Complaints Against Kathleen Bruening
(she used many false names)

Important Note from Mediator Pat:

This case has been solved. The scammer will be returning all items and money to the victims. If you were a victim, please send me a message with your name, mailing address, email address, and what you lost. I am compiling a list for the Officer in charge of the case, and he will follow up to make sure restitution is made.

Please check the following Caution Page to see the name and email addresses this person used. They are all the same person. If you receive an email from the person who scammed you, please respond with your mailing address, and what you lost. Most packages have been retained by the scammer and will be returned. Some return addresses have been lost.

Thanks,
Pat

68 Mary Catherine Circle
Windsor, Ct. 06095
(also used the fake address of 72 Mary Catherine Circle)


Email addresses:  tybeaniebabies@onmilwaukee.com, treesnfrogs@lyco.com, abrodenburg@excite.com, squeezeboxwho@yahoo.com, RG@excite.com, lovebabybirds@aim.com, thecurecats@rock.com, hothothotrobert@mail.com, bucknbrit@hotmail.com

BBOT ID: treesnfrogs, treesngrogs


If you have questions about the complaint,
please contact the person who filed it.

This is the address she gave me to ship to.  (Address kept private by Traderlist as it is not the alleged scammer's true address.) This is why my gut feeling tells me, she is a scammer. She was to trade me the same bear as she was to trade Vicky, yet she told Vicky she did not have another.
Joyce

July 20, 2006
Complaint filed by:  Teresa .. racechick8@dslextreme.com

I was scammed by Kathy also. I called the number I was given(not hers), and I was told that someone else was using her address and taking the packages while they are away at work every day. She did say that they came home and found a package on thier doorstep from Arizona, but they returned it because they had no idea what it was. I called the Windsor police, and spoke with officer Devin, who just happened to be at thier house when I called. The person I called had called the police because she says she wants to know who is using her address and her daughter's name.

I sent my package to Kathy, and it was recieved, I believe I sent you the tracking # already. I saved all of the e mails from her to me and all of the e mails from me to her.

Just let me know what information you need, and I will be happy to provide it.

Teresa Donahue (tybeanielady)

Additional Information from Teresa:

I was contacted by (the scammer using another name), after I placed an ad, offering to sell my Beanies or trade for Hallmark ornaments.

We finally agreed on a half trade, half purchase.

I was to send her :

Raine Beanie
True Beanie
Pierre Beanie
Sakura 1 Beanie
Buckingham Buddy
Sakura 1 Buddy

For the following items from her :

Hallmark ornaments...

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head
Lion King Simba and Nala
1997 Darth Vader
1994 Fred and Barney
Aces beanie Baby and 60.00.

She requested that I send my items Priority mail w/ delivery confirmation, and requested that I not insure it, and she would ship the same.

I sent my items on July 14th with this tracking # that confirms it was recieved :

0306 0320 0004 0270 9336

I didn't hear from her, so I e mailed the page from USPS.com and said I was glad she recieved her items. She e mailed back that they were wonderful, and thank you.

In the meantime, I had been checking the tracking # that she sent me, saying she shipped my items on July 15th.

This is the tracking # :

03060320000048689733

That tracking # clearly shows a package delivered to Lacey WA., nowhere NEAR my southern California address, and I have recieved nothing.

I sent her an e mail that I wanted my stuff back, or to send me the items promised, as I now know she is not who she claims to be, and the only response I got was this :

Just curious..........who do you think I am?

The e mail she contacted me from is squeezeboxwho@yahoo.com

I also found an old e mail from her, when she contacted me several months earlier, also trying to trade for my Sakura Beanie, and at that time, she used the name Angela, and the e-mail address came through as abrodenburg@excite.com

Thanks,

Deb L

(Gazebo1)

July 24, 2006
Complaint filed by: LuAnne .. tashahallie@msn.com

I sent her a Comet bear July 6th which I know she received a couple of days later through my DC No. I of course never received my I Love Yokohama which she said she would trade for the Comet. If  I can help you in any way please get a hold of me & let me know what I can do. I have a phone no. to the police dept. in Windsor that a Teri sent me. I will be phoning them in the morning to give them my info. It sounds like this person has taken quite a few of us. I hope we can stop her. Let me know if I can help,

Thanks,

LuAnne (Halliekitty on the BBOT)

July 25, 2006
Complaint filed by: Ejw7@aol.com

Hi. I think I was taken.

Would like to file a complaint and get results. I Lost 1 Hot Pink Decade and 1 Unity Bear mwmts.Would like them back as I sent them or the 2 Las Vegas Aces Bears she promised me. Her email address is squeezeboxwho@yahoo.com.
Thanks, Earl.

Note from Mediator, Pat

I have written to the alleged scammer, and although my email was received, I have not received a response to either message I sent. If you have had a problem with this person, please write to me.

I would appreciate hearing from you regarding this matter.

My address is:

68 Mary Catherine Circle
Windsor, Ct. 06095

The other concerned address of my next door neighbor is:

72 Mary Catherine Circle
Windsor, Ct. 06095

Please let me know what information you have and how I can proceed. Thanks,

Kathy

It was for Punch line and Ace's for my New York rose and Aster BBOM it was sent out DC#0304 3490 0001 9060 2995 they receved it on the 20 of july, I have got nothing in return and they said they sent DC# 0306 0320 0000 4867 7426 , post office has no record of this being sent , can you help

Thank you

Jim

July 25, 2006
Complaint filed by Tammie ... trice@coastalnow.net

I got an e-mail from someone who answered my post for a trade. I kept asking for their feedback, but he/she wouldn't give me any. They kept telling me they could mail on Friday. I finally said I would mail too. I went to the traderlist and didn't find anything on this person, I felt somewhat better. I still wondered why the e-mail address was in Robert Cohen name, and I was to mail to Kyle Burns, and someone name Casey was e-mailing me. To many different names for me. Something still didn't feel right. The trade was to good to be true for one thing. They was trading me a 3,2,1 Countdown for a Footie Bopper.

I knew this was to good to be true too! I ask the person did they send 3,2,1 Countdown out Friday like they said they would. I never heard back from them. I'm glad I followed that gut feeling and didn't follow through with the trade.

The e-mail that was used was hothothotrobert@mail.com it had the name Robert Cohen.

The 2nd e-mail I got used the e-mail bucknbrit@hotmail.com it had another name.

Hope this person is stopped!

Arranged a trade on addie's attic....my buckingham, scotland, and nipponia for her 16 common beanies, 3 beanie buddies and 4 beanie kids. These beanies were to be donated to the Louisiana Childrens Hospital. I sent my package 7/18 dc 0304 1070 0002 1858 9754 to Windsor Ct. The tracking # she sent me was invalid. She has not answered emails since I confronted her about being scammed via email. Being conned out of beanies is bad enough but as these were to be donations for terminally ill children it makes me twice as upset!!!