TBR Powerup System Review: Domonique Barbee celebrates 10 yrs of scams
TBR Powerup System fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.
TBR Powerup System’s website domain (“tbrpowerupsystem.com”), was privately registered on July 1st, 2025.
Marketing videos on TBR Powerup System’s website are hosted on a YouTube channel bearing the name “Divine Power Bill Relief”:
As above, the channel features three videos. Two are recent TBR Powerup System marketing videos. The third is a “Divine Power Bill Relief” video from a year ago.
Divine Power Bill Relief was an MLM pyramid scheme hosted on the domain “joindivinepowerbrp.com”.
Divine Power Bill Relief has since collapsed and today a visit to its website looks like this:
Further research reveals an official Divine Power Bill Relief website with two admins; Domonique Barbee and Kimberly Crawford.
Divine Power Bill Relief appears to have been a short-lived scam, with promotion ending in December 2024.
After Divine Power Bill Relief collapsed, Barbee continued to promote fraudulent MLM schemes on social media. These include multiple matrix-based pyramid scheme and the MemeGames Ponzi scheme.
Beyond that, Barbee has made appearances on BehindMLM in connection to Tradera’s collapse in 2020.
As far as I can tell, Kimberly Crawford just appears to be a lackey that follows Barbee from scam to scam.
Of particular note is Barbee’s targeting of consumers under financial stress. This has been going on for years under various names:
- Miracle System – October 2018
- Divine Power of Prosperity – June 2024
- Divine Power Bill Relief – September 2024
- The Bill Relief Prosperity Magnet System – April 2025
- The TBR Prosperity Magnet System – May 2025
- TBR Powerup System – July 2025
Barbee’s scams don’t tend to last long so there’s a significant gap between 2018 and 2024.
More recently, “TBR” has emerged as an acronym for “The Bill Relief” across Barbee’s various scams.
As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.
TBR Powerup System’s Products
TBR Powerup System has no retailable products or services.
Promoters are only able to market TBR Powerup System promoter membership itself.
TBR Powerup System promoter membership provides is bundled with adcredits and various digital marketing tools.
TBR Powerup System’s Compensation Plan
TBR Powerup System promoters pay $50 a month with optional $200 and/or $1000 upsells.
Commissions are paid when they recruit others who do the same.
Recruitment Commissions
Each TBR Powerup System monthly promoter fee paid generates a $25 commission.
TBR Powerup System pays recruitment commissions via a 1-up compensation structure, tracked through a unilevel team:
The 1-up compensation structure sees a TBR Powerup System promoter pass-up even numbered recruitment commissions up to four:
- first, third, fifth and every recruit onward = $25 a month commission paid per promoter fee paid
- second and fourth recruit = $25 a month commission passed up.
Passed-up recruitment commissions are paid to whoever recruited the promoter.
In turn, recruited promoters must pass up their second and fourth recruitment commissions.
Depending on who recruits who when, this potentially allows for a TBR Powerup System promoters to earn on recruitment activity anywhere in their downline.
Upsell Commissions
People Getting Paid promoters earn a 50% commission when personally recruited promoters pay $200 and $1000 upsell fees.
Joining TBR Powerup System
TBR Powerup System promoter membership is $50 a month.
Upsells cost $200 and $1000, which must be purchased to earn commissions on these tiers.
TBR Powerup System Conclusion
People Getting Paid is a simple $25 a month adcredit pyramid scheme.
$25 is paid per promoter recruited each month, contingent on said promoter continuing to pay $25 a month. This payment in turn qualifies recruited promoters to earn on their own recruitment efforts.
Domonique Barbee and Kimberly Crawford keep $25 per promoter recruited, as well as 50% 0f upsells. That’s also on top of pass-ups through pre-loaded admin positions.
Typically in a pyramid scheme it is the admin(s) who steals the most money. They are closely followed by early joiners and/or top recruiters.
The $200 and $1000 upsells manipulate who gets assigned new TBR Powerup System promoters who don’t have a direct referrer.
Those who pay $200 have more chance of receiving a non-referred recruit than those that don’t. Those that pay $1000 have a higher chance still.
Or so People Getting Paid’s website states. With zero transparency or accountability the system is ripe for internal abuse.
As they don’t with Ponzi schemes, bundling adcredits to pyramid scheme payments doesn’t make a fraudulent business model legal. Digital marketing tools are equally meaningless with respect to legal compliance.
As with all MLM pyramid schemes, once recruitment dries up so too will daily $25 a month commissions.
This will see those at the bottom of the pyramid eventually stop paying $50 a month. This in turn means those above them stop getting paid.
Unless new suckers are found fast, these promoters will also stop paying $50 a month.
Once enough TBR Powerup System promoters stop paying $50 a month, an irreversible collapse is triggered.
As per People Getting Paid’s refund policy:
As this is a member-to-member payment program, all payments are non-refundable since you are paying another member to upgrade your account.
Math guarantees that when a pyramid scheme collapses, the majority of participants lose money.