According to Detective-Sargeant Andrew Smith of Police of Jersey, when TelexFree reps learned that the local police is already aware of them, a recruitment seminar scheduled was abruptly cancelled, as reported by Globo:
"When they learned that we knew, they canceled the meeting," says Andrew Smith, Detective Sergeant of Police of Jersey, the iG . "We know that this is a fraud, a scam."
According to Smith, representatives of Telexfree from abroad were expected for the event. The police declined to disclose the names, and denied that they were Carlos Costa, Carlos Wanzeler, James Merrill and Steve Labriola, business leaders who participated in a company cruise in Brazil in December 2013.