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TPF Law Report Scam Company to Information Commissioner

TPF Law Solicitors have been made aware that a sales company purporting to be calling on behalf of TPF Law Solicitors, are contacting members of the public about PPI and Debt Management.

We would like to advise you that these calls are not associated in any way with TPF Law Solicitors.

We are reporting these calls (from number 0151 909 1965) to the Information Commissioner (ICO) today (13.3.13).

We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and abide by the Principles and Rules.

We strongly deny any connection with this scam company and whilst looking into this matter we will also investigate any repeat defamatory internet postings about our company.  We will seek to take action against any indivudal who potentially brings the good name of our practice into disrepute.

Should you be contacted by such a company, it would assist us and the ICO if we could establish who this business is.

If you have any details please forward them to:

Dawn Scott
TPF Law Solicitors
Queens Chambers
5 John Dalton Street
Manchester
M2 6ET

Or telephone: 0845 073 7177 or email: dawn.scott@tpf-law.co.uk

I used http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/marketing/22.aspx which takes you to https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=134674895144
Caller: 0151 909 1965 scam
Call Type: Debt Collector

Hattons Solicitors
3/5 Victoria Square
St Helens
Merseyside
St Helens,
Merseyside
WA10 1HQ

TPF Law Solicitors
The Business Centre,
Royal Mills
17 Red Hill Street
Manchester
M4 5BA

Typical recorded message call suggesting I had opted in to receive them - I have not. Reported to ICO and urge everbody to do the same. Do NOT press 5 or 9 .!

TPS are rubbish.

They will only do something if you are called by a person and not by a computer.
By pressing a button, you are in effect calling them, so complaining to TPS is even less likely to work.

I repeat TPS are rubbish.

I had a call left for me from 01519091965 myself today. It seemed to be an Injury claim company. People like them just cause everyones car insurance in increase.

grrr - another one to block on the phone - so sick of this and the ppi calls

Shame calls like this cannot be charged by us for wasting our time!

Keep getting calls about writing offdebt. We have tps so shouldn't be getting them.

TPF Law Report Scam Company to Information Commissioner

TPF Law Solicitors have been made aware that a sales company purporting to be calling on behalf of TPF Law Solicitors, are contacting members of the public about PPI and Debt Management.

We would like to advise you that these calls are not associated in any way with TPF Law Solicitors.

We are reporting these calls (from number 0151 909 1965) to the Information Commissioner (ICO) today (13.3.13).

We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and abide by the Principles and Rules.

We strongly deny any connection with this scam company and whilst looking into this matter we will also investigate any repeat defamatory internet postings about our company.  We will seek to take action against any indivudal who potentially brings the good name of our practice into disrepute.

Should you be contacted by such a company, it would assist us and the ICO if we could establish who this business is.

If you have any details please forward them to:

Dawn Scott
TPF Law Solicitors
Queens Chambers
5 John Dalton Street
Manchester
M2 6ET

Or telephone: 0845 073 7177 or email: dawn.scott@tpf-law.co.uk

All the more reason to report 0151 909 1965 to the ICO https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=134674895144 and point them to this thread https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01519091965

Same call a week later, except from 01542842715.

Repeated calls to my number, not answered.

call about debt write off  unsolicited.

I have read that Identity Protect Limited t/a Identity Protection Service, PO Box 795, Godalming, Surrey. GU7 9GA is a scam operation that registers lots of the scam artists' sites who wish to conceal their true identity from us and the cursory glance of the under-resourced trading standards officer.

Some of these data criminals are complained about on whocallsme. Identity Protect Limited run their own servers with Webfusion, and are linked to crime networks in Germany, London, Manchester , Liverpool and the Midlands.

You will see lots of postings on here telling you NOT complain to the ICO & TPS because they are "useless". Ignore them. Two of the syndicate were recently fined £440,000 by the ICO because of our complaints and this cost the crime syndicate introducer fees.
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01614750375

The frequent "not worth reporting" posts are made by the syndicate to discourage us from contacting the ICO. TPS pass the complaints on to the ICO, so are equally slated.

Report EACH non-compliant call to the ICO. They require evidence to act.
https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=134674895144

Likewise, report each and every scam attempt to Action Fraud. Attempted fraud is still a crime.
www.actionfraud.police.uk

Magrathea Telecomms are another scam operation with Columbian connections and work with Identity Protect Limited and Webfusion

If you see any of the above names or addresses in a whois do NOT deal with the company or website.

Likewise, if Magrathea Telecomms is the callers' telecom provider, avoid them.

At best you will be supporting crime and at worst you will end up being defrauded.

Google the names above and the word scam if you are in any doubt.

https://www.duedil.com/company/07407280/identity-protect-limited

Identity Protect Limited
Company Number: 07407280
Company Type: Private limited with share capital
SIC Code: 7260, Other Computer Related Activities
Inc. Date: 14 Oct 2010
Annual Returns: 14 Oct 2012
Annual Accounts: 31 Dec 2011
Last Updated: 23 Oct 2012

Registered Address
5 Roundwood Avenue
Stockley Park
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB11 1FF

Trading Address
The Old Forge
Shackstead Lane
Godalming
Surrey
GU7 1RJ

ABOUT IDENTITY PROTECT LIMITED
Identity Protect Limited was registered on 14 Oct 2010 with its registered office in Middlesex. The business has a status of 'Non-trading'. Their founding director was Matthew Mansell, who is British, aged 36. There are 2 shareholders of Identity Protect Limited. They have no known group companies. No annual accounts have been filed as the company is either too young or exempt from filing accounts.

