iFreeX pyramid scheme warning issued by Massachusetts
A few days prior to our downtime, BehindMLM published a review of iFreeX.
Advertised as “the next TelexFree”, iFreeX are planning on charging affiliates monthly fees and in turn paying them recruitment commissions and shares in monthly revenue pools.
Whether or not regulators in Massachusetts read the review is unclear. Not even a week after it was published however, Secretary of State William F. Galvin issued a public warning:
Secretary of State William F. Galvin is warning people being asked to invest in iFreex to be wary. Complaints have been made to the state’s Securities Division against Sanderley Rodrigues de Vasconcelos, also known as Sann Rodrigues, who state officials said was once a top promoter for TelexFREE.
iFreex appears to have many of the same characteristics as other pyramid schemes the Securities Division has recently brought actions against, including Wings, TelexFREE and WCM777
Starting around mid-September, Rodrigues began heavily advertising iFreeX on his Facebook wall.
In addition to claiming that “only god” could shut iFreeX down, Rodrigues also boasted of a prelaunch downline running into the thousands.
Rodrigues last Facebook post however is dated September 29th, with nothing published since. Whether or not regulators have been in contact with him is unclear.
Also unclear is Rodrigues current whereabouts, with a report from the Telegram citing Rodrigues as a ‘former Revere resident’. Revere being a city up in the northern end of the state.
Whether or not that means Rodrigues has fled Massachusetts (or indeed the US) is not clarified.
With the management structure of iFreeX being kept under wraps, there’s strong implications that Rodrigues is either directly or indirectly involved in the running of the scheme.
Stay tuned…
It may helped, though I know of some Brazilians who have been feeding the SEC and the Boston Globe with everything Sann Rodrigues has been publishing regarding iFreex.
Sann Rodrigues is just publicly laughing at everyone’s face and defying authorities in a complete “catch me if you can” style.
That should not go unpunished.
Stockphoto, of course.
NOLINK://www.canstockphoto.com.br/retrato-bonito-jovem-mulher-segurando-9965926.html
And very Brazilian. It’s the ONLY website with it. It’s clear the photo was DONE BY a Brazilian.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaitaminute… Rodrigues is Brazilian… that stock image site is Brazilian…
OMG Illuminati confirmed.
Hi, I have a msg to Sann.
Sann, from now on, Mr Willian Galvin is your God.
He is the one closing your harmful deals.
Now you should pray for him to be Mercyful…
I also like the fact of him using his own ass on the promoting videos. No more ‘oranges’ (straw men) to receive the bullets.
Funny, Oz. I’m just saying that it’s clear a Brazilian did the ad for iFreeX. If it’s American he’d probably use an American stock photo.
Oh I agree. The question is from which hidey-hole is Rodrigues running it from? And does he have Wanzeler and Costa on board too…
Well, the “company” website, as Oz already pointed out, contains no information about who runs it and from where. They’re probably working on taking (downloading) some nice photos of some nice office with some nice people inside.
As for Costa and Wanzeler, being Costa’s plan to get elected almost dead in the water and Wanzeler as hidden as a vampire durind midday, one can only guess they are involved or even are the owners of this new scam.
Interesting read over at Patrick Pretty:
Rodrigues’ current whereabouts are “unknown”.
(of course he’s hiding with Wanzeler and Costa in the batcave)
http://patrickpretty.com/2014/10/03/new-england-public-radio-secretary-galvin-talks-telexfree-sann-rodrigues-and-ifreex-tells-station-accused-hucksters-current-wherabouts-unknown/
Just so you guys know, Carlos Costa’s election is dead in the water. He did not win the election for congressman, neither did Aerci (the guy in chains) and some others.
Maybe now we’ll watch Costa unveil his new “plan”. Or maybe he’ll dive head first into iFreeX scam.
@Diego
Haaaalleeeelooooo ya!
Just another quick update about Brazilian elections results: NONE, and I said NONE of the candidates who used the MLM as a campaign platform were elected.
That, for me, is a huge victory in itself. At least we should stop seeing politicians supporting such schemes after knowing by facts that there’s nothing good comming from them, not even (zombies’) votes.
11.635 0,65% Votes for Carlos Costa of 1.794.470 total valid votes in his state (ES):
g1.globo.com/politica/eleicoes/2014/es/apuracao-votos.html
Yeah… Costa said he would make a new “record” in number of votes… There’s his record… LOL.
He said in Espirito Santo state there are 52,000 TF promoters and he was counting every single one would bring another 5 people to vote for him.
Well… Seems like not everyone is as stupid as they used to be.
Update: Sann Rodrigues has removed all iFreeX promotional material from his Facebook profile.
His timeline has now been rolled back to September 14th.
No official word as to what went down.
edit: His iFreeX YouTube promos have also been wiped.
This ifreex.tv is still working. In that video he is speaking Spanish.