TelexFree Inc

BULLETIN:  (11th Update 2:35 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) The United States’ trustee who serves the region (Nevada) in which TelexFree’s bankruptcy case was filed on April 13 has alleged there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that “criminal conduct” occurred at TelexFree. Trustee Tracy Hope Davis, who works for a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (19th Update 5:45 p.m. ET U.S.A.) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against the alleged TelexFree pyramid scheme and a federal judge has granted an asset freeze. TelexFree was a sham to mask an investment scheme known as “AdCentral” in which affiliates were told they could […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (11th update 3:03 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) The state of Massachusetts has alleged that TelexFree is a “massive” Ponzi- and pyramid scheme that gathered more than $1.2 billion and targeted the Brazilian community. In alleged dollar volume, TelexFree appears to be at approximately the same level of the epic Scott Rothstein […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (6th update 2:36 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) TelexFree LLC and “certain of its subsidiaries and affiliates” have filed for bankruptcy in Nevada, the firm said in a statement this morning. In its statement, the company did not directly identify the other TelexFree firms involved in the filing. A link in the […]

UPDATED 9:24 A.M. EDT (MARCH 22 U.S.A.) TelexFree, alleged to be a pyramid scheme using a VOIP product as a front to mask an investment program, has been under investigation in Brazil since at least June 2013. There’s also an ongoing securities probe in Massachusetts. The government of Rwanda, meanwhile, has announced it booted a […]

The Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission has rejected a bid by TelexFree LLC to register as a telecommunications company. TelexFree LLC is not registered as a corporation in Washington state and therefore is ineligible to be registered as a telecommunications firm in the state, the commission said in a finding dated March 13. How […]

A document published on the website of the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission claims that TelexFree LLC has provided millions of dollars in loans to other TelexFree enterprises, including a Nevada entity known as TelexElectric LLLP. The loan sum was more than $2.022 million, according to the document. The business purpose of TelexElectric was […]

UPDATED 9:21 A.M. ET (FEB. 22, 2014 U.S.A.) As the PP Blog reported on July 4, 2013, TelexFree is using a shared office facility in Marlborough, Mass. Promoters of TelexFree, alleged in Brazil to be a massive pyramid scheme that may be using a VOIP product as a front, have shown photos of TelexFree President […]

The judge presiding over elements of the TelexFree pyramid-scheme case in the Brazilian state of Acre again has been threatened with death and a police investigation is under way, according to Globo.com. Here is the Sept. 12 story in Portuguese. He is an English translation by Google Translate. It is the second time the judge […]

**[UNCONFIRMED]** A report in Brazilian media translated by Google Translate from Portuguese to English says that prosecutors in Brazil have asked a U.S. court to prevent new members from joining TelexFree and to block the accounts of TelexFree figures Carlos Wanzeler, James Merrill, Carlos Costa and Lyvia Wanzeler. The PP Blog could not immediately confirm […]

UPDATED 6:23 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) There are at least three reports in Brazilian media today that say TelexFree has blocked members’ access to their back offices. A company attorney said the blockages were necessary because hackers had attempted an intrusion, according to reports in Portuguese translated to English by Google Translate. Here is a link […]