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Wednesday, 05/20/2020 5:36:08 PM

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:36:08 PM

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From OTC Markets regarding VGTL promotion:
https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/VGTL/overview

Fraudulent Promotional Campaign

We believe stock promotion is misleading and manipulative when information is publicly disseminated to disrupt the efficient market pricing of a security. Misleading promotional materials often employ false or baseless claims, omit material information, exaggerate an issuer’s future potential, or predict unrealistic price targets. Fraudulent promotional campaigns disseminate misleading information in a variety of manners, including e-mails, newsletters, social media outlets, press releases, videos, telephone calls, and/or hard mailers.

VGTL characteristics of misleading and manipulative promotion:
• Fail to clearly identify the sponsor of the promotion, and/or the promotion is sponsored or paid for by anonymous, unidentifiable 3rd parties
• Typically focus on a company’s stock rather than its underlying business
• Use highly speculative language. Materials often rely on grandiose numbers and figures related to the target company’s industry, business model, financial results, or business developments
• Tout performance or profit potential of an issuer’s security with unsupported or exaggerated statements about the stock price or its anticipated trajectory
• Make unreasonable claims pertaining to an issuer’s operations
• Suggest a promise of a specific future performance of the stock or profit to investors
• Provide little or no factual information about the company, omit material information
• Urge the investor to take action immediately as not to miss out on a great opportunity OTC Markets Group Inc.
• Fail to provide details or disclosures about the risk associated with the issuers security Anonymous paid promotion is often associated with unregulated parties or “financiers” that have acquired securities in private market transactions and wish to generate demand so they can sell their shares in the public markets at inflated prices