Infinity International was a pyramid scheme launched in 2021.
As an MLM firm, Infinity International’s enterprise mannequin was easy: buy “bitex packages” and receives a commission to recruit others who do the identical.
When precisely Infinity International collapsed is unclear however a go to to the corporate’s web site area now redirects to Therus Community.
Therus Community operates from the area “therusnetwork.com”, privately registered on June nineteenth, 2023.
Therus Community’s official FaceBook web page was created on February seventh, 2024, which might be across the time the reboot launched.
The final submit on Infinity International’s official FaceBook web page (which for some motive remains to be linked to on Therus Community’s web site), is dated March 2nd, 2024.
Heading up Therus Community we’ve what seems to be a carryover Infinity International group, led by CEO Leopoldo Castillo.
On its web site Therus Community offers New York and Costa Rica company addresses.
Therus Community’s New York deal with belongs to digital deal with firm Regus. This implies Therus Community has no precise ties to New York.
Whether or not Therus Community has any bodily ties to its offered Costa Rica deal with is unclear.
As of April 2024, SimilarWeb tracked prime sources of visitors to Therus Community’s web site as Costa Rica (49%), Chile (41%) and Spain (10%).
This tracks with Infinity International primarily focusing on Spanish-speaking nations throughout Central and South America.
Learn on for a full overview of Therus Community’s MLM alternative.
Therus Community’s Merchandise
Therus Community has no retailable services or products.
Associates are solely in a position to market Therus Community affiliate membership itself.
Therus Community affiliate membership offers entry to Bitex and TravelPoints packages.
Bitex Packages
- 100 Bitex for $101 – “fundamentals of economic schooling” course and “10 steps to formulate a enterprise goal” masterclass
- 250 Bitex for $252.50 – “superior fundamentals of economic schooling” course and “good investments” masterclass
- 500 Bitex (listed in Therus Community’s advertising materials however not their compensation pan so value unknown) – “monetary planning and investments” workshop plus “develop your marketing strategy” and “introduction to cryptocurrencies” masterclasses
- 1000 Bitex for $1010 – cryptocurrency and blockchain schooling plus “networking strategies”, NFT and crypto gaming masterclasses
- 2000 Bitex for $2020 – “persuasive communication” course and “fundamentals of Harvard mannequin negotiation” and “storytelling” masterclasses
- 5000 Bitex for $5050 – Harvard negotiation mannequin course plus “fundamentals of producing abundance” and “high quality and repair” masterclasses
- 10,000 Bitex for $10,100 – wealth creation academy
- 25,000 Bitex for $25,250 – high-performance group academy
Be aware that increased costing Bitex Packages include all supplies in decrease priced tiers.
E.g. in case you bought 5000 Bitex, you’ve obtain every part within the 100 Bitex, 250 Bitex, 500 Bitex, 1000 Bitex and 2000 Bitex tiers.
TravelPoints Packages
Therus Community’s TravelPoints packages seem tied to a reduction journey reserving platform.
- 1000 TravelPoints – $252.50 after which $50.50 a month
- 2000 TravelPoints – $505 after which $101 a month
- 4000 TravelPoints – $4040 after which $202 a month
- 10,000 TravelPoints Plus – $10,100 after which $505 a month
Presumably the extra spend the larger the financial savings however this isn’t defined on Therus Community’s web site or in its advertising materials.
Therus Community’s Compensation Plan
Therus Community associates spend money on Bitex packages. Bitex Packages correspond to Bitex factors, which will be cashed out internally at a 1 Bitex level = $1 fee.
Returns provided on Bitex package deal funding is set by how lengthy a Therus Community affiliate opts to attend.
- 16 month wait interval = 200% ROI
- 24 month wait interval = 300% ROI
- 30 month wait interval = 400% ROI
- 34 month wait interval = 500% ROI
Be aware that Therus Community affiliate membership charges should be maintained in the course of the ROI wait interval.
Additionally notice that Therus Community associates are solely in a position to withdraw 75% of requested withdrawals. The remaining 25% should be reinvested into new Bitex packages.
The MLM facet of Therus Community pays on recruitment of affiliate buyers.
Therus Community Affiliate Ranks
There are eleven affiliate ranks inside Therus Community’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Government 1 Star – generate 1000 GV in your weaker binary group leg
- Government 2 Stars – generate 2000 GV in your weaker binary group leg
- Government 3 Stars – generate 5000 GV in your weaker binary group leg
- Government 4 Stars – generate 10,000 GV in your weaker binary group leg
- Government 5 Stars – generate 20,000 GV in your weaker binary group leg
- Government Diamond 1 Star – generate 50,000 GV in your weaker binary group leg and have two Government 4 Stars or increased in two separate recruitment legs
- Government Diamond 2 Star – generate 100,000 GV in your weaker binary group leg and have two Government 5 Stars or increased in two separate recruitment legs
- Government Diamond 3 Star – generate 250,000 GV in your weaker binary group leg and have two Diamond 1 Stars or increased in two separate recruitment legs
- Government Diamond 4 Star – generate 500,000 GV in your weaker binary group leg and have three Diamond 1 Stars or increased in two separate recruitment legs
- Government Crown – generate 1,000,000 GV in your weaker binary group leg and have three Diamond 2 Stars or increased in three separate recruitment legs
- Government Ambassador – generate 2,000,000 GV in your weaker binary group leg and have 5 Diamond 2 Stars or increased in 4 separate recruitment legs
GV stands for “Group Quantity” and is gross sales quantity generated through Bitex and TravelPoints package deal gross sales.
