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Attention – article edited on 04-May-2009

The site of TMI Ltd is NOT accessible anymore, it seems like Thomas Martin disappeared with investors money.

As you might know last time when I tried to login to my account it was impossible and now the site is dead, so this is a SCAM.

Now, I received a link to a photo that seem like a ID copy of Thomas Martin:

As I told you, this interview was taken online, I was never face to face in real life with Thomas Martin, however I will do what I can to help finding him. I invite you all to post here any information about Thomas Martin.

Here is what I got from investor talking on MMG

JBPerpetual

I have details of banks to which I sent money:
Bank: CaixaNova
(Bank address: Girona 17001, SPAIN)
SWIFT: CAVIES2V
Account Name: Thomas Martin
(Address if required: Perpignan 66000, France)
Account number (IBAN): ES2820800839910040000869
and
Bank: PostFinance
(Bank address: CH-3030 Bern Switzerland
SWIFT: POFICHBEXXX
Account Name: Thomas Martin
(Address if required: 34 Parc d’Activite Syrdall, Munsbach, L-5365 Luxembourg)
Account number (IBAN): CH5509000000917404592

lazmic

But as his ID and Notary are French we should hire a French attorney. This is why I have send the Guaranteed Investment Documents to the Notary in Paris. As soon as we receive his answer then we could decide the next step. I will ask the Notary to introduce us to an English speaking attorney where all can deposit and contribute towards his fees. I might fly myself to Paris.

Now, I don’t know what will be the best way to catch this thief named Thomas Martin but there are some steps that should be usefull:

- creation of an association of TMI investors that had losses in this investment fund

- the association should get a French lawyer to set up a complaint against Thomas Martin and calling him to answer in a court

- the bank will reveal information to the police but to the judge too if a complaint will exist then that complaint will be solved by a judge in a legal court

I don’t really have much knowledge in the law so I don’t know if an association could be made but I think there are some ways to unite the investors in recovering their losses. If you have any ideas please comment at the end of this article or on specific money making forums:

Money Maker Group or Talk Gold

Interview with the owner of a online high yield investment fund – TMI Ltd

1.) Hi Admin, where do you come from?
I am a retired man from Western Europe, I am more precisely French but lived in Switzerland and Luxembourg most of my life. I am what people call a self-made-man, didn’t study a lot as I had to work quickly, so I had many and various jobs. Finally I ran a small HR Cabinet in Switzerland, where I met a lot of high executives in the financial world. They opened my eyes and my mind to finance, and all began really

2.) Why did you decided to start an online investing program?
Well to be frank I didn’t decide by myself to go online. In 1990 I opened a very small and very private Club, where a few friends and I invested our hard earned money. Years after years the Club grew, without any other advertising than private conversations.
Then a few years ago my son Stan joined me, it was if I remember around the year 2000. As he is from another – younger! – generation, he was very opened on the internet world, and began to say “why not go online”! I wasn’t very happy of this as our success was, in my opinion, due to our private and confidential status. But years after years he convinced me and in 2007 we decided to offer our online program.
The rule is simple: Higher is the amount of our funds, more we invest and more we make profit. So, why not coming online, despite I must confess that after what I saw on the internet, I was not very enthusiast to open a website. The danger for him was the Club to be mixed with all “ponzi” that are around.
Finally so we hired a programmer to write our software, and came online!

3.) So how long has your program started?
So, our program – the Club – was launched in 1990, and we came online in 2007. It will soon be one year we are online.

4.) What type of payment processors do you accept and do you plan to accept more payment processors in the future?
Most of our business is made through bank wires. But we understood that coming online, we will need to accept e-currencies. According to Stan, the most popular was e-gold, the most serious e-bullion, so we decided to accept them.
Later we added Libertyreserve, but we will probably remove it if they do not fix their problems really quickly, I suppose you know their situation!
We are opened to new processors, but as far as I can see, there is nothing serious now! Let’s wait, maybe something really new and great will come? Nevertheless once more, the best way to work with us is using bank wires.

5.) How confident are you with your site security level?
Sorry we do not communicate about this topic.

6.) What are your plans for the future and how long do you think you will stay online?
We have no plans to not stay online! Do you think that any company can think “when will we close?”? Our program works, and worked since 1990!
We turned into a registered company last month. We are expecting to receive a bank license next year; we will emit our payment cards (OUR cards and not third party cards), offer certificates of deposit and other bank services. As you see, our plans for the future look fine!

7.) Do you have any phone support other than email support?
Yes we have but only on a case by case basis, as Stan (he cares of the Support) has really no time to return phone calls. Support is now done through a “ticket center” that allow our Investors and us to keep a trace of all exchanges.
I add that I sometimes meet some Investors or potential serious Investors, but as I am very often traveling it isn’t that easy. Our commercial director, Alain Martel, meets more frequently people, especially in Europe.

8.) Can you explain on how you calculate the ROI of your plan?
We offer 10.25% by month. This is an average return we can pay, we of course do not exactly make 10.25% every month. We can for example make 50% one month (we made even more some times!), then a month in loss, etc. Globally with paying 10.25% to our Investors, believe me we still have some nice profit for us!

9.) Do you have a physical office/address for your program/company?
We have a small office in Luxembourg but we do not disclose the place, anyway we will close it as we have now no more link with Luxembourg. When we need to meet people, we find a place: At home sometimes, or we rent an office in a business center, or in a good restaurant!

10.) How many percentage of the funds received from investor will go to admin, staff profit?
None. We invest 100% of the funds we receive. We make our living on the profit we generate, not on the funds we receive.

11.) Lastly in less than 50 words, briefly describe what can your program give to your investors?
A High, Regular and Honest Income! High as 10.25% is really high, Regular as we pay this rate or just about this rate since 1990 without any break, Honest because we do not invest in illegal activities, AND we do not pay Investors with the investments of others!

Thank you for having let me explain our program!

Sincerely,

Thomas Martin

I personally want to thanks Stan for helping me to get in touch with his father Thomas and in this way offering me the possibility to publish this interview. Stan also translated his fathers’ answer to my question because Thomas is French and doesn’t speak English very well.

Edited – 04-May-2009 - The conversation was taking place online NOT face to face.