Steps to take if you have been ripped-off by a copy-cat government website

hpuse

gik wrote: »

Powerful_Rogues post as ads from two EHIC 'copycat' websites are the top two results when you Google EHIC. Wrong yet again...you should really ask MSE to change your username to hpuseless.

hahaha...cliques resorting to name calling when shown a news item!! Wealdroam ...where are you?

bod1467

So ... you believe attention-grabbing media (who would NEVER sensationalise a story, or get facts wrong - oh no) over evidence in this forum about what someone saw with their own eyes?

Okay .........

gik

hpuse wrote: »

hahaha...cliques resorting to name calling when shown a news item!! Wealdroam ...where are you?

You posed the question:-

wonder what is more of a reliable source, The Mirror or Powerful_Rogues' post.

....the answer is PR. PR is a more reliable source than the Mirror or you. FACT.

Why do you continue to try and mislead?

RosiPossum

hpuse wrote: »

Which ones you mean by They, RosiPossum ?

The websites that charge for their 'check and send' service and tell you this on the front page. Like all of the ones you're talking about save for the ones that actually are misleading and have been shut down or forced to change.

wealdroam

hpuse wrote: »

Wealdroam ...where are you?

Calm down Hpuse... I'm here... no need to panic just yet.

Surely you realise by now that continually posting quotes from old newspapers is a farcical way to get your message across.

What you need to do is only quote authoritative sources.

Hope that helps... but sometimes you need to help yourself.

gik

hpuse wrote: »

hahaha...cliques resorting to name calling when shown a news item!! Wealdroam ...where are you?

It is neither news (news is err...NEW, and not more than two weeks old!) or factually correct...why are you lying?

gik

wealdroam wrote: »

Calm down Hpuse... I'm here... no need to panic just yet.

Surely you realise by now that continually posting quotes from newspapers is a farcical way to get your message across.

What you need to do is only quote authoritative sources.

Hope that helps... but sometimes you need to help yourself.

Be afraid....be very afraid wealdroam....this is as close as hpuse will ever get to having a 'friend'!

George_Michael

hpuse wrote: »

wonder what is more of a reliable source, The Mirror or Powerful_Rogues' post.

The Daily Mirror would never get anything wrong would they?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/apr/16/daily-mirror-news-photography

The Daily Mirror is in hot water over today's poster-style front page image showing a little girl crying to illustrate a campaign about poverty in Britain.
But the girl is not British. It was taken years ago. And she is not weeping because she is poor. In fact, she is American, the daughter of a photographer, and was upset by an earthworm.

http://www.london24.com/news/daily_mirror_incorrectly_used_giant_rat_pic_without_permission_1_3560498

The Mirror claimed the rat was caught in Liverpool and that the photo depicted pest controller Sean Whelan holding the dead animal.
It has since been established that the false story originated in the Sunday edition of the Liverpool Echo, owned by publisher Trinity Mirror plc, which also owns the Daily Mirror.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/for-the-record/sir-roger-moore--an-apology-1545092

On 16 September we published an article headed “I’ve had Moore women than James Bond” which claimed that Sir Roger Moore had recently spoken exclusively to The People and made comments to our journalist about his private life.
We now accept that Sir Roger did not give an interview to our reporter and did not make the comments that were reported in the headline.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/for-the-record/sir-roger-moore--an-apology-1545092#ixzz30Pe4tzjW
Follow us: @DailyMirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on Facebook

With Saturday’s Daily Mirror we distributed a supplement entitled ‘Women who Kill’ which we trailed on the front page of the newspaper with a picture of the front page of the supplement.
One of the women whose story featured in the supplement was Vera Renczi who lived in the former Yugoslavia between 1903 and 1939 and who killed 35 men.
Unfortunately due to an error the picture we used, both inside and on the front page of the supplement, was not of Vera Renczi but of Patricia Belda Martinez, who is otherwise known as Morgana and who is a fashion model. The picture we used belongs to Ms Martinez.
We apologise unreservedly to Ms Martinez for our error in wrongly using her picture in the supplement which she, of course, has no connection with and for the considerable embarrassment caused to her by our actions.

“One in four young drivers are involved in a crash in their first six months on the road”. That was the startling headline that greeted readers of the Daily Mirror on 20 July this year.
It was also inaccurate. The poll conducted by Populus for the AA upon which the Mirror’s statistics were based actually showed that only 7% of the young drivers questioned were involved in a crash during their first six months.

It is now clear that the photographs the Mirror published of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner were fakes.

hpuse

Folks,

Once again, FYI,

Article headline reads:

Google blocks copycat passport, driving licence and European Health Insurance Card websites

OR ,for the sake of clarity

Artcile headline does not read

Google blocks ALL copycat passport, driving licence and European Health Insurance Card websites

hpuse

wealdroam wrote: »

Calm down Hpuse... I'm here... no need to panic just yet.

Surely you realise by now that continually posting quotes from old newspapers is a farcical way to get your message across.

What you need to do is only quote authoritative sources.

Hope that helps... but sometimes you need to help yourself.

So, this is what I read from your post.

Name calling is fine...but continuously posting newpapers links is not fine ...great!

Re: helping myself, I don't want to: :-)
I want the world to see how good these forums are.
The message from here is loud and clear to Google policy makers, Goverment and other trade and business monitoring authorities when it comes to the overall care, welfare, for the deserving 'copycats' ....