Visiber Review: Your birthdate + triangles = pyramid scheme
Visiber operates in the numerology MLM niche and is based out of Malaysia.
The company is headed up by co-founder “David” Choong Jeng Hew.
Jeng goes by his first two names and styles himself as a “Dato David” on Facebook.
Jeng (right) founded Visiber with Patrick Tan Boon Jin in 2005. The pair worked together until Jin left the company in 2013.
According to a source we’ve been in contact with;
Tan left the company in 2013 because of some internal disputes. Apparently he was double crossed by David Hew and the other directors – Eng Chip Jin, Billy Lai, Gerald Lee and Kwan Hep Chuen in terms of company shares and profit.
After he left, they created a story that Patrick was the one who double crossed the company and worshipped demons.
Possibly due to language-barriers, I was unable to personally verify the above or put together an MLM history on Hew.
For reasons that aren’t immediately clear, Visiber is registered with the SEC under “Visiber57”.
Visiber57 is registered as a shell company in Delaware through a Hong Kong address.
The Hong Kong shell company appears to be called 57 Society, and was purchased from a third party in 2016.
On the Visiber website, the company lists its actual corporate address in Selangor, Malaysia.
According to Visiber’s last quarterly report ending February 2019, the company recorded a $14,113 net loss.
Note that Visiber’s quarterly report is unaudited. Given the company has no physical business operations in the US, the accuracy of Visiber’s reporting is thus called into question.
One additional word of warning; I’ve yet to see a legitimate MLM company out of Malaysia operated by a Dato.
With no disrespect towards Malaysian culture intended, over the years MLM companies run by Datos have become synonymous with fraud.
Read on for a full review of the Visiber MLM opportunity.
Visiber Products
Visiber markets a range of products tied to their “numbers methodology”.
In September 2003, after continuous researches and efforts conducted by Dato’ David, he has successfully created the Ⓥ Numbers Methodology.
Just a note, my source claims Patrick Tan created the methodology and that David Hew was his “student”.
Again, language-barriers means I’ve been unable to personally verify this claim.
The V Numbers Methodology consists of an inverted triangle and uses a simple calculation.
This simple calculation adds up a person’s date of birth into a single digit that represents his or her personality number.
Based on the V Numbers Methodology, we can understand our past, present and future much better.
The inverted triangle is said to a symbol that represents a female while the 7 numbers inside the triangle represents a female’s 7 months of pregnancy.
The V Numbers Methodology is VISIBER’s key tool for the V Numbers Education System.
Through this simple calculation, it helps enhances the integration of VISIBER’s wisdom and numbers to the classes conducted.
In case that went over your head, DOB + triangles = your Visiber personality number.
As far as I can tell, Visiber sells “collections” based on these personality numbers.
Collections featured on Visiber’s website include jewelry (rings and earrings), environment (framed wall hangings) and “personal branding” (certificates?).
To give you an idea of how the personalization works, here’s Visiber’s description of their “Trinity Diamond Ring”.
Trinity Diamond Ring signifies perfection, completeness and commitment.
Dozens of diamonds lend the ring a striking brilliance and augment the elegance of the wearer.
The ring is customised according to the date of birth of the wearer to ensure he or she benefits from the power of numbers.
A tailored combination of numbers is selected, and matched to a colour representing one of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth).
Special crafting technique is then used to lock eternal energy into the ring to allow the universal frequency to enter the heart and soul of the wearer in order to lend peace to the wearer.
No pricing for any of Visibers products are provided.
The Visiber Compensation Plan
Visiber affiliates purchase the company’s products.
This qualifies them to earn commissions when they recruit others who do the same.
Commission Qualification
New V Silver affiliates receive 8 weeks of commission qualification
New V Gold affiliates receive 16 weeks of commission qualification.
In order to qualify for commissions, a Visiber affiliate must purchase or recruit affiliates who purchase at least 50 PV of product every four weeks.
PV stands for “Personal Volume” and is sales volume generated by products purchased by an affiliate and their personally recruited affiliates.
