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TelexFree

Fraud / TelecommunicationsUSAClosed 2014

Total Raised

Undisclosed

Peak Valuation

Undisclosed

Employees

Year Collapsed

2014

Business model

Marketed as a VoIP internet phone service with a multi-level marketing recruitment structure, promising returns for recruiting new members rather than for any real product sales.

In brief

Disguised one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history as a legitimate internet telephone company, promising members returns from a multi-level recruitment structure while claiming to sell VoIP services that had minimal real revenue behind them. US and Brazilian regulators identif…

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Key facts

Founded
2012
Closed
2014
Headquarters
Marlborough, USA
Industry
Fraud / Telecommunications
Employees
Revenue
Undisclosed

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