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Same thing, but Katie called three different people (in Minnesota, Iowa and Connecticut offices) trying to collect and complaining about the others being rude. Their office is about 3 hours from here - but it is tempting to tell them I will drive up with a check. In the meantime we are going to have some fun with them and fax blank pages (very fast on our end and very annoying on theirs) and try to see how many times we can get them to call other people in our organization before they catch on.

Evidently, the name of the day is Lin at International Credit Recovery who called me this morning. Of course, I was incredulous although I remember getting invoices but never the "Environmental Compliance Alert" I was supposed to have order last July. If you Google "Progressive Business Publications" and "fraud" in the same query you will see others have approached by these scammers, too. Yes, you'd think various state and federal authorities would have put a stop to this long ago. I guess the feds are too busy propping up the rich guys on Wall Street...

I received a call from Kathy Rema from ICR..  same story as everyone else..  She got nasty when I would not let her speak with my boss.  She said she was going to call him at home.  She also threatened to ruin my personal credit.  Finally she said "This will not go away!" and hung up.  She called the next day and when I told her that according to the NY State Division of Corporations IRC of Vestal NY is "Inactive" and "dissolved" for not paying franchise taxes, she said that is a different company and put me on hold!  Really?!  How many ICRs in Vestal NY are there?  And she expected me to sit on hold?!  Yeah right!  
Funny thing is, two days later, Progressive Business Publications and asked for our CFO.  (We are a small dental office.)  I asked if this had to do with an IRC matter.  No, she wanted to send him a free trial copy of CFO and Controller Alert!  Seriously?!  I started laughing, told her they were scammers and hung up!  We all got a good giggle about that!

Same story here too. They had some man call after I refused to pay. He said I had five minutes to prove I canceled. I told him he had to prove to me I did not cancel. They show no records of us canceling over the phone, (convenient) however we received no product either. We did cancel over the phone and will not be paying anything. He became very frustrated and said I had a credit problem and hung up. We will see what happens.

I just recieved a call about a debt from an Amanda @ 607-748-4686.  When I asked what the debt was about she declined to tell me since my name was not on the account.  Is this bogus?

BEWARE these are SCAMMERS -
Caller ID shows 607-748-0178, and leave callback # is 607-748-4686:

I received a call from Kathy Rema from ICR (International Credit Recovery)...same story as a lot of people that these people are scammers trying to collect on a debt for something you didn't order no receive.  She is trying to collect a $299 debt for a magazine subscription from Progressive Business Publications that we never received nor ordered.  She talks very fast and sounds professional, but she calls harassing us on a daily basis for something we are not going to pay.

I looked them up on the Texas Better Business Bureau, and there were over 216 complaints against them.  When you look them up on the internet it says they are calling from Vesta, NY

I forgot to add that the subscription they say we ordered is for

"Environmental Compliance Alert"   we've never received it.

Same story -- they wanted my manager or AR department....I asked for her address so that our attorney could send some paper work.   She didn't know it.  SHE was the manager too.  Next time I'll going to say "Sure I'll send a check, what's the address"

Just received payment past due notice in mail. My partner and luckily look over all bills that go thru out accounts out. Or I could see someone paying it. I am a police Officer in our community and I would love to put these outfits out of business. We all work to hard to get what we get without this crap.

DEWall

I'm gotten the same spew regarding Progressive Business Publications/International Credit Recovery Inc.  I contacted our local BBB and DCCA.  They don't have a collector agency license to collect in our state, so for sure they can't collect anything and they aren't an accredited business with BBB.  Any claim on their part to file a negative mark on the credit score is bogus.  They got over 500 complaints with the BBB.  The simple solution is to ignore the scam, but I'll like to retaliate against them and put a stop their antics.  Doubt the BBB, FBI, and any other law enforcement agency will do anything against them.  Any suggestions for payback?

A woman called by the name of Amanda, she said she was from 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  if we did not pay $240, our company would be put into collections.  I told her I didn't order any thing from that company, but I received a single paper write-up newsletter for a few month that I thought it a garbage advertisement which I didn't even open up because it was not worth to open it. I received a bill (don’t remember the amount since I didn’t pay attention) sometime last year, before November,  which I sent it back after I wrote "We didn't order this. Must be a mistake" on top of the bill.

Now they claimed that I ordered by phone with one month trial period and my birth-date is the proof that I ordered it.  I told them I never ordered by phone and I NEVER agree to buy anything with a Trial Period which is my Personal Policy.  I put my birth-date whenever I become a member of any online site, so it is easy access, but I NEVER order any over the phone or online especially our organization doesn’t have money for it. So when I tried to recall any possible link, I remembered one day I was searching through any grant opportunities for non-profit org and found a site that they claimed they have all grant information and had to become a member to see them.  First page need the company name, my name, address, phone number and my birthday, etc and then went to the second page where the cost of membership is written. Any sites asking money, I always just got out.  They must capture the first page info that is the only explanation I can think of an possibilities. I explained this to Amanda and she told me that she would help me by adjusting the price to $100, and I gave her my personal credit card because I don't have time to argue in the court because my daughter was in car accident in last December and I spend all my time and energy for her treatment.