Visiber Affiliate Ranks
There are seven affiliate ranks within Visiber’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Affiliate – purchase at least RM900 ($215 USD) worth of Visiber products
- Elite Manager – generate at least 2500 GV in your weaker binary team side
- Crown Manager – generate at least 5,000 GV in your weaker binary team side and recruit and maintain at least one Elite Manager, or generate 10,000 GV in weaker binary team side volume
- Platinum Manager – generate at least 10,000 GV in your weaker binary team side and recruit and maintain at least one Crown Manager, or generate 15,000 GV in weaker binary team side volume
- Diamond Manager – generate at least 15,000 GV in your weaker binary team side and recruit and maintain at least one Platinum Manager, or generate 25,000 GV in weaker binary team side volume
- Duke Ambassador – generate at least 30,000 GV in your weaker binary team side and recruit and maintain at least one Diamond Manager, or generate 50,000 GV in weaker binary team side volume
- Royal Ambassador – generate at least 60,000 GV in your weaker binary team side and recruit and maintain at least one Duke Ambassador, or generate 80,000 GV in weaker binary team side volume
- Global Ambassador – generate at least 90,000 GV in your weaker binary team side and recruit and maintain at least one Royal Ambassador, or generate 120,000 GV in weaker binary team side volume
Visiber’s compensation plan documentation doesn’t state whether binary volume qualification is cumulative or over a set time period.
GV stands for “Group Volume” and is sales volume generated by an affiliate’s purchases and that of their downline.
Recruitment Commissions
Visiber affiliates earn a commission when they recruit new affiliates who purchase products (mandatory).
- V Silver affiliates earn a 15% recruitment commission rate
- V Gold affiliates earn a 20% recruitment commission rate
A residual recruitment commissions is paid out via the Introducer Incentive.
The Introducer Incentive pays out up to 65% of generated BV on a newly recruited affiliates first purchase.
The Introducer Incentive is rank-based, and allows higher ranked affiliates to pick up the difference between their rank rate and that of lower ranked affiliates.
- Elite Managers can earn up to 15%
- Crown Managers can earn up to 30%
- Platinum Managers can earn up to 40%
- Diamond Managers can earn up to 50%
- Duke Ambassadors can earn up to 55%
- Royal Ambassadors can earn up to 60%
- Global Ambassadors can earn up to 65%
When a Visiber affiliates recruits a new affiliate, they are paid their rank specific Introducer Incentive bonus rate.
For Global Ambassadors this is 65%, the highest available Introducer Incentive bonus rate.
When a lower ranked affiliate is paid the Introducer Bonus, what is left up to the maximum 65% available is paid upline.
E.g. A Platinum Manger recruits a new affiliate and receives their 40% Introducer Bonus.
That leaves 25% remaining. The system searches upline for a Diamond Manager or higher ranked affiliate to pay the remaining 25% Introducer Bonus out to.
- if a Diamond Manager is found first, they are paid 10% (50% minus 40%) and the system continues to search upline for a Duke Ambassador or higher to pay the remaining 15% out to
- if a Duke Ambassador is found first, they are paid 15% (55% minus 40%) and the system continues to search upline for a Royal or Global Ambassador to pay the remaining 10% out to
- if a Royal Ambassador is found first, they are paid 20% (60% minus 40%) and the system continues to search upline for a Global Ambassador to pay the remaining 5% out to
- if a Global Ambassador is found first, they are paid the remaining 25%
Note that any time a Global Ambassador is found, they are automatically paid the remaining Introducer Bonus balance.
Residual Commissions
Visiber pays residual commissions via a binary compensation structure.
A binary compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a binary team, split into two sides (left and right):
The first level of the binary team houses two positions. The second level of the binary team is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).
Subsequent levels of the binary team are generated as required, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.
Positions in the binary team are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of affiliates. Note there is no limit to how deep a binary team can grow.
Sales volume is generated across the binary team when recruited affiliates purchase Visiber products.
