CEO@tviexpress.com. Come on, which CEO of a real company spends time reading complaints?

FACT 8) TVI Express is already under investigation by Chinese authorities.

This Google translation isn't the best, but you get the gist of it.

FACT 9) The website appears to cite endorsements by Robert Kiyosaki, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Warren Buffet. However, what each of those individuals said was they like some aspects of "network marketing". NONE of them specifically applies to TVI Express. And when TVI Express itself says "you don't need to sell anything", what exactly are you marketing?

And here's some other interesting factoids...

FACT?? [Unconfirmed, but undisputed] The money is transferred out of Cyprus to a company called TVI Services... based in INDIA.

FACT?? [Unconfirmed, but undisputed] The so-called "online backoffice" is a website showing some other company's online reservation system with their own header, using "iframe", or "seamless frame" that you don't know it's a separate website unles you look through the webpage's source code.

FACT?? All of the websites touting how great TVI Express is are FREE press release sites or sites set up by people trying to recruit more people. Press release is written by the business itself. So that's NOT reliable information!

FACT?? If this business is so hot, why haven't ANY legitimate reviews from Forbes or even a real newspaper reporter have investigated it?

To put it as plainly as possible... TVI Express is very OBVIOUSLY a Ponzi scheme. If you don't see that, you have very good self-denial skills. And if you *do* see that, and you are STILL recruiting people, you are actively committing FRAUD. The fact that you don't need to sell anything should be a clue that this can't be a legitimate operation, as it has no products.

And don't tell me that as long as you are getting paid, you don't care. You are profiting off someone else's naiveness. That is fraud, plain and simple.