Billion Dollar Fraud Goes Viral

American Greed Podcast by CNBC

Sep 8, 202600:37:42Society & Culture

Promising enormous returns on a "work from home" opportunity selling their TelexFree phone service, Carlos Wanzeler and James Merrill entice close to one million people around the world to spend, and then lose an extraor...

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