July 25, 2010 Lawsuit filed by Ullja Kuntze:

Thirty Defendants have been named in a "tortious interference" suit filed by Ullja Kuntze in McLennan County, Texas. Some of the Defendants were Plaintiffs in the former suit in Harrison County. In the suit, Ullja Kuntze accuses the Defendants of conspiracy to destroy her businesses.

Ullja Kuntze doesn't seem to understand that consumer fraud and defamation per se are serious matters, and has filed this suit in an attempt to intimidate people in the artisan communities against freely speaking about her misdeeds.

Please support the victims of Ullja Kuntze's vendetta by donating to the Artisans and Glassworkers Legal Fund, a group organized specifically to defend the 1st Amendment Rights of the thirty defendants targetted by Ullja Kuntze in this suit.

About the Online Fraud Investigation Websites

Online Fraud Investigation are two websites written by Ullja Kuntze. They are located at http://handmadeartisanfraud.blogspot.com and at http://www.onlinefraudinvestigation.com (now defunct).

The purpose of the Online Fraud Investigation website is to harass online sellers who either 1) have spoken out against Ullja Kuntze's fraudulent activities, or 2) are small online sellers in direct competition with her.

Ullja's accusatons of fraud are, in fact, fabrications against online sellers who have spoken out against Ullja's own fraudulent business practices, practices that resulted in the termination of both her Etsy seller accounts in 2008. She is also making accusations of fraud against those who have questioned her online smear campaigns in 2009.

How Do We Know Ullja Kuntze is the person writing the libelous posts on the Online Fraud Investigation website?

A writing style comparison, along with "coincidental" purchases made using Ullja's Paypal account from the shop of every seller who has appeared on the Online Fraud Investigation website, built a mountain of circumstantial evidence large enough to warrant further investigation and led a group of artisans to file a defamation and fraud case against Ullja Kuntze in Harrison County, Texas.

Ullja's admission that she owns the blogs: [pdf of Defendant Ullja Kuntze's interrogatories, submitted 12/22/2009]
Phrase "Enlighten your knowledge": [jpg of Online Fraud Investigation] [jpg of blog]
Phrase "REAL PROOF" and use of %: [jpg of ArtFire post] [jpg of Online Fraud Investigation] [jpg of Online Fraud Investigation]

Case information is available online at the Harris County Clerk's website. The case number is 200966253 and can also be located searching for Defendant name "Kuntze, Ullja". During discovery, Ullja Kuntze admitted to writing the blog and provided examples of the tax evasion reports she sent to the IRS but refused to remove the defamatory blog.