Trouble is, every Tom Dick & Harry now ask for email address for no good reason !
I just requested replacement EHIC cards for my family, and not only they ask for it, it even says if it is invalid they may not issue the cards !
Since they now charge £15 for it, that's adding an insult !
So I gave an invalid email addy, see what happens, I can get the money back from the CC !
Regards,
Martin

I think you Googled EHIC and were directed to a site that takes your details and sends them to the relevant site and charges for the privilege. I got renewed cards earlier this year for free.

You were scammed...EHIC cards are still free.

https://www.ehic.org.uk/Internet/home.do

DARN ! EHIC !
Come to think of it, I even heard of this scam some time ago...,
but I was in a hurry....
In a way his is partly relevant to this thread, as greedy Google let this scammer(s) advertise and put them at the top of the page !
Have tried to apply again via NHS, but apparenty I already have valid card ?
So now the plan is to check with NHS EHIC, to ask if they post it directly to me, instead of the scammers.
Depending on the answer I will then pressurise my credit card lot to re-call the £15 immediately, or when the cards arive.
I will then contact ther Information Commissioner, because the worst of this is the breach of Data Protection:
This scammer(s), now have my and my family full names, DoBs, NI numbers, credit card No.
and phone No., leavings us open to all sorts of further scams.
Furious.
Martin

I don't think it is a scam exactly. They provide a service where they take your details and a fee and you get a card.

I know it's not the same but the passport office does a similar thing. You can pay a fee for the Post Office to check your application. No big deal to double check you own application.

The EHIC cards arrived, directly from NHS.
IT IS A SCAM,
they DO NOTHING except presumably auto forward the details to NHS website.
They can't conceivably do any checking, as they don't have the necessary data to start with.
Or maybe be it's done by hand, there is a typo (L instead of K) on one of the cards.

But, as I said, it's the potential for fraud, that is most worrying.
Regards,
Martin

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

A friend has received an email purporting to be from Google entitled Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. As far as he knows he has only, and does only, use Google for searching.

It's addressed to his ISP related email box so how have they got his email address? Why would he need to know changes to privacy and security when he only uses Google for searching? Are Google now going into the spam business?

Anyone seen this and/or has views on it?

Looks like your friend might have a point...

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/372484/google-admits-pri...

You got your cards so where have you been scammed? Surely if it was a scam you wouldn't have received your cards.

If you feel so strongly then talk to CAB, take them to court, inform trading standards and let us know what the outcome is!

His email address is from his ISP, Eclipse (same as me). He has no dealings with Sky, Virgin or anyone else. His only dealings that he is aware of is using Google's search engine.

Google do know my normal email address for proper reasons, they do not know (ok, should not know) my ISP email address. I've received the email to my normal email address but, as yet, not to my ISP one.

I've just thought, I wonder if he's ever nought something on-line and used Google Checkout. Must ask him sometime, if he can remember.

Hello

Just noticed you wrote back, not ignoring you, had not noticed so where the email reply went , who knows.

Was not moaning at BT, I know it is not them. I get links to wholesalers and bulk buying, sometimes just a online shop of the £2 tat you get on ebay.

Guessing some darling chinese person I bought from has done something with it.
Not being rude to our friends in asia, buy from uk as well but to be fair the ebay stuff from china, hong kong has hundreds of sales a day, maybe a bit much but judge by the feedback, they are more likely to sent you what they think are nice web sites. Not using my email address and not said they can.

Might be wrong but guessing or someones server was comprermised somewhere with my details on it.

Have had strange emails from paypal and ebay asking to change passwords as activity might have happened not by me and account hacked.
Wrote and asked what the very general email was and what happened, ignored by both.

OK could have been that or any ebay buy.

Never was blaming the isp of BT I see you have.

Got the new infinity at full 37.5mb speed, nice.

A few emails every now and then not to bad but annoys me when don't know why.

Now use the gmail I had anyway. hours of fun chaning so many accounts for mentions things, amazon, BT , bank, e,ectrical stores, holiday places, you get the idea.
Then contacts so people know. See if the gmail one will last before someone gets it that should not and gives it to all his friends and get the funny viagra emails and other delights, sure we all have!.