amoo-world-logoThere is no information on the Amoo World website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Amoo World website domain (“amooworld.com”) was registered on the 13th of July 2015, however the domain registration is set to private.

The Twitter profile on the Amoo World website lists its location as India, which is likely where Amoo World is being run out of.

Of note is that Amoo World appears to have previously been launched as “amooye”, with the Amooye website linked off the Amoo World Twitter profile suspended by the hosting provider.

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.

The Amoo World Product Line

Amoo World market a free VOIP app for mobile phones.

VOIP to VOIP calls within the app are free, with Amoo World charging a fee if non-VOIP services are called through the app.

No rates are provided on the Amoo World website.

The Amoo World Compensation Plan

The Amoo World compensation plan revolves around affiliates purchasing $1 positions, activating them for $25 and then recruiting others who do the same.

As per the Amoo World website, there are four affiliate options to consider:

  • Basic – $1
  • Economy – $5
  • Kickstarter – $10
  • Business – $20

$1 is the base-level, providing an affiliate with basic affiliate membership. What the other price-points are for is unclear.

In any event, after signing up for $1, Amoo World affiliates are then able to activate positions for $25 each.

These positions generate commissions within the Amoo World compensation plan as follows.

Recruitment Commission

For every $25 position a recruited affiliate purchases, the affiliate who recruited them is paid a 10% commission.

Weekly ROIs

Each $25 position is an “annual subscription”, through which Amoo World affiliates are paid a weekly ROI.

ROIs per position are paid weekly for a year, paying out $1 a week ($52 ROI).

Note that in order to qualify for the weekly ROI, Amoo World affiliates must watch company-supplied videos.

Residual Commissions

Residual commissions in Amoo World are paid out via a binary compensation structure.

A binary compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a binary team, split into sides (left and right):

binary-MLM-compensation-plan

Positions in the binary are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of new affiliates, with commissions paid on their position activation fees.

Using a 2:1 ratio, meaning one side’s volume must be twice that of the other, a 10% commission is paid out on the fees generated by the weaker binary side.

Binary commissions in Amoo World are paid daily, with each affiliate capped at $3500 in daily earnings.

Circle Champion Rewards

Each ratio matching of 2:1 in a binary team is referred to as a “pair”.

Amoo World affiliates are rewarded for generating accumulated binary pairs, in addition to their own personal recruitment efforts as follows:

  • generate 100 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least two affiliates – iPhone
  • generate 200 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least four affiliates – Samsung Galaxy tablet
  • generate 500 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least six affiliates – “laptop”
  • generate 1000 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least eight affiliates – “radio watch”
  • generate 1500 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least ten affiliates – Singapore trip
  • generate 2500 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least twelve affiliates – Harley Davidson motorbike
  • generate 10,000 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least fourteen affiliates – Audi A6
  • generate 25,000 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least sixteen affiliates – Mercedes-Benz E-Class
  • generate 50,000 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least eighteen affiliates – Dubai villa
  • generate 100,000 binary pairs plus personally recruit at least twenty affiliates – “business royalty” (no idea what this is)

Joining Amoo World

Affiliate membership with Amoo World costs between $1 and $20:

  • Basic – $1
  • Economy – $5
  • Kickstarter – $10
  • Business – $20

The difference between these memberships is unclear, but we do know affiliates must also purchase $25 positions if they wish to participate in the Amoo World MLM income opportunity.

As such, the defacto minimum cost of Amoo World affiliate membership is $26 (basic membership + one $25 position).

Conclusion

Amoo World as an app brings nothing new to the table.

Either outsourced or developed in-house by Amoo World in India, you can send messages, VOIP chat, share photos etc. – just like you can in the thousands of VOIP apps available.

So why would anyone use Amoo World?

Enter the compensation plan.

Amoo World affiliates are effectively investing $25 on the promise of an annual ROI of $52.

That might sound like a waste of time given the 52 week turnaround, but if scaled up (I saw “trio” strategies touted) could be attractive.

Trouble is in exchange for completing the pointless task of watching videos, all Amoo World are doing is shuffling newly invested funds to pay off existing investors.

You pay your $25, that $25 is used to pay off existing investors and then you hope other suckers pump $25 amounts into the scheme.

Without which, you don’t get paid.

The binary serves as a recruitment incentive, financially incentivizing recruitment of new investors.

In that sense the Amoo World VOIP app is neither here nor there, with it being able to be ignored completely.

All that’s left then is a $25 a pop Ponzi scheme with a binary backend.

For reasons unknown, this particular combination is quite popular in India and despite a few high-profile scam busts, refuses to die out.

As with all such schemes, if enough new investors don’t join within the scheme’s first 52 week rolling period, the scheme is pretty much DOA.

They’re not going to tell affiliates that though, with them realizing only when the time comes to withdraw the numbers on a screen Amoo World represent as payments.

But by then of course it’s too late…