iFreeX payment problems, Sann Rodrigues on the run?
Last we checked in with iFreeX, it was to report the raiding of a promotional event by Brazilian police.
Rodrigues and a fellow iFreeX ringleader were rounded up and further questioned, with Rodrigues later playing down the event on his Facebook page.
This despite the fact that officers who raided the event belonging to the GAEP, a specialized division who assist the police department’s criminal investigation division.
Now it seems things might have caught up with Rodrigues, amidst reports iFreeX have stopped paying affiliates and Rodrigues himself is on the run.
In a message to its affiliates recently published in the company’s backoffice system, iFreeX advise
all visa cards will be replaced by International Mastercard cards at no cost to the affiliate.
Your card will be sent to your address registered in 2PAYNET.
2PayNet are a Hong Kong based company founded in 1999. As per their website,
We are a comprehensive international payment solution provider. We are actively involved in providing web-based commission and bonus distribution.
Schemes like iFreeX, who operate in the midst of the MLM underbelly, have increasingly been turning to Chinese banking channels to avoid western financial regulations (typically pertaining to money laundering).
Who owns 2PayNet is unclear, as there is no information about company ownership on the 2PayNet website.
Additionally the 2PayNet website domain was registered on the 22nd of July 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.
iFreeX claim that they will start making payments to their affiliates through 2PayNet from March 12th.
The move comes after Brazilian processor Alelo purportedly suspended iFreeX’s payment processor account with them. Whether or not iFreeX funds were frozen as a result of the suspension is unclear.
What is clear though is that the recent police raid might have resulted in difficulties sourcing and maintaining payment processing services in Brazil.
This ties into claims about Sann Rodrigues, iFreeX’s main promotional driving force.
As with 2PayNet, who owns iFreeX is unclear. Rodrigues (right) is pretty much the lone face of the company, but denies he owns it. Yet at the same time, Rodrigues has also thus far failed to disclose who does.
iFreeX affiliates who have asked Rodrigues who owns the company have purportedly been told “you do”.
Reports out of Brazil suggest that following the raid on the iFreeX event, Rodrigues was barred from leaving Brazil.
Perhaps sensing pending further action for authorities, Rodrigues has now apparently fled Brazil and returned to the US.
Although unconfirmed at this stage, the reports are supported by a web-conference Rodrigues recently held, in which ‘a clearly very upset Sann says he’s in the US because “there’s no justice in Brazil”‘.
The move back to the US is interesting because there, and one of the main reasons he initially left the US, Rodrigues is under an injunction prohibiting him from engaging in fraud.
The injunction is part of the SEC’s civil case against TelexFree, a $1.8 billion dollar Ponzi scheme Rodrigues earned at least $3 million dollars in.
Rodrigues is named as one of the defendants in the SEC’s lawsuit.
Unable to promote pyramid schemes from within the US, Rodrigues fled to Brazil where he began promoting iFreeX. Over the past six months or so, Rodrigues has been travelling around Brazil and Portugal heavily promoting the scheme.
At the time of publication, Rodrigues was still actively promoting iFreeX on his Facebook account.
Stay tuned as we keep an eye out for any further developments…
Thanks to the Brazilian and Portuguese BehindMLM readers who helped with putting all the tidbits together for this report.
It’s so bizarre how these people will openly promote/run fraud schemes using their real names, faces and addresses, steal millions of dollars and then expect that nothing bad will happen to them.
Like the police are just going to ignore you after you’ve made yourself a huge target and gotten hundreds of complaints, and probably had banks report you for money laundering. And then they have no plan for when the authorities make their move.
It’s mind boggling.
Fittipaldi in photo shoot in the same place and time by the fans: Sann Rodrigues (Telexfree and current ifreex) and Daniel Fernendez Rojo Filho (DFRF Enterprises)
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there are two guys who apparently has no connection. or at least, not until now had. Daniel Son Sann and Rodrigues.
Daniel seems to have connections with Mexican cartel and money laundering suspicions through financial pyramids. Sann Rodrigues needs no introduction.
Both are no friends on facebook, never cited a the name of the other, nor were never photographed together and never suspected that if they knew. today.
On January 6 at a meeting in Orlando, Florida, were some rogue of the Dominican republic and other countries of Spanish language. On that day were all at the Grand hotel Bohemian.
Em any photos of the event the sann Roberts appears. But neither has photo or any quotation or anything else that you connect, or to show that they were there. But one of those who was present was the world champion formula one, Emerson Fittipaldi.
And the two rogue Sann and Daniel on celebrity ended up making photo with the champion separately … and before the dazzle eventually show us that both connects.
Note the attached photo. was taken in the same place the same day, the same time.
As daniel must financier history pyramids, and sann lives only pyramids, it was clear that they met and in my opinion the Daniel is funding the Ifreex of Sann pyramid.
They both want to get close to celebrities. But then, lots of scams want to play fast and loose with celebrities.
Phil Ming Xu of WCM777 got close to Tesla CFO and Steve “The Woz” Wozniak for selfies. Another Brazilian scam out of Miami gotten selfies with Will Smith. GetEasy apparently paid for “Paris Hilton DJ” hooplas for the PR value.
They want the pictures to validate themselves and convince others. It’s vanity… but calculated vanity as facade.
Hello, Oz.
You may also check registration information using the Brazilian Registro.Br Whois.
For domains ending in .BR, it’ll provide the name and tax ID of the person in charge.
Vanity. Read up on Kevin Trudeau. Started defrauding people in his teens, have no guilty conscience at all. Claimed “I had to commit credit card fraud because the credit card companies was not fair to me to cancel my credit after one missed payment” and that sort of facepalm logic.
Joined MLM, star salesman, but made promises like “free cruise” that cost the company big $$$. Then decided he’ll start making crap TV infomercials pushing junk with bogus claims.
FTC caught him so he went to write bogus books instead, i.e. “Natural cures” with not a single natural cure inside. Then filmed more TV infomercials where he gets “interviewed” for this book. You can read the rest on Wikipedia or such.
Rodriguez was in Orlando FL Sunday 03-01-15
then he fled Brazil for some neighboring country using the US passport
Rodrigues has ordered his minions to set their Facebook profiles to “private” and to unfriend anyone who looks suspicious.
They, including Sann himself, have also started to remove Youtube videos and channels.
It seems the “conceal evidence” season is opened, folks.
Except Google has backups, and can be requested via subpoenas.
The fact they’ve been made private will be used against them. Muahahahahaha.
AFAIK iFreeX’s payment processor problems are still not resolved.
As per a 6th of May Facebook update from Sann Rodrigues (auto-translate is sketchy)
As I’m understanding, after Alelo gave them the boot, 2PayNet (some dodgy-looking processor out of Hong Kong) has thus far failed to find a bank to handle iFreeX funds.
They’re apparently testing a new bank (yeah right, how long does that take?), with “new” cards being promised (transferring the old Alelo ones appears to be a hassle).
Underscoring all of this of course is the fact that if iFreeX was even remotely legit, they’d have no problems securing the services of a reliable payment processor.
Oh and as of May 2015, Rodrigues still maintains he’s not involved in running iFreeX:
Of course he doesn’t disclose who he’s “affiliated” with (read: Who exactly is purportedly running the company.)
Finally, in response to anyone who dares to challenge Rodrigues or question his conduct on Facebook, he states he will “just delete and block” them.
But remember, iFreeX is totally not a scam being run by Sann Rodrigues.
Nothing suss…