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To: hoffy who wrote (2994)	2/16/1999 10:33:00 PM
From: Stock Watcher	Respond to of 52051

Hoffy; GRPV; any scraps of information ? please post; sounds exciting sw

To: hoffy who wrote (2994)	2/16/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: hoffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52051

Just read this about GRPV and this tells you what is going on: This could be huge Tuesday February 16, 8:17 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Group V to Become Part of the Internet Marketing Consortium and to Receive 80,000,000 Hits Starting This Month SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999--National Pools Corporation to Offer Virtual HitLoTTo® Product on Retail Website to International Players. Group V Corporation (GRPV), and CPNM/Internet Marketing Consortium announced today an alliance between the two firms to jointly promote and market the Company's new retail website's virtual HitLoTTo product. The site is expected to be available within eight weeks and will be promoted through a series of multimedia efforts. ''Our goal is to drive 80 million hits in potential retail activity to Group V's new commerce web site, through CPNM's network of 10 Internet retail affiliate programs,'' said Beryl Wolk, President of CPNM. Wolk added that CPNM recently announced a joint venture with leading web retailers. Group V also announced the availability of their ''play only'' virtual HitLoTTo Club Card, opening international access for the product. ''The marriage of our HitLoTTo Card and the World Wide Web will allow lottery players all over the world to play HitLoTTo from the convenience of their computers,'' said Joseph Monterosso, Chairman and President of Group V. ''Web commerce has allowed us to open the international market for HitLoTTo.'' Monterosso said Group V had been developing the international lottery product for some time. ''We're confident that HitLoTTo will become the standard for lottery players worldwide with this opportunity to participate in the most exciting US State lotteries,'' he said. The HitLoTTo Club Card is produced by Group V subsidiary National Pools Corporation (NPC). Marketed as ''The Phone Card That Can Make You Rich,'' with the HitLoTTo Club Card, anyone can play all the big U.S. lottery jackpots, including Powerball, from the convenience of their telephone or computer. NPC is the only company to market a pre-paid phone card with free lottery play as a purchase incentive. Group V Corporation (a publicly traded company OTC:GRPV) is a diversified telecommunications company specializing in some of the most profitable market segments including: one-plus and toll-free long distance, and pre-paid phone card products. Group V has created a network of complementary companies, many of which offer products and services of their own, many of which market, develop or deliver the products of companies within the Group V family.