Romeo Nation Review: Triple ruse MLM Ponzi
Romeo Nation fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.
Instead, Romeo Nation’s website is populated with what appears to be stock photos. Romeo Nation’s official marketing videos feature AI-generated avatars.
This is typical of scammers hiding their involvement in a company.
Romeo Nation’s website domain (“romeonation.com”), was privately registered on December 4th, 2024.
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.
Romeo Nation’s Products
Romeo Nation has no retailable products or services.
Affiliates are only able to market Romeo Nation affiliate membership itself.
Romeo Nation’s Compensation Plan
Romeo Nation affiliates invest funds on the promise of a 200% to 250% passive return:
- Starter – invest $50 to $500 and receive 0.1% a day capped at 200%
- Standard – invest $550 to $1000 and receive 0.2% a day capped at 200%
- Elite – invest $1050 to $2500 and receive 0.3% a day capped at 250%
- Prestige – invest $2550 to $7500 and receive 0.4% a day capped at 250%
- VIP – invest $7500 or more and receive 0.5% a day capped at 250%
Note that, including commissions and bonuses earned, if the total amount received is 300% reinvestment is required to continue earning.
The MLM side of Romeo Nation pays on recruitment of affiliate investors.
Romeo Nation Affiliate Ranks
There are ten affiliate ranks within Romeo Nation’s compensation plan.
Qualification criteria for Go-Getter is the only rank disclosed:
- Go-Getter – generate $25,000 in investment revenue on both sides of the binary team
Presumably for the other eight Romeo Nation affiliate ranks, higher downline investment amounts are required.
ROI Match
Romeo Nation pays a ROI Match 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):
(unilevel)
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.
Romeo Nation caps the ROI Match at forty unilevel team levels.
The ROI Match is paid as a percentage of daily returns paid out across these forty levels as follows:
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 20%
- levels 2 and 3 – 10%
- levels 4 to 10 – 5%
- levels 11 to 15 – 2%
- levels 16 to 20 – 1%
- levels 21 to 40% – 0.5%
Residual Commissions
Romeo Nation 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):
(binary)
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.
At the end of each day Romeo Nation tallies up “revenue” earned by downline affiliates across the binary team.
“Revenue” isn’t defined but it assumed to be earnings (commissions earned and possibly the daily ROI).
Residual commissions are paid as 5% of “revenue” generated on the weaker side of the binary team, capped daily based on the highest tier an affiliate has invested at.
Once paid out on “revenue” volume is matched against the stronger binary team side and flushed. Any leftover volume on the stronger binary team side carries over.
Residual Matching Bonus
Romeo Nation pays a Matching Bonus on residual commissions. The residual Matching Bonus is paid out using the same unilevel team as the ROI Match, this time capped at seven levels.
- Go-Getters earn a 25% match on level 1
- Heroes earn a 25% match on level 1 and 20% on level 2
- Champions earn a 25% match on level 1, 20% on level 2 and 15% on level 3
- Ambassadors earn a 25% match on level 1, 20% on level 2, 15% on level 3 and 10% on level 4
- Vanguards and higher earn a 25% match on level 1, 20% on level 2, 15% on level 3, 10% on level 4 and 5% on levels 5 to 7
Rank Achievement Bonus
Romeo Nation rewards affiliates for qualifying at Go-Getter and higher with the following one-time Rank Achievement Bonuses:
- qualify at Go-Getter and receive “branded luggage”
- qualify at Hero and receive a 10g gold coin
- qualify at Champion and receive a motorbike valued at $3000
- qualify at Ambassador and receive a “car kickstart” valued at $10,000
- qualify at Vanguard and receive an SUV valued at $25,000
- qualify at Titan and receive a Mercedes-Benz C Class
- qualify at Icon and receive a Porsche Cayenne
- qualify at Oracle and receive a Range Rover
- qualify at Legend and receive a “cruiser yacht”
- qualify at Luminary and receive a “dream villa” in Dubai or Europe
Joining Romeo Nation
Romeo Nation affiliate membership is free.
Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum $50 investment.
Romeo Nation Conclusion
Romeo Nation represents it generates external revenue via “iGaming industry”, real-estate and hospitality and tourism.
Romeo Nation fails to provide verifiable evidence it generates external revenue of any kind.
Furthermore, Romeo Nation’s business model fails the Ponzi logic test. If Romeo Nation is already involved in these sectors, such they are able to generate 0.5% a day, what does it need your money for?
As it stands the only verifiable source of revenue entering Romeo Nation is new investment. The use of new investment to pay ROI withdrawals would make Romeo Nation a Ponzi scheme.
This tracks with Romeo Nation’s multiple disclosure failings, use of stock photos, AI-generated avatar marketing videos and anonymous admin(s).
As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will new investment.
This will starve Romeo Nation of ROI revenue, eventually prompting a collapse.
Math guarantees that when a Ponzi scheme collapses, the majority of participants lose money.
3 red flags:
– no mention of who owns it,
– no retailable products or services,
– unrealistic ROI with no mention where the payouts are coming from.
If it quacks like a duck & walks like a duck, then it is definitely a duck!