I mentioned what happened to my colleague during lunch hour, and one told me that if I ordered over the phone, they should have the voice recording of agreement.  I became suspicious and checked the telephone number in google and found all complains posted.  I was afraid what they might do with my credit card information, so I called the credit card company and cancelled the account and called ICR that I cancelled the payment and I need the voice proof.  I received a phone call from the boss who was very aggressive and threatening, and I asked him to give me a few days to consult my lawyer. I didn't have a time to go back to the office because of my daughter's treatment and attending functions outside of office.  I had a call  to my cell phone this morning from the boss and asked me to pay with a credit card.  I told him I would pay by check and ask his address to mail.  I really didn’t want to be bothered with this garbage. I don’t have any more energy to waste.  He insisted to pay by Credit Card.  I told him I am afraid to give out my card information to them because I don’t trust. He screamed at me and “ok, then it should be at his office by Federal Express tomorrow morning BEFORE 10am with $240”.  I told him I will mail $100 as first agreed, and by Fed Ex before 10 am. Just give me his address. He screamed and hung up on me.  I called him back and asking for the address and he said, if not by Credit Card at this right moment, he will send this to the Collection. I Told him,”I say I will Pay by check; just give me Your address and I will mail it by Fed Ex as you requested. If you don't trust my check, I will send by Money Order”.  He screamed that “Now, at this moment. If you don’t give me your credit card information, No Choice, will report to the Collection” and hung up on me again.

I don't need any aggravation in my personal life at this moment and $100 is cheaper than any more stresses and wasting my energy when I need all for my daughter - that is the only reason why I agreed to pay and get rid of any garbage; but I now have to  bring this issue to our lawyer.

I am posting this to help others as the posting here helped me.

Would you please read my comments and
could  you do something or  report this to law?

I had to waste 3 hours this morning to wirte, report and contact this garbage when my time is so limited.... since you a policeman, you could do something for all of us,
(I am a full time volunteer at a community center).

Same old story.  I spoke with Katie Dotman who was trying to collect a $94.56 payment from Professional Business Publications, stating we had agreed to receiving the publication by providing a birthdate (seems real secure right??)  When I asked for proof of this agreement, she insisted that she didn't have to supply anything to me & that they would send this to our corporate office/probate to collect payment.  She got pretty nasty & then hung up.  I called her out on the scam & thats when she put up her defense.  Thanks to everyone for posting all of this.

How can this company do this?  Why doesn't the Inspector General shut them down?  I too will be writing to the Inspector General of New Yor, the BBB, Postmater General and who ever else I can think of.  What a ripoff!

Same Crap. Trying to HARD push we need to pay this for something we dont owe.

Very pushy & mean trying to scare the employees.

Tell them to F- off!!!!!

My company just received our 3rd invoice from these scumbags (PBP) and it had my name as being the person who authorized the free trial.  I instructed my AP clerk not to pay this as I did not authorize anything of the sort.  Looked for a phone number to contact them, but of course... no number on the invoice... after googling them to see if I could find their number, I came across hundreds and hundreds of posts about these scam artists... I cannot wait for them to call me and try to collect this debt!!! I will not and reccomend anyone not to pay this... IT IS A COMPLETE SCAM!!!!!!!

I got a nasty phone call from a women named Lori Appleton Demanding to speak to are AP department and asked for a person by name.  She said our company was in serious financial trouble and a law suit was being filed today.  First of all isnt that personal???  My company has paid all bills and we are not late on anything

A week after I agreed to pay the $130 to International Credit Recovery, Inc to settle a bill from Progressive Business Publications, my company credit card was canceled due to fraudulent charges! If Progressive Business Publications has such a great product (their newsletters)why do that have to resort to manipulation and deceit to sell it!

It’s nice to know that there are such reputable companies out that that take my credit card information and make fraudulent changes on it!!
I’ll be sure to pass the word on about how they treat their ‘customers’!!

These are the charges on my corporate credit card since I gave it to them.
What a SCAM!!!

8-Mar    ClickNBuy.com    
13-Mar    eSteamRay Cam    $100.00
    eSteamRay Cam    $100.00
    eEACC Net    $1.00
    eEACC Net    $1.00
    Europe Net    $56.90
    Europe Net    $56.90
    Europe Net    $25.68
15-Mar    Apple Online Store    $1.00
         
         
          Total       $342.48

"Laura Appleton" of "International Credit Recovery Inc" called because of an alleged past due subscription invoice from Progressive Business Publications.  She gave the (correct) birth month/day of an employee who she alleged ordered a publication.  He did not order anything that required payment.  The invoice, which she faxed to me, was for $240.

I received a call from Amanda Sprague claiming we had ordered their publication.  When I found out the cost would be prohibitive, I told them we were not interested.  Subsequently, we started receiving invoices for a publication that was never received.  FYI.....The BBB received 728 complaints about this company in the last 36 months and 279 complaints in the last 12 months.

We are speaking with our attornies to see how we can stop the harassing calls.