Friday, October 7, 2011

NEWSFLASH: Indonesian Policewoman under suspicion of TVI Express fraud

Apparently this policewoman took up TVI Express scamming as a sidejob

http://www.waspadamedan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14584:pemeriksaan-kasus-tvi-express-lamban&catid=51:medan&Itemid=206

(following autotranslated by Google)


Case Examination TVI Express Slow
Articles Medan
Written by Syafri Harahap on Friday, 07 October 2011 04:13   
MEDAN (alert): The process of examination of the police 
woman (policewomen) Ipda Megawati, suspected cases of fraud and 
embezzlement against a number of victims who become a member of 
TVI Exspress seem sluggish.

Although the case reported since July, police investigator 
handling the case of North Sumatra were admitted still doing 
the investigation, and requires the testimony of other witnesses. 
"I confirmed to investigators, the case is still 
in progress and still in lidik, "said Head of Public Relations 
Poldasu Kombes Pol. Heru Carey to the alert, on Thursday 
(6 / 10).

He also said that investigators still need 
other witnesses related to the case.

Medan police chief Comr. Sinaga Tagam previously 
said, Megawati who served in the police Percut Seituan 
as Panit So was drawn to the Medan Police to 
facilitate the examination.

"He was drawn to the Medan Police non-job as an officer," said 
Tagam. Megawati "dinonjobkan" from duty on suspicion of recruiting 
and pledged some money to some 
people when joined as a customer TVI Express.

"Although he's a cop still be processed, and he was 
examined at the Medan Police Propam, "said Tagam said, 
the leadership of Police does not tolerate its members are 
guilty.

"When you break the rules will be processed in 
the law, "he said. In this case, a number of 
victims has made ​​a complaint to Poldasu. They say, 
at maturity the money they invest 
and liquid promised was not realized. When asked to 
Megawati, was evasive. Because of his actions, Megawati 
subject to Article 5, letter a, PP. 2 / 2003 concerning the rules 
of discipline police officers, who are prohibited from doing things 
that can degrade the honor and dignity of 
the state, government or police.

Denied 
Megawaty told reporters never denied allegations 
he committed fraud and embezzlement 
by taking the money paid to him. "There is 
no money paid to me, the money was deposited 
to the TVI through accounts, "he said. 
He claims to only search for members included in the 
business TVI, but there is no coercion. 
Rapporteur, he said, also not members. "Only 
two members of my report, others do not. It's 
also no money is paid to me, directly 
to the TVI, "he said.

However, in previous news, R Damanik victims and 
seven others admitted invited to cooperate in business in TVI 
Express. Next ask the victim Megawaty instill 
a minimum capital of Rp 2, 6 million per person. He promised to 
return the capital and profits within three 
months to reach A $ 10,000 (Rp100 million). But 
after three months, the victims do not receive what 
was promised. (m27)

Some Russians are STILL doing TVI Express spam

Here's "NewsVitamins.ru", with a borrowed background, generic subtitle, and obviously a spam blog.





But what does the URL, tviexpressclub.ru actually say?


Oh, this is hilarious! It's ZOMBIE content!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

NEWSFLASH: Police in three Indonesian provinces are looking into TVI Express scam

As reported by Bataviase:  http://bataviase.co.id/node/825595


TVI Express, 4th Floor STC Senayan, Jakarta, yesterday.


Kepolisianbelum check
Director Litama
PT TVI Express.
JAKARTA - Freezing operation of the tourism bureau service company PT Travel Ventures International (TVI) Express relieve some circles. One was Peter Celestine. Team Coordinator Defenders of Democracy Indonesia is assessing business multilevel marketing (MLM) companies is contrary to common sense
According to Peter, who developed TVI Express mode is quoting 2.6 million per member to enjoy the discount airline tickets and vouchers star hotels around the world. In fact, the facility was rejected by the promised five-star hotel. Worse, the payment by members are not accompanied by an official receipt or certificate of membership.
TVI Express created the figure of a "successful" when becoming a member. They then dimin-ii ngkampanyekan testimonials of success through an event held at Steam TVI Express. "I was suddenly very rich beggar, so people interested in becoming a member by paying USD 2.6 million," said Peter told Tempo this week.
The trouble menggunakanfasilitas yani hotel; offered had experienced member. Let's call her Lisa Nur-where. Entrepreneurs who are also officials in government agencies since October 2010 many times do the ordering process, a call. "He told Tempo when they travel to some time ago.
Vice Chairman of the Direct Selling Association of Indonesia Koen Verheyen asserts, should the company partly responsible for the conduct of mem-ang harm other members. This is in accordance with the Consumer Protection Act. "There's a code of ethics in every company, there must be sanctions," he said.
Authorities continue to monitor the investigation of cases of suspected fraud in some areas.Cash J TVI us are under investigation in Medan City Police, the Police Sector Sunggal, and Gorontalo Regional Police, "said Head of the Task Force on Handling Allegations of Unlawful Actions in the Field of Community fund raising, Sardjito, yesterday.
Peter was impressed slow rate of motion apparatus. You see, there is allegedly one of his wives police officers involved in the company. "He became chief commissioner in TVI Express." However Goenarni hastily denied ffetrus signaled. "Not true. She's just ordinary members through my old friend."
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Who is Lloyd Dobson and why was he pushing TVI Express?

