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Espion Gross Sales in the First Quarter up 122% Year Over Year: Grows Sales Team

Email security appliance maker Espion International, Inc. (OTC: EPLJ) is pleased to announce that gross sales in the quarter grew by 122% year over year. Gross margins continued to exceed 70%. Sales of the new Interceptor with [MX]Lock Encryption led the sales increase. The Espion Interceptor offers versatile anti-spam, anti-virus, and intrusion blocking devices, and now uses advanced encryption technology to deliver sensitive information securely and confidentially, ensuring secure transmission of financial records as well as meeting new government regulations (HIPAA) protecting personal health information.

Mr. Barry Dolan has also joined Espion to lead business development and manage channel partner sales. Mr. Dolan has over twenty years of experience building technology sales teams, having first joined Force Computers in 1984, where he had worldwide responsibility for business development for the organization that included direct sales in the U.S., Germany, the U.K., France, Sweden and Japan. After building the sales team to over 120 employees, Mr. Dolan assisted in the sale of Force to Solectron in 1996. Mr. Dolan then co-founded Channel Access, LLC, which provided a highly technical sales, marketing and systems integration force for leading manufacturers in the embedded computer space. Mr. Dolan helped achieve over $16 million in sales in the Channel Access's first two years while building relationships with many Value Added Reseller and Channel Partners.

"Our revenue growth shows the market's need for secure, encrypted email," said Drew Burdsall, Espion's CEO and Founder. Mr. Burdsall continued, "This was the first quarter we offered the [MX]Lock with encryption appliance and the response was outstanding. To now have someone with Barry's experience helping to build the sales force and work with our partner, Marketlink Technologies, LLC (www.marketlinktech.com), we are very optimistic about Espion's immediate growth."

"Espion offers a unique product," stated Barry Dolan, "and they are the only email gateway company that, using an artificial intelligence 'brain,' monitors both inbound and outbound message flow. They provide not only a full suite of email security features, but an outbound filter which is being applied to HIPAA compliance very effectively, and at a 50% lower cost than most of their competitors. I am very proud to be a part of this growing organization, and I am looking forward to taking it to the next level!"

About Espion International, Inc.

Espion International, Inc., a Costa Mesa, CA-based company with Research and Development located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a leader in the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) based solutions for email gateway and network security. The A.I. "brain" boosts the performance of the Espion product range, which offers appliances that are easy to install for organizations from five to five million users, providing email gateway security, anti-spam and secure, encrypted email. For more information visit Espion's web page, www.espionintl.com.

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