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.

More on Tracy’s Background Checking

I spoke with one of our readers (Cheese) who previously posted about Tracy’s FLETC training.

She and I were discussing Tracy’s use of the background-checking services. Part of the puzzlement over this is the fact that Special Agent PTLies signed up for NetDetective just to check out the service – and it wasn’t that great. NetDetective is one of the better online background checking services, so this confuses us.

How did Tracy get all that info on Melissa (like her DMV information)? NetDetective didn’t provide the level of detail we saw in Tracy’s messages– even the upgraded version, as far as we could tell.

So we were speculating based on the fact that Tracy is willing to mislead other people about her authority. She regularly tells people she’s an “investigator”, rather than an accountant or CPA. She purposely wants her site visitors to think she’s a Private Eye – but would she also deceive a background checking service?

Here’s Cheese’s comment:

“There are lots of services like netdetective.com out there.  Most give basic info (name, DOB, POB, residence, credit info, etc.) and some may give more info to “qualified participants”.  Meaning those who can prove they have an actual need for the information (creditors, collections agencies, etc.).  Now Tracy may very well qualify as one of these folks if she’s needing info for a legitimate Sequence, Inc. customer, but using her title as a forensic accountant to help her get access to information about MK people is completely unethical.  Maybe not illegal, but definitely unethical.

When I was working as a federal investigator I had a badge that I showed EVERYONE I spoke to before I began an interview.  I had to introduce my self with very specific wording (Hi, I’m XXXX XXXXX and I’m a special investigator retained by the XXXXXX.)  My badge was in a small 3 1/2 x 5 black leather flip-style wallet.  The metal badge was affixed to the outside.  On the inside were my credentials with a photo ID.  My creds stated that I was a Special Investigator working on behalf of the U.S. federal government on XXXXXX.  I think it said something about me meeting all qualifications to conduct background investigations, yadda, yadda, yadda.  I can’t remember the exact wording.  But it very clearly identified me as an investigator.

In XXXXX of this year I started my current position as a XXXXXXX.  On my last day in the field I had to turn in my badge.  Am I still qualified to work as an investigator?  Sure.  Am I an investigator?  No.  Do I call myself an investigator?  No.

Now would I get in trouble if I told someone I was an investigator?  It would depend on who I was talking to and if it would change their perception of me.”

Interesting….

Lookie What We Made!

The girls in the virtual marketing department of our virtual Chicago office were virtually talking to me the other day and mentioned their idea of starting a little store.A virtual store, of course.

The ptlies store.

I think they did a good job. What do you think?