Tirus gives no info on its web site about who owns or runs the corporate.
Tirus’ web site area (“tirus.ltd”), was first registered in 2016. The personal registration was final up to date in August 2018.
Tirus’ official FaceBook group has one admin; Vladimir Potapov (proper).
Potapov’s personal FaceBook profile has no content material previous to creation of Tirus’ FaceBook group in 2017.
This flags it as a doubtlessly bogus profile.
In an try to seem official, Tirus gives Swiss incorporation paperwork for Tirus GmbH.
There’s additionally a corresponding “banking account” doc, purportedly offering particulars of an related HypoVereinsbank account:
For the aim of MLM due-diligence, these paperwork are meaningless. What they do present us nonetheless is the title “Teterin Denis”.
Tirus advertising and marketing materials cites Denis Teterin and Andrei Zeitsev as co-founders of the corporate.
Previous to Tirus, Andrei Zeitsev was slinging a Russian real-estate passive funding alternative.
This seems to be the precursor to Tirus, which was launched on the identical advertising and marketing pitch.
Earn cash by taking part in advertising and marketing. Develop into the proprietor of worthwhile actual property in Moscow.
Use ready-made instruments from the corporate, invent something new will not be required.
Presumably because of language-barriers, I used to be unable to establish Andrei Zeitsev’s pre-Tirus historical past.
As per their respective FaceBook profiles, Teterin and Zeitsev are based mostly out of Krasnoyarsk and Moscow.
Versus Switzerland (previous to that Tirus operated by way of a Hong Kong shell firm), this is able to make Tirus a Russian MLM firm.
This ties into the majority of Tirus’ advertising and marketing being offered in Russian:
As all the time, if an MLM firm will not be brazenly upfront about who’s operating or owns it, assume lengthy and arduous about becoming a member of and/or handing over any cash.
Tirus’ Merchandise
Tirus has no retailable services or products.
Associates are solely in a position to market Tirus affiliate membership itself.
Tirus’ Compensation Plan
Tirus associates spend money on a four-tier matrix cycler:
- Straightforward – $10
- Medium – $50
- Laborious – $100
- Grand – $1000
Observe that investing on the Medium tier additionally creates a place on the Straightforward tier.
Investing on the Laborious tier creates a place on each the Straightforward and Medium tiers. Investing on the Grand tier creates a place on the Straightforward, Medium and Laborious tiers.
Tirus makes use of 4×1 matrices in its cycler. These require 4 positions to be stuffed.
Positions are stuffed through direct and oblique recruitment of associates who buy tier positions.
As soon as all 4 positions are stuffed, a “cycle” is triggered.
An preliminary cycle at any tier pays a fee, generates a brand new tier 1 place and cycles into the subsequent cycler tier inside that fee tier (straightforward, medium or arduous).
As a result of the preliminary cycle on any tier generates a better tier place, the fee acquired is lower than subsequent tier cycles.
Subsequent cycles generate a brand new tier 1 place with out producing a better tier place, leading to a better fee payout.
Preliminary cycle and subsequent cycle funds throughout Tirus’ four-tier cycler are as follows:
Straightforward Cycler Tier
Preliminary Cycle
- Tier 1 (positions price $10) – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 2
- Tier 2 – $30 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 3
- Tier 3 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 4
- Tier 4 – $100 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 5
- Tier 5 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 6
- Tier 6 – $900 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 7
- Tier 7 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 8
- Tier 8 – $3000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 9
- Tier 9 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 10
- Tier 10 – $72,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
Subsequent Cycles
- Tier 1 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 2 – $80 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 3 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 4 – $400 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 5 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 6 – $2400 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 7 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 8 – $12,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 9 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 10 – $72,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
Medium Cycler Tier
Preliminary Cycle
- Tier 1 (positions price $50) – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 2
- Tier 2 – $150 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 3
- Tier 3 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 4
- Tier 4 – $500 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 5
- Tier 5 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 6
- Tier 6 – $4500 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 7
- Tier 7 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 8
- Tier 8 – $15,000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 9
- Tier 9 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 10
- Tier 10 – $360,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
Subsequent Cycles
- Tier 1 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 2 – $400 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 3 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 4 – $2000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 5 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 6 – $12,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 7 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 8 – $60,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 9 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 10 – $360,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
Laborious Cycler Tier
Preliminary Cycle
- Tier 1 (positions price $100) – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 2
- Tier 2 – $300 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 3
- Tier 3 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 4
- Tier 4 – $1000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 5
- Tier 5 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 6
- Tier 6 – $9000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 7
- Tier 7 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 8
- Tier 8 – $30,000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 9
- Tier 9 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 10
- Tier 10 – $720,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
Subsequent Cycles
- Tier 1 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 2 – $800 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 3 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 4 – $4000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 5 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 6 – $24,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 7 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 8 – $120,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 9 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 10 – $720,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
Grand Cycler Tier
Preliminary Cycle
- Tier 1 (positions price $1000) – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 2
- Tier 2 – $3000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 3
- Tier 3 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 4
- Tier 4 – $10,000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 5
- Tier 5 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 6
- Tier 6 – $90,000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 7
- Tier 7 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 8
- Tier 8 – $300,000 fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 9
- Tier 9 – no fee, generates a brand new Tier 1 place and cycles into Tier 10
- Tier 10 – $7,200,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
Subsequent Cycles
- Tier 1 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 2 – $8000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 3 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 4 – $40,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 5 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 6 – $240,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 7 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 8 – $1,200,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 9 – no fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
- Tier 10 – $7,200,000 fee and generates a brand new Tier 1 place
Referral Commissions
Tirus pays referral commissions through a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the prime of a unilevel workforce, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned straight below them (stage 1):
(unilevel)
If any stage 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel workforce.
