607-748-4686

Same story...I received no call or fax, just a book in the mail with an invoice for $274.95.  I just sent the book back with the return slip and I invoiced them $274.95 for my time.  If they don't pay the invoice I will report them to collections.  >_<

USDA’s Charge Card Service Center would like to alert you to a new scam that has occurred with employees within USDA who have received phone calls from a fraudulent company, “Professional Business Publications” and then as an organization “International Credit Recovery.”  Please see details of the scam below.
The scam works like this:
“The sales calls come from a fraudulent company called “Professional Business Publications”  and they try to sell you subscriptions to publications.  After several months, they call you back under the name of “International Credit Recovery” stating that they are a collection agency for “Professional Business Publications” and that you had agreed to a publication subscription. When you indicate that you did not purchase a subscription, they tell you that you confirmed by giving them your date of birth (Month and Day only).  If you still refuse to pay, they threaten you that your personal information will be submitted to the credit bureaus.   The telephone numbers for “International Credit Recovery” are 607‐748‐5231 or 607‐748‐4686 or 607‐748‐1688.
A complaint has been filed re: this scam with the New York Attorney General’s Office.”
Please advise your cardholders of the following:
• Do not give out ANY personal information over the phone, the internet or the mail.
• If you think the request is valid you should always contact the bank yourself using the number on the back of your card and forward any suspicious emails or information of potential fraud to fraud_help@usbank.com.
• If anyone ever gives out information they should immediately call US Bank Customer Service.
Please pass this on to your cardholders, coordinators and approving officials.  By informing each other, we protect each other.
Please email any questions to ccsc@da.usda.gov.
Thank you!

USDA’s Charge Card Service Center would like to alert you to a new scam that has occurred with employees within USDA who have received phone calls from a fraudulent company, “Professional Business Publications” and then as an organization “International Credit Recovery.”  Please see details of the scam below.
The scam works like this:
“The sales calls come from a fraudulent company called “Professional Business Publications”  and they try to sell you subscriptions to publications.  After several months, they call you back under the name of “International Credit Recovery” stating that they are a collection agency for “Professional Business Publications” and that you had agreed to a publication subscription. When you indicate that you did not purchase a subscription, they tell you that you confirmed by giving them your date of birth (Month and Day only).  If you still refuse to pay, they threaten you that your personal information will be submitted to the credit bureaus.   The telephone numbers for “International Credit Recovery” are 607‐748‐5231 or 607‐748‐4686 or 607‐748‐1688.
A complaint has been filed re: this scam with the New York Attorney General’s Office.”
Please advise your cardholders of the following:
• Do not give out ANY personal information over the phone, the internet or the mail.
• If you think the request is valid you should always contact the bank yourself using the number on the back of your card and forward any suspicious emails or information of potential fraud to fraud_help@usbank.com.
• If anyone ever gives out information they should immediately call US Bank Customer Service.
Please pass this on to your cardholders, coordinators and approving officials.  By informing each other, we protect each other.
Please email any questions to ccsc@da.usda.gov.
Thank you!

USDA’s Charge Card Service Center would like to alert you to a new scam that has occurred with employees within USDA who have received phone calls from a fraudulent company, “Professional Business Publications” and then as an organization “International Credit Recovery.”  Please see details of the scam below.
The scam works like this:
“The sales calls come from a fraudulent company called “Professional Business Publications”  and they try to sell you subscriptions to publications.  After several months, they call you back under the name of “International Credit Recovery” stating that they are a collection agency for “Professional Business Publications” and that you had agreed to a publication subscription. When you indicate that you did not purchase a subscription, they tell you that you confirmed by giving them your date of birth (Month and Day only).  If you still refuse to pay, they threaten you that your personal information will be submitted to the credit bureaus.   The telephone numbers for “International Credit Recovery” are 607‐748‐5231 or 607‐748‐4686 or 607‐748‐1688.
A complaint has been filed re: this scam with the New York Attorney General’s Office.”
Please advise your cardholders of the following:
• Do not give out ANY personal information over the phone, the internet or the mail.
• If you think the request is valid you should always contact the bank yourself using the number on the back of your card and forward any suspicious emails or information of potential fraud to fraud_help@usbank.com.
• If anyone ever gives out information they should immediately call US Bank Customer Service.
Please pass this on to your cardholders, coordinators and approving officials.  By informing each other, we protect each other.
Please email any questions to ccsc@da.usda.gov.
Thank you!

