We received an invoice with the name of one of our managers that stated he had ordered a publication. The cost was $299.00 and it said our account was 90-days past due. We didn't order the publication.

I have received their newsletter which I have not ordered. Now I have received a past due invoice notice and now a second past due notice. I did not order it. This is illegal.

Been fighting with PBP since November 2008 regarding a $299 unpaid invoice for an unsolicited and never received publication called "What's Working in Human Resources". Regularly we receive faxes and menacing phone calls from Cynthia Thomas at International Credit Recovery, Inc. The last time she called she said all conversations are recorded so I asked her to play back the conversation we allegedly had about me ordering this publication. She said they already recorded over it. Cynthia Thomas of International Credit Recovery swears I ordered the item because after all "they have0 my date of birth". Well anyone with a half brain knows no one will ask for a date of birth and anyone with half a brain would never give out that information when ordering an item. Second it was the wrong date! The last time Cynthia called she asked if I was the President or Owner of the company. Although I'm in upper management I told her I was just a peon answering the phones every day. She totally was taken back! The phone calls and faxes claiming I owe them $299 have stopped for now so I think I found the answer to get them to stop! We also reported them to the BBB and Missouri Attorney General's office.

We are a small non-profit. Katy from Progressive Business Publications called a part-time employee with no authorization to approve $240 subscribtions and reported that because Katy had her birthdate, she now owed her the balance for a subscription to a publication called "Foundations and Corporate Funding Advantages." When we called Katy to tell her we were reading how this was a fraudulent claim on-line, she said "i'm very aware of what they are saying." As executive director, I approve all invoices and receive all mail. We have never received this report and if we have received fake invoices, it looked fake enough for me to trash them without opening.
We will be reporting this to the better business bureau also.

It all begins when you start receiving invoices for $240 for a business newsletter to which you did not subscribe. You will get several invoices over a period of months. Then you will start getting telephone calls from a 'collection agency.' The telephone number of the person representing herself as a collection agency is 607-748-1688, an area code in south-central New York. When you ask for proof that you subscribed to the newsletter, you are told that you gave your birth date as confirmation. Of course, birth dates are easy to come by and many people have them on their Facebook accounts.

I do not know why the government has not shut down this operation. This is the second time they have fraudulently tried to pry money out of me. They tried it before about eight or ten years ago.

Because the invoices are sent to businesses and addressed to 'Accounts Payable, ' my guess is that oftentimes the invoices are paid by some clerk who thinks that someone in the organization actually did subscribe to the publication.