$1,000 Reward Offered for Information Leading to Successful Prosecution Against Persons Who Sent Illegal Junk Faxes Touting Wellstone Filters Inc.

May 27, 2005 -- A $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the successful civil and/or criminal prosecution of the persons responsible for illegal junk faxes promoting Wellstone Filters, Inc. stock.

The unsolicited faxes are a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, according to Christine Baker of junkfaxsuit.info, and resulted in artificially high share prices in Wellstone Filters’ stock in 2004.

The TCPA entitles recipients of unsolicited faxes to minimum statutory damages of $500 per junk fax with awards up to $4,500 per fax due to willful and numerous violations, she said.

After receiving countless unsolicited faxes, Ms. Baker filed suit against Wellstone Filters, its CEO Learned J. Hand and others for violations of the TCPA on Oct. 5, 2004, in Kingman, Arizona, Superior Court, CV-04-915.

As her deadline to serve the defendants approached, Ms. Baker called Wellstone Filters twice and she spoke with Rosanne Baack, Public Relations, about the junk faxes. Ms. Baack acknowledged that they were aware of the fax promotions and she promised a call by attorney Jehu Hand. When she did not receive the promised call, Ms. Baker had Wellstone Filters served.

Wellstone Filters retained attorney Douglas Irish, partner at Lewis and Roca in Phoenix. He contacted Ms. Baker and she offered to dismiss Wellstone if its CEO Learned J. Hand provided a notarized affidavit stating that nobody at Wellstone was involved with or profited from the illegal fax promotions. Ms. Baker also requested the results of the company's internal investigation and all available information about the identity of the junk faxers.

The Wellstone Filters response was a motion for summary judgment with a declaration by CEO Hand, stating he did not order the faxes "nor did any other person connected with or related to Wellstone Filters, Inc., and I would be in a position to know if any such person had done so.”

Ms. Baker agrees that as CEO of Wellstone Filters, Mr. Hand is in a position to know who sent the unsolicited faxes for over one year. The Wellstone Filters' shares were pumped to record highs of $1.60 in December 2004 and traded around $.41 on May 24, 2005, according to Pink Sheets. For current quotes please check http://www.pinksheets.com/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=WLSF or http://otcbb.com/.

The Wellstone Filters officers should have reported the unauthorized promotions to the SEC for investigation and to possibly halt trading, Ms. Baker said. The stock tout junk faxes were sent to millions of people with little or no trading experience, she added.

Links to the court filings and some of Ms. Baker's research are posted at http://fight-back.us/forum/index.php?showtopic=744 and she strongly recommends that potential investors review the filings with the SEC at http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar PRIOR to investing in any company. It is astounding how the SEC filings differ from the company press releases and faxed or e-mailed stock touts, she said.

Wellstone Filters management is not cooperating at all, Ms. Baker said, and she agreed to dismiss Wellstone Filters because she does not have the legal skills and resources to successfully litigate that as the beneficiary of the illegal promotions and because the company apparently failed to try to stop the illegal junk fax promotions, Wellstone Filters and its officers are liable for the faxes.

Ms. Baker is offering a $1,000 cash reward for information leading to the successful civil and/or criminal prosecution of the persons responsible for the illegal junk fax promotions.

Usually quite a few people are involved with the faxing and trading, she said, and apparently several fax broadcasters were hired for the Wellstone Filters promotions, possibly on behalf of several shareholders who independently manipulated the market. This reward will be available until Dec. 31, 2005. More details are posted at http://fight-back.us/forum/index.php?showtopic=747.

Ms. Baker says an excellent primer on penny stock fraud is junk fax expert Steve Kirsch's "Anatomy of Stock Fraud" at http://www.junkfax.org/fax/profiles/wsp/wsp.htm.
Mr. Kirsch's research lead to the Feb. 14, 2005 SEC suit against some of the persons involved, including Concorde America (CNDD) president Hartley Lord. Details are in the SEC litigation release "Court Freezes Assets of Penny Stock Pump and Dumpers. Sec Files Suit against Eight Defendants in Pink Sheet Stock Manipulation" at http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr19085.htm.

It is very important that junk faxes are saved as it is quite possible that substantial settlements become available years later, Ms. Baker said.

The Indiana junk fax class action Kenro, Inc. v. APO Health, Inc., No 49D12-0101-CP-000016 (Ind. Super. Nov. 5, 2001), was settled for $4.5 million and the judge recently awarded $535,000 to charities because these funds remained unclaimed.

The junk fax class action against Hooters Restaurants resulted in an $11.9 million verdict for the recipients of 7,825 unsolicited faxes. Nicholson v. Hooters of Augusta, No. 95RCCV616 (Richmond Super. March 21, 2001) http://www.keytlaw.com/faxes/hooterscase.htm

For more information about junk faxes please visit Ms. Baker's web sites:

- http://junkfaxsuit.info
- http://fight-back.us/forum/index.php?s=&showforum=17

Congress is currently considering legislation legalizing most unsolicited faxes. If you own a business and you oppose junk faxes, please visit http://junkfax.org/fax/action/RegisterCompanyjfpa.html.