Avoid WorldVentures
Friday, May 29, 2015
One of the longest-running was TVI Express, a pyramid scheme that claimed to be based on the sale of travel discount vouchers. Let us be clear about one thing. A discount voucher is not a product, it is a reduction in the price of a product. What they were really interested in is you recruiting more and more people beneath you, forming the pyramid that makes the people at the top so much money.
Luckily authorities around the world, in places as varied as Namibia, Lesotho, the US State of Georgia and Indonesia soon realised they were a scam and outlawed them. They soon disappeared here in Botswana too as the noose tightened around them.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...