Investor alert: Barclays Group Financial Inc.

Barclays Group Financial Inc. is not authorised by Finansinspektionen
(the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) and is therefore not
entitled to provide financial services.

Barclays Group Financial Inc. has a website (www.bfinancialgrp.us)
using the following address: 200 Park Avenue New York NY 10166.

Barclays Group Financial Inc.'s representatives contact investors by
telephone and offer to buy their holdings of shares in American OTC
companies. However, the investor must first pay a fee in advance,
"de-restriction fee". This is an advance fee fraud scheme.