That was Les Price's old scam!
And just to show you what a small world it is in the "naked short seller" scam universe, one of his cohorts was this clown Russell Godwin who sort of took over (not that there was anything to take over) while Les was being prosecuted as part of the "Bermuda Short" mess.
Russ Godwin, in turn, is the principal of RGM Communications... the outfit that helps Dave Patch with his bogus investigatethesec.com website.
Of course, Price and Godwin ended up jamming each other and filing multi-million lawsuits against each other. So much for honor among thieves.
"The penny stock investor may be the most dangerous creature in the investment world, at least to himself.[...]His hypocrisy becomes most apparent when he then blames his losses on the greed of others." Robert C. Dugan, Director - JRM Capital