Beware, Intway!

Making money on the Internet. This phrase calls various associations. Owing to the popularization of the Internet in our country people started take the latter not only like an amusement and entertainment but like a tool to earn to some money. The most difficult thing is a start… Those who believe everything later regret bitterly. The Internet-business became a double of a regular one where one will fail without any investments and the extraordinary abilities.

There are lots of offers; however is there any sense to consider all of them? E-commerce is going beyond the Internet frames and conquers everything on its way. Recently one could see a new project named MLM. It is a very genius thing meant for the narrow-minded persons but with the great ambitions. Finally it appeared to be a simple pyramid…

A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, without any product or service being delivered. It has been known to come under many guises.

Today the Internet is full of the information on Intway. So, I figure that lots of you have known it as lots of people getting involved in it. Just briefly about them: the company was founded in 2003 by some unknown people and in some unknown place and rushed upward. Today the company claims to be popular in more than 150 countries worldwide. To join this company one need to pay $300 (big money for the places other than Moscow) and to get 1 Gb of hosting, website builder, Internet shops and terminal for trading stock exchanges. All of this I leant from my friend who managed to get into that hornet's nest. Все это мне поведал товарищ, которого угораздило попасть в эту пропасть. I’ll step aside and tell a little about this friend of mine as a prototype of the corporation participants. He is a smart and talented student who wakes up and fells asleep with a single thought to earn millions. However one knows that no pains, no gains, but it seems that Intway corporation decided to break all the stereotypes. Their agent has told about the unlimited possibilities of the corporation members, rivers of money and etc. The guy was afire with enthusiasm for it, saved all his scholarships and found the necessary amount to join the corporation.

Some days ago I was present on the presentation of a super business (according to the words of the speaker) – an international company Intway. Why have I gone there you may ask? Just was curious! The company was pretending to be the e-commerce and I just wanted to know more about all of this. Also, I wanted to know my rivals, however after the detailed study I don’t think they are my rivals.

Earlier I have already heard lots of the comments to the company, mainly the negative ones. So I decided to go and to clear up happened. So, what have I found? Unfortunately nothing can as it is a well hidden pyramid! However it was well the same as MMM (Mavrodi) and the other ones!

I think all the network companies can be divided into three:

- pyramid schemes created by the fraudsters for one purpose: within a short period of time to get as much money from the investors as it possible, to make a killing (seize the money) and to disappear. Thus, the pyramid schemes can be (and should be) called the fake MLM-companies;

- one day companies which collapse before the development due to the insufficiently considered marketing-plan, not qualitative or unclaimed goods, lack of the united management team and other reason. Usually this happens within 2 years starting from the launch date;

- the companies of the network marketing officially registered in the country and having very good merchandise (of high quality and popular with the consumers) and a marketing plan, as well as all the tools including educating, informative, legal and other ones, necessary for a serious activity.

There are some questions that should be considered to understand whether it is a real netwolk company or a pyramid scheme. Let’s see everything together!

Intway offers the following “goods”:

1) Stock Exchange Terminals. However, one can get it from some broker and trade the same way you could do if you have purchased the stock exchange terminals from Intway. This service would cost you less than the service of Intway! So, in my opinion this product could hardly be called as a 100% good.

2) 4 Internet shops (one of them is already finished with the goods of Intway company, the other three ones are for your goods). Here one can ask: why do I need 4 shops at once if I want only 1? So, this kind of “product” is also doubtful.

3) Website builder. Actually I think that only this product makes Intway different from a pure pyramid scheme.

4) E-mail with the system of e-mail responders. Unfortunately, I failed to test it, however today one can find several different offers on this service both free and paid. So, I doubt to call it a 100% product.

5) Payment card (will be sent by snail mail) through which one will be able to transfer money to any country worldwide without any fees. The only good thing is that it is not a virtual card and one receive it. Probably can receive… :) Here is again the question: why should I send money worldwide? Today there are lots of various money transfer services which charge you something like 1-2%, and you can send money wherever you want. It will be cheaper for you rather than purchase that “super card”:) More over, later won’t be able to sell it anybody.

