Infinity Grid: Jacques Marais joins Prosperity Grid scammers
The Prosperity Grid gifting scheme has collapsed.
Admins behind the scam have teamed up with Gift of Legacy scammer Jacques Marais, rebooting as Infinity Grid.
The Prosperity Grid was a South African gifting scheme launched on or around March 2021.
Among others, The Prosperity Grid was headed up by South African resident Marina Taute (right).
In May 2022 BehindMLM noted The Prosperity Grid was on the verge of collapse. This was signalled by The Prosperity Grid’s entry cost being slashed from $500 to ~$126.
Explaining the change on a webinar, Taute reasoned The Prosperity Grid recruitment collapsed because it cost too much to join.
In June 2022 The Prosperity Grid finally caught the attention of South African regulators. Unfortunately the regulator to take notice was the FSCA – South Africa’s top financial regulator.
Gifting schemes are pyramid schemes, which fall outside of the FSCA’s jurisdiction. In closing their investigation, the FSCA claimed they’d “referred the matter to other relevant regulators and authorities in South Africa”.
Meanwhile we have Infinity Grid.
Infinity Grid’s website domain (“infinitygrid.global”), was privately registered on May 23rd, 2022. This is around the time The Prosperity Grid’s collapse began.
In an official Infinity Grid November 17th webinar, Dusan Torbica, a former OneCoin Ponzi promoter, introduces Jacques Marais as “the beekeeper”.
Torbica goes on to state Marais is “the architect” of Infinity Grid.
Marais (right) was one of the original “core 5” of the Gift of Legacy gifting scheme. Gift of Legacy was a spinoff of Kindred Hearts, yet another gifting scheme Marais was involved in.
In July 2022, as Gift of Legacy was also collapsing, Marais claimed the scam had been “stolen” from him.
As you all know, GL – my brainchild and pride and joy – Gift of Legacy, was taken from me by the ‘Core Leaders’ and launched to the community before it was ready.
As a result, it has not performed nor lived up to the initial promises that were made, and to this day, – even though it has been out of my control, I feel responsible for that. And therefore responsible to each and every one of you.
So um here we are, with Marais fronting another gifting scheme pieced together from the ashes of other collapsed gifting schemes.
In a nutshell, Infinity Grid continues The Prosperity Grid gifting scheme. The only significant changes are the rebranding and “bee” theme to market the scam.
- participants in Infinity Grid are referred to as “keepers” (as in “bee keepers”)
- matrices used in Infinity Grid are referred to as honeycombs
- cycling from one matrix to a higher tier payment matrix is referred to as “cross-pollination”
Instead of the two tiers The Prosperity Grid had, Infinity Grid has four.
The same 2×3 matrix structure is used for each tier.
Infinity Grid’s four tiers are priced at $100, $400, $1500 and $3000.
Raw numbers in and out are $100 in and $40,000 per position.
I believe personal recruitment is required to cycle out of tier 1 (grid 1) to tier 2 (grid 2). Passively filling a tier 1 matrix doesn’t cycle into tier 2.
Along the way new positions are created as participants cycle out, further draining the system.
Core to all MLM gifting scams is constant recruitment, without which Infinity Grid inevitably collapses.
Despite all the previous gifting schemes he’s been in or run having collapsed, Marais claims Infinity Grid is “here for the next 100 years”.
BehindMLM can’t speak to why South African authorities don’t shut down prominent MLM gifting schemes. We do note that South Africa in general has a poor track record of MLM regulation.
Pending regulatory investigations, how many victims Jacques Marais created with Gift of Legacy and how much they lost is unknown. Ditto the same figures for The Prosperity Grid.
What we do know is that before its launched, Infinity Grid has already been preloaded with The Prosperity Grid top scammers and victims. Marais refers to existing promoters as “whitelisters”.
If you’re reading this because someone pitched you on Infinity Grid, the idea is that you buy in and pay off existing victims. Then, unless you scam a bunch of people yourself, you become a new victim.
Over time the number of victims in MLM gifting schemes grows exponentially. Even if you don’t understand the matrix structures and cycling, math is math. $100 in and $40,000 out is four hundred new suckers for every $100 gifting payment in.
What is paid in is what is paid out in an MLM gifting scheme. And the majority of that goes to admins and top promoters.
As per a welcome message in Infinity Grid’s backoffice, the scam is scheduled to launch on January 20th, 2023.
Pending the unlikely event South African authorities shut Infinity Grid and Marais down, we’ll keep you posted. Failing which we’ll be here to document Infinity Grid’s inevitable collapse.
Per mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/infinity-grid-global-prosperity-grid-reboot-scam.1217381/post-30426057
Also looks like the marketing material was directly lifted from Prosperity Grid and recoloured and merged with prosperity grid’s matrixes model – lazy scammers.
I think my favorite part in all of this is Jacques Marais running around pretending he’s reinvented the wheel.
Matrix gifting schemes have been a thing since at least the early 2000s. The model hasn’t changed because the math behind it can’t change.
Since the 1980s even.
Have a gander – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_game they even have a gifting loom image to refer to.
Yeah they didn’t call them matrices back then :D.
edit: Lol, someone added The Prosperity Grid to the Airplane game Wikipedia entry.
A potato by another name remains a spud 😛
Haha didn’t notice that.
Marina Taute lives in Dubai, whereas Shirley Hanson resides in the Western Cape area with a business (Hanson Interactive Communications) registered in Plettenberg Bay.