Visiber tallies up this sales volume across an unspecified period.
A residual commission is paid on sales volume generated on the weaker binary team side:
- V Silver affiliates earn a 12% residual commission rate, capped at $2000 per commission run
- V Gold affiliates earn a 15% residual commission rate, capped at $20,000 per commission run
Again, Visiber’s compensation plan doesn’t state how often residual commissions are calculated.
Matching Bonus
Visiber pays a Matching Bonus on residual 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):
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.
Visiber cap the Matching Bonus at five unilevel team levels.
V Silver affiliates earn a 10% match on levels 1 and 2.
V Gold affiliates earn a 15% match on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates), 12% on level 2, 10% on level 3, 8% on level 4 and 5% on level 5.
Global Pool Bonus
Visiber takes 7% of company-wide sales volume and places it into seven rank-based bonus pools.
Affiliates earn shares in the Global Pool Bonus based on their current rank:
- Elite Managers receive one share of a 3% Global Pool
- Crown Managers receive one share of a 1.6% Global Pool
- Platinum Managers receive one share of a 1% Global Pool
- Diamond Managers receive one share of a 0.5% Global Pool
- Duke Ambassadors receive one share of a 0.4% Global Pool
- Royal Ambassadors receive one share of a 0.3% Global Pool
- Global Ambassadors receive one share of a 0.2% Global Pool
Joining Visiber
Visiber affiliate membership is tied to the purchase of their products.
A minimum purchase of RM900 ($215 USD) or more qualifies for V Silver membership.
A minimum purchase of RM9000 ($2154 USD) or more qualifies for V Gold membership.
Note that V Silver affiliates are given six months to upgrade to V Gold, after which they are permanently locked at V Silver membership.
Through Visiber’s compensation plan, V Gold provides direct financial benefits over V Silver membership.
Conclusion
You know those number games you used to play as a kid in the classroom, where some kid asks you a bunch of math questions and somehow arrives at your chosen number?
Yeah, that’s the vibe I’m getting from Visiber.
As far as I can tell, way back when David Hew and/or Patrick Tan (depending on who you believe), came up with a meaningless system that calculates a magical number for you – based on nothing more than your birthdate, a triangle and a mathematical algorithm.
Seriously, beyond that there doesn’t appear to be anything actually behind Visiber’s numbers methodology.
Which makes their products… well, questionable.
Look, I get it. Wowing people with their birthdate and an algorithm triangle is no different to impressing kids by guessing their number.
If you want to buy wall hangings or a ring with the outcome of Visiber’s numbers methodology, more power to you.
Where the wheels fall of Visiber’s school bus though is in claims like this:
Special crafting technique is then used to lock eternal energy into the ring to allow the universal frequency to enter the heart and soul of the wearer in order to lend peace to the wearer.
Hold up. If you’re going to make some Harry Potter claims about how you manufacture your magical number rings, you better provide details.
And Visiber don’t.
The second you start claiming Visiber’s products are anything more than a representation of what happens when you feed your birthdate into their algorithm, you make representations you can’t substantiate.
And from a regulatory perspective, that’s a problem.
Speaking of regulators, I want to touch on how Visiber represent themselves to the SEC:
The Company is currently seeking new business opportunities or acquisitions including the exploration of acquiring, developing and launching a cloud-based APP that utilizes a predictive algorithm to foster closely knitted communities made up of individuals, families and businesses from a diverse background.
No timetable has been set to accomplish our business objectives and we do not presently have any firm commitment from any third parties to acquire or develop this business or raise the capital needed upon terms acceptable to us.
When we commence this implementation and secure financing, we will identify our plan of operations, a marketing strategy, opportunities and competition.
There is notably no mention of magic numbers, rings, wall hangings or anything about their MLM opportunity in Visiber’s SEC filings.
Also not mentioned in Visiber’s SEC filings is there secret 57 Society investment opportunity.
As above, Visiber seem to be selling virtual shares (referred to as subscriptions), through Rox Venture Berhard.
