On its website, Tirus gives no information regarding the company’s ownership or management.
The internet domain of Tirus (“tirus.ltd”) was initially registered in 2016. The last modification to the private registration occurred in August of 2018.
The administrator of the official Tirus Facebook group is Vladimir Potapov (right).
Prior to the 2017 launch of Tirus’ Facebook group, Potapov’s personal Facebook profile is devoid of information.
This identifies the profile as potentially fraudulent.
Tirus offers Tirus GmbH with Swiss incorporation documentation to seem legal.
In addition, there is a “banking account” document apparently detailing a connected HypoVereinsbank account:
These documents are irrelevant for the purposes of MLM due diligence. However, they supply us with the name “Teterin Denis.”
Marketing materials for Tirus list Denis Teterin and Andrei Zeitsev as the company’s co-founders.
Prior to founding Tirus, Andrei Zeitsev promoted a passive investment opportunity in Russian real estate.
This looks to be the predecessor to Tirus, which was introduced using the similar marketing strategy.
Earn money with marketing participation. Become the owner of lucrative Moscow real estate.
Utilize the company’s pre-existing tools; inventing anything new is not necessary.
Possible linguistic hurdles prevented me from learning Andrei Zeitsev’s pre-Tirus past.
According to their Facebook accounts, Teterin and Zeitsev are based in Krasnoyarsk and Moscow, respectively.
In contrast to Switzerland (where Tirus previously operated through a Hong Kong shell company), this would make Tirus a Russian multi-level marketing organization.
This relates to the fact that the majority of Tirus’ marketing is offered in Russian:
If an MLM firm is not transparent about who runs or controls it, you should always think twice before joining and/or contributing money.
Products Produced by Tirus
Tirus offers no items or services for sale.
Affiliates are only permitted to promote Tirus affiliate membership.
Plan of Compensation for Tirus
Affiliates of Tirus purchase a four-tier matrix cycler:
Easy – $10 Moderate – $50 Difficult – $100 Grand – $1000
Note that investing at the Medium level generates a stake at the Easy level as well.
Investing at the difficult level generates positions on both the easy and medium levels. Investing at the Grand level generates positions on the Easy, Medium, and Difficult levels.
In its cycler, Tirus employs 4×1 matrices. These require the filling of four posts.
Through direct and indirect recruiting of affiliates who acquire tier jobs, vacancies are filled.
When all four posts have been filled, a cycle is initiated.
An first cycle at any tier establishes a new tier 1 position, pays a commission, then cycles to the next cycler tier within that payment tier (easy, medium or hard).
Due to the fact that the initial cycle on each tier results in a higher tier rank, the commission paid is less than future cycles.
Subsequent cycles establish a new tier 1 position without producing a job at a higher tier, resulting in a bigger commission payout.
Initial cycle and subsequent cycle payouts are as follows for Tirus’s four-tier cycler:
Initial Cycle for Simple Cycler
Tier 1 (positions cost $10) – no commission; Tier 2 – $30 commission; Tier 3 – no commission; Tier 4 – $100 commission; Tier 5 – no commission; Tier 6 – $900 commission; Tier 1 – no commission.
Subsequent Cycles
Tier 1 is non-commissionable and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 2 pays a commission of $80 and produces a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 3 carries no commission and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 4 pays a commission of $400 and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 5 carries no commission and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 6 carries a $2400 fee and creates a new Tier 1 job.
Tier 7 produces a new Tier 1 post without commission.
Tier 8 pays a commission of $12,000 and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 9 produces a new Tier 1 post without commission.
Tier 10 – $72,000 commission and creates a new Tier 1 job Initial Cycle for the Medium Cycler Tier
Tier 1 (positions cost $50) – no commission, Tier 2 – $150 commission, Tier 3 – no commission, Tier 4 – $500 commission, Tier 5 – no commission, Tier 6 – $4500 commission, Tier 1 – no commission.
Subsequent Cycles
Tier 1 is non-commissionable and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 2 pays a fee of $400 and produces a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 3 carries no commission and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 4 pays a commission of $2,000 and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 5 carries no commission and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 6 pays a commission of $12,000 and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 7 produces a new Tier 1 post without commission.
Tier 8 pays a commission of $60,000 and creates a new Tier 1 post.
Tier 9 produces a new Tier 1 post without commission.
Tier 10 – $360,000 commission and creates a new Tier 1 post Initial Cycle Hard Cycler Tier Tier 10
Tier 1 (positions cost $100) – no commission; Tier 2 – $300 commission; Tier 3 – no commission; Tier 4 – $1000 commission; Tier 5 – no commission; Tier 6 – $9000 commission; Tier 1 – no commission.
