Brandon Inchauriga threatens to sue me to revealing his face and his promotion of scams

This blog normally don't get too many comments. Most TVI-ers have already moved on to some other scheme that suit their fancy. So imagine my surprise that there were two comments waiting for me in the comment moderation inbox. One's from Mr. Ferren, who was polite. The other one was from "Brandon", who was clearly angry:

So what was he referring to? This is the entry he was so mad about:

Moron Claims Scams are Not Scams, Despite Ample Proof  (29-AUG-2011)

And what was his picture that he was so mad about? Here:

Anything posted to Facebook and set to public is public information. There's no law against disseminating that.

If you visit his website, you'll find that he called no less than THREE PROVEN SCAMS (FHTM, Zamzuu, TVI Express) great opportunities. So I called him out on that.

Also note the dates: his face was on Facebook as of late July 2011. By August 2011 his face was no longer there. What are you supposed to make from that? I don't know.

But the facts are simple: Brandon Promoted Scams, and Brandon deleted his face from his Facebook page.

And he wants to sue me to revealing these facts? Based on what?

Why are people posting ads promoting a DEAD TVI Express Feeder?

I've seen this "Way to TVI Express" feeder for many months now.

It's not even TVI Express, but a separate "feeder" that's a 2x2 matrix (i.e. 1-2-4 pyramid) that you pay to get in, recruit enough people, and if you make it out, they pay your $250+ fee TVI Express membership. In other words, it's a pyramid scheme that feeds you into another pyramid scheme.

Just in the past week, people have put up over 650 entries on it, and that's just those found by Google:

But why are they promoting a dead website? If you go to waytotvi.com, you get:

The website's dead, folks. You're promoting a fresh corpse.

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Malaysian Community shut down scammer's recruiting speech

This scammer was shut down cold back in July 2010 after he spammed the "business" board.  and haven't been back since.

http://www.miricommunity.net/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=30244&p=527217

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The Cheerful TVI Express Denial-ist

Recently a certain "Bilyonaryo" started posting comments on my TVI Express expose hubs. His IP address traces back to a Korean ISP. He's all nice and positive, "you write good stuff", he goes, but it's clear he didn't read any of them, because he posted this:

Mind you, I already gave him links to my "News Your TVI Express Upline will never tell you", where TVI Express members were arrested, TVI Express denounced as pyramid scheme, and so on and so forth.

Yet he says that only individual members of TVI Express was prosecuted as criminals, not TVI Express itself.

For a moment, I was going to retort "What is the difference?!"  Then I realized he's trying to use the "few bad apples" argument, that a few individuals can abuse the system, but the system itself, he will claim, is innocent. Fortunately, I do have references pointing the other way:

The Australia Federal Court says TVI Express is a pyramid scheme:

...But Justice Nicholas found there was "no evidence" that any member had "obtained the ... vacation or a companion flight". In his judgment he said: "I am satisfied that the TVI Express System was a pyramid-selling scheme".

It's amazing what sort of contrived excuses will TVI Express supporters come up with to "debate" whether TVI Express is a scam... However, this is one of the 13 tricks I've identified earlier: "It's the individual's fault, because it cannot be the system's fault". Seen it before, albeit not to this extent. Usually it's used as post-facto justification, like: blame all my downlines for the failure. However, this one use it to DENY that TVI Express was a scam at all. Hah!

If it's not a scam, then it wouldn't have been banned in China, Namibia, Lesotho, USA, and so on.

Bob Howard, marketing coach, is the latest documented weasel dodging TVI Express scam question

This blog had been catching weasel marketing coaches who claims to be all about integrity and honesty, but in reality is a weasel who dodge his own question: Is TVI Express a Scam?

Bob Howard claimed to have "reviewed" TVI Express on this little video, asking whether it's a scam. However, this video is only 44 seconds, long, and thus is only to get you to visit his website. That's already like a weasel, isn't it?

So what does his website actually say? Absolutely NOTHING about whether TVI Express is a scam or not.

He managed to completely ignore the problems (no management, no clear location, "alliances" with travel are fake, getting paid on RECRUITING is illegal pyramid scheme, so on and so forth).

The rest of his article is NOT about TVI Express, but rather, some blathering about lead generation. In fact, TVI Express is mentioned only three times in the entire article, none of them as a "review". In fact, he never did say whether TVI Express is a scam or not.

Bob Howard dodged his own question.

What a weasel! Wonder if he's for rent?

Alex from Philippines can't tell what's legitimate vs. what's legal

Take a look at the following comment posted by a "alex of philippines"

The problem with this post is fallacy of equivocation: saying one thing when it really means something else. In this case, "alex" basically claims that if a business did its proper registration for paying taxes and such, it must be a legitimate company, and CANNOT be illegal.

A business can have all its paperwork in order, but if it operates as a pyramid scheme, it surely IS illegal. It is legitimate in the sense that it has all the paperwork in order, but NOT in the sense that it is operating as a non-fraud. Yet alex seem to think they are the same: paperwork = not fraud, when it's illogical.

As for having presidents and other leaders in town, so what? Indonesian branch of TVI Express got its license revoked. They had presidents and other officers too.

The rest is just "I made money so it can't be scam". That's equivocation too. They are defining scam as "took my money can didn't give me anything", when scam covers a lot more than that, such as a pyramid scheme (which is pretty much proven conclusively several times over, based on TVI Express's own info).

All three parts of the argument / evidence are bogus.

So "alex", I hope God bless you and you don't get arrested for promoting a fraud, but I feel wrath from your friends and family coming soon...

More TVI Express Filipinos in denial

Yet ANOTHER Filipino came to 'defend' TVI Express, except he has nothing new to say, except trot out the fallacy: "if it pays, it must be legit."

First of all, to disprove the falsehood "if it pays, it must be legit", one only needs to give a simple counter-example where this is NOT true: Bernard Madoff's Decade-long Ponzi Scheme that involved BILLIIONS of dollars.

But let's rehash a bit on how TVI Express pyramid scheme works...

In a 1-2-4-8 pyramid, i.e. 2x3 forced matrix, if each person paid $250 into the system, then 15 people would have paid $3750 into the system.

And TVI Express pay you back a lousy $500, and none of that is real money. It's $250 in eWallet, and $250 in a "membership voucher code" which you must sell to a new member. In other words, TVI Express turned you into an accomplice of its scam. You are DIRECTLY PAID, NEW MEMBER PAYING OLD MEMBER. This PROVES it is a pyramid scheme.

So how do you get the $10000? We've done the math before, but let's do it again. Every person that moved to "Express Board" must have "cycled out" of the Traveler board, which is that 15-person pyramid shown earlier. So total people in the scam is 15x15, or 225, and amount of money in system is $56250. ($250*225)

From that, you subtract $10000 for the payout, plus 15x500 (let's assume those are cash, instead of stupid eWallet for the money), total payout is $17500. TVI Express profit is $38750.

From which, they can easily put $10000 to 20000 to pay for a FEW trips (not 225 trips, maybe 50 to 100) and pocket the rest as their "profit", without having sold ANYTHING (other than the right to participate in this scam, i.e. "membership"). Those who got the trips will be talking up TVI Express and entice more people to join. Then when money starts getting tight, they'll start giving people the run-around, and when the government started to crack down (like in Indonesia) they now have legitimate reason not to give out ANY TRIPS, more money they can keep in their pockets!

Remember, in a pyramid scheme, even if you manage to get a big payout, you did it on the backs of the people you recruited. THEY PAID INTO the system so you can take money OUT. For them to take money out, even MORE VICTIMS must pay into the system. The more disparate the ratio of payout (put in $250, get $10000), the more victims you must recruit.

Furthermore, a business can be registered to pay taxes and registered as a corporation, but still operate illegally with an illegal business model. In the US, you can register a corporation for $100, and get a Federal Tax ID for free. It doesn't mean your business MODEL is legal. It just means it is "legally registered".

Yet TVI Express believers want you to think that if TVI Express provided proper documentation to the government (legally registered), they must be operating legally.The problem here is, legally means two separate things. Operating legally here actually means they did all the company is supposed to do when they operate: get tax ID and establish corporation if needed. However, that TVI Express want you to think is "legally" in the sense that "it is not fraudulent".

Or to give you a different example: let's say I was driving and was stopped by police. They check my ID. My ID is valid.

So my ID is legal.

They give me a speeding ticket for driving too fast.

My ID is still legal. However, I was not driving legally.

See the difference?

TVI Express wants you to think that because they have IDed themselves to the government, they must be operating legally.

In reality, allt hat proves is they have followed THAT ONE provision of the law that requries company to operate to do certaint hings, such as register with the government. It does NOT MEAN that the company's business model is legal or legitimate.

Yet that is what TVI Express promoters, such as Jaboangga here, want you to think: just because TVI Express registered with Filipino government, it must be operating legally, except "legally" here means "complied with requirements to registere company", but Jaboangga want you to think legally means "not fraudulent".

THAT intentional misinterpretation is yet ANOTHER fraud.

Indonesian TVI Express blog explains how TVI Express is a Pyramid Scheme

The blogger though, describes it as if it is legitimate, but is it? Let's see what he wrote:

Or restated: once you join, you must make as many people join under you as possible, and make sure all who join under you also do the same: make more people join under them as well.

Not a word about selling anything, just recruit, recruit, recruit.

Why is this NOT a scam?

Who is Scott Miller and Why Was He Pushing TVI Express?

Scott Miller claims to be "cash gifting expert" and he wants to train you for success in TVI Express. Here is a "press release" by him:

http://mail.computeruser.com/pressreleases/tvi-express-with-the-internet-success-trainer-guaranteeing-your-success.html

Okay, so what does the press release website actually say? It claims Scott is the best cash gifting trainer ever and he'll help you in TVI Express.

So what the heck is cash gifting? It's what people with self-denial call a pyramid scheme. They claim it's legal because you give money away, and in the future you'll receive money from others. Oh, really? This is what Scott Miller wrote on his website, arealbailout.com

Only a company or a business can be a pyramid scheme? What utter bull****!

It's clear that Scott Miller is a bull****er and any company he pushes is also bull****.

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