607-748-4686

Oh, wow.  This woman Kathy has called me several times, claiming we owe $299.00 for 10 newsletters that we don't remember ever receiving.  As I continued to tell her we never received it, she told me that today is the last day before I am personally turned in for bad credit, but that she could prorate for the amount of $130.00 only if paid by 3:30 ET.  Glad I "googled" the name of the company.

They are all scumbags.........I hope they have miserable lives and have to enter into bankruptcy!!!!!! Scumbags....I work for a $3.5 billion a year company and they are going to try to send us to collections...GOOD LUCK!!!!! I think we have a little more firepower than they do.  This would be like New Zealand trying to invade the US.....Hey, the trailer park called and wants their scumbags back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I received the same call as everyone else. They called me.. I told them to go to hell..Valarie got mad asked for my supervisors name.. again told her to go to hell... Said that I verified by my DOB... But guess what.. wrong date. I started to laught at her and she got very angry. I told her that I would gladly give her our legal teams info so that she could call them. She said please. so I told her to call the US Attorney Generals Office in Washington DC. She seemed stunned.. I told her that I worked for the federal government and that they were our attorneys. She asked who I report to and I responded " The US Taxpayer". Needless to say she hung up. I thought it was over until not 10 minutes later she tried to call the Director of my center. I had already passed around the story of the call so Valerie never made it to him. I turned the information over to our Security Specialist who is going to get in contact with the Inspector General and possibly more...

forgot to mention that they called from several numbers. 607-748-5231  607-748-4686, 607-748-1688 They all sound like the same person, Valerie, Cathy, Chris, Lori, and whever else.

Kathy Rema
International credit recovery
607-748-4686
This is the biggest bunch of @#$%$#@ I have ever seen they are calling for progressive business publications,They trick your employees into sending them some cheap bulletins and then send you a bill for hundreds of dollars.
Dont pay jus thang up the phone

He won't stop calling after I asked him. This guy is from NJ I live like 10 to 15 hrs. away from his state. So I live far . I asked him nice first few times. Then got ugly. This guy says it's not harassment even though I made it clear to him it was. If I ever went to the police it would be very long before they did something. I don't know what else to do. But please I would like him to stop calling me. The annoying calls all hours must stop. This guy must be lonely. I got a boyfriend sorry. He don't need to be breaking us up over him calling us. He must be mental or not bright. Because I told him over ten to 20 times to stopin the past because one boyfriend could not handle it & we broke up over it . His calls have been on ignore for two months now.  He still calls he's like obessed with calling women or something.  973-979-5442

I got a call from Lynn.  She said that she was trying to collect on a bill from Progressive Collections.  I told her that I was not allowed to authorize anything and that I would not.  She said because I gave them the month and day of my birth, that this was an approval from me to go ahead.  There is no way that we accepted anything.  Now I call and just get an answering machine.

I keep getting calls from this company called ICR regarding a past due invoice of something that I never agreed to.  They asked to speak to my boss about something that i supposly agreed too which i didnt.  They said they have an actual recording of me agreeing but they wont show it to me.  This people really are horrible and want to scam people.

Our managing editor got a call from Cathy Remer ICR claiming that we had received a Customer Service Advantage Newsletter and that we had not been paying our invoices. I called back, left a message on their answering machine explaining that we had never received such a newsletter.

A few days later Amanda called and claimed the same thing.  Amanda said their company ICR would continue on "their end" with the delinquency collection.

I called back to 607-748-4686 and asked questions about their company, they refused to answer.  We have never seen this publication or even heard of it.  Clearly fraud.

Got a call from Kathy Rema..from International Credit Recovery. Said we owed so-and-so amount for a Newsletter. We purchase everything with a PO Number..she couldn't give us one. Kathy also said they had my personal information, birth date??..I could care less, won't pay for anything without a PO No. let alone something we never purchases in the first place.

wow you people are so right.  Its a absolute scam.  That [***] Cathy left a message for me at work today for the same thing.  Ofcouse I NEVER subscribed to ANY publication.  I will call that [***] back from home...record the call...then file a complaint with the FTC

Well, I'm not alone!!  It's probably worth it for them to get a couple suckers to actually pay them.  I got "the call" from Valerie today.  She started off very friendly and the more resistant I got, the angrier she got.  She asked for our CFO's name and number.  Yeah right!!  For $299.00??  Oh wait, she has my birthday.  That must mean I agreed to all terms of a contract.  huh??  I am looking forward to another call, just so I can tell her to go to hell.  DON'T PAY THIS COMPANY.

