break time

We’re taking a break from this blog because we no longer have the time to devote to it. We’re also getting a bit tired of the subject so we *may* be getting sloppy.

We’re still following a developing situation regarding Tracy Coenen CPA, MBA, CFE so we’ll post on it when the time comes. (It could be months, we have no idea.)

In the meantime we’ll post some of our greatest hits here, for any newcomers who may be interested in a quick sampling of Tracy Coenen’s professional behavior.

On resume padding:

Tracy Coenen and International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators

Tracy Coenen and the IAA (Part 1)

Tracy Coenen and the IAA (Part 2)

On background checking and private detective work (for which she has no license):

Tracy Coenen CPA, MBA, CFE : A Private Dick
Tracy Coenen CPA, MBA, CFE: A Private Dick, Part 2

On cyber-stalking:

Tracy Coenen Throws Down a Challenge

Tracy Coenen Throws Down a Challenge, Part 2

Stalking Melissa

On breaking into others’ internet accounts, and reading their private messages:

Pink Un-Truth and Private Messages: Item 2

Pink Un-Truth and Private Messages: Item 3

Ex-Pink Truth Members Have Privacy Questions

More on Pink Truth and Password Changes

The Tracy Coenen Soap Opera…Episode 1

On Internet harassment:

It’s Okay for Tracy to Call Someone a Liar but…

(there’ are many more posts under this topic : For some of the funniest, just click on “Tracy Coenen Soap Operas” in the left sidebar.)

On obscenity, and threatening lawsuits:

Tracy Coenen Calls Ty Tribble a Whore

Tracy Coenen and Ty Tribble: A Love Story

Tracy Coenen CPA, MBA, CFE Has Cybersex on Her Website

The Real Tracy Coenen

And of course, for Tracy’s day-to-day wild behavior on her PinkTruth site, you can visit Duh, the leader in exposing Tracy’s fun personality.

Report Your Bully

If you are harassed online you don’t have to just sit there and take it.

Wiredsafety.org is an online safety organization run completely by volunteers. Their network is formed by over 9000 volunteers worldwide. Wiredsafety.org is headed by Parry Aftab (also a volunteer), a mom, international cyberspace privacy and security lawyer and children’s advocate. She is the author of The Parent’s Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (McGraw-Hill).

The site is full of information but what caught my eye was a link entitled “Report cyberabuse here.”

That’s right. Now you can report your bully and get help dealing with them. Shine a light on the cockroach.

Wiredsafety.org accepts reports about cyberabuses (crimes that take place online) such as cyberstalking, identity theft and child exploitation.

Here’s the link so you can read about it further: Report cyberabuse now

Tracy and PinkPonies: The Epilogue

(If you haven’t read this whole story, please scroll down and read parts 1-3; You don’t want to miss this freakshow)

This huge drama that Tracy instigated against PinkPonies ended months ago. PinkPonies stayed banned from PT, but that was okay because she became a lovely member of PinkLighthouse.

She has never hurt anyone and has made many friends, and she is an asset to the PinkLighthouse community.

Tracy has done this before many times. Some of the people she was highly suspicious of, and subsequently banned (most notably PUR “PersonalUseRecruiter”, PB&J, SickNPink, and others) she has since reinstated.

(She debated banning SickNPink, but in the end decided to let her hang around.)

Why is she suddenly reinstating people she hated and banned?

Tracy Coenen realized a little too late that she was banning good members from her own forum – not the best way to keep herself on top of everyone else.

Tracy and PinkPonies: An Epic Tale, Part 3

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…..

 Tracy “NOTIFIES” the Brainstormers at PinkLighthouse that PinkPonies is Bad And Needs To Be Watched. She also accuses PinkPonies of posting under different names on other blogs, and “talking crap about her”.

The owner of PinkLighthouse (LJ) then asks Tracy for some proof of these accusations.

Tracy has no proof, and instead basically tells LJ to jump off a cliff.

This in turn causes the Brainstormers on PinkLighthouse to jump to LJ’s defense, and ask that Tracy please behave more respectfully and please provide some proof without all the vitriol.

Tracy then tells everyone to jump off a cliff, because it was “SO INCREDIBLY HURTFUL” that they questioned her. The fact that they asked for a reason was so outrageous to Tracy that she felt justified in treating all 19 women on the Brainstormers board like dirt. Tracy insinuates that they are all stupid, just “don’t get it”, and it is beneath her to explain anything.

