MSE guide discussion - shyster sites
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Hi all,
We've written a new guide to Shyster Sites and we'd love your feedback.
Search for an EHIC, driving licence, passport or similar and you risk paying a shyster site for doing nowt. These sites appear high up on Google and dress up like legitimate sites, then charge you extra for what’s normally just easy form-filling.
Have you been caught out (or nearly caught out) by a shyster site and paid over the odds? Have you managed to reclaim your cash after paying? Spotted another type of site we don't already list?
If so, just click 'reply' to post,
Thanks,
MSE Jenny
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Please don't forget these sites operate on Facebook too.
Currently there is a very popular 'Sponsored' site appearing in Facebook news feeds promoting the fact that for a 'small fee' you can claim back a tax rebate for washing your own work uniform.
This is [TEXT DELETED BY FORUM TEAM] and can in fact be done for free with a template letter from this very site sent to your employers tax office.
Its scary watching all the comments and likes from excited people thinking they will be in for a windfall rebate when in fact the fee for most people will cost half the money they would get back.
I tried to comment warning people but of course it was deleted
Please don't get duped and as always, check out this site and the forums before you do anything else!
Ollie
Even better, they generally set a monthly budget for how much click thru costs they want to expend. So once a few thousand MSE ers trash their monthly budget, their ads will disappear from google.
Simples.
4 passports were applied for online. As soon as I realised there was something wrong I used their e mail address to cancel but no response - so I couldn't cancel the papers and they took 4 payments. I have since found that I should have used their contact us box which was on a different part of the website and not obvious.
I went through my bank to get a refund - I got a part refund but now the bank is taking it back and paying it back to the shyster site, as I am being accused of non payment of goods provided.
we have decided to let it go in case we start incurring other fines from the shyster - but why does the bank allow this to happen?
I'm always looking out for scams and I can't believe I got myself caught up in this one!
£5 in addition to the one day £3.75 licence.
An additional £20 on top of the normal £27 yearly adult,
and even £20 on top of the normal £5 childs yearly licence. Website states 'offers you a third party data processing service'.
Dont get caught out.
It goes to show one thing that travel companies are in cahoots with the shysters usually found in search engines.