Seems Lloyd Dobson had once pushed TVI Express quite hard:

In fact, this video is still showing up on various spam blogs.


However, this is zombie content, because here's the original Youtube video, with date:

So what's on LloydDobson.com right now? Something called "NetDivvy". No sign of TVI Express.

Zombie content!

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

TVI Express Warren Buffett lie AGAIN?!?!

Apparently some moron on Facebook is trying to restart the "Warren Buffett owns TVI Express" lie... See for yourself:


YOUR MY DREAM ROLE I,YOUR STAR OF DIRECT MORKETING KIG OF THE WORLD JUST LOUNCHED RUN 160 COUNTRIES EARN $10000 OVAR AND OVAR AND GET CAR,VILLAS

Clearly, this ain't meant to be in English, but gibberish.


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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

More TVI Express XXX Porn Videos, sort of

TVI Express followers have spread so much spam on the Internet, is it any wonder that they got associated with XXX porn?

Monday, October 3, 2011

Apparently TVI Express is now associated with P**** enlargement pills.

Apparently TVI Express is now associated with P**** enlargement pills.

No I didn't make this up. This is exactly what I found on Google.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

"Me Expressed" is now confirmed spam blog stealing zombie content

This "MeExpressed" website has a ton of zombie content, and one of these is a fresh article claiming "TVI Express is here to stay".

So what's this video about, since it's clearly not fit with the times? What you got here is a guy who calls himself "Matt", claims he already made $10000 from TVI Express, calls all other people "jealous", "liars", and so on.






Then I realized it points to a dead website: 2010bailout.com  The domain reg had expired a long time ago. Try it yourself. You can register it now... but why?

So who is this "Matt", who clearly picked the wrong horse to bet on? He seem to be on Twitter:



AND MySpace... wait, Myspace?


Yep, the same guy. What's really funny is his own profile on MySpace... claims to be "prince of online marketing".


Since he can't even spot a very obvious pyramid scheme, this prince is a pretend prince. A fake, if you will. But his Twitter log is far more telling... Not a single tweet since late 2009!

So what is he doing now? Website's dead. Let's try the phone number given in the tweet... And you get...


Aha! In 2009 he was making videos "TVI Express is here to stay". Only 2-3 months later, he already jumped ship to Diamond Holiday, a TVI Express clone! This content is DEFINITELY zombie content!

However, next page revealed that Matt here is also involved in Gifting Circles (illegal pyramid scheme) and World Ventures, another TVI Express clone.


What's worse, he put his own daughter in the video advertising the gifting circle thing.

Note the same number... again, and it's definitely him. Further search also found him pushing other scams such as Royal Cruise Matrix on Youtube, Veoh, and other video sites.

However, the number currently seems to go to this "Austin Internet Marketing Solutions". We need some other way to track this person down. Let's try looking for "Peoples Program" and Matt, and see what we get...


Hmmm, another URL. Unfortunately, this domain is also expired.

It seems Matt, self-proclaimed "prince of online marketing", may be out of business.



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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Fake Bank Blog Plagiarizes Bad TVI Express Article

When you see a domain called "Cyprus Online Bank", what do you think it is?

Yet if you go to

http://cyprusonlinebank.com/tvi-express-the-ultimate-get-rich-quick-deal/

You get TVI Express spam.


However, the article is too nicely written. This is clearly copied from somewhere. So I searched... and found this:


Exact same words, but checking the article's bottom shows that the eZineArticle was published in October 2009, almost 2 YEARS ago. So "Ted" here is a plagiarist.

The domain "CyprusOnlineBank" is registered by "Axela Media", with no additional info available. The only "Axela Media" reference I can find is some web design company in Romania.

It's clear this website is a bogus plagiarism blog.

So what of this Mr. Colin Buckingham? He calls himself "global entrepreneur". So what sort of stuff was he pushing?


ProtandimPlus.com --  a website that forwards to LifeVantage, which sells nutritional supplements (reviews are somewhat favorable, see http://expertmlmreview.org/mlm-company-reviews/lifevantage )

One24Pension.com -- a capture page with just a video, which tells you up front: pay them 70 PER MONTH for a chance at good income. Strangely, other websites say $60, which buys you... a box full of "super food" bars. And you need to sign up people. Hmmm...

GetLegalAccess.com -- forwards to Prepaid Legal Services, which is called unviable even by its members. See http://www.mediamoogle.com/

But not a word about TVI Express. Hmmm...

However, a search through Google shows that he used to have a Twitter handle TVIBuzz, which is also linked to a website of the same name. And when was his last post? 2009.


So what is up with TVIbuzz.com?


Domain Name: TVIBUZZ.COM
Registrant:
    Freepoint
    Colin Buckingham        ()
    2391 W. Thompson Way
    Chandler
    AZ,85286
    US
    Tel. +0.6026255400
Creation Date: 28-Sep-2009
Expiration Date: 28-Sep-2011

Status:SUSPENDED
        Note: This Domain Name is Suspended.
        In this status the domain name is InActive and will not function.

Well, well, we found a ZOMBIE article! 

It's clear Mr. Colin Buckingham, despite his WASP name, isn't that smart as he had to abandon his TVI Express campaign (but he did, so I give him points for that, unlike people in total denial). His only mistake is he forgot to take down that dumb article. 

And that makes the people (Axela Media, whoever you are) zombie plagiarist spamdexers. 


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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.
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