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The following data was submitted to TrixiePixieGraphics as part of an online order. Some of the data shown below may not have been verified as authentic. All documentation in all disputes and inquiries filed against TrixiePixie-Graphics are posted publicly, whether we win the case, or lose it.

This is a case of fraudulent use of a Paypal account. By whom? We're not yet sure! But we find it hard to believe that people are SO STUPID as to think we don't run security checks on these orders, and when they come up bogus, we'll spend YEARS putting these bottom-feeders in jail. We have more documentation in this case than in most. This order had not been printed nor shipped, so this is a win for us, and a big loss for the crooks. What DO we know FOR SURE in this case? We know the location of person who placed the order, and the location of the person who claims the order was placed by someone fraudulently using their Paypal account, are one and the same. How do we know this? By tracing IP addresses, and because Paypal investigated the case and came to the very same conclusion. Here's the scoop on this case to date:

We received the order shown below way back in April of '09. The order was placed through a Paypal account owned by one Joanna Samford. We immediately prepared a shipping label and sent the customer a tracking number. This may have indicated to the customer that the order had shipped. In this particular case, there was a delay, and the order was scheduled to print and ship the following morning.

The following morning, before we could print and ship the product, we received notification from Paypal that the account holder, Joanna Samford, had contested the charge, saying she didn't place the order. The order had come in from an IP address which ultimately traced to a last jump-point of Lake Mary, FL.. Paypal hadn't given us enough information to look into the claim of fraud, so we emailed Paypal and asked for more data. two days later we received a message from Paypal stating that they had investigated the charge and the claim by the account holder that the charge was fraudulent, and had concluded that the purchase was, in fact, made by the account holder, and Paypal awarded us those funds. Paypal probably came to this conclusion based on IP address data; for instance, if the account holder communicated with Paypal using the same IP address that was used to place the order, then it's a slam-dunk for Paypal and an easy decision to award the funds back to us, which they did. At this point we weren't about to do business with this person even though our money had been refunded to us by PayPal, so we went into Paypal and manually refunded Joanna Samford's money and cancelled out the order. Obviously someone had tried to defraud us. Luckily we caught it before we lost any money or product other than time and labor. As in all such cases we posted the fraud attempt here in an effort to dissuade others who would try to defraud us and steal our money and/or products, and to help educate other businesses as to methods they might use themselves in their efforts to keep from being run into bankruptcy by the scammers and fraudsters of CyberSpace. Online fraud is THE single biggest threat to the digital economy of the world -- an economy which, if it lives, will eventually surpass all other forms of business. Our very talented First Amendment attorney keeps us out of trouble in these endeavors, even against the considerable wealth and influence of the likes of Hewlett Packard Corporation and countless others.

We could have easily prosecuted the fraudster, whoever that might have ultimately turned out to be, but since we weren't actually "out" anything except our time and patience and love for our fellow man, our interest in prosecution waned. We endure fraud attempts every single day. This one was soon forgotten in favor of far more serious crimes.

Weeks later we received a communication (many communications) from two individuals who claimed that Joanna Samford had been harassing one or both of them for months or years, and that this fiasco was another of her attempts to cause them grief. They asked for our records on the case. As in all such cases, we declined, but offered to forward such records to law enforcement or their attorney. At this point we were renewing our interest in the case and urged them to have their attorney or local law enforcement contact us. No such contact ever occurred, and this matter slipped downward on our list of priorities.

On 5-13-09 we received the following communication from someone identifying themselves as Joanna Samford. This communication traces back to the identical location that the original order was placed from:

Quote:

Date: 5.13.2009
IP: 32.179.103.65
Author: joanna samford
Name (normally hidden): joanna samford
Phone (normally hidden): 423-505-9117
Order # (normally hidden): 8525
City or Town (normally hidden): flintstone ga

This is a fraudulent pay pal purchase.I did not make it. Matt haugland and Anthony Hammon are being investigated for this crime. I have every intention of having my attorney look into this web page.You are accusing me before there is evidence. I am notifying the sheriffs office here in Walker county. Please remove page
Joanna Samford .

End Quote.

At this point we were getting angry. We honestly DO. NOT. CARE. which one of these people or groups is harassing or defrauding the other. We only care about who's defrauding US and wasting our time. At this point we only know the following FOR SURE:

(1): The order was placed by someone whose IP address through AT&T ultimately traced to Lake Mary, FL..

(2): The person who contacted us as shown above has an IP address through AT&T that ultimately traced to Lake Mary, FL..

