Tirus provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

Tirus’ website domain (“tirus.ltd”), was first registered in 2016. The private registration was last updated in August 2018.

Tirus’ official FaceBook group has one admin; Vladimir Potapov (right).

Potapov’s own FaceBook profile has no content prior to creation of Tirus’ FaceBook group in 2017.

This flags it as a potentially bogus profile.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Tirus provides Swiss incorporation documents for Tirus GmbH.

There’s also a corresponding “banking account” document, purportedly providing details of an associated HypoVereinsbank account:

For the purpose of MLM due-diligence, these documents are meaningless. What they do provide us however is the name “Teterin Denis”.

Tirus marketing material cites Denis Teterin and Andrei Zeitsev as co-founders of the company.

Prior to Tirus, Andrei Zeitsev was slinging a Russian real-estate passive investment opportunity.

This appears to be the precursor to Tirus, which was launched on the same marketing pitch.

Earn money by participating in marketing. Become the owner of profitable real estate in Moscow.

Use ready-made tools from the company, invent anything new is not required.

Possibly due to language-barriers, I was unable to ascertain Andrei Zeitsev’s pre-Tirus history.

As per their respective FaceBook profiles, Teterin and Zeitsev are based out of Krasnoyarsk and Moscow.

As opposed to Switzerland (prior to that Tirus operated through a Hong Kong shell company), this would make Tirus a Russian MLM company.

This ties into the bulk of Tirus’ marketing being presented in Russian:

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.

Tirus’ Products

Tirus has no retailable products or services.

Affiliates are only able to market Tirus affiliate membership itself.

Tirus’ Compensation Plan

Tirus affiliates invest in a four-tier matrix cycler:

  • Easy – $10
  • Medium – $50
  • Hard – $100
  • Grand – $1000

Note that investing at the Medium tier also creates a position at the Easy tier.

Investing at the Hard tier creates a position on both the Easy and Medium tiers. Investing at the Grand tier creates a position on the Easy, Medium and Hard tiers.

Tirus uses 4×1 matrices in its cycler. These require four positions to be filled.

Positions are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of affiliates who purchase tier positions.

Once all four positions are filled, a “cycle” is triggered.

An initial cycle at any tier pays a commission, generates a new tier 1 position and cycles into the next cycler tier within that payment tier (easy, medium or hard).

Because the initial cycle on any tier generates a higher tier position, the commission received is less than subsequent tier cycles.

Subsequent cycles generate a new tier 1 position without generating a higher tier position, resulting in a higher commission payout.

Initial cycle and subsequent cycle payments across Tirus’ four-tier cycler are as follows:

Easy Cycler Tier

Initial Cycle

  • Tier 1 (positions cost $10) – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 2
  • Tier 2 – $30 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 3
  • Tier 3 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 4
  • Tier 4 – $100 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 5
  • Tier 5 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 6
  • Tier 6 – $900 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 7
  • Tier 7 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 8
  • Tier 8 – $3000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 9
  • Tier 9 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 10
  • Tier 10 – $72,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position

Subsequent Cycles

  • Tier 1 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 2 – $80 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 3 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 4 – $400 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 5 –  no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 6 – $2400 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 7 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 8 – $12,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 9 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 10 – $72,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position

Medium Cycler Tier

Initial Cycle

  • Tier 1 (positions cost $50) – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 2
  • Tier 2 – $150 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 3
  • Tier 3 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 4
  • Tier 4 – $500 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 5
  • Tier 5 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 6
  • Tier 6 – $4500 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 7
  • Tier 7 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 8
  • Tier 8 – $15,000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 9
  • Tier 9 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 10
  • Tier 10 – $360,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position

Subsequent Cycles

  • Tier 1 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 2 – $400 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 3 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 4 – $2000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 5 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 6 – $12,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 7 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 8 – $60,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 9 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 10 – $360,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position

Hard Cycler Tier

Initial Cycle

  • Tier 1 (positions cost $100) – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 2
  • Tier 2 – $300 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 3
  • Tier 3 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 4
  • Tier 4 – $1000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 5
  • Tier 5 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 6
  • Tier 6 – $9000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 7
  • Tier 7 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 8
  • Tier 8 – $30,000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 9
  • Tier 9 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 10
  • Tier 10 – $720,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position