Therus Community aren’t particular about GV necessities (they erroneously check with group quantity as “PV”), however I consider the required quantities are amassed.
Referral Commissions
Therus Community pays referral commissions on the primary Bitex or TravelPoints Plus package deal recruited associates purchases.
First package deal referral fee charges are decided by which package deal the referring affiliate bought themselves:
- buy a $100 Bitex package deal and obtain a 5% preliminary referral fee fee
- buy a $250 Bitex package deal and obtain a 6% preliminary referral fee fee
- buy a $500 Bitex package deal and obtain a 7% preliminary referral fee fee
- buy a $1000 or increased Bitex or 1000 TravelPoints package deal and obtain an 8% preliminary referral fee fee
Subsequent package deal purchases additionally pay referral commissions, as soon as once more decided by which package deal the referring affiliate bought:
- buy a $100 Bitex package deal and obtain a 3% subsequent referral fee fee
- buy a $250 or $500 Bitex package deal and obtain a 4% subsequent referral fee fee
- buy a $1000 or increased Bitex or TravelPoints package deal and obtain a 5% subsequent referral fee fee
Extension Referral Commissions
If a Therus Community affiliate opts to increase their Bitex package deal length by 8 to 18 months, past the default 16 month interval, the next further commissions are paid out:
- 8 month extension – 10% bonus referral fee
- further 6 month extension (14 months) – 20% bonus referral fee
- further 4 month extension (18 months) – 30% bonus referral fee
Be aware extension commissions are paid as bonus referral commissions on the unique quantity invested into the prolonged Bitex packages.
Residual Commissions
Therus Community pays residual commissions through a binary compensation construction.
A binary compensation construction locations an affiliate on the prime of a binary group, break up into two sides (left and proper):
The primary stage of the binary group homes two positions. The second stage of the binary group is generated by splitting these first two positions into one other two positions every (4 positions).
Subsequent ranges of the binary group are generated as required, with every new stage housing twice as many positions because the earlier stage.
Positions within the binary group are crammed through direct and oblique recruitment of associates. Be aware there is no such thing as a restrict to how deep a binary group can develop.
On the finish of every month Therus Community tallies up new package deal quantity on each side of the binary group.
Associates are paid a share of package deal quantity on their weaker binary group facet.
Residual fee charges are decided by which package deal an affiliate themselves bought:
- buy a $100 Bitex package deal and obtain a 5% residual fee fee
- buy a $250 Bitex package deal and obtain a 6% residual fee fee
- buy a $500 Bitex package deal and obtain a 7% residual fee fee
- buy a $1000 or $2000 Bitex package deal and obtain an 8% residual fee fee
- buy a $5000 Bitex package deal and obtain a 9% residual fee fee
- buy a $10,000 Bitex or TravelPoints package deal and obtain a ten% residual fee fee
Be aware that residual commissions are capped at 200% of the package deal tier an affiliate bought.
E.g. a $100 Bitex package deal tier affiliate can earn as much as $200 in residual commissions a month.
As soon as paid out on, weaker facet quantity is matched towards the stronger binary group facet and flushed.
Leftover quantity on the stronger binary group facet carries over for as much as 6 months.
Management Bonus
To qualify for the Management Bonus a Therus Community affiliate should recruit six associates, positioned three on all sides of the binary group.
As soon as certified for, the Management Bonus is paid out month-to-month based mostly on rank:
- Government 3 Stars obtain a $100 Management Bonus
- Government 4 Stars obtain a $200 Management Bonus
- Government 5 Stars obtain a $400 Management Bonus
- Government Diamond 1 Stars obtain a $1000 Management Bonus
- Government Diamond 2 Stars obtain a $2000 Management Bonus
- Government Diamond 3 Stars obtain a $5000 Management Bonus
- Government Diamond 4 Stars obtain a $10,000 Management Bonus
- Government Crowns obtain a $20,000 Management Bonus
- Government Ambassadors obtain a $40,000 Management Bonus
Rank Achievement Bonus
Therus Community rewards Government Diamond 1 Stars and better with the next Rank Achievement Bonuses:
- qualify at Government Diamond 1 Star and obtain $500 a month
- qualify at Government Diamond 2 Star and obtain $1000 a month
- qualify at Government Diamond 3 Star and obtain $2000 a month
- qualify at Government Diamond 4 Star and obtain $3000 a month
- qualify at Government Crown and obtain $4000 a month
- qualify at Government Ambassador and obtain $5000 a month
Diamond Expertise Bonus
Therus Community’s Diamond Expertise Bonus is an imprecise bonus purportedly tied to journey.