(3): The person who Joanna Samford claims is setting her up has an IP address through COX that successfully traces back to a completely different state (Oklahoma). No proxies were detected.

This isn't conclusive proof of ANYTHING, but it begs the question: Exactly who DID try to cheat us way back in April when this original order was placed? Stop and ponder: The location and ISP of the person who filled out our personalization forms and placed this order through Paypal, and the location of the person who emailed us today and threatened us with legal and/or criminal action if we didn't remove this page, are ONE AND THE SAME. These are facts, not opinions. We also note that the folks Samford claims are "setting her up" were calm, rational, reasonable, and offered a great deal of detailed information to back up their claims, and offered many methods we could use to verify their identity and stories. On the other hand, the communication shown above from Samford is out-of-the-gate accusatory and threatening. Nowhere in ANY document have we accused Joanna Samford of ANYTHING (until now), yet she rocketed right off the starting plate accusing us of having done so and threatened us with her attorney and her local sheriff. Even if this woman is innocent, this kind of behavior will piss us off right from the get-go and make enemies of us, and it has.

Our reply to the person who has written to us today, is this:

Go to Hell. Please, we beg you, have your attorney and your sheriff "look into this". This case was off our radar -- now it's back on in a very big way. We want the truth. We want to know EXACTLY who we should be steering toward a jail term. We want to know who has attempted to steal our money and our product. We want to know whom we may sue, and whether they have any assets worth going after. At this point our opinion can go either way. But one (1) simple subpoena will tell this story once and for all: Did the original order come from Joanna Samford's computer, or from the people she claims is setting her up? THAT is the $64,000 question, and if we ever get an answer to it, rest assured we'll post it right here. It's DOG-SIMPLE TO DISCOVER. It can be done in about 72 hours and will cost a few hundred bucks. Why hasn't either party taken any serious steps to do so? The wronged party has merely to file an anti harassment order against the perpetrator. The temporary order will give the victim subpoena authority. A subpoena may then be served to AT&T (this is the ISP for both the original order-placer and the woman claiming to be Joanna Samford in the above email), or to COX (the ISP of the people Joanna claims are setting her up use Cox Cable), and about three days after that, we'll all have our answer. It doesn't get any easier. So why has no one done this? This isn't a rhetorical question! Who's hiding what from whom? Inquiring Minds Want to Know!

We've been provided a number of different names which are designed to help us in our quest for truth and justice. We have no idea what significance any of them might have, or if they're even related to this case. They are as follows:

Joanna Samford
Jeff Samford
Dorella Strickland
Joanna Lynn Samford
Marianna Denise Mitchell
Walker County Sheriff
Olivia Ramsey

No further contact will be tolerated from ANY of the parties involved. If they wish to communicate with us, they may do so through their attorneys, and we heartily encourage that. We suggest that WHOEVER has been ACTUALLY defrauded here (besides us) take this matter to their local law enforcement WITHOUT DELAY. If Joanna Samford was the victim of an attempted hijacking of her Paypal account, she should have instantly gone to her local law enforcement nearly TWO MONTHS ago. That she is only now beginning to vaguely reference such steps is, to us, highly suspect. The people who claim Joanna Samford is harassing them should have taken this to THEIR local law enforcement perhaps as much as a couple of YEARS ago. That they have not done so is, to us, highly suspect.

In the end, here's the rest of our reply to the person who communicated to us on this date (5-13-09).

(1): Go suck a fish.

(2): This page will remain forever.

(3): Period.

 

Below is the original order data, submitted
from a computer in or near Lake Mary, Florida;
Was this supposed to look like the guy in
Norman, OK., placed this order? Or DID he?
And who's 22 y/o Marianna Mitchell?

 

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FakeNewspapers.com / TrixiePixGraphics.com - Online Order
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Invoice No.: 8525   Order No.: 80429000   Date: 04/08/2009

SHIP TO:
Anthony Hammon
4617 northern hills rd
norman, OK 73071
United States
14054642520
a_r_hammon@yahoo.com

BILL TO:
Anthony Hammon
4617 northern hills rd
norman, OK 73071
United States
14054642520
a_r_hammon@yahoo.com

Payment Method: PayPal

ORDER DETAILS:
Item: Fake Ultrasounds  FC-50 & FC-101
Quantity: 1
Description: Fake Ultrasounds, Versions FC-50 and 101
Price (each): $16.95
Item Total: $16.95
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Item: Fake Pregnancy Papers   FPD-1
Quantity: 1
Description: Fake Pregnancy Papers
Price (each): $17.95
Item Total: $17.95
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Subtotal: $34.90
Shipping (Priority, Usually 3-7 Days): +$8.95
Grand Total: $43.85
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CUSTOMER TRACKING:
IP Address: 32.179.106.40
Purchased From: http://www.trixiepixgraphics.com

