Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: kaufman@polya.stanford.edu (Marc T. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: COCOTs as an investment Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 89 16:29:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Reply-To: "Marc T. Kaufman" Organization: Stanford University Lines: 13 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 113, message 4 of 8 A boiler-room investment group called to offer my wife a sure-fire investment, with 35% annual return -- GUARANTEED! ...in the form of secured corporate notes in U.S. Fiber-Line, who are supposed to be in the AOS and COCOT business. ---I knew a guy once, who was so ticked off that a door-to-door salesman sold him a set of encyclopedias, that he went to work for the company and sold encyclopedias himself until he had recouped his losses.--- If you can't lick 'em, join 'em? Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)