Vizion One History

The founders of VizionOne.com (Cliff and Dave Braun, Duke Tubtim, Timothy Herr) all started their MLM careers with a scam called NTC that was shut down. Cliff, Dave and Duke then got involved with 2by2.net, which has been labeled a scam by a lot of people. (click here to see the BBB report ). Whatever the story, this bunch split from 2by2 about March of 2002. They lured in other top money earners of 2by2 and formed a new company with them called Infenet. The original founders of Infenet were Cliff and Dave Braun, Duke Tubtim, Jose and Lazaro Gutierrez, and Nicholas Okita.

Within 3 months of forming their new company, Infenet, Cliff, Dave and Duke then proceeded to screw all of their partners, and form yet another company. The new company, Vizion One, was launched on July 6th, 2002 at the LA Convention Center. That was supposed to be Infenet’s launch, but when everyone showed up for the Infenet event Cliff and Dave lied to the entire crowd and said that the name of the company had changed to Vizion One. This way all of the reps from Infenet got tricked into joining the new company, thinking that they were still in Infenet.

As is true of any classic pyramid scam, armed with the reps from Infenet this new group quickly organized and began actively recruiting people - mostly young people. Vizion One has no real product, no organization and no capital. The way they planned to get all this was through straight recruitment. At least by doing that they got the money to maintain their lifestyles and lured others to sign up. It is now several months later and there is still no product, organization, headquarters or anything other than the founders continuing to live high on the money they took from innocent people.

All of the founders of Vizion One are in their 20's and all of them have absolutely ZERO background in business. None of them have any knowledge or expertise in technology or internet. Their entire sales pitch and their skimpy business model is a cheesy and cheap version of 2by2 (and 2by2 already swept through the nation and left a bad taste in everyone's mouth!). So high-pressure salespeople are selling a non-existent internet and technology product to an unsuspecting public. They are doing it by promising everything and delivering nothing. You do the work, you recruit others and you get a cut. As you might imagine this is illegal in all 50 states.

VizionOne.com is a classic pyramid scam - all of the revenue comes directly and exclusively from recruiting other participants into the pyramid. Sure, they say that the fees are for a website, but the sites are simply cheesy, ugly and poorly pre-designed templates that are the same for everyone. The next comeback the Vizion One reps use is that they do have a "real" product. And what is this real product? Surprise! It's the same old dial up ISP service that every other fly-by-night internet company offers for 6 months and then goes belly up. This is what they claim will "destroy" AOL? How can they destroy AOL when they don’t even own any of the ISP customers they sign up? Any customers that sign up for their ISP is actually signing up for a company called PowerNetGlobal (see http://www.powernetglobal.com).

VizionOne leaders like to lie and say that nobody owns their customers, that even AOL uses someone else’s ISP service. That is a total lie. The truth that they are trying to twist is to have you believe that all big companies do it like this. Totally false. Have them show you their PowerNetGlobal contract, you will quickly find out that VizionOne is just a sales agent for PowerNetGlobal. Ask them if they wanted to move all of their customers to another company, could they? Do they bill the customers or does PowerNetGlobal bill the customers? Do they have their own customer support or is it PowerNetGlobal’s? Ask the owners these questions, then right a letter to the legal department at PowerNetGlobal and ask them the same questions. Ask THEM who the customers belong to – VizionOne or PowerNetGlobal?

Companies like AOL, MSN, Earthlink, and even PowerNetGlobal actually buy network usage from the large telecom companies such as Level 3, WorldCom, Qwest, etc. They have contracts with multiple carriers, and can move those customers from network to network. They bill their own customers and support their own customers. For VizionOne to say that they own the customers is like saying a salesman for AT & T owns all AT & T's customers – RIDICULOUS!

So whose future are you really building when you don’t even own the customers? Definitely not yours. Oh well, I guess it doesn’t really matter since they are just trying to make their pyramid scheme seem legit by pretending they have a real product that nobody is required to sell. They are just interested in collecting the recruitment fees from your friends and family.

A Plan that only a Scam could love.

This ridiculous company, with no real product, does have a plan. And the plan is to get you to sign up, give them lot's of your money, then sign up everyone you know to give more money to them so you can make some of your money back. Here's how it works: You sign up as a "Trainer" for $295. Then the pressure starts to buy MORE than ONE Trainer spot. They will tell you how you can double or triple your money by simply purchasing more spots in the pyramid. If you are fool enough to fork out the dough. Do the math: Not $295. Instead you're shelling out $885 or MORE (which is unethical and illegal)! Then, you get to sign up 2 people "one on the left and one on the right" and you earn what they call a CDB-- a pyramid guaranteed to set you up for failure. Look at all those spots of other people you suddenly have to fill at $295 each. Now, they will say you are getting two internet customers, but remember, they have no real product so in reality, you really don't need to sign up any ISP customers. They just say this to try and avoid getting in trouble with the government. In reality, it is just straight recruiting. What they want you to get is not customers, they want you to get more suckers to pay $295 or more to build the pyramid. You don't ever need to get customers. Just build the scam so the top people make money before getting shut down and leaving everyone broke.

So, if you have no morals or you are highly unethical, then you should be able to convince a couple of idiots to dump their life savings into this scam. Think of all the fame that will come in just a few months! Then you take this pipe dream and have bunches of others get high off of it until they are so brain dead that they give up the same amounts of money. This is a pyramid (click here to read all about pyramids and similar companies shut down by the federal government).

If Vizion One leaders dispute this ask them if they would be willing to call the FTC, the state Attorney General or district attorney and get their opinion. Offer to pay for the call! You can find contacts to all these agencies on the helpful links page.