And all of this is offered for $300! One can find the hosting for $40, the exchange access for $10, if you have some acquaintance among broker then less than for $5. The most interesting is that you can get 20% from deposit if attract the clients, and also to get some interest from the people attracted by your affiliate. Umph, don’t you feel the smell of the pyramid? It is even simpler than a trick with 6 wallets, like, send 10 cents to 6 wallets and you will become a millionaire.

Then I decided to analyze the forums: ()% are shocked by the company and even the reputable members say that one can earn money only by flogging the company goods.

The official story about the creation of the company one can learn on the official website: www.intway.biz, where the legend is impressive indeed. James Barret and Antony Griffit are the millionaires – classmates who met after a long parting and decided to create a new project. And here we get some uncertainty: the life stories of all the millionaires can be found on the Internet in details however for some reason this couple I failed to find. In some hours I started checking the company addresses given on the site.

I started to check the following addresses:
5431 Auburn Blvd, # 176, Sacramento, CA, 95841, USA
910 Foulk Rd, Suite 201, Wilmington, FL, 19803, USA
3321, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Oliaji Trade Centre, 1st floor, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles
Bumazhny Proezd, 14, building 2

So, what is the result? An interesting thing: when we’ve searched the first one in Google, we found about 1300 pages. Up to the 5th page all the materials were only about Intway but after the 5th one we found some companies with the same name. As for the other three addresses, we found that only the first line of the page found by Google is dedicated to Intway and then follows a kind of mess… And finally the third, most gripping issue is: the same address has one the shops of “Nike”, a sporting wear company. May be we will check the domain? Easily!

Here is what we’ve found:
Registrant:
World, IntWay
5431 Auburn Blvd, # 176
Sacramento, CA 95841
US

Domain Name: INTWAY.COM

Promote your business to millions of viewers for only $1 a month!

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
World, IntWay
intway@intway.net
5431 Auburn Blvd, # 176
Sacramento, CA 95841
US
Phone: +1 916-914-2000
Fax: +1 916-914-2212

Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS
NS1.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.190.1
NS2.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.144.1

Current Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
IP Address: 72.52.4.206 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)
Record Type: Domain Name
Server Type: IIS 6
Lock Status: clientTransferProhibited
Web Site Status: Active
DMOZ no listings
Secure: Yes
E-commerce: Yes
Traffic Ranking: 4
Data as of: 22-Apr-2008

The IPs are clear, nothing suspicious though there are no names. But we have an address and probably it is the main one:
Sacramento, CA 95841
US
Phone: +1 916-914-2000
Fax: +1 916-914-2212

Here’s what I found :

It appeared that the office of the hyper –company is located in the middle of the road. Strange, very strange, huh? There are lots of other interesting facts on the Internet.

What else can I say? I guess you have clearly understood that during 5 years the soap bubble has inflated and developed and is about to burst, and if it happens all its participants will become the usual crowd seeing a live performance. The owners of Intway project have masked their pyramid very carefully by selling some undesirable merchandise and it is obvious that many people don’t realize what exactly they are buying. It’s an absolute stuff: to waste $300 for a bad hosting; 2nd level domains for the shops that are not indexed by the search engines; and the opportunity to trade on stock exchange. But mostly I was shocked by the hypothecary offer of Intway. The people who believed them have probably lost to get a credit forever. Of course, now it seems to be ridiculous to invest in this company however their lecturers are the real professional. When I attended the seminar I was about to invest those $300. I don’t know how to call this, may be it is a hypnosis or brainwash, but a 60-years old man was running and jumping over the stage for 5 hours trying to convince us of giving him $300. instead he was promising that we will celebrate our Christmas and the New Year Eve on Bahamas. And it is necessary to admit that lots of people were carried away by temptation… So, that is Intway company, a usual soap bubble that will fall to pieces soon.

Comments

Inetersting article! Strange that if its kind of MMM, they are still alive! Its already more than 5 years! Hmm... But the true is that they sell their service too expensively! Real bad hosting and autoresponder!

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