607-748-4686
NY, US
| Molly 2014-06-03 21:08:44 Debt Collector |
I just received this call from Michelle Decker from International Credit Recovery with the same song and dance as everyone else. She claimed our GM subscribed for the one month free trial and then never cancelled but I could pay it off for a reduced rate of $130. I also asked to listed to the recording and she claimed that the recording was property of "Progressive" and she didn't have it. I then asked for Progressive's telephone number to call to request the recording and she said I couldn't call them because they were now the legal point of contact. They also claimed that the authorization was his birthday which was not even his birthday. The date of the first issue was supposedly mailed 1/13/2012. She claimed they have tried to reach out to our GM but to no reply. I asked why they wouldn't contact the Accounts payable for the company or the owner or controller and she had no response. I have asked for her to fax over any and all documents pertaining to this which I haven't yet received. Needless to say, I will not be paying it and reporting to BBB and the attorney general. Just wasted a half hour of my time.
| Meghan 2014-05-22 15:50:12 Debt Collector |
Just like everyone else....I received my call on Tuesday 5/20/14 from Lindsey Bezek saying that our account has been put into collections and they need us to overnight a check or pay over the phone with a credit card. She said that we owed $230.00 but they would wave the 7 months of late charges if we got this taken care of today. I said I never would've agreed to paying that money for a newsletter and we never received any such letter or invoices. My thinking was if I owed a company and invoice balance since 11/13/13 why wouldn't they have called about the past due invoice before putting it through to collections. This made my boss rather supicious she then looked up International Credit Recovery and came across all this stuff...Thankfully. Lindsey was very rude and hung up on me when I said we will have to look into this before we make any payments and I would contact her tomorrow. I did not contact her but she did call me today about getting this issue resolved. I am going to wait until she calls me again and then I tell her our company attorney is going to be contacting them....Hopefully that makes her go away. I can't even imagine how many people/companys they have scammed money out of because they make it sound so serious. They should be ashamed of themselves. I spoke with my mailman and we are going to look through the mail before he leaves every day to see if we get any of these "newsletters" and I am going to write return to sender on them and have him take them back right away. I also let him know of the scam that is going on. So sad :(
| Michelle 2014-05-21 15:43:16 Debt Collector |
Boy....Amanda sure is a busy girl. We just received the same call for same reason. Reported it to the BBB, FTC and our states attorney. She said we gave a "verbal" OK for this. Never received the publication, nor have we received a bill. When I asked if they recorded the calls, she said yes. Then I asked to listen to it and she said they dont keep them. Right....
Glad I saw this!
| Paul 2014-05-17 13:34:31 Debt Collector |
Veeeerry interesting!
I see that Amanda was at it back in 2010.
I got a call yesterday from her at this phone number regarding a past due invoice for $299 for the "CFO & CONTROLLER ALERT NEWSLETTER" that I allegedly ordered in October. Never received a newsletter or invoice.
What goes around comes around and these guys are still at it 4 years later.
I've read posts where people have actually paid them for fear of a law suit. Too bad!
| Same Becky 2014-05-13 19:17:06 Unknown |
I forgot to say, in my original comment above, that she had my birthdate which she attempted to use to substantiate her claims, none of which were true.
| Becky 2014-05-13 19:11:58 Unknown |
Michelle Decker from International Credit Recovery has been relentlessly trying to collect unpaid subscription fees from me and the company I work for. Same story....she claims that I agreed to payment terms that kicked in after a free trial of hard copy Selling Newsletter of some kind. I got our company's accounting specialist involved and luckily she found the information on this site as well as the hundreds of complaints that have been filed with the Better Business Bureau about this company.
| Allison 2014-04-23 16:53:26 Unknown |
Same story as everyone else... saddens me to see posts dating back years as that means they've been doing this for YEARS.
| Darlene 2014-04-08 14:34:18 Debt Collector |
I got a call yesterday (4/7/14) from Lindsey Bezek saying we had gone to collection for a publication called Quality Managers Alert for $299. The subscriber is a department that was dissolved in 2012. When I told her this, she said that she would reduce it to $130 to cancel. She did fax the infomation, but I will be forwarding this to our Attorney General's Office instead of paying all in thanks to this website!
