What Is RU Affiliates? A Pyramid Scheme From The Philippines!

RU Affiliates is an online network marketing company, or better known as a MLM company, that trains their members in the use of email autoresponders to promote the program and as a way to sign up new recruits. 

The slogan is “we turn emails into ATM’s”, so it already sounds fishy and overhyped just by that sentence. 

Their main product is named IHX Factor, which contains 11 training videos and will show you how to find recruits and build your downline. The videos are in Filipino, which is aimed at Filipinos who want to learn about email marketing. 

The course will cost you Php 1,599 (about $30 to $35).

Who Is Wesley Bacate?

The man behind RU Affiliates is Wesley Bacate. RU Affiliates is registered under RU Affiliates Marketing through the various government agencies here in the Philippines. 

Bacate is a preacher and a successful entrepreneur with a somewhat decent following on social media. 

His Facebook page has about 10k followers and he posts motivational quotes and business ventures on there. We don’t know if the business ventures he promotes are his, or he’s part of the management that runs these ventures.

Either way, he’s one of those people who pretend to be serious entrepreneurs who think they’re influential to society, but in reality, they just use their influence to make money out of their victims.

At its core, RU Affiliates is a step-by-step tutorial on how to do online marketing. You’re promoting the IHX Factor, the training course itself, and recruiting people to sign up for the program. 

Note that this is in no way related to affiliate marketing because you don’t earn a commission for selling the course. You earn a commission for recruiting people to join RU Affiliates. 

This is slick because they make it look like they’re selling a product through IHX Factor, but you can see past through it. 

We can’t find any information as to what makes up the training course, but we assume that it’s probably generic information about online marketing and affiliate marketing that you could find online for free. 

How To Get Started with RU Affiliates?

As mentioned above, RU Affiliates will require you to purchase the IHX Factor, which is their training course on how to sell RU Affiliates. 

The program costs Php 1,500 in local currency, or about $28 to $30 converted. 

Purchasing the course will get you access to the income opportunity, which is listed in the next section. 

How You Make Money With RU Affiliates

RU Affiliates offers three ways to make money, which is the MLM part of their business. 

• Direct Commission - When someone signs up for the course, you earn Php 1000, or $18 to $20 per. 
• Shared Commission - Signing up three referrals get you this bonus worth Php 200, or $4 to $5. 
• Goodwill Commission - When you sign up 3 members, your upline (the person who recruited you), earns Php 400 or $8. Your downline (the people you recruited) also receives Php 400, or $8.

Their marketing video that contains their compensation plan information is in Filipino, so again, this video is aimed for Filipinos who want to make money but find it difficult to understand English. 

If you noticed, the commissions are all based on recruitment and nowhere near selling the actual training course.

RU Affiliates is not meant for anyone. It’s a pyramid scheme, nothing more and nothing less.

#1 Banned In The Philippines

The program was established back in May 2017, but in November 2017, it received a warning from the Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 

This warning mentioned that anyone promoting or recruiting people into the RU Affiliates program will be find Php 5,000,000 (roughly $98,000) and face up to 21 years in prison. 

So that’s how dangerous this scheme is, at least in the Philippines. 

#2 Pyramid Scheme!

The program is nothing more than a pyramid scheme. The source of income is through recruitment. You can’t make money selling the training course. The training course is going to teach you how to sell RU Affiliates. 

This is a common scheme used by several pyramid schemes that we reviewed before. 

#3 Probably Generic Online Marketing Stuff!

For $30 or so, you’re learning about how to do online marketing. Because the program is a pyramid scheme, we have no reason to believe that the course is decent. 

We assume that the course is more or less just the generic BS that you find online for free. 

#4 Fake Reviews Online!

During the course of our research, we stumbled across multiple free subdomain blogs that contain reviews about RU Affiliates. These reviews are positive in nature and show you how they’re making money from RU Affiliates. 

We believe that these are from members who took the course modules to heart and are applying what they learned. This just adds to the theory that the online marketing course is just generic BS. 

If the course was indeed legitimate, the SEC wouldn’t have come after them.

There’s nothing to like about RU Affiliates. It’s a pyramid scheme.

Don’t be fooled by the vast majority of the reviews you find online about RU Affiliates. If they’re positive reviews, expect them to come from RU Affiliates members. We’ve spotted a couple of them showing proof of income from the commissions, but we are skeptical about the quality of these reviews. 

The fact that RU Affiliates has been issued a warning by the SEC means that this is a program that’s bad news and will do absolutely nothing for you. You could end up going to jail and paying a hefty fine for promoting and making money out of people through RU Affiliates.