USDA’s Charge Card Service Center would like to alert you to a new scam that has occurred with employees within USDA who have received phone calls from a fraudulent company, “Professional Business Publications” and then as an organization “International Credit Recovery.”  Please see details of the scam below.
The scam works like this:
“The sales calls come from a fraudulent company called “Professional Business Publications”  and they try to sell you subscriptions to publications.  After several months, they call you back under the name of “International Credit Recovery” stating that they are a collection agency for “Professional Business Publications” and that you had agreed to a publication subscription. When you indicate that you did not purchase a subscription, they tell you that you confirmed by giving them your date of birth (Month and Day only).  If you still refuse to pay, they threaten you that your personal information will be submitted to the credit bureaus.   The telephone numbers for “International Credit Recovery” are 607‐748‐5231 or 607‐748‐4686 or 607‐748‐1688.
A complaint has been filed re: this scam with the New York Attorney General’s Office.”
Please advise your cardholders of the following:
• Do not give out ANY personal information over the phone, the internet or the mail.
• If you think the request is valid you should always contact the bank yourself using the number on the back of your card and forward any suspicious emails or information of potential fraud to fraud_help@usbank.com.
• If anyone ever gives out information they should immediately call US Bank Customer Service.
Please pass this on to your cardholders, coordinators and approving officials.  By informing each other, we protect each other.
Please email any questions to ccsc@da.usda.gov.
Thank you!

USDA’s Charge Card Service Center would like to alert you to a new scam that has occurred with employees within USDA who have received phone calls from a fraudulent company, “Professional Business Publications” and then as an organization “International Credit Recovery.”  Please see details of the scam below.
The scam works like this:
“The sales calls come from a fraudulent company called “Professional Business Publications”  and they try to sell you subscriptions to publications.  After several months, they call you back under the name of “International Credit Recovery” stating that they are a collection agency for “Professional Business Publications” and that you had agreed to a publication subscription. When you indicate that you did not purchase a subscription, they tell you that you confirmed by giving them your date of birth (Month and Day only).  If you still refuse to pay, they threaten you that your personal information will be submitted to the credit bureaus.   The telephone numbers for “International Credit Recovery” are 607‐748‐5231 or 607‐748‐4686 or 607‐748‐1688.
A complaint has been filed re: this scam with the New York Attorney General’s Office.”
Please advise your cardholders of the following:
• Do not give out ANY personal information over the phone, the internet or the mail.
• If you think the request is valid you should always contact the bank yourself using the number on the back of your card and forward any suspicious emails or information of potential fraud to fraud_help@usbank.com.
• If anyone ever gives out information they should immediately call US Bank Customer Service.
Please pass this on to your cardholders, coordinators and approving officials.  By informing each other, we protect each other.
Please email any questions to ccsc@da.usda.gov.
Thank you!

A woman keeps calling by the name of Cynthia.  She claims that me and "my company" are delinquent.  Oh, by the way, Cynthia did slip up and say Kathy/Cathy at one point.  So that pointed me to your reviews and statements here and I am glad I have found this site! I started receiving an invoice for a product that I never asked for and if I did have any free trials, my boss has to approve it in writing first before I agreed to anything. My birthdate was wrong and NO it won't hold up in court. Last message from her was "Clear it up today".  How rude.  I've never even seen a magazine or publication or anything from them, much less ordered from them.  Really bad company.  Really bad people.  Keep calling, I'll keep ignoring.

Amazing they have been at the same scam since 2007 !  I too received a call from a Chris Bennett at International Credit Recovery.   Left a message that my company was deliquent in paying a vendor bill (never said which bill or how much) just that it must have been an oversight ...   I called back and received a generic voice mail box - no employee name or company name.  Just "leave a message ... beep"         Suffice to say, I did not leave a message ... Total Scam

Got a call from Katie from the same company, gave me the same line of bull everyone else is getting. Started getting fishy fast and when I pushed for info she became belligerent and hung up on me. I've filed a complaint with the FTC, suggest you all do the same so they can be shut down.