If any stage 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
Tirus caps payable referral commissions at 5.
Referral commissions are paid as a proportion of place funding throughout these 5 ranges based mostly on which tier an affiliate has purchased into:
Straightforward tier associates earn
- 3% on stage 1 (personally recruited associates)
- 2% on ranges 2 and three
- 1% on ranges 4 and 5
Medium tier associates earn
- 5% on stage 1
- 3% on stage 2
- 2% on stage 3
- 1% on ranges 4 and 5
Laborious tier associates earn
- 7% on stage 1
- 3% on stage 2
- 2% on ranges 3 and 4
- 1% on stage 5
Cycle Rewards
Tirus rewards associates who cycle out of varied tiers with the next one-time rewards:
- cycle out of Straightforward tier 6 and obtain $100
- cycle out of Straightforward tier 8 and obtain an iPhone
- cycle out of Straightforward tier 10 and obtain a “world tour” for one particular person
- cycle out of Medium tier 6 and obtain a gold bracelet
- cycle out of Medium tier 8 and obtain an Apple MacBook
- cycle out of Medium tier 10 and obtain a automotive
- cycle out of Laborious tier 6 and obtain a “golden contract” (???)
- cycle out of Laborious tier 8 and obtain a “golden hour” (???)
- cycle out of Laborious tier 10 and obtain an condo in Turkey
Observe that Grand tier rewards aren’t disclosed.
Becoming a member of Tirus
Tirus affiliate membership is tied to an preliminary $10 to $1000 cycler place buy.
Subsequent funding in cycler positions prices $10 (Straightforward), $50 (Medium), $100 (Laborious) or $1000 (Grand).
Tirus Conclusion
The preliminary advertising and marketing pitch for Tirus is that income had been generated through real-estate funding in Moscow.
That’s since been expanded gold, diamonds, property in Turkey, microcredit, IT merchandise, “web undertaking improvement, well being merchandise, blockchain video games and ethereum.
It’s all baloney. Tirus is working a easy Ponzi cycler.
This sees the corporate funds payouts from subsequent funding in positions. That is brazenly disclosed in a Tirus advertising and marketing video; “100% of the turnover goes to pay our companions”.
The fundamentals of a matrix cycler are you make investments, others make investments and also you get a minimize of their investments. Every new tier ups the ante, funnelling nearly all of invested funds to early adopters.
Tirus’ early adopters are co-founders Denis Teterin and Andrei Zeitse, and a bunch of Russians.
Whereas Tirus recruitment in Russia has lengthy collapsed, they’re nonetheless benefiting off of recruitment in Qatar, Pakistan and Morocco (Alexa).
Recruitment will finally dry up right here too, as a result of nature of matrix cyclers being depending on pyramid recruitment.
As with all MLM cycler Ponzis, as soon as recruitment dries up so too will place funding.
It will see matrices throughout the cycler begin to stall. As soon as sufficient matrices stall, an irreversible collapse is triggered.
This traps funds within the system, permitting admins to make off with much more cash.
For certain Tirus has for certain survived longer than most matrix cycler Ponzis. That doesn’t make it any much less of a rip-off although. Nor does it change primary math.
Alexa presently attributes Qatar as offering 58% of site visitors to Tirus’ web site. When recruitment inevitably collapses there, until new victims are discovered that’ll be it.
Math ensures nearly all of individuals in Ponzi schemes lose cash.