Tracy is removed from the Brainstormers board on PinkLighthouse, and PinkPonies is spared another banning.

Tracy and PinkPonies: An Epic Tale, Part 1

Gather around my pretties, and let me tell you a tale of a lunatic and one of her marks.

Once Upon A Time……..

 There was a woman named PinkPonies (sort of). She was in DIQ. She started to have doubts, and decided to quit DIQ (in her third month of car qualification).  She found PinkTruth, but since she was just coming out of the Mary Kay Dream, she was still in the Pink Mindset.

PT was a little too hardcore for her at this point. Understandable, no? She decided to hang out on another blog called “MaryKayVoices”, which was friendlier to current Mary Kay consultants. One day she was posting there, and innocently mentioned that she felt more comfortable on MKV than PinkTruth.

Of course, Tracy Coenen was reading the blog, and saw PinkPonies’ comment. Tracy immediately assumed that this was a slam against HER. (Naturally, because the WORLD DOTH REVOLVE AROUND TRACY COENEN CPA MBA CFE FRAUD INVESTIGATOR I AM THE QUEEN) Where was I? Oh right…

Because Tracy took this comment so personally, she then launched into her typical stealth mode of harassment and stalking.

PinkPonies also joined PinkLighthouse. Here are 2 of the 7 times Tracy hit PP’s karma on the forum, within a 2-day period in January 2007:

Tracy Throws Down A Challenge

Tracy said publicly that nobody “has any dirt on her” because she’s never “done anything wrong”, according to what I’ve read.

Really Tracy? Are you that stupid?

Then let the games begin.

First up this evening, for your viewing pleasure, we have Tracy Coenen aka “PinkTruth” sending private messages to a blogger, in which she feeds all of Melissa’s personal information to her. (Melissa being the owner of www.mypinktruth.wordpress.com.) Tracy likes to terrorize people for fun, but she doesn’t want to get the blame for it, so she gave this information to another blogger to post for her.

In Tracy’s psychotic world, people who are critical of PinkTruth are trying to “destroy her business”. In her mind, it is justifiable to commit crimes of threatening, harassing, stalking, and hacking in order to get revenge on her critics. We can show proof of all these things in Tracy’s own words.

In these messages, Tracy Coenen (CPA, MBA, CFE) collected the following information about Melissa:

1. The name of her daughter

2. Her address, the value of the land her house sits on, the value of her house, the date the house was purchased

3. The bank Melissa has her mortgage through, and the amount left on Melissa’s home loan

4. The make and model of Melissa’s car

5. Melissa’s physical characteristics

From the information Tracy Coenen gathered, it looks as if she looked up Melissa’s property details in the county records, and somehow got hold of her information from the Department of Motor Vehicles. We’re not sure how she discovered Melissa’s mortgage information, however. This is interesting because Tracy Coenen IS NOT A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. Her certificate with the Association of Fraud Examiners does not give her leeway to obtain personal information on people and use it against them in this manner.

(I have the rest of the PMs but for some reason WordPress won’t let me put more than one JPG on this post without it getting all screwy)

Update:  File removed to protect the innocent!

  

Tracy Coenen Throws Down A Challenge

Tracy Coenen CPA, MBA, CFE said publicly that nobody “has any dirt on her” because she’s never “done anything wrong”, according to what I’ve read.

Really Tracy? Are you that stupid?

Then let the games begin.

First up this evening, for your viewing pleasure, we have Tracy Coenen aka “PinkTruth” sending private messages to a blogger, in which she feeds all of Melissa’s personal information to her. (Melissa being the owner of www.mypinktruth.wordpress.com.) Tracy likes to terrorize people for fun, but she doesn’t want to get the blame for it, so she gave this information to another blogger to post for her.

In Tracy’s psychotic world, people who are critical of PinkTruth are trying to “destroy her business”. In her mind, it is justifiable to commit crimes of threatening, harassing, stalking, and hacking in order to get revenge on her critics. We can show proof of all these things in Tracy’s own words.

