Worldwide Solutionz Review: $25 Ponzi hybrid
There is no information on the Worldwide Solutionz website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The company does have a “Who are you?” section in their FAQ, but it only provides the following vague marketing copy:
WorldWide SolutionZ is an umbrella company combining the best and most innovative elements of on-line and off-line business to allow anyone with the initiative and desire to seek financial freedom to fulfil their dreams, through a range of cutting edge, unique business initiatives.
The Worldwide Solutionz website domain (“worldwidesolutionz.com”) was registered on the 28th of July 2012, and names a Ruan Van Niekerk-Venter as the domain owner. An address in Johannesburg, South Africa is also provided.
On his LinkedIn profile, Niekerk-Venter (right) credits himself as a “systems administrator” at Golder Associates (non-MLM). There is no mention of Worldwide Solutionz and I was unable to find any further MLM history, indicating that Worldwide Solutionz is Niekerk-Venter’s first MLM venture.
Read on for a full review of the Worldwide Solutionz MLM business opportunity.
The Worldwide Solutionz Product Line
Worldwide Solutionz has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market affiliate membership to the company itself.
Once an affiliate has joined the company, they can then purchase a matrix position for $25 and/or invest in $25 “life-jacket” positions.
Each matrix position bought by an affiliate is bundled with “a virtual product”, no further information is provided.
The Worldwide Solutions Compensation Plan
The Worldwide Solutionz compensation plan revolves around affiliates signing up and then purchasing matrix positions or investing in “life-jacket” positions.
Matrix Commissions
Affiliates purchase a matrix position for $25 in a 5×8 matrix. A 5×8 matrix places an affiliate at the top of a 5×8 matrix, with five positions directly under them (level 1).
These five positions branch out into another five positions each (level 2) and then again (level 3) and again down a total of eight levels. Positions in the matrix are filled via affiliate recruitment (either direct or indirect), with commissions paid per affiliate recruited.
How much of a commission per recruited affiliate is paid out depends on what level they fall on the matrix (up to level 6):
- Level 1 – $2.50 per affiliate
- Levels 2 and 3 – $1.50 per affiliate
- Levels 4 to 6 – $0.50 per affiliate
At the upper levels of the matrix, additional “benefits” are also available:
- if an affiliate fills level 6 of the matrix, they are given 5 life-jacket investment positions and a $5000 “medical benefit” bonus.
- if an affiliate fills level 7 of the matrix, they are given a “vehicle benefit” of $15,000 and a “housing benefit” of $30,000.
- if an affiliate fills level 8 of the matrix, they are given a $10,000 “holiday benefit”.
A 50 cent referral commissions are paid out when level 2 to 7 affiliates purchase a matrix position. Another 50 cents per affiliate is also paid when these affiliates fill levels 1 to 7 of their matrix (paid out as levels are filled).
Life-jacket Investment Positions
Life-jacket investment positions cost $25 each, with Worldwide Solutionz promising a 5% ROI for 12 weeks. This equates to a $15 ROI on top of an affiliate’s $25 investment. A total of $40 is paid out at the end of 90 days, with Worldwide Solutionz subtracting $10 every 90 days after an affiliate’s first 270 days of participation.
Total affiliate investments (per account) are capped at $25,000.
Joining Worldwide Solutionz
Affiliate membership to Worldwide Solutionz is free, however affiliates must purchase a matrix position ($25) if they wish to earn any commissions. Investment in life-jacket positions is optional ($25 a position).
Conclusion
With no retailable products and a compensation plan that combines recruitment commissions with a ROI investment scheme, Worldwide Solutionz operates as a pyramid/Ponzi scheme hybrid.
The matrix side of the business is a straight up pyramid scheme, with affiliates paying a $25 buy-in fee and then earning a commission per affiliate recruited. This is confirmed in the company’s own marketing material, which states ‘the more people you recruit, the more you will benefit from the direct referral bonuses‘.
