Twelve years in the past Michael Deese launched the MyAdvertisingPays Ponzi scheme.
MyAdvertisingPays, or MAPS because it was referred to as, is believed to have defrauded US and Europe residents out of tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
By late 2015 MyAdvertisingPays was on the snapping point. The Ponzi limped alongside all through 2016, with withdrawals halting in early September.
Submit collapse, Malta issued a MAPS fraud warning in November 2016.
As a part of MAPS’ exit-scam ruse, Deese (proper) claimed investor funds had been frozen.
To that finish in December 2016, Deese filed go well with in opposition to VX Gateway alleging theft of $60 million.
Deese’s lawsuit cited the house owners of VX Gateway as Celia Dunlop and Timothy Mackay, then alleged Texas residents.
Sadly the lawsuit finally went nowhere and was dismissed in mid 2017.
Someday after MAPS collapsed, Dunlop and Mackay relocated to Malta. There, the Australian couple have apparently spent the final decade residing the great life in a property price hundreds of thousands.
That got here to an finish after it was revealed Polish authorities had quietly opened an investigation into VX Gateway.
The Polish investigation resulted in European arrest warrants issued in December 2024.
Polish authorities allege Celia Eileen Jane Dunlop and Timothy Alan Mackay, each 64, took
half in a prison organisation and utilizing a pyramid promoting scheme to defraud people.
The 2 allegedly defrauded roughly 432 folks to the tune of pound 238,603 [sic].
In February a Maltese Decide acknowledged the Polish arrest warrant and ordered Dunlop and Mackay’s extradition.
Dunlop and Mackay appealed the choice. Mackay’s enchantment was rejected in late March and he was ordered into custody pending extradition.
A choice on Dunlop’s enchantment stays pending.
Michael Deese was by no means delivered to justice and, to the very best of my data, is a US resident residing in Texas. It’s unclear Deese was an individual of curiosity within the Polish investigation.
BehindMLM will attempt to monitor Dunlop’s and Mackay’s proceedings however European MLM prison circumstances are notoriously troublesome for us to report on.
That is primarily resulting from language-barriers and privateness legal guidelines that defend scammers while leaving customers at nighttime.
For what it’s price I did attempt to suss out and native Polish reporting on the VX Gateway case however didn’t discover something.