08443573311

Also if she never got an original demand for money or any previous correspondence how could this stand.

Exactly! that's why I asked that question. Not heard of a case like this one

Many thanks for responding & giving me link to "check my file"

My parents have said that someone has called them, asking or e saying I owe them money.. But I thought nothing of it! Plus I haven't lived with my parents since 2000.

The first correspondence was an email on Friday evening about 8pm saying I was to pay tapa or receive a ccj.... After much worrying I put it down to a hoax.
then the letter arrived yesterday.

Your certainly right, they have put the frighteners up me.. Yesterday i was consdering paying, jut o i dont run the isk of bad credit ratng, but i have taken our kind advice on board & will follow things up today!

So here is the whole process put out very clearly by directgov telling you what to do
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefi ... money/DG_195957
You have always got the right to defend yourself and no one can get  ccj issued without you being able to defend yourself in a court of law. contact citizens advice and consumer direct

Hi Vicki

So I wonder how they have got access to your parents' phone number and your email and postal address?

latest TAPA support fan club
http://www.whophonedme.co.uk/08443573311

I haven't come across that one before now.  The other support one is a bit out of date

I haven't seen it before either - think its a new one. Wonder who set it up???

whophonedme has been set up by ANTHONY SIMISTER the owner of TAPA to try to cleanse there bad reputation. HOW OBVIOUS CAN YOU GET. THIS IS MORE EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY A SCAM, TRYING TO COVER UP.

Hi Dave. Do you have evidence of this? Must admit I thought the same , but need proof.

If you post a true negative comment regarding tapa it will get wiped of in minutes, theres your evidence!! Try it your self, copy and past a few of the truths regarding anthony simister around page 7, from who calls me, to whophonedme site, and watch how quick its removed, obviously they moderate the site!!!

Notice there is one post on there suggesting people check out this thread.  Wonder how long that will last.  Luckily whocallsme is the first site you see on google.

Dave I noticed that as well and this would appear to be the evidence of the link of the site with TAPA

From TAPA’s Term and conditions


5. The Service Provider will take the necessary action to ensure that unsolicited sales, market research, silent and recorded message telephone calls made to the Client from any UK based Telemarketing Firms are done so unlawfully within 30 days of the Agreement Date commencing. The Service Provider will achieve this by registering the Clients’ particulars on to the various UK public opt out registers. The Service Provider agrees to carry out any necessary lawfully binding registrations on behalf of the Client each annum where necessary for the term of this Agreement.

So all they do is register you with TPS which is a free service


35. The Service Provider is not a legal practice and does not act in any legal capacity or is qualified legally. The Service Provider is an independent profit-making private organisation. The Service Provider does not work under contractual agreement or is licensed by any government department to carry out its day-to-day practice duties. The Service Provider is not associated and does not work in partnership with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the Office of Communications (Ofcom) or the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).

They have no legal authority and have no powers to recover money on your behalf

37. The Client shall not hold the Service Provider responsible if he receives any unsolicited sales or market research telephone calls. The Service Provider cannot accept responsibility if an unsolicited sales or market research telephone call is made to the Client and cannot guarantee that unlawful, non-UK regulated or unprofessional Telemarketing Firms will not contact the Client from time-to-time. The Service Provider will aim to prevent any further unsolicited sales or market research telephone calls from such Telemarketing Firms at which time the Service Provider is notified by the Client.

So they do nothing but take your money

The message you refer to has been there for at least the past couple of days. I am surprised it has lasted that long

Had a call from a gent from the advertising protection agency on friday just done my research and luckily found this website looking at the advertising protection agency terms and conditions and looking at the comments on here and the post from mike it looks like tapa are a SCAM and by the looks of things Mike has summed it up

So tapa are calling people like me telling me i have been frauded and then tell me that they can get my money back of this company who I have advertised with. I then pay these con artists money and tapa who dont actually have no powers at all just register me with the tps which i can do myself if i wanted and that's it and cannot claim a penny back for me.

Now what worries me though is the fact they told me that i have been a victim of fraud and they can get my money back from this company who I have advertised with for years. they have lied to me straight away on the phone THEY CAN DO NOTHING FOR ME BUT CON ME OUT OF MY HARD EARNED MONEY and register you with a service that is free.

I know what im going to do now on tomorrow morning I am firstly going to contact trading standards with the phone call that i have of this company misselling me a service which they can't provide. My next step will be to contact the telephone preference service myself and inform them about this company (tapa) then i think i will contact the company who i have advertised with and advise them that there is a scam company contacting their clients telling that they have been conned!

Thanks you who calls me I'll be using this website more often tapa are the type of companies what shows you more needs to be done by the government to stop these types of scams artists

Hi Mike
My understanding is that you will have to go through consumerdirect
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizen ... ights/index.htm
and that  Cheshire East Council Trading Standards and Bury Metropolitan Borough Council Trading Standards are supposed to be investigating. good luck and let us know

Several of us have already contacted the TPS. I copied them in on my cancellation email to TAPA in early October but they have not even acknowledged my email. I don't know whether anyone else has had a better response. I hope we will get a formal response from the Cheshire TS/see evidence of action taken by them. Today I have emailed the MSE for the 2nd time to ask why they continue to suspend discussions on TAPA. I got my first clue that TAPA might be a scam from MSE so I want others to have access to the discussions there.

i received 2 emails from TAPA last week within minutes of each other, threatening court action if i hadn't paid by the 14th (today).

the 1st email was to some guy i never heard of with a different amount to what they are trying to con out of me. the 2nd one had my name and the correct amount, but the SAME reference number as the 1st email. both emails said 'by email and post' - still haven't received the posted letter.

the invoice they sent me a few months ago (that got laughed at, shown around the office for others to laugh at, then binned) looked like a proper second rate attempt - seriously, my sisters 2 year old could do better with crayons.

needless to say i didn't fall for it.

so the "court" email is a better attempt at a scam than a school kid, but only just.