These are just the reports lodged on this domain:
www.google.co.uk/search?q=GU7+9GA+site:whocallsme.com
www.google.co.uk/search?q=GU7+1RJ+site:whocallsme.com
www.google.co.uk/search?q=GU1+2RD+site:whocallsme.com
www.google.co.uk/search?q=UB11+1FF+site:whocallsme.com

All domains:
www.google.co.uk/search?q=GU7+9GA+SCAM
www.google.co.uk/search?q=GU7+1RJ+SCAM
www.google.co.uk/search?q=GU1+2RD+SCAM
www.google.co.uk/search?q=UB11+1FF+SCAM

05/03/2013 16.43.  Call from this number but nothing on line when I picked up.  
See 12/03/13 above - very helpful.

Automated message claiming new Government legislation would mean that they could write off 70% of a person's debt.  Said we'd opted in to receiving communications from them, but hadn't!  Pressed 9 to remove number from their list - let's see if it works? Why do we receive calls like this when registered with the TPS?

rang me on 16 March but no one there to speak.  I'm on TPS.  TPS caught this number.  Time wasting and anxiety provoking.

Got another call from this number today at 3pm.ish.
I was out but they didn't leave a message.

To further update this I have now had a call back (on 26th March) from solicitor and proprietor of TPF Law and www.ppiclaimspeople.com, Tim Fowler.  This followed on from a call I received from one of his staff members at TPF Law (or PPI Claims People who they also trade as) a day ago (on 25th March) wanting to know why I hadn't set back the completed PPI claims back I had been sent after the previous unsolicited call.

When I suggested this was because I wasn't interested and that furthermore their firm should not have been trying to do business with a TPS registered address phone number but I now had all the information I needed to complain about them to the ICO or the Solicitors Regulation Authority the lady wrongly suggested that a TPS opt out was only on a firm by firm basis and not universal and also only lasted for a year or two. Naturally I became rather angry about this untrue information about the TPS and ended up hanging up the phone on her after giving her a few choice words about providing such inaccurate information.

Rather than, as some solicitors might, then rushing to immediate threats of libel actions etc if anyone dared say anything negative or critical about his firm Mr Fowler took an extremely constructive and conciliatory approach and claimed TPF Law would never knowingly attempt to achieve new business introductions from a lead sourcing company that was not complying with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations and a phone subscriber's registration with the TPS.  He  indicated that his firm's relationship was actually with the second call centre I had been handed over to by the first call centre using the automated announcement on the 0151 number and that the second call centre had never admitted to having any dealings with a firm making calls in such a way or especially to TPS registered numbers.

He then went on to provide the helpful information that he had investigated how my data had been sourced and that it had come from a data vendor called www.media-tactics.co.uk  I found this very interesting and useful news as another caller some days ago, who were quite separate from TPF Law, but who I think were also introduced by an automated call from a call centre also using an automated announcement (that you might be entitled to compensation and to press 5 if interested and 9 if not) also said my data had come from Media Tactics and that they had been assured the data was TPS screened.  So it appears that Media Tactics could be supplying contact data which they indicate is TPS screened but that in fact isn't.

Although the legal liability for making calls to non TPS registered homes actually lies with the caller (although who the caller is may be rather muddied here by the fact the original call bureau passes the call on twice and tries to evade the TPS's complaints procedure by using an automated call) in my opinion the Information Commissioner should be trying to find a way to clamp down on database vendors who may be selling data to clients that they represent as being fully screened against the TPS database but that in fact is not.

Of course it could be that the data from www.media-tactics.co.uk is actually fully TPS screened and has a data field flag that clearly show its TPS registered status for those records but that the call centres who the data is then being sold on to are incapable of using such flags properly.  But because of that risk this does rather beg the question why Media Tactics doesn't only sell lists for these companies to call that have all the TPS registered addresses stripped at source before they are every put anywhere near an outgong call centre operation.

One would hope that at least the ICO might be able to persuade such data vending businesses such as Media Tactics that not supplying data at all for TPS registered numbers to customers who they know are actually large scale cold calling operations might in future be a more sensible way to conduct their business and that might also better protect the privacy of all TPS registered homes.

Data blaggers... after our data. Just hang up or even better, don't pick up. Criminals and tracing agents etc. don't want us to contact the ICO. The more scam and spam calls and texts reported to the ICO, the sooner a number holder is investigated and fined if they are using our data without our consent or try to blag from the thick who engage with these scammers. From www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/marketing.aspx

"Tell us about unwanted marketing text messages and telephone calls you have received

If you've had an unwanted marketing call or message we want to know about it.  

Please provide as much information as possible to help us investigate the organisations responsible for sending these marketing communications."

REPORTING FORM: https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=134674895144

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Data scam ignorant? Want to know how the ICO help us?

ICO Fines in 2013: http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2013.aspx

ICO Raid Homes & Offices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-IsCsh5khU

Data Blagged VICTIMS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Pcf-oILhM

Hang up on cold callers. It could be anybody. A genuine company will always write.

Visit www.actionfraud.police.uk to report attempted and actual fraud.