[Coco] Rick Cooper - TCN

[Steve Ostrom]

I was cataloging one of my Coco bins today, and came across a letter that 
made me smile.  It was from Rick Cooper, dated September 16, 1996, and sent 
to his CFDM "friends".  It was a pyramid scheme.  The first line says, "If 
you could invest just $100 and in 12 months get a return of $10,000, would 
you do it?"  The scheme was called "TCN", which stood for "Tele-Card 
Network".  Your $100 buys you a $60 international calling card with 60 units 
of time.  The other $40 was for administration fees, and bought you into 
TCN.  You needed to sell the idea to two other people, then "qualify for 
bonuses for life".

I'm curious if others on the list remembers this letter, or actually got 
involved.  If you did, how did it go for you?  His letter was accompanied by 
a 6 page info sheet, with pictures of the pyramid and how it worked.  I'm 
also curious if this just died out, or some legal action came out of it.

--- Steve ---