Thread: Is My Advertising Pays / The Advert Platform A Scam or Ponzi?

I researched Recyclix for a friend a few months back... guess what... Ponzi !

If anyone is bored waiting for the next announcement about MAP...

can anyone find any evidence that "Merchant Shares" is a Ponzi? Obviously it is... and a cunning slow-burn one at that... but apart from its registered address being a fake one shared by other dodgy schemes, there's nothing I've been able to find to demonstrate it!

Originally Posted by stephenjgray

can anyone find any evidence that "Merchant Shares" is a Ponzi? Obviously it is... and a cunning slow-burn one at that... but apart from its registered address being a fake one shared by other dodgy schemes, there's nothing I've been able to find to demonstrate it!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find:

* Any other business on the 'net offering 2.5% DAILY interest WITHOUT being a ponzi

* What Dominica being a tax free country has to do with anything, other than meaning the scammers themselves don't have to pay tax

* The chances of reclaiming money from Domenica when (not if) things go wrong

* What it means when a company is incorporated in Domenica



Check this out, then tell us whether or not a company being incorporated in Domenica is a) worth the paper on which its' written b) provides any form of security for the consumer



HINT: when someone believes a ROI of 2.5% a DAY is possible, there's not a great deal of logic you can use to "prove" it's a ponzi / pyramid scheme

In addition to what LRM has posted, all investment businesses must be registered in the country where they have customers, so unless they can show you registration in your country, ( mine is US, LRM is Australia) they are operating illegally.

Originally Posted by ribshaw

FutureNet.


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Wasnt the server supposed to come back on today so Muppets can carry on clicking ten ads ? Well, did it ?

Originally Posted by Ghostbuster

Wasnt the server supposed to come back on today so Muppets can carry on clicking ten ads ? Well, did it ?

According to the MAPpets on Septic Simon Stepsys' Facebook page the site is back online

QUESTION: What do these two posts have in common?

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ANSWER:-

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Now why would that be? Don't they want congratulations and celebrations?

They don't want anyone asking what they're clicking for because they aren't going to flat out state that MAPs is dead...

Well.....the site seems to be up and working after a fashion, but is far from perfect, as these comments show. Perhaps that's why the admins on the SS Success FB page are turning off the comments?

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Originally Posted by stephenjgray

I researched Recyclix for a friend a few months back... guess what... Ponzi !

Looks like eager Mapper Claire H-J is going to give it a whirl anyway.

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Look, eager Mappers, read the signs.....your esteemed (former) leaders are all scurrying off to new things. Which I interpret as them thinking that MAPs is over and done with.

Yes, it might stagger on for a few more days, weeks, even months.....but the people who were at the top of the heap, who have been in other schemes in the past, and who therefore, if could be argued, are best placed to know, are LOOKING FOR OTHER THINGS.

Never mind what they say - look at what they DO.

Dave Finney, who gave up his day job with a haulage company in order to "do" MAPs full time, hasn't posted on his FB page since 13th September.

His partner, Denise Garrity, hasn't posted on her FB page since 10th September.

Not so long ago, they were posting happy shots of their lifestyle in their new (rented?) pad, making the point it was paid for by MAPs. But for the past 10 days or so - nothing.

Do you think they are too busy job hunting? Just wondering......

Originally Posted by Della Cate

Dave Finney, who gave up his day job with a haulage company in order to "do" MAPs full time, hasn't posted on his FB page since 13th September.

His partner, Denise Garrity, hasn't posted on her FB page since 10th September.

Not so long ago, they were posting happy shots of their lifestyle in their new (rented?) pad, making the point it was paid for by MAPs. But for the past 10 days or so - nothing.

Do you think they are too busy job hunting? Just wondering......

#CrappyTwattyDays!

Originally Posted by stephenjgray

can anyone find any evidence that "Merchant Shares" is a Ponzi?

No losing days and this level of profit consistency across all markets simultaneously is laughable. As with MAPs this indicates they are running a HYIP script, not a real business.

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Paying trading profits on days when there is no trading needs no explanation.

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To the extent they are soliciting investments from US citizens they are in violation of the law. No way they are exempt.

In general, all securities offered in the U.S. must be registered with the SEC or must qualify for an exemption from the registration requirements. The registration forms a company files with the SEC provide essential facts, including:

Financial statements certified by independent accountants.

https://www.sec.gov/answers/regis33.htm

Merchant Shares has the same problem as My Advertising Pays, no independently audited financials. Fifteen red herrings, testimonials, payment proofs, but the one thing that lends credibility they aren't a scam is conveniently missing in both.

When you couple a cute story with funds wired directly and without restriction of use to the people perpetrating the fraud running a magical business for the little guy the evidence leads only one place.

Originally Posted by Della Cate

Well.....the site seems to be up and working after a fashion, but is far from perfect, as these comments show. Perhaps that's why the admins on the SS Success FB page are turning off the comments?

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I see scammer James is dutifully following orders and throwing the word 'advertising' out there like they discussed after the monsoon scam debacle.

Originally Posted by Della Cate

Leslie - who as we all recall, gave up his job as a bus driver to do MAPs full time - is suddenly interested in this. It's something called Recyclix.

