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

    Quote Originally Posted by Della Cate View Post
    Anyone remember this character? Andy Kerekes. An eager Mapper, I think a former Banners Broker affiliate, and has now joined Questra World (and possibly other things)

    Despite being in all these schemes, he needs a loan.

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    The fact he says he needs a guarantor tells me that he has a low credit rating in his own right. He needs a guarantor to pay off the loan should he default on it. Without it, he can't get one. Later in his posting he says he needs the money quickly to go on holiday abroad, and he can't get his money out of the scheme/s for another 3 months.

    I'm using him just as an example. These people in schemes - MAPs, TM, UvioO, Questra World, FutureNet, Moneyline - often say how well they are doing with their venture. No brainer, they say. Making money hourly, they say. Don't be stuck in a JOB, get passive income, they say. Sack your boss. Please yourself. Don't be an idiot. And now I've noticed some of them advising others not to stick their money in a bank where the interest rate is so low, but "invest" it in a scheme that will pay back far, far, more. BOOM! they say.

    Boom indeed. But at the end of it, people like Andy can't put their hands on any money for a holiday, and need to get a loan. A loan with a guarantor.

    Who's the idiot now?
    Thats whats wrong with the world now ,'loans', and thats why the worlds in such a financial state. I was brought up to save for what i want and i do. A loan for a holiday jeez. Like you say, a classic example of a clown who will get others in these scams, and is probably in a financial mess himself. They are all big fat liars when they claim theyve got all this money.

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    Be still my beating heart......MAPs is back!! (apparently)

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    BOOM!

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    A sudden flurry of mappy activity......doesn't take much to keep some people happy, does it? Pity the admins have to turn off commenting though....

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    AAAND Simons's back as well! Gosh, this is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it?


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    A thought. If the new credit packs cost 24.99 euros, to buy 75 as our boy advises would cost 1,874.25 euros. Well, I suppose Christmas is coming, and the top leaders will be wanting a Christmas bonus....

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    Oh dear.....how are the mightly fallen......

    Remember Dave Finney? Used to work for a transport company; then gave up his job to be a full time Mapper. Moved to a big rented house on the England/Wales borders and posted lots of happy pics of him and his girlfriend, Denise Garrity (another Mapper) reclining in bathrobes whilst admiring the view.

    Well, they've now opened up an online shop with something called Shopify....

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    I don't even know what Shopify is. Is it like ebay?

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    Shopify is a hosted ecommerce store. The course they took is by Chris Record of Tecademics...

    Tecademics Review: $12,000 "College of Internet Marketing" courses

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    Shopify is a paid ecommerce platform that is legitimate though some of the retailers on it may not be.
    It seems like in this "industry" common sense is not all that common!

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    I'm not surprised that schemes keep going, and new ones keep popping up.

    Some people are easy targets IMO.

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    thought arby was out of coin?
    how can there be a 3 year anniversary when this died just after the 2 year mark?
    Haven't lost any money to online scams.......results are typical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whip View Post
    thought arby was out of coin?
    how can there be a 3 year anniversary when this died just after the 2 year mark?
    Some more of that fuzzy math?
    It seems like in this "industry" common sense is not all that common!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Della Cate View Post
    I'm not surprised that schemes keep going, and new ones keep popping up.

    Some people are easy targets IMO.

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    So many thickos in this world. Humans make me sick sometimes, and stepsys with his latest ****, best thing get a gun and shoot the half wit, be one less pratt on this world. Entrepreneur my ass lmao, what a toss pot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bestbud View Post
    Shopify is a hosted ecommerce store. The course they took is by Chris Record of Tecademics...

    Tecademics Review: $12,000 "College of Internet Marketing" courses
    "Impact ($2000) – a “home-study course you can think of as the “Encyclopedia of Internet Marketing

    Encyclopedia of CON ARTISTRY?

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    Ey up! It's Our Tone!!

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    Wheer's tha bin, lad?

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    "It's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time." Bernie Madoff
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scam-...98399986981403

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    You'd have to be an experienced serial ponzi pimp to find a positive in this lot.

    We are talking serial ponzi pimps, though, aren't we ???



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    Quote Originally Posted by Della Cate View Post
    Ey up! It's Our Tone!!

    Maps 496 Dec 16.jpg

    Wheer's tha bin, lad?
    WTF is an "imminence success"? Isn't that when the Pope does something right?
    It seems like in this "industry" common sense is not all that common!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Booth View Post
    Wow, the MAP relaunch has been an imminence success today guys with advertising sales going through the roof.
    Quote Originally Posted by laidback View Post
    WTF is an "imminence success"? Isn't that when the Pope does something right?
    Assuming he was looking for "has been an imminent success", it becomes even more of a head-scratcher:

    I wonder how many pending payments he has spent?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shipdit View Post
    I wonder how many pending payments he has spent?
    Assuming Stepsys doesn't end up dancin the Lifebouy Limbo at Wandsworth I am guessing he comes away from this just fine.

    The Booths on the other hand screwed the pooch so bad I can hardly get my head around it. Tone a thrice failed window glazier found himself at the very top of let's call it a $100,000,000 scam. Does he tuck away a few million and disappear to someplace without extradition? Does he stick with the script that Valtrex Gateway took all the money and the lawyers be doing their darndest? No on both fronts. Instead he tries a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reloading_scam with this POS which never works.

    Broke and publicly holding the bag never a Merry Christmas makes.

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    "It's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time." Bernie Madoff
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scam-...98399986981403

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    Our friend Simon is at is again. Urging Mappers to buy tickets for the 3 year party, urging them to buy more credit packs!

    This guy is SHAMELESS.

