Stay away, if there is even an inkling of this trash network floating around. This God-awful pyramid scheme known as, Travel Ventures International Express (TVI Express), left my wife and In financial ruin last year and more recently decimated investors across South Africa having before completely disappearing and, leaving those who invested in it financially fu^%ed.

It's of little comfort to know that the The Department of Trade and Industry as well as a few other legal entities opened a police case against the company for operating a pyramid scheme. I gravely advise anyone whom has given these crooks any money at all to TVI Express to forward commissioned affidavits together with proof of payments to the Office of Consumer Protection, we need to take these slime balls down before they get rich of more victims.

There are, even now, after having been literally removed from South Africa; people promoting this garbage across the US, luring people to invest ridiculous amounts of money, and they are succeeding. My wife and I have literally begun a crusade to tell anyone who will listen to please be careful in avoiding this company, its emails, salespeople, offers, spam mail, and any informational sites whom give the company a positive slant, they are all in on it.

The guy who started it all is from India, his name is Parun Trihka and has since disappeared along with his web sites used to purchase travel vouchers. TVI Express and its criminals have lured hundreds of thousands of people to invest their money with countless promises of wealth and riches, only to leave them with nearly nothing in many cases. If there has ever been a prime example of a Ponzi scheme, this would be it.

My wife and I had purchased a non refundable voucher worth $700 to become members, further having to recruit two more people to buy the vouchers ( we foolishly chose friends and family members whom have since stopped speaking to us and will not accept our apologies) in order to move up and increase our level.

We had achieved a higher level, and the choice to cash in our "achievement", or buy new vouchers at decreased rates in order to sell to those we were offering the service to. In this case, my wife's brother, and a very close work colleague of mine. Like fools, having no idea we were all being taken advantage of, we purchased more vouchers and sold them to other victims, unknowingly spreading this financial virus and leaving everyone having taken a major financial hit.

We have since had to sell our home, and live in a very small apartment, trying desperately to approach our loved ones with the money they had lost in hopes of them forgiving us and seeing that it was not intentional. The TVI Express scam has seemingly been taken down officially, but amazingly there are still countless people attempting to present this company and its vouchers all across the United States and abroad.

I'm really sorry to hear about what hapened to you guys....

I just mentioned this crap company in another thread and let me tell you, you guys are lucky if you still even have a financial base after all the things you said you're doing to make reparations to your friends. I'd think that they'd be so exposed that no one would ever fall for it, but there really are a ton of people that have never even heard of this type of thing and have little to do with the MLM world.

There web site is absolutely sickening, and I'm surprised it hasn't been blocked yet. It has this picture of a family probably on vacation with a weird ethnic mix of un likeliness, only in the fact that a Greek-ish looking guy and a Caucasian woman have somehow managed to pull off an oriental child, heh.....just saying. Anyway, the photo looks all happy and colorful with a big promo splattered in elegant letters that state; "Celebrating two stupendous years of phenomenal success". Anyone CEO of a company willing to use "stupendous" in an add or on their web site is hanging out somewhere in Mexico smoking dope and sipping margaritas with drug cartel members. Actually that's probably who is in the picture on the web site.

I'm sure someone in th world knows the whereabouts of Parun Trihka, although there is probably so much red tape and crap he's hiding behind that if they knew where he was he probably wouldn't be arrested anyway. Its good that you're doing all you can to make up for exposing your loved ones to this, though you can't blame them if they are havign a hard time liking you, I probbaly wouldn't either. Whatever happens, I do wish ya good luck and I hope TVI Express goes down hard and the creator ends up in a Mexican prison where he/she/them belong.

I've thought this business was a train wreck since I first looked into their "travel certificate" program. People were reporting they could not get travel, TVI Express was saying 'just a little bit longer and will have it all working' ( translation: just a little bit longer and we'll fatten our bank account enough to vanish to some private south pacific island ).

Last I heard they were shut down in Australia ( http://www.npros.com/2010%5C5%5C19%5Ctvi-express-shut-down-by-accc/ ) but were still operating in other countries.

I always wonder how a scam like TVI Express ever gets enough momentum going to even get their name recognized when there are ponzi schemes and cash gifting schemes and even similar travel certificate schemes cropping up ( and then vanishing ) almost monthly by the dozen.

Is there a special place where they just clone lemmings, give them a wad of cash, and release them into the wild so they can drop cash into scams like this and then promote it like wandering disciples to other unsuspecting lemmings?

"Is there a special place where they just clone lemmings, give them a wad of cash, and release them into the wild so they can drop cash into scams like this and then promote it like wandering disciples to other unsuspecting lemmings?"

lmao, well said.

I heard of them long before they toppled, back when they were barely exposed and I knew back then it was a bad idea. Vacations packages aren't a lucrative product even for an honest company to try to sell in the MLM world. The investment is too big for most consumers to consider making when they don't know for sure the agencies they are dealing with are legit. Which brings me back to your point...

No disrespect to the original poster, but honestly, only an idiot would ever go for something like this without doing much research. The internet is right here, it basically tells you everything you could possibly want to know about anything.

Use it.