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Going abroad? Applying for EHIC online? BEWARE!

#1 Post by BikerGran » Tue May 19, 2009 2:31 pm

Just booked to go to France in July and Mike doesn't have an EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) that replaced the old E111 form so I thought I'd apply online. I googled for ehic and the first site that came up was

www.ehic.org - BUT IT'S A CON!

They want to charge you £9.99 for processing and forwarding your application - the EHIC is free and the link to use for applying is

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

Pretty similar but not the same. If you read all the guff on the first one, it does tell you that it's a service you're paying for - but you don't need it, just use the official one, you can't make a mistake cos it won't let you!
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#2 Post by sidestand » Tue May 19, 2009 8:49 pm

Cheers for that one BG ........have posted it up on a couple of other forums as well, if yer don't mind ......might stop a few others from getting scammed :smt004
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#3 Post by joecrx » Tue May 19, 2009 9:23 pm

good find thanks , im going to france tis year, not on the bike but with my sister caravanet ,
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#4 Post by BikerGran » Wed May 20, 2009 2:06 pm

Yep, spread it around!
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WRONG LINK

#5 Post by BikerGran » Wed May 20, 2009 2:18 pm

Please note the link I put in the first post as the correct one was another wrong un - so if you've copied it elsewhere, the correct link is

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

Have now changed the original one!
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