PAYMENT PROCESSOR RESPONSE FIELDS:
AVS Result Code: A2S1fniRGsoquzRDbs4f5rc383f8AKXGm8PHpv4pPQsBtT96yMcq8LsM
Transaction ID: 4PP80794B3587532M

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  The following information has been submitted on 04-08-2009 12:01:33 by 32.179.106.40:

  Customer's First Name Marianna
  Customer's Last Name Mitchell
  Email: marianna21@rock.com
  Name of Preggo (last, first) Mitchell,marianna
  Date of Birth (xx/xx/xx) 04/09/87
  Phone Number (xxx-xxx-xxxx) 405-474-6589
  Address (house # and street only) 4617 northern hills rd
  Age (years) 22
  Date of Collection (xx/xx/xx) 04/06/09
  Date Recieved (xx/xx/xx) 14/08/09
  Date Reported (xx/xx/xx) 04/08/09
  Doctor's Name (no real names!) Dr. Martin lebrinski
  Test Value 2nd trimester
  I certify I've used<BR>no real names Yes
  I Agree Not to Use This Product for<BR>Illegal and/or Fraudulent Purposes Yes
  I promise to use this product<BR>for entertainment purposes only Yes
  I understand I must check<BR>email within 12-24 hrs after<BR>placing this order in case<BR>there is a question<BR>concerning my order Tes

 

The following information has been submitted on 04-08-2009 11:53:15 by 32.179.106.40:

  Customer's First Name marianna
  Customer's Last Name mitchell
  Email: marianna21@rock.com
  Patient's Name (last, first) mitchell,marianna
  Media Types Standard Heavy Glossy Plate
  Doctor's Name on Ultrasound Dr. Angela Aboutanous
  Hospital (Clinic) Name University
  Date of Ultrasound april  3 2009
  Ultrasound Version Plain Ultrasound #2
  Gender (or?) Female -- 60% Certainty
  I Agree Not to Use This Product for<BR>Illegal and/or Fraudulent Purposes Yes

 

We're DAMNED busy here, and even after posting the above, our interest and energies were moving in directions away from this case. But it seems this broad simply cannot keep from stirring this pot. So be it. See her latest, below, sent from an IP address in, where else -- Lake Mary, Florida:

 

Date: 5.15.2009
IP: 32.179.141.200
Author: Joanna Samford
Name (normally hidden): joanna
Phone (normally hidden): 423-505-9117
City or Town (normally hidden): flintstone

Date: 5.15.2009
IP: 32.179.141.200
Author: Joanna Samford
Name (normally hidden): joanna
Phone (normally hidden): 423-505-9117
City or Town (normally hidden): flintstone

I asked you to take my name down off of this page.The matter is under investigation by the CI3. This is a criminal act being investigated also by pay pal. You have made me guilty before I have been convicted. For anyone else who has been a victim of this site,Please contact The IC3[internet crimes] it is easily located on any search engine.It is time to put these thugs down. They offer no phone and all of your emails will be posted.


REPLY by FakeNewspapers.com:


This message refers to our page located at the following URL:

http://www.truth-or-consequences.com/chargebacks/chargeback_hammon.html

Threatening us or commanding us is like throwing gasoline on a bonfire. Each and every new instance of harassment merely adds more content to the page listed above and raises its ranking. Since we informed this sender to cease and desist contacting us, and since this arrogant, belligerent sender utterly ignored that instruction (flaunted it, actually), they have now fulfilled the legal requirement that enables us to obtain an anti-harassment order. Whoever this sender is (the IP traces back to the exact-same location as where the original fraudulent order was placed from), it's now clear to us that we're dealing with a person with a mental problem. We don't believe that anything short of incarceration will stop them. As for this person's threat to expose "all your emails", let's save her the trouble. Once we saw that the original order was placed from the same IP as the IP of the person claiming the order was fraudulent, we were PISSED; we finally, reluctantly came to believe the real culprit was one Joanna Samford. Giving in to a fit of apoplexy and unadulterated RAGE, and because we struggle against a mountainous onslaught of successful and attempted frauds every single day (and growing exponentially by the month), we sent her THIS:

Oh Joanna, you've been a bad, bad girl. The data just keeps flooding in. Is there any end to it? Time to talk to us, Joanna. Or talk to the Sheriff. How about both? Do you have anything worth taking when we sue you? You'll be in jail by then of course. Do you at least have a nice car? Some jewelry? A DOG? We're coming after you, Joanna, and so are others. We have a mountain of evidence and others have even more. Does your husband know about your scams and fraud? Jeff will find out soon enough. The fake pregnancy thing didn't work out, did it, and now you're famous for it. Just Google your name!

