Koscot: The Interplanetary Scam | #AntiMLM

Go to to stay fully informed and think critically about what’s happening around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. In 1967, former sewing machine salesman Glenn W. Turner started a multilevel marketing company, Koscot Interplanetary, that took America by storm in the next few years and made him a very rich man…for a short time. In reality, Koscot and its sister company, Dare to be Great!, Inc., were among the most brazen and audacious pyramid schemes in American history, bilking nearly $50 million out of tens of thousands of victims. This is the incredible story of those scams and their larger-than-life mastermind, Glenn Turner, whose influence on the MLM industry down to the present day can’t be overestimated. Sources for this video include: Rudy Maxa, Dare to be Great (New York: Morrow, 1977); Kenneth Michael Robinson, The Great American Mail-Fraud Trial (New York: Nash Publishing, 1976); Harry M. Cochran, Jr., “Dare to be Great, Inc.!: A Case Study of Pyramid Sales Plan Regulation,” Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 33, 678 (1972); Robert L. FitzPatrick, Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing (Charlotte, NC: FitzPatrick Management, 2020); Robert Mark Ihrig & Susan Jean Butherus Ihrig, Million Dollar Party: A Restaurant Memoir (Dog Ear Publishing, 2018); Glenn W. Turner, All Things Are Possible (Xulon Press, 2006); In re Koscot Interplanetary, Inc., et al., 86 FTC 1106 (1975); Roger Roy, “Glenn Turner—Fresh Out of Luck” (and related articles), The Orlando Sentinel, August 17, 1987, A1-A6; Thomas Thompson, “Dare to be Great!”, Life Magazine, May 28, 1971, 68-78; Troy Herring, “Glenn Turner’s Castle,” West Orange Times, January 18, 2018 (); Helaine Olen, “This all-but-forgotten con man sold America on ‘fake it till you make it,’” Washington Post, February 27, 2023, ; State ex Rel. Corbin v. Challenge, Inc., 725 727 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1986); numerous news articles, especially from the Orlando Sentinel, Orlando Evening Star and Miami Herald, accessed through . William Penn Patrick and the John Birch Society: Article on the long fraudulent career of Napoleon Hill: A modern (2016) admirer of Glenn W. Turner, with photos from late in his life: Life After MLM Podcast: My website: My Ko-fi: My blog: Chapters: 00:00-11:42: The Flying Salesman 11:42-30:03: The World of Tomorrow 30:03-46:43: Glenn W. Turner 46:43-1:06:47: Dare to be Great! 1:06:47-1:16:23: The Great Pyramid 1:16:23-1:31:46: Enemy at the Gates 1:31:46-1:39:39: The First Trial 1:39:39-1:44:30: The Second Trial 1:44:30-1:54:49: The Aftermath 1:54:49-2:03:25: Conclusion