Received a call one day from some guy who kept calling back even though I hung up on him. Said it was a free newsletter they wanted to send me blah blah blah...he already had my email and name...I am assuming when he called he asked the receptionist to speak with someone in accounting and then asked for my name etc and she gave it to him :( After I hung up I started receiving these annoying spam emails, day after day after day...I would unsubscribe and opt out of every one but still kept getting them...One day I received a past due notice from Progressive Business Publications...there is no phone number or contact info on invoice to contact them...just and address to send payment so I went directly to their website that I found online and sent an email to customer service as well as writing them and mailing a complaint letter as well...well months go by without a word and one day out of the blue I receive a call from Michelle Decker from Credit Recovery Agency attempting to "resolve" the issue and collect the debt.  So I tell her the whole story but she just kept trying to get me to pay which I wouldn't. She advised me that I needed to cancel using the bar code that was in the publication they were mailing me...I was like what publication all i get are these annoying emails!!! She said that if I paid her she could get them to cancel my subscription!!! Unbelievable!!! I have to pay for something that I never signed up for or received to get them to stop sending me something that I am never going to get so I don't get billed anymore??  I finally reported them to the Better Business Bureau ... I was hopeful they could help but now I am not sure.. I received a response stating that they have sent my complaint to the company and once the company responds back they will contact me...I doubt they will ever respond because they are a company that doesn't care but maybe if enough people complained it would shut them down...I cant believe from the dates on these posts how many years this company has been doing this and that they are still in business with then same name...

bad scumbag liars

Just so everyone knows, this scam is wholly contained under one owner.  Progressive Business Publications owns International Credit Recovery.  Wrap your head around that...

I received a call from International Credit Recovery on behalf of Progressive Business publications at work today (December 2015). They informed me that I owed them $300 for a newsletter subscription that began in June of 2015. I informed the person I was speaking to, Lindsey, that I remembered accepting a free issue. When we were sent a bill for about $80 the next month, we replied with a "CANCEL" on the invoice. We were sent another issue, followed by another bill. That was also sent back with "CANCEL." Phone calls and emails were sent. Like other people listing complaints, I was also told that because I gave them my date of birth, I had knowingly agreed to accept all charges. That was never stated in the "free issue" phone offer. Honestly, I only accepted the free offer to help the person I was speaking to reach his goal for the day. Had I known they were going to screw me, and the non-profit I work for, over, I would've hung up and immediately reported them to the Better Business Bureau.

Hahaha, what a bunch of scammers.  After tax season, these creeps come out.  Called work, and the boss is use to these scams, so immediately checks number and finds this site.  Tells them they are a scamm!  Boss hates these types of people, and is a bit of a goof ball, so proceeds to prank them. If you can't beat them, join them!  Suggest to prank these folks everyday, they hate it!

The company I work for received several calls from INTL with the claim of an exercised contract by virtue of my birth date. Initially  from Progressive Business Publishing  I was offered  email  literature regarding quality management, noted snail mail literature for several months billing us now for 299.00. I explained  to Lindsey I did not sign a contract and our company has been out of manufacturing for several years and  I have no interest in the literature at this time. And at the price I wouldn't have future interest either . I see they have been sued in 2015. But still persist with their scam so it must be worthwhile. They threatened  adverse credit effects and  the accruing of additional fees for non payment. I initially gave my cc #...but was bothered by the tactics, called AMX explained the situation to hold any payments that might be requested. I would advise anyone receiving calls /offers from Progressive Business Publishing to disconnect immediately.  I called Lindsey back to inform her of my decision  she reiterated the threats, I told her to sue me, I am 72 years old bring it on!.

I received a call from a person named Christina, she didn't give me a chance to speak, she said there was an invoice not being paid for this company but my name is on the invoice and if I don't pay the invoice it was going to collections and my supervisor would be unhappy with me.
I tried to ask her questions but she just kept saying "call me at 607-748-4686 and hung up the phone,  I tried calling her back but no one would answer the phone.

Katy Dotman calls claiming that we are delinquent on an account for 6 months.  Somehow they got a former employee's name and claim that this employee (who had no purchase authority) made the commitment for purchase.  Balderdash.....scammer.

I got the call from the same number, stating the same, and the funniest part is, they say they have my social security number told over the phone to purchase their subscription, whereas i am not a U.S Ciitizen nor even a resident/Travellor and dont have the SSN :)   They argue they have my date of birth, which i say, it can easily be obtained from any social website. The time i asked her that i got your number and lets see who file a case first, you or my attorney..!! and she hand up..!! :D
Surprisingly Better Business Bureau keep saying that they dont credit this business but i am afraid why they are failed to ban and shut this company off, as of now..?? So weird it is

You need to get your fact straight, because when you call the number given to you on the voice mail it says thank you for calling ICR and they are a sepporet enmity from progresses, totally different address than Provresses Buisness Publications. you are lieng because of what you see on the other reviews just because it's on the internet d osnt make it true

ICR IS not Progressive thay are an outside collection firm that collects for Progressive get your facts straight there's are assumptions that are not true!!!!stop posting lies