Once the recruitment of new affiliates and subsequent purchase of $25 matrix positions slows, Worldwide Solutionz matrix commissions will implode.
Meanwhile the life-jacket investment scheme sees Worldwide Solutionz accept $25 investments from affiliates on the promise of a $40 ROI over 90 days.
The company claims the investment scheme is a
micro-loan concept, where the funds you provide enable us to assist someone, somewhere in the world, to get their lives on track, while at the same time you start generating an extra income stream for yourself, courtesy of the built-in income opportunity.
How affiliate ROIs are generated, outside of simply taking in new affiliate money and using it to pay off existing affiliates is not clarified.
When the 90 days is over, the original $25 pops back up in your account balance. Did you notice what just happened?
Your $25 became $40 while you were working on … Oh that’s right, you don’t have to do anything at all to earn this or make it happen.
Just purchase, relax, enjoy, rinse and repeat.
The company does state though that
earnings will vary, based on a variety of factors which assist in ensuring your earning health and the continued longevity the WorldWide SolutionZ.
Right. I suspect in reality there’s only one such applicable factor, that being how much new money is being invested by affiliates. Once new affiliate investment slows down, the company will quite obviously struggle to pay out existing investors.
Under the guise of charity and helping people, Worldwide Solutionz is nothing more than your typical Ponzi/pyramid hybrid. One scheme, twice the scam.
Footnote: Worldwide Solutionz affiliate wishing to comment would do well to consider that any money donated or charitable projects funded by a Ponzi scheme in no way justifies the running of a Ponzi scheme. Ditto the matrix pyramid scheme.
Any comments seeking to justify Worldwide Solutionz on the merit of charity will be sent straight to the spam bin.
And comes with it’s own thread in the HYIPs, Autosurfs, & Other High-Risk Opportunities » Hybrid Programs section of the usual suspect HYIP ponzi forums.
Not much more needs to be said, really, does it ?
Yep it sure looks like a scam
but you do need to refer to the correct Niekerk-Venter you want “Marelize van Niekerk-Venter”:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=152480784&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=R72I&locale=en_US&srchid=94051991394295488683&srchindex=1&srchtotal=1&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A94051991394295488683%2CVSRPtargetId%3A152480784%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary
Mother and son I believe.
She contacted me with the usual “we are not a Ponzi scheme” spiel when I first published the review. I replied back asking specifically where their money came from then and never heard back.
Good evening. I am sorry for my delayed response, we just had our financial year end and there is way to few hours in a day.
I am responding to your mail and over the next few weeks we will be introducing some of the offline projects we are working with online. We are not using members money to pay members, the business is based on the Micro Franchising, Angel Support and Job creation concepts creating and setting up small businesses.
I will send more detail and hope you will take the time and connect with me to help me understand why people misunderstand what we do. Thank you. Love, Light and Gratitude… Marelize
You need a few weeks to explain how you’re not just using new affiliate money to pay out abnormal Ponzi’esqe ROIs?!
Nothing suss…
Is that a starfish, the mark of the beast, or what?
Why?
I am sorry, I meant to say I am responding to your mail with more details and that we will be introducing the offline projects we are working with to generate income within a few weeks, we are busy finalizing the websites.
In the meantime please feel free and visit our blog blog.worldwidesolutionz.com where we share a lot of what we are doing. Look at our business plan under documents – in the process of being upgraded in line with changes made and expansions over the past year.
and please allow me the opportunity to help you see and understand what we are doing and to learn from your expertise.
I will send you the mail and also post the information here with your permission.
About The “starfish” was when Ruan took part in a CANSA shavathon raising funds for Cancer Research,Education and Support
Thank you
Love, Light and Gratitude…
Marelize
I’ve already visited those sites and there’s nothing specific pertaining to where the money comes from.
I for one am intrigued to find out what legit “projects” you guys claim to use to pay out a 160% ROI over 12 weeks. You guys are going to be famous.
Will mail you info in the morning. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share and explain.
