Dow quickly issued a statement saying that they had no employee by that name—that he was an impostor, not affiliated with Dow, and that his claims were a hoax.
== Potegavščina sklada za poravnavo ==Na dvajseto obletnico nesreče, 3.decembra 2004, je bil nek moški z imenom Jude Finisterra, ki je trdil da je predstavnik za Dowa, intervjujan na BBC World News.