Subsequent Cycles

  • Tier 1 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 2 – $800 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 3 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 4 – $4000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 5 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 6 – $24,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 7 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 8 – $120,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 9 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 10 – $720,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position

Grand Cycler Tier

Initial Cycle

  • Tier 1 (positions cost $1000) – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 2
  • Tier 2 – $3000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 3
  • Tier 3 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 4
  • Tier 4 – $10,000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 5
  • Tier 5 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 6
  • Tier 6 – $90,000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 7
  • Tier 7 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 8
  • Tier 8 – $300,000 commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 9
  • Tier 9 – no commission, generates a new Tier 1 position and cycles into Tier 10
  • Tier 10 – $7,200,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position

Subsequent Cycles

  • Tier 1 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 2 – $8000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 3 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 4 – $40,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 5 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 6 – $240,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 7 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 8 – $1,200,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 9 – no commission and generates a new Tier 1 position
  • Tier 10 – $7,200,000 commission and generates a new Tier 1 position

Referral Commissions

Tirus pays referral commissions via a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

(unilevel)

If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

Tirus caps payable referral commissions at five.

Referral commissions are paid as a percentage of position investment across these five levels based on which tier an affiliate has bought into:

Easy tier affiliates earn

  • 3% on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates)
  • 2% on levels 2 and 3
  • 1% on levels 4 and 5

Medium tier affiliates earn

  • 5% on level 1
  • 3% on level 2
  • 2% on level 3
  • 1% on levels 4 and 5

Hard tier affiliates earn

  • 7% on level 1
  • 3% on level 2
  • 2% on levels 3 and 4
  • 1% on level 5

Cycle Rewards

Tirus rewards affiliates who cycle out of various tiers with the following one-time rewards:

  • cycle out of Easy tier 6 and receive $100
  • cycle out of Easy tier 8 and receive an iPhone
  • cycle out of Easy tier 10 and receive a “world tour” for one person
  • cycle out of Medium tier 6 and receive a gold bracelet
  • cycle out of Medium tier 8 and receive an Apple MacBook
  • cycle out of Medium tier 10 and receive a car
  • cycle out of Hard tier 6 and receive a “golden contract” (???)
  • cycle out of Hard tier 8 and receive a “golden hour” (???)
  • cycle out of Hard tier 10 and receive an apartment in Turkey

Note that Grand tier rewards aren’t disclosed.

Joining Tirus

Tirus affiliate membership is tied to an initial $10 to $1000 cycler position purchase.

Subsequent investment in cycler positions costs $10 (Easy), $50 (Medium), $100 (Hard) or $1000 (Grand).

Tirus Conclusion

The initial marketing pitch for Tirus is that profits were generated via real-estate investment in Moscow.

That’s since been expanded gold, diamonds, property in Turkey, microcredit, IT products, “internet project development, health products, blockchain games and ethereum.

It’s all baloney. Tirus is operating a simple Ponzi cycler.

This sees the company funds payouts from subsequent investment in positions. This is openly disclosed in a Tirus marketing video; “100% of the turnover goes to pay our partners”.

The basics of a matrix cycler are you invest, others invest and you get a cut of their investments. Each new tier ups the ante, funnelling the majority of invested funds to early adopters.

Tirus’ early adopters are co-founders Denis Teterin and Andrei Zeitse, and a bunch of Russians.

While Tirus recruitment in Russia has long collapsed, they’re still benefiting off of recruitment in Qatar, Pakistan and Morocco (Alexa).

Recruitment will eventually dry up here too, due to the nature of matrix cyclers being dependent on pyramid recruitment.

As with all MLM cycler Ponzis, once recruitment dries up so too will position investment.

This will see matrices within the cycler start to stall. Once enough matrices stall, an irreversible collapse is triggered.

This traps funds in the system, allowing admins to make off with even more money.

For sure Tirus has for sure survived longer than most matrix cycler Ponzis. That doesn’t make it any less of a scam though. Nor does it change basic math.

Alexa currently attributes Qatar as providing 58% of traffic to Tirus’ website. When recruitment inevitably collapses there, unless new victims are found that’ll be it.

Math guarantees the majority of participants in Ponzi schemes lose money.