{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"TelexFree: The $1.76 Billion Pyramid Hidden in a VOIP Business","description":"Picture this: you walk into a room full of hopeful faces, each believing they’re on the ground floor of the next big thing. But behind the sales pitch, something far bigger—and far more dangerous—is quietly taking shape.\r\n\r\nWhat does it take to turn an ordinary product into the engine of a billion-dollar fraud? Before TelexFree became a name whispered in courtrooms and splashed across headlines, it started as an idea—a way to transform the act of joining into proof that the system was real. The world after the two thousand eight financial crisis was hungry for new opportunity. Trust in banks was low, and people were looking for something that felt safer, more direct, more modern. Into that gap stepped TelexFree, a Florida-based company with a story just plausible enough to catch fire, especially in Brazil’s fast-growing market for internet telephony.\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 31 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/telexfree","author_name":"The Archive Network"}