Subsequent Cycles
Tier 1 is non-commissionable and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 2 pays $800 in commission and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 3 carries no commission and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 4 pays a commission of $4,000 and produces a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 5 carries no commission and creates a new Tier 1 position.
Tier 6 pays a commission of $24,000 and creates a new Tier 1 post.
Tier 7 produces a new Tier 1 post without commission.
Tier 8 pays a commission of $120,000 and creates a new Tier 1 post.
Tier 9 produces a new Tier 1 post without commission.
Tier 10 pays a commission of $720,000 and creates a new Tier 1 post.
Tier 1 (positions cost $1000) – no commission; generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 2; Tier 2 – $3000 commission; generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 3; Tier 3 – no commission; generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 4; Tier 4 – $10,000 commission; generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 5; Tier 5 – no commission; generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 6;
Subsequent Cycles
Tier 1 – no commission and results in a new Tier 1 position Tier 2 – $8000 commission and results in a new Tier 1 position Tier 3 – no commission and results in a new Tier 1 position Tier 4 – $40,000 commission and results in a new Tier 1 position Tier 5 – no commission and results in a new Tier 1 position
Tier 6 pays a commission of $240,000 and creates a new Tier 1 post.
Tier 7 creates a new Tier 1 position with no compensation. Tier 8 generates a new Tier 1 position with a $1,200,000 commission. Tier 9 generates a new Tier 1 position with no commission. Tier 10 generates a new Tier 1 position with a $7,200,000 commission.
Referral Compensation
Tirus pays referral commissions using a unilevel compensation scheme.
A unilevel pay system positions an affiliate at the apex of a unilevel team, with each individually recruited affiliate positioned directly behind them (level 1):
(unilevel)
Recruited level 1 affiliates are put on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates join new affiliates, they are promoted to level 3, and so on down an unlimited number of theoretical levels.
Tirus limits referral commission payouts to five.
Depending on one of these five tiers an affiliate has purchased, referral commissions are paid as a proportion of position investment:
Easy-tier affiliates earn commissions
3% on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates)
2% on levels two and three
1% of earnings on tiers 4 and 5 for medium-tier affiliates
5% on level 1
3% on level 2
2% on level 3
1 percent on stages 4 and 5
Hard tier affiliates get commissions.
7% on level 1 3% on level 2
2% between levels 3 and
1% on level 5
Cycle Benefits Tirus awards the following one-time rewards to affiliates who cycle out of various tiers:
cycle out of Easy tier 6 to receive $100. cycle out of Easy tier 8 to receive an iPhone. cycle out of Easy tier 10 to receive a “world tour” for one person. cycle out of Medium tier 6 to receive a gold bracelet. cycle out of Medium tier 8 to receive an Apple MacBook. cycle out of Hard tier 6 to receive a “golden contract”
cycle out of Hard tier 8 for a “golden hour” (???) cycle out of Hard tier 10 for a residence in Turkey.
Note that incentives for the Grand tier are not mentioned.
Joining Tirus requires an initial purchase of between $10 and $1,000 in cycler positions.
The cost of subsequent investment in cycler positions is either $10 (easy), $50 (medium), $100 (difficult), or $1000. (Grand).
Tirus Termination
The first marketing pitch for Tirus asserts that gains were created by investing in Moscow real estate.
Since then, this has evolved to include gold, diamonds, Turkish real estate, microcredit, IT goods, “internet project development,” health items, blockchain games, and ethereum.
It is all nonsense. Tirus operates a straightforward Ponzi scheme.
Thus, the corporation is able to finance dividends from additional investments in positions. This is made clear in a marketing film for Tirus: “100% of our revenue is used to compensate our partners.”
In a matrix cycler, you invest, others invest, and you receive a percentage of their investments. Each successive layer raises the stakes, directing the majority of funding to early adopters.
Early users of Tirus include co-founders Denis Teterin and Andrei Zeitse, as well as a group of Russians.
Tirus’ recruiting in Russia has long since collapsed, yet they continue to profit from recruitment in Qatar, Pakistan, and Morocco (Alexa).
Due to the reliant nature of matrix cyclers on pyramid recruitment, recruitment will eventually dwindle here as well.
As with other MLM cycler Ponzi schemes, position investment will cease if recruiting dries up.
Consequently, matrices within the cycler will begin to stall. Once a sufficient number of matrices stall, an irreversible collapse is initiated.
This locks dollars within the system, allowing administrators to steal further amounts.
Tirus has endured longer than the majority of matrix cycler Ponzi schemes. However, that does not make it any less of a swindle. Nor does it alter fundamental math.
Alexa presently allocates 58% of Tirus’s website’s traffic to Qatar. If no fresh victims can be found when recruiting eventually dries up, it will be the end.
Math assures that the majority of Ponzi scheme participants will lose money.
