607-748-4686 / 6077484686

I work in Hotels in the Gulf Shores area, I received a cold call back in July of 2011 trying to sell safety information services from Progressive Business Publications. I simply requested an email stating what services PBP provided so I could make a better determination if there services could be useful. The email come with a Log on & password information to their website. After reading their email I decided their services were not helpful and would not be needed and replied to the email stating that their services would not be needed, Serveral months later I received a reply email stating that they where in receipt of my email and regreatful that I would not be using their services. Nothing further received from the company at all, no bills or publications.In the begining of May 2012 I starting getting HIGH PRESSURE collection calls from a "International Credit" or "International Credit Recovery" company stating that I owed them money and to pay now. An offer was made to cut the $ 299.00 membership fee down to $130.00 if i agreed to pay today via Credit Card. I requested time to find my back ups in reference to cancelling their services (emails, Bills, Accounts Receivable ect...) before paying which "Angie" International Credit Recovery agent refused and demanded payment immediately, RED FLAG. I was informed that several bills were sent along with several News Letter Issues which were not received by myself, department, or Accounts Depart "RED FLAG". An Invoice was requested from the ICR for money owed, no explaination of what was owed only Pay $299 or $130 to cancel was faxed over. No back up information of when bills were sent ect. When back ups were requested from Progressive Business Publications or Contract information for PBP was requested their "High Pressure" tacts kicked in to High Gear. I blow these people off for serval days, on their 3rd call and high pressured call yet they placed me on hold. Thas when i started to google their tell phone numbers and started to find case after case of Fraud alligations and BBB complaints in the Hundreds. When confronting them with this information and threatenting to file complaint cases against them their like okay, whatever and back off completely.

I received this same call "We will send you the free subscription.... blah, blah, blah.... just write cancel on the invoice... blah, blah, blah" I received a subscription in the mail in March or April of 2011. The "welcome!" letter came in the mail with information on accessing the website and such and said that I should be receiving an email containing my user name and password. On April 12, 2011, I sent the welcome letter back along with the materials they sent me and wrote on the letter "PLEASE CANCEL!! HAVE NOT SEEN A STATEMENT OR AN EMAIL TO CANCEL THIS" I received yet another publication on 4/28/11. Again I wrote "2ND NOTIFICATION!! PLEASE CANCEL!! 4/28/11" Since then, I have not received anything in the mail and I have never in this entire time received an email from them. Forward to 5/10/2012, I have a voice mail on my personal line at work from Chris Bennett stating that he is with ICR, a collection company, and has an invoice for my company with my name on it that has not been paid and has been sent to collections. I called the number back that he left for me to call him back on and I got a secretary or something - which I thought was odd that a PERSON would answer the calls at a collection agency, usually you are sent into a computer run system to "Press 1 for X dept" and so on - the girl told me that Chris was out for the day and she would leave him a message - which was also strange that she would not forward me to a voice mail box for me to leave a message. Any reputable agency would have an automated system and voice mail. Since my initial call to this place yesterday using phone number 607-748-5231, I have tried calling them back about 10 times, each time I get a busy tone. A collection agency should not have a busy number for hours on end, it should give a message that "all representatives are currently busy, your approximate wait time is...." Definitely a scam. After calling ICR yesterday, I did a google search and found all of these posts about them. Something really needs to be done to put them behind bars where they belong

I think "Katie" probably works for them :)

I never received an invoice so when I received a "welcome" packet from PBP, I wrote "CANCEL" on all of the things they sent me and mailed them back. A week later, I received a statement. I wrote "CANCEL" on the statement as well and sent it back. I never received another call or mailing from them. That was a year ago. Last week I received a voice mail message from ICR stating they received an invoice for my company with my name on it that had not been paid. I started google searching for ICR and found all of the information about them and their workings with PBP. The message they (ICR) left me last week made no mention of PBP. ICR called me back today and surprise, surprise, it was PBP that said I owed them money! It doesn't seem to to any good to CANCEL anything because they just ignore it and "bill" you for it anyhow and then "send" you to "collections".

Just got a call from them also. She knew my birthday etc. No one in this office has ordered their stupid expensive flyer. We knew right off it was a scam or as we talked just a scare tactic. She said she would fax invoice (bet she does). They can bring it on, we will contact our attorney in a heart beat. They keep sending this crap without APPROVAL, then they want $299.00 for a stupid flyer. The so called notice we received in April 2011 (yes this has been going on for years), states "This is not an invoice. If you take no action you (idiots can't even spell, should of been your) trial subscription will expire, so mail your form today!" Another place it reads "You are under no obligation to continue and, if you take no action at all, your free subscription will automatically expire." I ran off a copy of this one and mailed back with all their crap in it I put a note on it that read "Remove our name & phone # from your list!!" Then where it had our company name and address, I circled it and put "REMOVE!!!" Them morons don't take no for an answer. Every time we receive their so called safety alert - whatever, we throw it in the trash. The only reason I kept the one from April 2011 I kept for proof. PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS - K.M.A. By the way to the readers, they are using different phone #'s. Our caller ID showed 607-748-2539.

Well an update to my previous post. They did sent their invoice by fax the next day. Well I was not done with them. I wrote them a letter (full page) and tried faxing to the # on invoice (607-748-6256), what do you guess, wouldn’t go thru, so I faxed to the # on top of the fax they sent (607-748-1478), it went ok. I won’t post what I wrote, but at the end told them we would be turning all of this information over to our lawyer. I also reminded them in my letter what all of their stuff reads, which in part is in my previous post. Well today we received a call from them. Looking at the # on caller Id, I knew had to be them. But I did not get the woman’s name. She said she had called and payment would be sent and they have not received. Told her it will not be sent. I told her I had sent a letter by fax with all their stuff they sent. Told her we did not order and are not going to pay nothing. She told me she had my information. I told her anyone can get this information from the internet. She claims she didn’t get from internet. Then I told her I had already searched them out on the internet and that we were turning all of this over to our attorney. She then told me they were turning over to collections and slammed the phone down on me. Bring it on!!!By the way I was very short and to the point with her in our conversation. No wonder she hung up on me, OH WELL! To all that reads this, I gave another # they used in my previous post. Well I am going to give you more that showed up on our caller id today, while we were out to lunch.(607)748-6016 - 1 call, (607)748-4271 - 2 calls and the one I answered was (607)748-0178.

Oops number should of been (607)748-4270 not (607)748-4271. Sorry

This is a total SCAM! Got a call from Angel today. Stated that someone in our HR Department ordered a newsletter in OCTOBER 2011. The person they claim ordered the newsletter 1. Was not employed her at the time. 2. The Date of Birth that they use to "verify" the sale did not belong to the person they said they spoke with. 3. The person has NEVER received this so called newsletter that ICR is collecting on behalf of a company called PBB. TOTAL SCAM! My compnay will be filing a complaint with the FCC and the Better Business Bureau.

What the heck is a verification e-mail? What a scam!

Same stuff as all the other posts. 2 calls from Cathy Rema, said I ordered some safety news letter and we need to pay up $299.00. Neither myself or our procurement people have seen any invoices and I don't recall ordering anything from these people. I found a letter in our files where I told them in 2010 to cancel a subscription to some newsletter that we hadn't ordered either. Apparantly, these folks don't realize they are talking with a federal law enforcement agency here. I wish them the best and in the mean time, these posts provide much needed background information about their activities.