| Who 2014-04-04 20:30:45 Debt Collector |
6077484686 collection agency for Supervisors Safety Bulletin. Sends "free" trial copies of newsletter-whatever you do you can't cancel it. SCAM SCAM SCAM
| brian quinn 2014-04-01 20:06:28 Unknown |
hi did you pay it?
| Karen 2014-03-27 15:20:34 Debt Collector |
Just received a phone message from Amanda from International Credit Recovery, identifying herself as a manager. She contacted me at work and said our company had a past due invoice with them. I am the accounting manager at my business so that message got my attention. When I tried to call them back @ 607-748-4686 I could not get through. I then looked this company up online and read the numerous complaints describing the same call I just received. I hope she doesn't call back because she will get an ear full. Everyone beware----
| SuefromNY 2014-03-10 22:48:14 Unknown |
I got the same call today from a Lindsay - saying the same thing - a newsletter from Progressive Publications that we know nothing about. Total SCAM
| Margo 2014-02-27 20:02:28 Unknown |
I've often wondered this myself...HOW DO they stay in business!?!?!?! They've been trying to scam our company for close to 2 DECADES! I'm on to them now...be VERY wary of these people....as far I recall...No one have EVER received an actual periodical or magazine...it's stupid little paper about the size of a church bulletin...and mostly bogus comments on it.
Whatever you do...do not commit to these people, and do NOT pay them for what they claim someone your business may have agreed to. Most of their work I done via telephone.
| Dawn 2014-02-26 16:19:27 Debt Collector |
Received a call from Ashley Beach, who said that I did not cancel the subscription properly - I had faxed the invoice back with canceled written on it - she said since they used a bar code scanner, the original invoice had to be mailed back to the company, and those instructions were in the e-mail sent to me.
I never received any publications after the first one that came with the invoice (this was in July, 2013).
| Michelle 2014-02-25 19:30:07 Unknown |
I just got a call from this "Michelle Decker"! She stated that I verbally agreed to a subscription using my birthdate as proof. I told her she should check out the 20-page website that shows the scam they are running and all she could say was that I shouldn't believe everything that I read on the internet. I tried calling them to cancel but could never get ahold of anyone and I may have even sent the invoice back with "CANCEL" written on it (this was 8 months ago so I can't guarantee this). My question is this, could this actually go to collections or is it a threat in order to get money?
| 24 Seven Representative 2014-02-25 17:22:14 Unknown |
By the way forgot to mention - this woman calls herself "Michelle Decker" and keeps telling me it's my last chance to send a check or give a credit card number over the phone before she "closes out her books and has to send to collections" I thought you were collections lady?
| 24 Seven Representative 2014-02-25 17:20:45 Debt Collector |
Got a call from International Credit Recovery on my cell phone and at work for something that I never signed up for. Said that I gave someone my DOB to confirm signature which I never would have done over the phone. Also - I never received an invoice. When she faxed me something she sent something that read for an annual subscription for 5 people. There are not 5 sales people in my office and when I questioned her she said it was for an annual subscription for 5 issues not 5 people and it was coded wrong. Even if it was an annual subscription there would be more than 5 copies even if it was every other month. This is joke and I'm not paying it because I never agreed to it. Also - I had our IT Department try and pull the email that the confirmation would have been sent from and they can't find it - not even in SPAM - go ahead and send this to collections. Good luck scam artists.
| SAMUEL RAMETHAPE 2014-02-09 11:32:10 Unknown |
Linkedin use me to sell my ideas on the web and they never pay me any money,my work is to sell ideas write movies and sell it. So i,write movies to them and they promise to pay me but they never paid me at all please check my website if there is something wrong
| Lisa Marie 2014-02-07 23:01:07 Debt Collector |
I have had a similar experience with "Amanda" International Credit Recovery regarding an HR newsletter we never received from Progressive Business Solutions. I asked her to fax the information to us and she very sweetly said she would. We received no fax. She called again today to follow up as she must settle this now. I called the FTC and reported them as suggested above.
| Darcy 2014-01-24 18:00:06 Unknown |
I just contacted the FTC about this and they agreed that it sounded fishy. Please report them! The number is 877-382-4357.
They said this is type of scam is becoming very popular.
| Darcy 2014-01-24 17:43:22 Unknown |
I received a call from the same number from an Amanda. She told us that an employee authorized a payroll newsletter that was sent via email and USPS in 2012. Employee is no longer with us and not authorized to make purchases. She tried to tell me we were responsible for our emplolyee's actions. I asked her if she had a contract signed by either the CEO or Publisher. She said everything was verbal or via email. I told her without a legal contract, we didn't consider the debt valid.
Seems this company is still running this scam.
| Wack & Brooke 2014-01-20 20:40:59 Unknown |
We get it, we get it.
And it's "Attorney General," not "General Attorney."
| heywood jablomy 2014-01-17 22:07:51 Unknown |
No need to post this over and over.
| 4Q2 2014-01-12 03:02:42 Unknown |
That "payment page" (http://www.intlcreditrec.com/MAKE-PAYMENT.html) is so poorly put together! The labels (for the blanks to be filled out) are inexplicably placed in a large box with a scroll-bar, so they do not precisely line up with the proper blanks! When you move the scroll-bar, the labels move but the blanks stay in place!
| anon 2014-01-11 08:32:27 Unknown |
Oh so, all these pages of complaints are people who have nothing better to do with their time? Well, then cupcake, why are YOU here? Oh, right - you work for the scammers don't you?
| skamkilla 2014-01-11 04:45:58 Unknown |
First Amendment, pal.
And someone has been doing more investigating... this is from a few pages ahead:
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In my case I was called by telemarketer to sign up for "Quality Manager's Alert" which LOOKS and SOUNDS - on the surface - like a pretty good IDEA for a business management environment, but when you receive it, the publication looks like a high school project or newsletter, and pretty much regurgitates ideas pulled from OTHER companies. Like I said, like a high school newsletter. My staff could create a **PROFESSIONAL** publication in minutes, by comparison with this.
While not totally **USELESS** it's definitely NOT worth the publication price of $299 (that's what they're charging now). I could pay an intern a stipend of $20 to create something far, FAR superior.
Oh, there are also spelling errors and other grammatical or word usage errors, like they're instead of their, and bought instead of brought.
Perhaps they have interns putting this together.
The telemarketer reminded me of a co-worker (yes, a **SLICK** salesman type who can talk his way out of a paper bag), but he was at all times courteous and friendly. He knew the right "buttons" to hit, and all the key "buzz words" such as quality control, performance monitoring, compliance and assurance to sell the publication.
I also researched the company itself, they have a website with a photo of what could be their office staff, probably not their executives:
http://www.pbp.com/
A satisfyingly vague website, try clicking on any of the links (try the Online HR Legal Training), they are filled with stock photos pulled from various sources. My first impression, any company that uses **TONS** of photos, mostly stock photos, is just trying too hard to build credibility...or something. This won't let you actually view the training materials unless you have a membership ID and login password (assuming you've created an account and bought the program), but I'm **ASSUMING** the material is similarly regurgitated from someone else's work, or else hacked, cut & pasted from other training material.
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Yep, smells like the old "Puff Sheet Racket" to me!
| Mom 01 2014-01-11 04:09:03 Unknown |
Watch what u say on here! A lot of people read this stuff! I'm familiar with ICR they are a collection agency, a great one at that! And PBP they are huge! Very successful companies! People like u write blogs like this because you have nothing better to do with your time! My advice is do some more investigating, don't believe everything that you read online!!
| Jon 2013-12-27 20:04:30 Debt Collector |
Here's the owners name, or at least the person who signed the lease for the office space and listed himself as the President.
Richard Diorio
| Elaine 2013-12-13 15:51:12 Debt Collector |
I had received a call from these people and said they could send a "sample". What you got for the super overinflated scam price was definitely not worth it, so I canceled. Now they call saying they don't have a record of the cancellation...A company cannot use date of birth as proof. It's simply a security measure to verify an account. A legit magazine company will send you a free trial and even if you don't verbally cancel, they will not charge you but rather stop sending the magazines...unless you provide them with a credit card number with the understanding that they will bill you at renewal time unless you cancel.
| Janet 2013-12-12 16:23:10 Debt Collector |
Just received a voicemail from "Lisa" at International Credit saying that my name was on an overdue invoice for our organization. Requested that I contact her to clear up this "oversight" before she has to report it to collections... I immediately typed the phone number into a search and found a LONG list of complaints about this company and this scam they are running... I won't be calling her back!!!!