TLC Trading fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.
TLC Trading’s website domain (“tlctrading.ai”), was privately registered on March 12th, 2024.
Interestingly enough, TLC Trading’s website social links all point to Trade Like Crazy accounts.
This prompted me to check Trade Like Crazy’s website domain (“tradelikecrazy.ai”), only to discover it now redirects to TLC Trading.
Trade Like Crazy was an AI trading bot Ponzi launched in late 2023. The scam, with apparent ties to Polish scammers, appears to have since collapsed.
For all intents and purposes, TLC Trading appears to be a Trade Like Crazy reboot.
In an attempt to appear legitimate, TLC Trading offers up a shell company certificate for TLC Trading LLC.
TLC Trading, supposedly attached to AP Imports LLC, was purportedly registered in Armenia on February 2nd, 2024.
Armen Sargasyan is listed as the sole “participant” of the company.
This ties into a Boris CEO actor playing Sargasyan in Trade Like Crazy marketing videos.
Note all those videos have since been marked private. Trade Like Crazy’s YouTube channel has been renamed “TLC_Trading.ai_” and scrubbed.
Interestingly, at some point Trade Like Crazy replaced their first Boris CEO actor with this guy:
But for some reason reverted back to photos of their original Boris CEO actor for TLC Trading marketing material:
The guy on the right in the replacement Boris CEO photo above is Sal Khan. He appears to be a Trade Like Crazy promotional ringleader.
Khan is based out of Dubai, which ties into Trade Like Crazy and TLC Trading likely run by Russian scammers also hiding in Dubai.
BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:
- If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
- If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.
If you want to know specifically how this applies to DexNet, read on for a full review.
TLC Trading’s Products
TLC Trading has no retailable products or services.
Affiliates are only able to market TLC Trading affiliate membership itself.
TLC Trading’s Compensation Plan
TLC Trading affiliates invest USD equivalents in tether (USDT). This is done on the promise of a 300% ROI.
There are twelve TLC Trading investment tiers:
- Trial – $20
- Starter – $50
- Basic – $100
- Pro – $250
- Bronze – $500
- Silver – $1000
- Gold – $2500
- Platinum – $5000
- Premium – $10,000
- Premier – $25,000
- Ultra – $50,000
- Galaxy – $100,000
The MLM side of TLC Trading pays on recruitment of affiliate investors.
TLC Trading Affiliate Ranks
There are six affiliate ranks within TLC Trading’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Rising Star – generate 25,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Manager – generate 250,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Supervisor – generate 500,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Director – generate 1,500,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Chairman – generate 4,000,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- President – 10,000,000 USDT in downline investment volume
Referral Commissions
TLC Trading pays referral commissions via a unilevel compensation plan.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
TLC Trading caps payable unilevel team levels at fifteen.
Referral commissions are paid as a percentage of USDT invested across these fifteen levels as follows:
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 10%
- level 2 – 7%
- level 3 – 6%
- level 4 – 5%
- level 5 – 4%
- level 6 – 3%
- level 7 – 2%
- level 8 – 1%
- level 9 – 0.8%
- level 10 – 0.7%
- level 11 – 0.6%
- level 12 – 0.5%
- level 13 – 0.4%
- level 14 – 0.25%
- level 15 – 0.75%
Note that TLC Trading caps referral commissions at 50% of USDT invested.
E.g. if you’ve invested at the 50,000 USDT Ultra tier, the highest you can earn in daily referral commissions is 25,000 USDT.
Rank Achievement Bonus
TLC Trading rewards affiliates for qualifying at Rising Star and higher with the following one-time Rank Achievement Bonuses:
- qualify at Rising Star and receive an iPhone 15 Pro or 1300 USDT
- qualify at Manager and receive a MacBook Pro or 2500 USDT
- qualify at Supervisor and receive a Rolex Datejust or 20,000 USDT
- qualify at Director and receive an AP Royal Oak or 40,000 USDT
- qualify at Chairman and receive an Audi RS 7 or 130,000 USDT
- qualify at President and receive a Lamborghini Urus or 350,000 USDT
Joining TLC Trading
Trade Like Crazy affiliate membership is free.
Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum 20 USDT investment.
TLC Trading Conclusion
TLC Trading is a particularly lazy Ponzi reboot. For the most part, all they’ve changed is the company name.
TLC Trading is otherwise the same AI trading bot ruse Ponzi run by the same Russian scammers.
As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will new investment.
This will starve TLC Trading of ROI revenue, eventually prompting a collapse.
The math behind Ponzi schemes guarantees that when they collapse, the majority of participants lose money.