January 20, 2004

Dear Sir or Madam,

Fraudulent e-mail messages have been appeared to be distributed by unknown parties by fraudulently using the name of JGC CORPORATION "jgc.co.jp" on a worldwide scale.

Please be notified that the fraudulent e-mail messages were neither written nor sent by JGC CORPORATION. We have no involvement in this matter.

The sender of the mails was addressed as "xxxxxx@jgc.co.jp", "webmaster@jgc.co.jp".

" xxxxxx" part seems to be composed with random numbers with upper-and lower-case English letters and numerals. The digits also were at random.

For further inquiry, please contact us at:
Phone: 81-45-682-8027
Fax:81-45-682-1112

Sincerely,

JGC CORPORATION