Have a beautiful day and smile…
Marelize
When you see someone claiming to pay out an ROI of 160% over 12 weeks, it will be more of a hysterical laugh than a smile.
Good evening. I sent you the e mail with more information. Thank you. Love, Light and Gratitude… Marelize
@Marelize
Sorry but I see nothing your email explaining where your ROI payouts come from.
A food drive does not generate revenue to pay matrix commissions with. Similarly the vague explanation of “setting up small businesses” does not explain the payout of a 160%
ROI(insert whatever term you’re comfortable with here) over 12 weeks over and over again.I’m interested specifically in the flow of money in and out of your company, which you seem unable to explain in any explicit detail.
Furthermore you appear to be adopting the psuedo-compliance approach of “we don’t offer investments”. Fine, call it whatever you want, but can you confirm/deny you take new affiliate money and use said money to pay out affiliates who have already transferred money into the company?
Here is the email Marelize sent me (to save her publishing it here herself):
To be perfectly honest my BS meter is going off the charts. Just answer this question without the marketing crap please:
“Dollar for dollar, where does my money go when I put it into Worldwide Solutionz and how does it turn into 160% in 12 weeks over and over again.”
From the businesses and jobs we create, the products we sell and the services we provide. Based on Micro Franchising, Angel Support and Job Creation.
Opportunities which we currently create jobs and generate income from:
Telecommunication Products
Financial Services
Business Solutions
Business and Job Opportunities
Health, Safety and Security Services, Training and Products
Food Supplements – training and distribution starting April 2014
Yeah that’s not good enough.
Can we stop talking generalities and get into specifics? No legitimate business pays out a 160% ROI every 12 weeks like clockwork.
Dollar for dollar, if I dumped $25 into your lap tommorow where does it go and how would it turn into $40 12 weeks later. Again, specifics please.
Marketing woo talk might appease those willing to turn a blind eye so long as you keep paying them, we’re a bit of a different crowd here.
Also can you expand on the regulatory issues you’ve alluded you’ve run into in the US recently? These appear to have been hinted at in some of your more recent weekly calls (yes, I’m that thorough).
Can you narrow it down a little?
Telecommunication products = name a few products?
Financial services = name a few of the services?
Business solutions = name a few of the solutions?
“Create jobs and generate income from” normally means that you’re reinvesting money from participants in other businesses?
l have always depended on you to show me the right and wrong MLMs, as a matter of fact you have helped me save lots of cash by avoiding what you call scam….But calling WWSz scam or pyramid ain’t good if you ain’t sure for you are a public figure… l have lost lots of cash online before but WWSz has finally finally helped me fire my boss in one year…
consider looking into WWSz again for just like you help us spot scam, you can help many spot gold…. it took me 4mnths to understand WWSz…
am not saying this to argue with anyone…am just saying it in a humble way for l know WWSz changed my life, my family members life and some of my friend, and the feeling of feeding hungry kids and helping others is heavenly…
Where does the “gold” come from??? It certainly doesn’t come from hungry kids.
This is a simple Ponzi scheme, affiliate money goes and affiliate money is paid out. Whether you make money personally is neither here nor there.
As l said am not looking out to argue or anything just shedding out light…The good part is-calling it ponzi won’t make it one,time will prove that.Why are you looking for whats wrong with WWSz, why don’t you look at whats right with WWSz…
how comes they have happy members, how were they able to pay everyone since they launched for a year without failure…why did Marelize say WWSz can still go on even if with existing members only…
Marelize has put it in black and white for anyone searching ”the truth”(by the way thanks for posting her email)and if truly you are about ”truth”you will review her email…
Actually it’s the business model.
Thankyou for confirming you are just another WWSz Ponzi pimp who cannot explain where the money comes from.
Protip: The first rule of dealing with Ponzi admins is to completely ignore everything they say. Focus on the business model and that alone.
