Are you a shyster site victim for EHICs, passports and other renewals?

bigpat · 7 March 2014 at 10:00PM

MSE.com need to learn some maths, as these percentages are completely wrong. 100% of people have never been caught out? Only because there's only one option on that question. So it means that 100% of people who ticked that box...er...ticked that box.

So it DOESN'T mean that 55% of people have been caught out by EHIC shysters. 55% of the people WHO ANSWERED THAT QUESTION have been caught, but that could still be a small percentage of the overall

miniandfloss · 8 March 2014 at 11:19PM

I nearly got caught out renewingmy parents european Health card- when you google it, you go through what looks an official site - I was a bit shocked you had to pay and googled that and found I had nearly been caught out. I think its awful that these companies can do this.

sdooley · 10 March 2014 at 11:39AM

While 'shyster site' has a nice alliteration, wonder if it is the best term to put out for this rip-off practice. It may not be the origin of the word but shyster has definite connotations of Shylock etc...

Scammer site or swindler site also trip off the tongue.

Ah1463 · 19 March 2014 at 2:22AM

My elderly father logged on to what he thought was an official esta website and paid £158 for two esta's that should have cost 14 dollars each. The site is estavisas.org.

Avoid like the plague.:(

Are you a shyster site victim for EHICs, passports and other renewals?

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