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

bigpat

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

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

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

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.:(