    MAPs 497 Dec 16.jpg Maps 498 Dec 16.jpg

    Meet Mikey Deese? Cor, that's a thrill, isn't it??

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    Piotr, I hate to tell you this but I don't think you will see your money again. I suggest you DON'T put in any more!!

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    Ugh. Simon Stepsys is the worst human being. It hurts my soul that he's not being arrested and locked up forever. The horrid sociopath.
    "An admin turned off commenting for this post."

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    Payment Processor Outsourced Work, Stole $60M, Co. Says

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    Law360, Houston (December 1, 2016, 8:16 PM EST) -- MyAdvertising Pays Limited, a marketing company that pays people to watch advertisements, filed a lawsuit in Texas federal court Thursday alleging its payment processor, VX Gateway Corp., was actually outsourcing that job to third parties and stole about $60 million in funds.

    MAP told the court that VX Gateway, which was hired to provide an online payment portal for MAP members and manage payments for those members, had breached their contract by fraudulently retaining the funds that belong to its customers in the U.S. and abroad.

    In August, MAP informed VX Gateway via email that it was improperly withholding funds. After VX Gateway responded that it was the third-party processor that wasn't releasing them, MAP sent a demand letter for the funds, which prompted a phone call between the parties during which VX Gateway said it was pursuing a lawsuit against one of the allegedly at-fault processors, GPN Data.

    “VX Gateway further advised MAP to 'join forces' with VX Gateway in their purported lawsuit against GPN Data in Poland,” the complaint reads. “In order to facilitate this joining of forces, as a condition precedent, VX Gateway insisted that MAP execute a full release of liability for any claims MAP may have against VX Gateway, as well as [executives Timothy] MacKay and [Celia] Dunlop personally, ostensibly because MacKay and Dunlop were concerned about being charged with international money laundering. To date, VX Gateway has neither provided, nor has MAP discovered, any evidence that VX Gateway has initiated ... litigation against GPN Data in Poland.”

    MAP is seeking damages of $42.4 million and €16 million ($17 million), plus consequential damages.

    According to the complaint, the companies entered an agreement in April 2014 whereby VX Gateway would provide payment processing services for MAP customers through an online portal. It was MAP's understanding at that time that VX Gateway was handling all processing responsibilities, it told the court, and that those tasks were not being handled by a third party.

    MAP runs a website that allows individuals to purchase “credit packs” that allow them to view advertisements, and then those individual members are paid based on how many ads they watch. The packs are purchased through the portal via credit card or wire transfer payments. When a certain amount has accumulated in the member account, the member can withdraw the funds, according to the complaint.

    After the withdrawal is approved, VX would transfer the funds from MAP's account to the individual member's account.

    In April 2016, MAP withdrew from the U.S. market, stopped accepting payments in dollars and began only accepting payments in euros, maintaining VX Gateway as its processor. It was a move MAP told the court it had been considering since December 2015 as a result of declining profits in the U.S. market.

    Ahead of that move, though, in February 2016, MAP announced the plan and shortly thereafter VX Gateway placed an annual limit on credit card transactions per member of $6,000, a restriction that didn't previously exist, MAP told the court.

    When questioned, VX Gateway blamed its third-party processors for the restriction, which was the first MAP had heard VX Gateway wasn't actually processing MAP's transactions, according to the complaint. Around that time, members began complaining to MAP about the time it took to process transactions and withdraw funds.

    VX Gateway explained that the delay was not its fault but that of the “correspondent bank,” and that it was in the process of partnering with other banks to process the payments more quickly.

    Another issue arose, MAP told the court, when it began accepting only euro payments. It noticed that, after a week, its account with VX still showed a zero balance. That was explained by VX Gateway as the fault of the third-party processor, explaining the funds hadn't cleared yet and that there was also a 10 percent “rolling reserve holdback” from the third-party processor, “as well as an unexplained 90 percent holdback initiated at the whim of the various processors, with one purportedly holding back funds for around three weeks and the other holding back funds for around seven weeks.”

    In June 2016, MAP started shopping around for a new payment processor, and it was after a meeting with another company that MAP was informed that VX Gateway was only a gateway services company and was unauthorized to process payments, according to the complaint.

    Counsel information for VX Gateway wasn't available Thursday, and the parties did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

    MAP is represented by J. Cary Gray, Michael A. Ackal III, Sandra L. Mazan and Meagan W. Glover of Gray Reed & McGraw PC

    The case is MyAdvertisingPay Limited c. VX Gateway Corp., case number 4:16-cv-03541, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division.

    --Editing by Philip Shea.

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    so the map scam is suing itself? brilliant!
    Haven't lost any money to online scams.......results are typical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whip View Post
    so the map scam is suing itself? brilliant!
    Not a bad way of keeping the members quiet and onside, though, is it ???

    It'll get them through Black December and into the new year before the proverbial hits the fan again.
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    Oh no! An argument between members of the MAPS "family". Someone has been saying horrid things about the saintly Claire Hartman James - the rotters, how could they?

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    And who is this naughty person? Seems like it is none other than The Gerbil.....

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    Now, now. Play nicely, children.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Della Cate View Post
    Oh no! An argument between members of the MAPS "family". Someone has been saying horrid things about the saintly Claire Hartman James - the rotters, how could they?

    Maps 502 Dec 16.jpg

    And who is this naughty person? Seems like it is none other than The Gerbil.....

    Maps 501 Dec 16.jpg

    Now, now. Play nicely, children.


    Here is Devlin Hartman's facebook page



    https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=devlin%20hartman


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    If Simon Stepsys or Mark Ghobril are involved it's 100% a SCAM!

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