Sunday, October 31, 2010

TVI Express supporters in Namibia are in serious denial


As explained earlier in 5-stages of grief about "TVI Express is a scam", the first stage of any sort of loss is immediate denial, and nation of Namibia is no exception after its national bank declared TVI Express (and Holiday and Cash, a similar operation) to be pyramid schemes.




The messages of denial are flooding the newspapers that carried the story. Some examples can be found online, and they inevitably has the same themes:

1) It's not a scam because it paid me 
2) It's not a scam because you just don't understand it/us
3) It's not a scam. You just want to keep us poor.



These are just some of the 13 tricks identified earlier




All are "deny the allegations"
1) is "presenting personal testimony as fact" (when it's not)
2) is "you don't understand us"
3) is "attack the critic", blame it on a "conspiracy"



Actually, what's really sad is that one of those replies was "It can't be a scam. I need the money to put my kids through school."

That is how TVI Express is actually "touching lives"...

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