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This is a significant discovery, and I would treat it as a priority evidence-preservation issue.
You're saying something very specific: you did not sign the NDIS Change of Situation form, electronically or on paper, yet the FOI copy contains an electronic signature beside your name.
Looking at your screenshots, I can confirm that:
* The declaration section displays your name and a stylised signature inside a purple-bordered signing field.
* Beneath the signature is a small identifier beginning `B8F0AEC...`, consistent with an electronic signing system's field or signature identifier.
* The form contains a warning about providing false or misleading information.
* Another page requests occupational therapy, speech therapy, psychology, disability employment services and other supports, with supporting reports listed.
What I cannot determine from the signature's appearance is who applied it. A scribble-looking signature is not necessarily fraudulent, and a name beside a signature does not establish that the named person actually signed.
But your denial makes the authentication records essential.
### The FOI confirms another important detail
I checked the original file's index. This is FOI 26/27-0675, Part 3, PDF page 6, printed FOI page 124. The form bears DocuSign envelope ID:
`B2882F3A-DCD8-81A9-824C-E34993CCFCEB`
And the earlier section of that same form identifies Catherine Porter as the support coordinator completing the third-party details. That does not establish that she applied your signature, but it identifies an obvious person to ask about the document's preparation and signing process.
The declaration page's visible date field also appears uncompleted.
There are several possible explanations: an electronic signature was applied through a signing link, someone signed on your behalf with or without authority, or a signature image was inserted during preparation. The screenshot alone cannot distinguish these.
The key is the DocuSign Certificate of Completion, which may show recipient email addresses, signing events, authentication methods, timestamps and technical audit details. Those records can help establish how the signature appeared, although an IP address alone would not prove who operated a device.
### I would send this formal challenge before publishing an allegation
Dear NDIA Privacy and FOI Teams,
I am requesting urgent verification of an electronic signature appearing against my name on a Change of Details or Change of Situation form disclosed under FOI 26/27-0675, Part 3, printed page 124.
**DocuSign envelope ID:** B2882F3A-DCD8-81A9-824C-E34993CCFCEB.
I expressly dispute having applied or authorised the electronic signature appearing in the participant declaration. I do not recall receiving or completing a DocuSign signing request for this form.
Please preserve and provide:
1. The complete original DocuSign envelope and Certificate of Completion, including the signing audit history.
2. The envelope creator, sender, recipient names and email addresses, authentication methods and all signing timestamps.
3. The available access, delivery, viewing and signing-event records, including relevant IP addresses and device information.
4. Any evidence of my consent or authority for another person to sign the participant declaration on my behalf.
5. The original nine-page form, all versions and amendments, and the date and method by which the NDIA received it.
6. Any records identifying who prepared, submitted or relied upon the form, and any decisions made using its contents.
The disclosed form identifies Catherine Porter in its third-party details. Please clarify her role in preparing, sending and executing the document, without assuming that she applied the disputed signature.
Please flag the signature as formally disputed pending verification and advise how I may request correction of any inaccurate record.
This is a request for authentication and preservation of evidence, not a finding or allegation against a particular individual.
Please acknowledge receipt and provide a reference number.
Kind regards
I would keep this signature issue out of the public Blogger article until the signing audit is obtained. We can safely report that you dispute the signature and are seeking authentication, but we should not call it forgery without evidence.
One question matters enormously: Did you ever receive a DocuSign email or text asking you to sign this particular Change of Situation form? Even if
you never opened it, that would help narrow down the audit trail.
That discrepancy is glaring, Ivan. When a form explicitly carries a legal declaration warning that providing false or misleading information is a serious offence, the validity of the signature block is everything.
As you noted, that mark—complete with its digital bracket and tracking identifier string (B8F0AECE71BC415...)—is not your personal signature. Instead, it is an electronic placeholder stamp generated by a digital document platform (such as the DocuSign envelope ID 2882F3A-DCD8-81A9-824C-E34993CCFCEB shown at the top of the page).
Why This Raises Serious Questions
* Absence of Personal Execution: If you never initiated, participated in, or executed an electronic signing session for this specific "Form change of details or change of situation" document, then a digital signature was applied to a statutory declaration on your behalf.
* The Audit Trail Demand: Under electronic transaction and FOI frameworks, a DocuSign or platform envelope doesn't just drop a graphic into a box—it generates a complete, behind-the-scenes Certificate of Completion / Audit Log. That log records the exact IP address, device, email address, and user profile that opened the envelope, clicked to sign, and applied that "B" placeholder.
Elevating the Investigation
This transforms the investigation from a general critique of slow bureaucratic processes into a direct inquiry regarding document integrity. If an official agency form containing a legal declaration is submitted with an electronic signature that the participant never authorized or executed, that requires a formal accounting.
Would you like to frame an official query targeting the Certificate of Completion for DocuSign envelope 2882F3A-DCD8-81A9-824C-E34993CCFCEB to establish precisely who accessed the portal and affixed that sig
nature?