As far as I can tell, Rox Venture Berhard is a Malaysian shell company attached Visiber.
No idea who Yen Chien Chang is, but he seems to be receiving funds for investment.
The soliciting of investment from Visiber affiliates is neither legal in Malaysia or the US.
As far as Visiber’s compensation plan goes, you buy in to commission qualify (spend more, earn more), and then earn by recruiting others who do the same.
Everyone who buys in is an affiliate, meaning Visiber has no retail activity. Which is understandable, given without the attached income opportunity it’s highly improbable anyone is going to purchase their products.
Again from a regulatory perspective, an MLM company that doesn’t generate significant retail sales activity is operating as a pyramid scheme.
The reality of pyramid schemes is that, no matter what your magic Visiber numbers might say, the majority of participants in a pyramid scheme lose money.
If one is to believe Visiber’s SEC filings, that includes the company itself;
We do not have sufficient resources to effectuate our business plan. We will have to raise additional funds to pay for all of our planned expenses.
We potentially will have to issue additional debt or equity, or enter into a strategic arrangement with a third party to carry out our business plan.
Someone who evidently doesn’t have a shortage of funds however is Dato David.
A recent Facebook post of David’s shows him driving fancy cars around and staying at luxury hotels in Taiwan.
If I may, here’s an algorithmic formula that might explain the discrepancy between Visiber’s stated financial position and that of Dato David:
Gullible saps who buy into made-up numbers formula + spending big on trinkets = rich person running the show.
Hello, thank you for this interesting article about visiber. I am one of the investor in visiber and still waiting for their news in the investment for more than 5 years.
They keep delaying and tell us so many stories. I am now getting a lawyer and thanks to you he can use this article as a reference against them. Also, David’s full name is Hew Choong Jeng.
Kindly remove this article asap as this is a serious case of defamation!!
How so?
Visiber has been around for more than 10 years and it was led by Dato’ David Hew and his team and there has been many success stories throughout these years.
Your sources are very weak and you don’t have the rights to share out our marketing plan as if it’s a scam company.
Dato’ David has always been a well respected man and whether or not he lives a luxury life, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the funds from Visiber.
Also, not understanding Visiber methodology properly doesn’t mean you can trash it as if it’s a scam or something.
Sure I do. Visiber’s compensation plan makes it a pyramid scheme and I have every right to point that out.
Yeah I’m sure the guy running a pyramid scheme totes doesn’t use money paid in to fund his lifestyle.
What’s there to understand? Some guys decided triangles and some numbers = a made up “personality number”.
They created an MLM business opportunity around it and the rest is history.
Unethical and rubbish. No solid evidence. You are only good at defaming others. Show us more proof.
You want me to show you proof that your birthdate, a triangle and some math means absolutely fuck all?
That’s not how verification works.
If you want to insist your personality number has magical superpowers, you front up proof to back up your claims.
As for Visiber being a pyramid scheme, that’s detailed in the review. The evidence is in Visiber’s compensation plan.
Visiber compensation plan looks ok to me. What’s wrong with it.
You have absolutely zero knowledge in the MLM industry don’t you?
Whether you are OK with pyramid schemes is neither here nor there.
They’re still illegal and result in the majority of participants losing money.
So, with your extensive experience in securities law……. you DO have experience with securities laws, don’t you?
Surely you’re not some drive by pimp trying to protect your investment, are you?
The whole thing is about as serious as as numerology can be: “you gotta be kidding me”.
This is no different than buying the Chinese version of the Farmer’s Almanac and base your next year’s actions on that, due to your Chinese zodiac and your birthdate rendered in the lunar calendar.
There’s some pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo about “don’t use flowers as names… they wilt” or “females should not use male words, else they’ll be subservient” or some bull**** like that.
If you want to buy hokey jewelry or service to pick a lucky name, you can hire a proper fengshui sifu, not pay some hocus-pocus half-West/half-East “Chinese numerology” that’s neither fish nor fowl.