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Meanwhile, The Gerbil has ruled Recyclix out:-

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Lovely to watch them all scuttling about. Sometimes, when I lift up a plant pot in my garden, a load of woodlice run out, dazed by the sudden daylight. . Just reminds me of that!

the gerbil is upset he didn't get in early enough. Good on him though......this time:

Recyclix suspension ordered by Italian securities regulator

Recyclix suspension ordered by Italian securities regulator

Originally Posted by ribshaw

No losing days and this level of profit consistency across all markets simultaneously is laughable. As with MAPs this indicates they are running a HYIP script, not a real business.

no losing days.JPG

Paying trading profits on days when there is no trading needs no explanation.

no losing days even on days when there is no trading.JPG

To the extent they are soliciting investments from US citizens they are in violation of the law. No way they are exempt.

In general, all securities offered in the U.S. must be registered with the SEC or must qualify for an exemption from the registration requirements. The registration forms a company files with the SEC provide essential facts, including:

Financial statements certified by independent accountants.

https://www.sec.gov/answers/regis33.htm

Merchant Shares has the same problem as My Advertising Pays, no independently audited financials. Fifteen red herrings, testimonials, payment proofs, but the one thing that lends credibility they aren't a scam is conveniently missing in both.

When you couple a cute story with funds wired directly and without restriction of use to the people perpetrating the fraud running a magical business for the little guy the evidence leads only one place.

Thanks... all good points!

Gary "Thirsty" Strong has put out this liitle video:-

https://www.facebook.com/gary.strong...0109495284815/

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He's slightly affronted that people have been pitching Recyclix to him because "it's rubbish. It doesn't work. If it did I'd put a hundred grand into it tomorrow!". Why would anyone want to join such a poor scheme, when they have MAPs, which is going to grow to ONE MILLION members??

He also has a little go at reminding people to have multiple streams of income. He says he has MAPs, his own company Strong SEO, has properties he lets out and does some forex trading as well. I wonder how much of that is true? If he really had several properties he lets out, why would he be messing about with schemes on the internet?

My personal view is that he's a complete knob. The sort of person who stands round in the pub boasting about what he has or does and bullshi*ting everyone. Everyone knows somebody just like that. He's not just a knob, he's a boring knob. Yawn yawn, Gazza, yeah, we've heard it all before, you have a squillion pounds in the bank and Angelina Jolie is after you, but you don't like to talk about it.......

Well, MAPs may be "for life", but it depends what sort of life. The mayfly also has a life, it just ain't very long......

Gosh. Do you think someone has threatened Our Tone??

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People are just so unreasonable, aren't they? There's Tony and Lynne (and the ladies with laptops), humble toilers, serving the greater MAPs community, asking nothing for themselves; having promoted a scheme simply to help people, you understand. And what thanks do they get??

Needless to say, the comments are now turned off on this post....and on Gary's little video as well.

Our Tone again, pushing the advertising line once more.....but no comments, please!

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The fact that they are turning off comments more and more is very significant, I think. No such thing as free speech and fair comment in the MAPs world then!

Well, well. Over on his page, Shaun Smith has some interesting postings. Mr Smith was a former bezzie mate of Mr Stepsys, and the two worked together at one point. (Mr Smith was also jailed for fraud a few years ago, I believe; but we'll draw a veil over that.)

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And look who else has come out of the woodwork! Yes, Keith Lambert, another member of Stepsys's crew in the old Banners Broker days! It's like a familiy reunion, aw!

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I wonder if Our Tone's comments about anger were aimed at Smiffy??

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PLAY NICELY, CHILDREN.

Looks like Claire H-J is indeed with Recyclix, even though she's reluctant to say so in public. Perhaps she's frightened that she will be chucked out of MAPs, as Gary "Thirsty" Strong has threatened?

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But interesting that she admits that the Mapperoonies are not getting paid, and won't be paid for 6 months.....

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Is there a Recyclix thread here please? If not, looks like we are going to need one soon as the Mapperoonies flock over to it....

Originally Posted by Della Cate

Is there a Recyclix thread here please? If not, looks like we are going to need one soon as the Mapperoonies flock over to it....

not sure it's had a chance to take off yet and is under investigation already.

Originally Posted by Della Cate

Gary "Thirsty" Strong has put out this liitle video:-

"Need some cash? Properties, innit? I ain't got nah properties - nah mate, nah, nah, nah. Don't need em, do I? See, if I want money for a nite owt owt, and maps ain't paying owt owt, I just pawns me watch, dun I? Then, I gits 5 grand - then do's forex - It's easy. I'm well good in I?

But don't do recycling ponzis - they're rubbish! arf!

Now Danny "Doede Osman Khan" Turner has fallen from his perch as a Mapper in Chief, someone else has filled the gap. Step forwards Danny Lewington!

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He then quotes extensively from an article he has found about digital advertising. I've missed that bt out, but he ends as follows:-

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Oh, Danny! I'm afarid you're going to regret that loan.....hope you've not secured it against your house or anything......assuming, that is, you really have taken it out......