We get these all the time. Just write "cancel subscription" and "return to sender".
If they call, do not give out information - only ask what information they have on their side. DO NOT VOLUNTEER OR AGREE INFO WITH WHAT THEY SAY THEY HAVE. They will say they have a mother's maiden name, date of birth, or mailing address for the subscriber. Do not validate what they say they have just say you will look into it and hang up.
Names we have heard: Amanda, Laurie, Tiffany, Janice, Kathy, Valerie (and s couple of otehrs i can't remember off the top of my head)

Another note: there is a toner cartridge scam. They call and ask what type of pirnter/copier you have then hang up. A couple of days later, you get a phantom toner cartridge mailed to the business. If you do not return the toner cartridge, you will get a bill for $300 for it. Just send back the toner cartridge as soon as you recieve it (and tell your receptionist not to give out any info on printers/fax/copiers).

I just received a call from "Amanda" from ICR and she told me that I had not paid an invoice for some on-line HR Legal Training for Supervisors ordered June 2009 from Progressive Business Training [for $599!!!]. She was sure this was an oversight since it was such a small amount :) Fortunately I was confused and stunned and made her slow down and repeat everything. I suspected a scam but wasn't sure. She said it was originally a 30-day trial, and when I didn't cancel before the 30 days I automatically was approving the subscription because I had provided my birthday month and year (which she had correct).

She said that when I didn't pay they had stopped my subscription, and were willing to settle for $299 and not take it to court. Later she said I needed to pay the reduced rate of $399 today and then they would be able to reinstate my subscription for the remaining 6 months (yeah right).

I assured her I would have never subscribed to something for which I already had in-house resources - especially at that price. I told her I never received the e-mail confirmation nor the alleged 5 invoices that were sent. She became very pushy. I asked her to fax copies, to which she said she didn't want to bother sending them if I wasn't going to pay today. I told her without reasearch/confirmation I wouldn't pay so she said she'd have her secretary fax them to me.

When I searched for Progressive Business Trianing I found Business 21 Publishing and the light came on. I had dealt with them in the past and they were very heavy handed and alleged I had ordered a legal update book, etc.

THank for your postings. Now I know it's OK to add ICR to my no call list too.

Amanda called me stating that our company owed them money for a publication...just like the other people on this page.  She refused to fax me something in writing showing that we owed the money.  Sounds a little supucisious to me.

Got a call today from a Cathy Rema of International Credit Recovery at (607) 748-4686.  Extremely rude and threatening.  She purports to be collecting a delinquent bill for a publication CFO & Controller Alert from a Progressive Publications that she states our company did not cancel in a timely manner. I explained that we did not order or approve such a periodical.  She replies that I gave my date of birth (she correctly recites the month/day) as approval for the periodical.  I ask for actual proof and to please fax me the invoice at issue to my company fax number which I give her.  She becomes more provocative asking my title, if I'm an owner, etc. and states that she is not willing to fax me an invoice without knowing all of this information. I make it clear I am not willing to share this info.  After a minute or so of this, I hang up on her. No fax ever came.

Dear Cathy, or anyone else from International Credit Recovery, if you are reading this, please be advised:  If your company contacts my company again I will file a report with the authorities in the appropriate judisdiction.

Happy Holidays to you and yours, Glen

A woman called by the name of Cathy, she said she was the manger of a company called International Credit Recovery (ICR). She claimed that our Company was delinquent on a payment from a company called Progressive Business Publications. She informed me that my name was on the invoice and if we did not pay, our company would be put into collections.  I explained that Progressive Business Publications did contact me about a free trial that they were running, and I did agree to a free trial.  However, I never received the letter that was to accompany the free trial that would allow me to opt of the trial or continue and purchase their 'product'.  Since I never received the letter for continuace or termination of said trail, nor a letter confirming the terms of agreement; I flatly told Cathy this was fraud.  If this continues, I will simply involve my companies attorney to draft a cease and desist letter or a lawsuit for slander and libel may ensue.  DO NOT PAY THESE PEOPLE, HANG UP WHEN PROGRESSIVE PUBLICATIONS CONTACTS YOU THE FIRST TIME!

Same experience - claimed we ordered-by-phone a publication that we NEVER received they said they sent 10 issues so far) and never got a bill for (they said they sent 5 past due notices).  BELLS started ringing in my head when I asked for an address to send our formal, legal dispute of this debt (as allowed by law) and "CATHY M" got NASTY, refused to give me address, and said she'd "worked with Finance Managers before and we are all hard to work with" (!) -- bye bye, "Cathy M".  This is a SCAM!

Same story. The individual who has been calling us has identified herself as Becky Morgan. Total Scam.

Same story as most of the above .... Had a call from "Lynn" with International Credit Recovery.  I asked for a fax of the invoice and she wouldn't send.  She just gave me a false invoice #.  Total scam!  Thank goodness it's possible to research this stuff on the internet.