In these messages, Tracy Coenen (CPA, MBA, CFE) collected the following information about Melissa:

1. The name of her daughter

2. Her address, the value of the land her house sits on, the value of her house, the date the house was purchased

3. The bank Melissa has her mortgage through, and the amount left on Melissa’s home loan

4. The make and model of Melissa’s car

5. Melissa’s physical characteristics

From the information Tracy Coenen gathered, it looks as if she looked up Melissa’s property details in the county records, and somehow got hold of her information from the Department of Motor Vehicles. We’re not sure how she discovered Melissa’s mortgage information, however. This is interesting because Tracy Coenen IS NOT A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. Her certificate with the Association of Fraud Examiners does not give her leeway to obtain personal information on people and use it against them in this manner.

(I have the rest of the PMs but for some reason WordPress won’t let me put more than one JPG on this post without it getting all screwy)

Fraud Examiner Guilty of Defamation?

On Saturday, 2 June 2007, Tracy Coenen of Sequence Inc, a Certified Fraud Examiner, posted an entry on her blog calling someone a thief and posting their contact info. Here’s a screen shot in case it suddenly disappears from her site:

(Click on the thumbnail to open new window, then click on image again to enlarge)

If I were Mr. Briggs, I’d be contacting an attorney. Not only could this be considered defamation, but publishing personal contact information with such accusations is also a form of cyber bullying.

Unbelievable behavior for someone who claims to be so knowledgeable about the law, even though she’s no lawyer.

The Serial Bully: Types of Bullies

A while back I introduced you to information on Serial Bullies. While reading the information on bullyonline.org I was reading the signs and symptoms of what they call a Socialised Psychopath or Sociopath.

The Socialised Psychopath or Sociopath

Also known as the corporate psychopath, workplace psychopath, industrial psychopath and administrative psychopath.

Motivation: power, gratification, personal gain, survival
Mindset: manipulation, deception, evil
Malice: high to very high; when held accountable, off the scale

Then I started reading through the detailed profile of the Socialised Psychopath and so many of the identifying features sounded so familiar: (these aren’t in any particular order…I’ve numbered them for easy reference)

1. always charming and beguilingly plausible, especially to those who are capable of protecting or enhancing the sociopath’s position
2. is extremely and successfully manipulative of people’s perceptions and emotions (eg guilt and anger)
3. will often engineer himself or herself into a position of authority as gatekeeper of the organization and thus the person through whom all information must flow, and the person to whom all requests for services must be referred – which he or she then takes delight in denying
   
4. is adept at offering weak and inadequate people the positions of power, control, security, influence or respect that they crave but who lack the necessary competencies to achieve – such people are unaware that their consequent dependence on the sociopath makes them permanent manipulatees, pawns and expendable agents of harassment. [comment: maybe sicknpink might be interested in this one...]
5. at all times restricts the actions and rights of others (especially those holding the sociopath accountable) whilst aggressively protecting his or her right to do anything without being hampered by social norms or legal requirements
6. a history of conducting frivolous, vexatious and malicious legal actions, especially (but not exclusively) against anyone who can recognise the sociopath for what he is. [comment: want to talk to Melissa about this one?!]
7. pursues endless vindictive vendettas against anyone perceived as a threat or who attempts, knowingly or unknowingly, to identify or reveal or expose the sociopath, or who makes efforts to hold the sociopath accountable
8. is adept at appropriating rules, regulations, procedures and law to manipulate, control and punish accusers regardless of relevance, logic, facts or consequences

That’s just a small amount of what is there.

Most of it hits too close to home for me.

The Serial Bully: Signs & Symptoms

A reader expressed to me the fact that they felt that their treatment on Pink Truth and some communications they received from Tracy Coenen were akin to cyber bullying.

If you aren’t familiar with cyber bullying, you need to educate yourself so that in case you are a victim you know what the signs are and how to deal with these personalities.

There is a great site that outlines some of the characteristics of bullying.

Behaviour of the Serial Bully

In the list describing the serial bully, I found that a few of the characteristics described some of the things I’ve seen on Pink Truth:

• is a control freak and has a compulsive need to control everyone and everything you say, do, think and believe;
• displays a compulsive need to criticise whilst simultaneously refusing to value, praise and acknowledge others, their achievements, or their existence
• undermines and destroys anyone who the bully perceives to be an adversary, a potential threat, or who can see through the bully’s mask
• is adept at creating conflict between those who would otherwise collate incriminating information about them

There are four types of serial bullies described on the site. I’ll take a look at one in particular in my next post.