Marelize takes affiliate money in, uses to pay off existing investors and makes up BS about all these other projects. Ask her dollar for dollar where the money comes from like I have and you’ll get silence.
l don’t know what pimp is but its okay feel free to call me anything, but for sure the truth will always be true even if no one believes it, and lies will always be lies even if everyone believes…
l don’t see why Marelize should tell you how they make money to pay members then l come do the same,and another person comes do the same…
The business model is different for What WWSz is doing have never been done before and imagine they have never failed to deliver what they promised….ignore everything l say but don’t ignore what she has explained above…
Then you’re a Ponzi pimp’s wet dream.
“do the same” = invest. Hence it’s a Ponzi scheme.
Oh please… this is just getting embarrassing now.
That’s just it, she hasn’t explained where the money comes from.
(Ozedit: Right, that’s enough spam from you. Either explain where the money comes from or stop wasting my time.)
Are there any recent updates concerning the probable shutdown of WWSz?
WWSz just keeps paying out week after week after week. There is the offline business too and lots more to come.
Marelize I think your legit and this does sound profitable and great knowing we get to help people, I think its a great business!
^^ So… how much have you invested then? And aside from paying you your weekly ROI, what are you basing WWS’ “legitimacy” on?
(Please don’t parrot that long list of vague business sectors Marelize likes to trot out, it’s useless without specifics and affiliates have nothing to do with it in any case)
“So… how much have you invested then?”
Why is that so important to you? Who are you? God? If you were God, you would already know and not ask me that else you wouldn’t be God.
Besides, I’m not accountable to you and what I do with my money is my own business.
My answer to you is this: It’s none of your business. Go get a life and stop meddling in other people’s business!
^^ bloody hell. It seems Worldwide Solutionz attracts the bottom-of-the-barrel loonies of the HYIP industry then.
Don’t think you can hide your shameful ripping off of investors who come after you under the pretense of personal privacy. You’re not fooling anyone.
The only reason you think WWZ is a “great business” is because you’ve invested and can’t wait to get your ROI from later investors.
That the scheme will eventually collapse and leave people high and dry is evidently of no concern to you. And you want to talk about god?
Scamsters like you that are the scourge of the MLM industry. For shame.
Now the forums area quieter as the sheep have been instructed by the her master herself, to avoid posting in any forums as they are truly a legit business and have no reason to be in an HYIP or MLM forum. And the sheep eagerly follow.
And now it is a PMA like that is going to help. This is all going down folks, sooner than later, and then u can all blame the “outside forces” that brought down poor marlize, as after all, wasnt she just trying to help out the little guy? Sad indeed…
Buh-bye.
From the Worldwide Solutionz FaceBook page 10 hours ago:
SD
(Ozedit: See here – https://behindmlm.com/companies/did-regulators-shut-down-worldwide-solution )
Yes…and nowhere in the article is it mentioned that WWSz will “no longer be conducting business, effective immediately.” You have to try to access the website to get that message.
Apologies, I thought this was left on the article I wrote yesterday. Rectified with a link to it.
Sick and no sleep – arghhhh.
This one needs more investigation OZ, their STP account is frozen and they are pulling a achieve community act here asking people to get everything off line.
We are about to lose our money we put in this scam. the owner Marelize is a scammer and is asking for peoples information that is being blackmailed by threats of closing accounts if they refuse to send in this information. she wants to know where you work.
IMHO while perhaps authorities haven’t acted, Marelize’s own counsel, upon the authorities initial inquiry, had acted, and probably reached some sort of plea deal.
The question is why do they need all this info when they didn’t need it in the first place, and if they refuse to say… Well, documented everything, refuse to provide such until the give reasonable explanation, and if they *do* close your account, now you have even MORE reasons to sue them.
Keep in mind that a LOT of frauds, near its end, pulled this “need lots of ID for verification” stunt. Wazzub, TVI Express that I recall off top of my head.
More bull from scammerlize:
Please if you have police contacts in South Africa please post here the contact information, we need to stop these scammers before more people lose their money.
They are closing accounts and STEALING your lifejacket money simply for NOT sending in your personal information. That is totally wrong….