Our DIAMOND EXPERIENCE Holidays are areas designed in order that our Unbiased executives have the potential of having fun with the achievements achieved of their management profession in our firm.
It’s assumed the Diamond Expertise Bonus is barely accessible to Government Diamond 1 Star and better ranked associates.
International Gross sales Bonus
Therus Community takes 2% of Bitex package deal gross sales and locations it into two smaller 1% International Gross sales Bonus Swimming pools (Diamond and Crown).
The 2 International Gross sales Bonus Swimming pools are paid out month-to-month to Government Diamond 2 Star and better ranked associates.
- Government Diamond 2 Stars qualify for one share within the Diamond International Gross sales Bonus Pool
- Government Diamond 3 Stars qualify for 2 shares within the Diamond International Gross sales Bonus Pool
- Government Diamond 4 Stars qualify for 3 shares within the Diamond International Gross sales Bonus Pool
- Government Crowns qualify for one share within the Crown International Gross sales Bonus Pool
- Government Ambassadors qualify for 2 shares within the Crown International Gross sales Bonus Pool
Becoming a member of Therus Community
Therus Community affiliate membership is $35 yearly.
Therus Community Conclusion
Once I reviewed Infinity International in December 2021 I categorized it as a pyramid scheme. Whereas Bitex packages may very well be subscribed to for as much as 36 months, there was no point out of Bitex factors or the five hundred% ROI scheme.
I don’t know if it’s because Infinity International hid the scheme or it was added later.
Both method, the most important distinction between BehindMLM’s 2021 Infinity International overview and Therus Community in 2024 is the passive returns.
Central to Therus Community is a fraudulent funding scheme, with every part else constructed round that.
Each the schooling programs connected to Bitex packages and the whole low cost journey engine are pseudo-compliance, with neither failing to legitimize stated fraudulent funding scheme.
As to the scheme itself, Therus Community associates spend money on Bitex packages on the promise of a passive return topping 500%.
Somewhat than simply being trustworthy about soliciting funding and paying passive returns, Therus Community clothes up its funding scheme as “money again”.
The “Money Again” possibility will likely be accessible for withdrawal in a interval of 30 to 45 days, after finishing the corresponding durations of 16, 24, 30 or 34 months.
If the participant initially bought a package deal of 1,000 Bitex and reaches month 34 of the Loyalty Program (compliance with the principles every month), at this level they may now have 5,000 Bitex.
In different phrases, your unique package deal is quintupled, due to the factors acquired every month.
As a result of Bitex have a worth of 1 for $1, the “Money Again” would be the identical.
The total 500% ROI requires a 36 month (3 12 months) maturity time. It needs to be famous Infinity International collapsed inside three years of launch.
MLM reboots not often final wherever close to so long as their predecessors, so Therus Community will in all probability collapse even sooner.
Along with schooling programs, low cost journey and “money again” pseudo-compliance, any notion that associates are doing something however investing will be dismissed by means of Therus Community’s personal advertising materials.
Bitex packages wouldn’t have “upgrades”, since each has the potential to begin a brand new, separate Loyalty Program interval (the durations are defined later on this doc).
This, in flip, implies that a number of Bitex packages will be bought in parallel.
Why would anybody buy a number of cases of entry to the identical academic course content material?
They wouldn’t. Associates are investing and thus, via its personal advertising supplies, Therus Community’s ruse falls aside.
On the regulatory entrance Therus Community represents it’s based mostly out of the US, each via its New York company deal with and phrases and situations;
The phrases and situations and different authorized paperwork associated to the Adherents and Unbiased Representatives will likely be certain to the legal guidelines of the state of Delaware of america of America.
As per the Howey Check, Therus Community’s funding scheme constitutes a securities providing.
Therus Community associates make investments funds into the corporate (a standard enterprise). That is performed “with an affordable expectation of earnings to be derived from the efforts of others” (the marketed as much as 500% passive return).
Therus Community don’t disclose how they pay out as much as 500% per funding however we will affirm it’s paid out passively. I.e. returns derived via Therus Community’s Bitex package deal funding scheme are “derived from the efforts of others”.
With all prongs of the Howey Check happy Therus Community’s Bitex packages represent an funding contract, which in flip constitutes a securities providing.
Beneath US legislation securities providing should be registered with the SEC. A search of the SEC’s Edgar database reveals neither Therus Community or Leopoldo Castillo are registered with the SEC.
Securities in Panama are regulated by the Superintendencia de Bancos de Panama underneath related securities legal guidelines. Therus Community additionally fails to offer proof it has registered to supply securities in Panama.
This at a minimal constitutes securities fraud. And with nothing marketed or offered to retail clients, the MLM facet of Therus Community constitutes a pyramid scheme.
Because it stands the one verifiable income getting into Therus Community is new funding. Utilizing new funding to pay returns of as much as 500% would make Therus Community a Ponzi scheme.
As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, as soon as affiliate recruitment dries up so too will new funding.
It will starve Therus Community of ROI income, finally prompting a collapse.
The mathematics behind Ponzi schemes ensures that once they collapse, the vast majority of individuals lose cash.