And indeed we ARE now coming after her. That's the ONLY email we've ever sent this individual. It should have been far stronger. We are hearing from more people who claim to have had similar problems with this woman. She now gets to fight a criminal case of fraud and harassment. We want the ass of every single fraudster on a stick. We're sick of them. We're at war with them. The sender claims that "Paypal is investigating". Wrong. Paypal has ALREADY investigated and has concluded that the account holder (Joanna Samford) was the person who placed the order. That's why they took the funds from her account and put them in our account. We're filing criminal complaints against this sender today (see below), and we're soliciting any and all information we can get from a wide variety of people who've offered it. We'll follow our complaints through the system and will not let them die. People who live a life of fraud and lies should realize that sooner or later they will confront people like US who simply won't roll over for it. This sender must go get a new IP address every time they want to harass us, so the evidence trail here is solid. Let us say this again for the record: We are absolutely, positively, without a doubt the completely-WRONG people to try to pull this crap on. We really are.

The following data is pasted directly from PayPal's dispute page, and for the record, THIS is the proper URL for IC3:

http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

 

 

Formal complaint to the FBI follows:

We received an order through Paypal (4PP80794B3587532M) on April 8 of '09. The order was placed through a Paypal account owned by one Joanna Samford. We immediately prepared a shipping label and sent the customer a tracking number. This may have indicated to the customer that the order had shipped. In this particular case, there was a delay, and the order was scheduled to ship the following morning.

The following morning, before we could print and ship the product, we received notification from Paypal that the account holder, Joanna Samford, had contested the charge, saying she didn't place the order. Two days later we received a message from Paypal stating that they had investigated the charge and the claim by the account holder that the charge was fraudulent, and had concluded that the purchase was, in fact, made by the account holder, and Paypal awarded us those funds. At this point we weren't about to do business with this person even though our money had been refunded to us by PayPal, so we went into Paypal and manually refunded Joanna Samford's money and cancelled out the order.

Obviously someone had tried to defraud us. Luckily we caught it before we lost any money or product. As in all such cases we posted the fraud attempt at http://www.truth-or-consequences.com/chargebacks/chargeback_hammon.html [this page] in an effort to dissuade others who would try to defraud us and steal our money and/or products.

The IP of the original buyer traces to Lake Mary, Fl. The address of Joanna Samford traces to Lake Mary, Fl.. It appears that Ms. Samford has a long-running feud going with two individuals in Norman, Oklahoma. It appears that she tried to use [us] to harass these people with our fake pregnancy products. She has since harassed and threatened us several times because we have posted this case publicly. She also claims she has filed complaints against us with you, which we highly doubt. For a complete background on this case we suggest browsing the url shown above, but in any case, we believe it can be easily proven that Joanna Samford placed this order, that once she thought the order had shipped she then filed a claim stating that the order was not placed by her, and that she has been doing things like this for some number of years against the two persons listed on the webpage in question (url shown above). Be that as it may, she did, we believe, mount a premeditated and orchestrated attempt to gain products from us and cheat us out of payment. She failed in that, but she continues to cost us money in dealing with her harassment, which continues through this date. We want her to CEASE AND DESIST contacting us except by attorney or through law enforcement (which is contact we strongly encourage). If her ATTORNEY has a plausible explanation for this mystery he/she should communicate that explanation to us and we'll be happy to post it RIGHT HERE.

ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED 5-15-09.

 

We believe we can GUARANTEE we'll receive and be the victim of foul, sneaky, dishonest harassment and libel and slander as a result of this for years and decades to come. Coming from a Federal law enforcement background out of Denver, dealing with this mentality is WHAT WE DO -- or at least DID until we left it. We see standing up to Internet bottom feeders as a duty and a social obligation. Deal with us honestly and you'll find us to be the straightest, most helpful and accomodating people on earth. But lie to us, cheat us, harass us, command us -- and we'll climb down your fucking throat. We'll stand up to this bullshit absolutely and utterly to the death. Bring it on.

Our current position is this: We believe Joanna tried to use us as a pawn in a harassment regimen against others. In so doing, part of her ploy to make it work was to attempt to defraud us of products and revenue. If this is true, we want her ass in jail. If this is NOT true, we want the asses of those who've set this up against her, in jail. At this moment it looks bad for Joanna Samford, but we ALWAYS keep an open mind and we want this mystery solved.

