Are you a shyster site victim for EHICs, passports and other renewals?
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. The Government’s announced extra cash for a crackdown - we want to judge the scale of the problem.
Have you been caught out (or nearly caught out) by a shyster site and paid over the odds?
Have you been caught out (or nearly caught out) by a shyster site and paid over the odds?
Results
| I got caught |  |
396 votes (54%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
335 votes (46%) |
| I got caught | |
47 votes (57%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
35 votes (43%) |
| I got caught | |
78 votes (36%) |
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138 votes (64%) |
| I got caught | |
195 votes (61%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
123 votes (39%) |
| I got caught | |
336 votes (68%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
155 votes (32%) |
| I got caught | |
35 votes (43%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
47 votes (57%) |
| I got caught | |
28 votes (26%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
78 votes (74%) |
| I got caught | |
53 votes (57%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
40 votes (43%) |
| I got caught | |
57 votes (50%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
57 votes (50%) |
| I got caught | |
70 votes (68%) |
| I nearly got caught | |
33 votes (32%) |
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3218 votes (100%) |
4,966 people have voted.
We try to use technology to limit voting to one per person. Occasionally, this may erroneously block a few people's votes (eg, from shared offices). Apologies for that.
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