This has come in via email:
LOL, in this vid Jacques actually admits that gifting schemes are not sustainable, that they “seem to just suddenly stop”, but that Infinity Grid is “revolutionary”.
vimeo.com/786160618
@50:07 in the above vid Jacques makes a pitiful attempt to address and dismiss his involvement in other scams and the criticism of Infinity Grid.
Hilariously he even states that Marina and Shirley went to him to ask for help with Prosperity Grid because it was not sustainable.
Math is math. The same math behind every gifting scheme collapsing is behind Infinity Grid.
@Oz exactly. No amount of wishful thinking will change basic mathematical concepts.
Recognized Dusan Torbica from the list above. He was a big promoter of OneCoin and got Igor Krnic in OneCoin, and was his sponsor if my memory is correct.
Once a scammer always a scammer.
Always interesting the criminal nested overlap in these cons
Do they go to conventions and exchange cards?
Actually the people who start these Ponzi’s know who all the major promoters are and how big of a downline they have.
To get them onboard, they give them a better deal than the regular person joining. The bigger downline they have the bigger their upfront commissions are.
They are also the first in and first out. They know when the bloom has come off the pumpkin and they get out before the crap hits the fan. This way all they have to lose is their referral fees.
Of course they always claim they did their due diligence and that’s why they joined as it was the real deal.
When it starts going south, they claim they were duped just like all the others who joined. If they had known the admin was going to run with the money or it was going to collapse quickly, they would have never joined BS.
So much for their due diligence skills. The only due diligence they did was get a great deal on commissions for people signing up under them.
@Lynndel “Lynn” Edgington
Yes, I totally agree with you!
Serbian serial scammer Dusan Torbica has also removed screenshots of me and installed copy protection for his former scam portal cryptocurrencyglobally.com.
web.archive.org/web/20180803191444/http://cryptocurrencyglobally.com/
Old videos for OneCoin scam he removed in the meantime, but he didn’t delete everything! 🙂
The criminal Serb Dusan Torbica with advertisement for his former fraud portal cryptocurrencyglobally.com:
share-your-photo.com/7b16014610
web.archive.org/web/20180812181448/http://cryptocurrencyglobally.com/debate
The criminal Serb Dusan Torbica with advertising for Circle of Finance / Invicta of the serial fraudster Habib Zahid:
share-your-photo.com/43aec79eec
The criminal Serb Dusan Torbica with advertisement for DAISY AI scam:
share-your-photo.com/c48795f1ac
Commentary of the criminal Serb Dusan Torbica on the no longer existing website free-konstantin.org:
share-your-photo.com/7b16014610
web.archive.org/web/20201001192142/https://www.free-konstantin.org/testimonials
Yes I can confirm that Konstantin Ignatov is a humble and honest person…
In a copy-protected video dated August 15, 2019, he proudly wrote in the upper left corner:
Serbian scammer Dusan Torbica and Bulgarian scammer Konstantin Ignatov:
share-your-photo.com/f6acdf5098
On Instagram he promotes no scam, but quotes dubious guys like Eric Worre (OmegaPro scam):
instagram.com/realdusantorbica/
Serial scammerHabib Zahid called this Serbian scammer in a comment as:
instagram.com/p/BqIn_rCi6lc/
Serial scammer Dusan Torbica on Twitter. Only one tweet since January 2018. How many tweets has he deleted?
twitter.com/TorbicaDusan
Again, the Serbian serial scammer has installed copy protection. In the past, his account on Twitter was Dusan_Onelifer.
Leah Rae Getts wrote on Twitter on March 5, 2018:
twitter.com/search?q=Dusan_Onelifer&src=typed_query
The cryptocurrencyglobally.com scam portal by Dusan Torbica was created by this scammer who also lives in Serbia.
web.archive.org/web/20180724095122/http://cryptocurrencyglobally.com/nemanjabastovanov/
Nemanja Bastovanov – All links with copy protection:
instagram.com/bastovanov_nemanja/
instagram.com/nemanjabastovanovic/
instagram.com/bastovanovic.nemanja0/
The scam portal cryptocurrencyglobally.com also existed in Serbian as cryptocurrency.rs – with copy protection there as well.
web.archive.org/web/20181003120059/http://cryptocurrency.rs:80/
youtu.be/bFcMB8a9rMg
I just paid 100 dollars to a Victor. I want to bring other family members in. Now that I have read your comments I am hesitating to get them to invest.
Pls comment.Thank you.
Comment (???).
Needs some more information was about to sing uo, now Im not too sure.
Infinity Grid isn’t all that complicated. You sign up to a gifting scam, someone steals your money.
New victims get recruited, you steal their money. Or Infinity Grid inevitably collapses like the previous gifting scams and you join the majority of participants who’ll lose money.
It seems the collapse has started. They’re now introducing lower entry-prices, also faffing on about an “infinity loop”.
It’s as though they didn’t learn from Prosperity Grid… oh wait.
Why you all for these crypto scams is beyond me.
At least with old school mlm you had supplements or stuff that you could put a value to. You’re literally now just shipping your cash overseas to some call centre / sweat shop actively tempting you with stupidity.
So, what’s happening here? Seems like they’ve not uploaded any vids to their Vimeo channel since November.
I wonder if the penny has dropped yet with ol” Awie Vorster. Seemed like he had a lot to say on YT, but as per usual nothing of substance.
Perhaps the Lobos will kick him out on bad standing if they were to find out about him doing people in.
They’ve gone pretty much to ground. Everything is now locked up behind a Verified account and login. Seems they are shit scared of somebody catching on.