British Passport Services scam

fermi

In odd timing

http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/latest-news/warning-as-mum-duped-by-fake-website-1-7381335

Rainbowgirl84

fermi wrote: »

In odd timing

http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/latest-news/warning-as-mum-duped-by-fake-website-1-7381335

No, what is odd in your link is:-


“With our holiday on May 22, I went on the official government website and typed in ‘get a passport within five days’ and a site called Passport Services came up,” said Melissa.



I have never seen an official government website refer you to an unofficial pay more site?


Have you Fermi? Can you show us the link from the official government website to Passport Services?

Pollycat

Rainbowgirl84 wrote: »

No, what is odd in your link is:-


“With our holiday on May 22, I went on the official government website and typed in ‘get a passport within five days’ and a site called Passport Services came up,” said Melissa.



I have never seen an official government website refer you to an unofficial pay more site?


Have you Fermi? Can you show us the link from the official government website to Passport Services?

I made the same point on this thread:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/70684907#Comment_70684907

bod1467

What probably happened was that said person was on the HMPO website, then typed "get a passport within five days" in the address bar of the browser so a normal Google/Bing/Yahoo (delete as applicable) web search was done.

Those Google engineers must have been asleep.

Alpine_Star

Rainbowgirl84 wrote: »

No, what happened was Fermi pursuing her own agenda without actually reading the detail.

Fermi posted the link as it was relevant. It doesn't follow that he's verified or agrees with every detail.

British Passport Services are a menace to society. They trap, bully and intimidate their 'customers'.

Despite having an ASA 'copycat' adjudication against their website, losing every contested court claim they've issued and the owner being charged various counts of unfair trading and fraud and having his assets seized by Trading Standards the company is still trading and entrapping consumers, as the article in the link illustrates.

If Fermi does have an 'agenda' of alerting consumers of the ongoing threat then it's entirely justified in my view.

Pollycat

Alpine_Star wrote: »

Fermi posted the link as it was relevant. It doesn't follow that he's verified or agrees with every detail.

British Passport Services are a menace to society. They trap, bully and intimidate their 'customers'.

Despite having an ASA 'copycat' adjudication against their website, losing every contested court claim they've issued and the owner being charged various counts of unfair trading and fraud and having his assets seized by Trading Standards the company is still trading and entrapping consumers, as the article in the link illustrates.

If Fermi does have an 'agenda' of alerting consumers of the ongoing threat then it's entirely justified in my view.

I thought Google technicians were working long hours to stop these sorts of websites.

BrentMeister

Seems they're still at it. Where are these Google engineers that are working 24.7?

hpuse

There is also a possibility that the persons browser has been hijacked by some malware so the search traffic never hit google.

bod1467 wrote: »

What probably happened was that said person was on the HMPO website, then typed "get a passport within five days" in the address bar of the browser so a normal Google/Bing/Yahoo (delete as applicable) web search was done.

Those Google engineers must have been asleep.

bod1467

Possible, but highly unlikely. I'd wager that my suggestion is far more likely.

hpuse

fermi wrote: »

In odd timing

http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/latest-news/warning-as-mum-duped-by-fake-website-1-7381335

Hello Fermi,
Hows the copycat hearing/prosecution scene going on...guess it has been very quiet for the trade I suppose ?...time to innovate something else :rotfl: