Hello Ms. Forte

I think you need to take action againts these vicious cretins.  First they spam your site with fake postings trying to promote their activity.  Then they post abusive comments against anyone who dares complain about them, and demand that any negative posts be removed.  Then they post defamatory slanderous accusations againts your person, followed by threats to extort  you.

Now, this Grossman idiot, who apparently is in charge of that particular office, is employed by Primerica Financial Services Canada (a seperate entitiy from the American head office I believe) -

Primerica
2000 Argentia Road
Plaza 5, Suite 300
Mississauga, Ontario,
L5N 2R7

Telephone: (905) 812-2900
Fax: (905) 813-5310

You may also wish to contact the Finanical Services Commission of Ontario, which is responsible for licensing insurance agents in Ontario and investigating breach of conduct:

http://www.fsco.gov.on.ca/en/About/contact/Pages/default.aspx

There is only one agent listed for this "office" on the Primerica website, not the big gang of 45 that this "Ray Anchetta" imbecile has mentioned, and that agent is Tal David Grossman.  The "Ray Anchetta" may be another one of his bogus aliases or someone acting on his behalf.

Good luck with your efforts and keep us posted.  These people are an embarrassment to all those in the financial services industry and need to be dealt with.

Mr. Anchetta, I just received your email (attached below). I take it you decline my offer to explain your side of the story and prefer to blackmail... Received via feedback:***"We have about 45 agents that will be continuosly posting information about the validity of WhoCallsMe on anti-WhoCallsMe forums.  I've already asked numberous times for you to remove information that is invalid - from individuals who we haven't contacted.  This is not a large request - you have been daily removing my posts and some Pro-Primerica posts from this page.  By mid week we will start our aggressive campaign to challenge the validity of WhoCallsMe.  We have a lot of information, and have accumulated over the past 2 weeks phone numbers of individuals from your team.  Again - ALL I'M ASKING FOR IS FOR POSTS FROM PEOPLE THAT WE DID NOT CALL TO BE REMOVED.  We want nothing else.  Thank You for your understandingRay Anchetta"***You will be challenging the validity of WhoCallsMe? This is not Britannica, if you have not noticed, it's a USER SUPPLIED reverse phone number lookup database. There's bound to be discrepancies and incorrect information. It's up to the end user of that information to make conclusions based on the available data. You will be challenging the anonymous posters? If yes, why not here? Please, again, tell us why the posters are wrong? We do want to hear your side of the story. I am not against you, Mr. Anchetta, even though you are making it difficult for me to stay objective. Also, I NEVER removed Pro-Primerica posts from this page. I removed spam, which included positive AND negative comments.

I fell victim to this scam known as Primerica. It all started one day when an unknown number called my cell phone and left me a voicemail. I listened to the voicemail and couldn't even hardly make out the name of the company from which the guy said he was calling. In the voicemail, he asked if I was still looking for employment. As a recent college graduate desperate to find a job in this sluggish economy, I gladly called back and set up an interview. So I met with the guy who was to become my "field trainer" or whatever and he explained to me what I would be doing, and as a journalism major in college, I hadn't the slightest clue or interest in selling insurance, which is what I got out of the interview, but desperate to work, I agreed to a second interview, and the really weird part is that he asked me if I wanted to meet at the local office or if I wanted him to come to my house (strange). I always felt really pressured when I met with him, and I found it strange the way he always had me write down names of people who I knew. He told me that there was a $99 fee but that if I didn't have it, I could do a "scholarship" program to where I go with my field trainer on three "successful" interviews with prospective buyers/victims in my "warm market" (people close to me - friends and family) to waive the $99 fee, which is what I chose to do. So we went on several interviews to houses of people who I knew and the whole process just seemed a little strange to me. I found it weird how I wasn't participating (I would just sit at the kitchen table watching him explain all this information to my friends who were just as confused as me) and how he always left papers with everyone and asked them to fill out names of people who they knew. Even to customers who didn't or wasn't interested in the whole process, he would constantly call me and ask if I had gotten the list of names. Finally after the third client, my field trainer just stopped calling me and that's when I knew that I had been scammed. I could tell from the beginning that it was a little strange and didn't seem like a real job, but being the desperate unemployed college graduate that I am, I accepted. I feel absolutely embarrassed to have to tell my friends that it was a scam and I am constantly apologizing to them for putting them through this and for giving out their personal financial information to these crooks at Primerica. These cronies are a weird bunch as well. My field trainer told me that I needed to go to the weekly meetings which were every Tuesday night and this was during the summer and Tuesday nights were volleyball nights for me so I rarely showed up and just made excuses as to why I wasn't there. The few meetings that I went to were absolute repeats of one another. The same people got up in the same order and talked about the same old stuff - about how great Primerica was and how it's changed their lives, etc. I spent the entire time asking myself, "What am I doing here with these scammers?" To top it off, my field trainer told me that I needed to go to a regional meeting in St. Louis, which was the biggest joke and waste of time of my entire life. All of these Primerica people are the most brainwashed and ridiculous-acting people I've ever met. I thought to myself that it was just a big cult.  Their phony postings here and elsewere, along with countless fake blogs and websites are indicative of the caliber of mediocrities that this organiziation attracts, and should be a red flag to any potential recruits or customers. To anyone who comes into contact with these people, I would say hang up the phone or slam the door immediately before they lure you in before it's too late. I made no money but lost no money either - only thing I lost was some respect among my friends and a great deal of time that I could have spent looking for other jobs.

I joined Tal's office 2 months ago. Primerica paid for all my licensing, my mutual fund licenses, and has not only helped my family and a few of my friends, but has given me a system for referrals and continued success. Not sure why there is so much dislike for someone as successful as Tal, but the bigger you get in business the more people try to take shots at you. To the writer above, you have it all wrong. You obviously didn't invest enough time researching the truths, you are misinformed and probably still unemployed! Everything that was promised to me has been delivered!

This is so funny. I too recieved a call from Tal Grossman,from that number, about a job as a "team leader". Although I have no doubt that I would be great with people, I felt that it was odd the V.P of Primerica was doing the hiring. My interview was a couple of days ago, I didn't go because of some negative instinctual feelings, and I get a message on my answering machine saying how I missed a great opportunity, and that he has influences in the gta job market, and he might have to put a bad word out! Who does this? So completely unprofessional;to match my disregard for responsibility with your own disregard of professionalism!
I am so glad that I found this forum. To the people that have found good jobs with this company:good for you. To everyone else: If it looks like a duck....
You can't all be wrong, can you?!

I agree with Strawberry. MLM is tough. Thank goodness that Primerica is not Multi Level Marketing! As Strawberry knows, Primerica is regulated by the government - check www.fsco.ca - That's the website for the |financial service industry, or www.ific.com - for all mutual funds.  As Strawberry clearly points out MLM comiossion cheques are low because you using "internal consumption" Selling to a saturated market - that's what you get for selling vitamins and soap.  Primerica deals with MONEY - everyone needs RRSPs, Mutual Funds, Education Funds for Children, Life Insurance - products that solve needs.  Thanks for the insight on MLM Strawberry, thank god there's still hope out there with companies like Primerica, and people like Straw and I!