VISIBER 57 – David Hew is a fucking conman. We work with him before but never settle our payment for our work on doing his stupid listing. Then talk bad about us.
My Taiwan partner also fed up with his con artist method whom he conned nearly 100k USD.
I know David Hew more than ten years. David Hew is a visionary person but always come out with questionable business idea.
Whenever his business idea failed or create a dispute with other people, he always hide at his partner’s back and ask them to resolve for him.
David Hew is a coward and does not dare to face the people that he offended.
David Hew continue swindle other people money with his questionable business investment idea.
I still don’t see what is al the fuss about Visiber. People join as members voluntarily and get paid if they work hard. What do you expect?
People dump in some money and suddenly money comes in without doing anything? There are successful distributors in MLM and there are also the lazy ones in MLM.
Visiber is just another decent MLM company that compensates its distributors. They are worldwide and I think their current success is a better proof than your unnecessary article.
Recruiting people into a pyramid scheme isn’t working hard. It’s scamming people.
A “decent” MLM company generates the majority of its sales revenue from retail customers.
Nobody outside of Visiber is buying magic number trinkets.
Visiber’s website is currently Alexa ranked at 13 million. Do they have one distributor in each continent?
You’re ridiculous. So every single cent he owns is only all from Visiber?
What are Dato Dave’s other verifiable sources of income?
And if you change your username again, spam-bin.
To you they may be magic number trinkets. But has anyone mentioned about them being magical? It’s just like Fengshui.
Not many can accept Fengshui as it is and end up calling it names just because they don’t believe in them.
Well there sure as shit isn’t any scientific basis attached to them.
Except it’s not, because Visiber is an MLM opportunity.
Is it a necessity to disclose them to the public? That’s against a person’s privacy don’t you think so
Yep. You’re claiming Dato Dave isn’t squandering Visiber victim’s money to fund his lifestyle.
I’ve pointed out Visiber is Dato Dave’s only verifiable source of income. So now you either put up or shut up.
Dato David Hew Choong Jeng is a scammer. He does not have any history in learning Fengshui and numerology from any guru or teacher except for his ex-partner Dato Patrick Tan Boon Jin.
At the end, Patrick also left because he could not stand the outrageous management and lifestyle of David.
Visiber used to be good but now no one really know what kind of direction it is heading. Public listing with an empty shell company?
Dear Dato David Hew, what exactly have you contributed to the society?
“According to your source”? You could have just made all that up.
Apart from stealing photos from Visiber’s website and trashing David, what else do you have really? What a joke.
But I didn’t. So there’s that.
Oh I dunno, like y’know… a whole review exposing Visiber as the pyramid scheme it is.
As for stealing photos; let me introduce you to Fair Use.
Real talk though, is having David Hew’s dick so far up your ass you can’t tell rhyme from reason a pre-requisite for signing up? Sure seems like it.
My friend named JY told me stories about VISIBER. She told me that David Hew’s role served as a puppet that controlled by the VISIBER management.
Although he initiated the listing and using all his member or customer’s trust to invest on their company listing (either is 57 Society, VISIBER or VISIBER 57) but the whole thing is operated by a man called Eng Chip Jin.
Eng Chip Jin is controlling the finance of the companies as well as the secretarial company named Huacorp Management Services Sdn Bhd. This company is operated by his sister and also owned by him as well.
Basically he is the one who responsible to do all cash flow and account. Although David Hew seems the main culprit but Eng Chip Jin also play an important role.
The best solution for them is pay back all the investors money. After that, they just focus on doing their own business instead continue to con people’s money.
Few of my friends who are into this MLM has approached me to market their products and even a simple pendant cost few hundred of dollars.
Well if it really works then I will get a piece of metal sheet and cut out the numbers than wear on my neck!
The whole idea of this numerology just sound silly to me. It simply exploit the weakness of human nature – Greed.
Would you buy something with marketed benefits from a random person if they couldn’t prove and/or verifiable demonstrate it worked?
If not, ask yourself why you’re handing over money. Might be worth reconsidering a few friendships too.