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Prevention Plus Minuses World Record Ticker Spam

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2003 01:14 AM

Jan 29, 2003 (financialwire.net via COMTEX) -- (FinancialWire) Guinness Book of World Records, take note. A January 17 press release by Integrity Securities on behalf of their clients FreeStar (OTCBB: FSTI) and Sionix (OTCBB: SINX).apparently was coded in such a way as to ticker spam somewhere between 4,200 and 5,300 OTC Bulletin Board companies - all in a first paragraph that was 23 printed pages long, perhaps itself a dubious achievement of sorts This release's timing coincided with another effort for a large number of companies that have been linked with various efforts to combat naked shorting - GeneMax (OTCBB: GMXX), Ten Stix Inc. (OTCBB: TNTI), BlueBook International Holding Co. (OTCBB: BBIC), MidasTrade.com (OTCBB: MIDS), MSM Jewelry Corp. (OTCBB: MSMJ) and Make Your Move Inc. (OTCBB: MKMV), all of which have alreaded exited the DTC, and companies that have said that they are or are considering exiting DTC: Reeds Holdings Corp. (OTCBB: RDHC). Nutra Pharma Corp. (OTCBB: NPHC), Critical Home Care Inc. (OTCBB: CCLH), Hadro Resources Inc. (OTCBB: HDRS), Jag Media Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: JGMHA), InternationalBioChemical Industries Inc. (OTCBB: IBCL), SunComm Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: STEH), Bentley Communications Corp. (OTCBB: BTLY), Nutek Inc. (OTCBB: NUTK), ITIS Holding (OTCBB: ITHH), Environmental Products & Technologies (OTC: EPTC) and Edgetech Services (OTCBB: EDGH).

In any event, exception was taken by at least one of the companies in the 24-page release, Accident Prevention Plus, Inc. (OTCBB: ACPL) which has now issued a press release to deny any association with Integrity or its author, Matthew Marcus, or that it "was attempting to become or already is a 'certificate only' company and was denied by DTC."

Jennifer Swanson, CFO, said, "This is just another attempt to induce short selling against our and many other companies. These statements made referring to our company were inaccurate and I have contacted the author to demand a retraction and apology.

"Our management has always believed that the road to fighting the short sellers is not through smoke and

mirrors but by the development and marketing of our products and increasing our revenues, which from our last release the investors can see we have made great strides and our direction is prosperous. Unfortunately, it seems to be impossible to monitor and analyze all information that is put out on various OTCBB companies by these individuals, but, as in this case, when we are able to catch it we intend to fight it and use any and all resources to rectify these situations. We will never get rid of the short sellers but we will

fight them tooth and nail."

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