 

New evidence in this case will be posted below:

 

UPDATE 5-17-09:

The following is self-explanatory.

 

Date: 5.17.2009
IP: 68.97.57.79
Name (normally hidden): Matt Haugland
City or Town (normally hidden): Norman, OK

Preface by FakeNewspapers.com:

The following communication has NOT been verified by us. It appears to be a rebuttal to Joanna Samford's public accusations against the author(s) of the message below (a gentleman not related to us in any way). Since Joanna Samford has been allowed to express her opinions in this public forum, we're going to allow the opposing party to voice their opinions. This will also be appended to the "Joanna Samford Page" at the following URL:

http://www.truth-or-consequences.com/chargebacks/chargeback_hammon.html

We DO NOT want to be involved in a scuffle between any two third-party parties, but the fact that "someone" tried to steal from us has drawn us into this, at least as an observer. We want to know who tried to steal from us. So far the evidence (not opinion, but EVIDENCE) points to Joanna Samford. But it hasn't (yet) been proven in a court, and we remain willing to look at any alternative angle on this. In order to try to sort this out and eventually discover who tried to steal from us, we have no choice but to keep an open mind, and keep our eyes open. We haven't verified ANY of the links or numbers below.

They might lead to porn sites, for all we know. We've tendered our complaint and evidenciary documents to the FBI. They contain enough information to prove this case one way or the other. We may also file a civil anti-harassment order against "John Doe" for the unwanted communications we continue to receive from someone identifying themselves as Joanna Samford.

That will instantly give us subpoena authority, and we can then subpoena AT&T for their server logs which will prove EXACTLY who placed this fraudulent order, and also who told Paypal it was fraudulent, and who continues to harass us. THAT will provide us enough actual evidence to bring formal criminal charges against the perpetrator of this nonsense. For the time being we're waiting to see if the FBI will do its job and scrape up the server logs for us. If they don't, we'll do it through a civil action. Remember, the following incoming message is UNVERIFIED. We're swamped here -- swamped with business and swamped with criminal proceedings against a wide array of fraudsters who try to steal our products. Take the following for whatever it's worth to YOU. Again: Our only interest lies in who tried to steal from US. In the pursuit of that we're willing to consider any and all information that comes in, but we will NOT get involved in proving or disproving who is actually harassing whom out of these two parties:

Dear Trixiepixgraphics,

Please let me know if you'd like any help with the Samford/Hammon chargeback case. I'd be happy to provide you additional information. I've learned pretty much everything there is to know about Joanna Samford and this case.

Here's a link to a voice mail she gave Anthony Hammon, which helps explain what this case is all about:

http://www.matthaugland.com/temp/joanna1.mp3

Basically, she is upset that Anthony married another woman (Rachel), and has been trying to break them up ever since. She is insanely jealous, and I mean "insanely" quite literally!! When the harassment of Rachel and her family didn't work, she started posing as Marianna Mitchell and telling Rachel that Anthony got her pregnant. She posted various things online about it (which is how I became involved), and told many of Rachel's friends & family. She even created a Facebook group about it. "Marianna Mitchell" was obviously a fake identity, and was quickly kicked off Facebook for being a fake profile.

I'm sorry I don't have proof at the moment that it's Joanna's voice on the recording, but you're welcome to verify it by calling the number she gave you (which is one of many known numbers of hers). I recommend not letting her get your phone number, unless you want to start getting similar voice mails and 100+ hangup calls during the middle of the night. She'll even look up your business associates, parents, and even grandparents and do the same thing to them.

And if she really likes you, she'll get her brother to pose as some kind of public official (in my case a GA State Representative) and threaten you, using a phone number (423) 364-3858 registered to Joanna Samford's mother, Geraldine Biddle.

I filed a report with the Norman PD a few weeks ago, a couple days after she began harassing me. You're welcome to verify that if you have a way to do so. Since I have nothing to do with her personally, I'd rather not spend my hard-earned money on a lawyer because of her, but I may do so if the harassment and slander doesn't stop.

Blacklisting her phone numbers has worked pretty well, and I think she knows now that she won't get anywhere by calling my business partners.

I posted the story from my perspective on my blog at:

http://blog.matthaugland.com/2009/05/crazy-lady.html

and linked to your page. That should help improve your Google ranking a little.

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like further assistance with this case.

Sincerely,

Matt Haugland, Ph.D.

P.S. -- You're welcome to look up any information about me online to verify my credibility. I don't hide behind fake identities.