[marcosdumay]

> If you're an EU citizen travelling to the US, that's kinda playing on easy mode

Whatever country you are traveling from, the procedures are the same. The only variation is if you need a visa or not.

What changes from one country to another are the rules the US will apply to decide if they'll allow your entry or not. But that's not something you do.

Services like those sell two things, the legitimate one is knowledge of the rules. But for US entry, the rules are some 5 or so steps you can easily get on their immigration pages. If your country has an embassy, the steps will be even translated to your language. The other one is bribes, that I don't believe would apply to the OP's case. So yeah, it's nothing more than a scam.

[danpalmer]

This may be true in the case of getting an ESTA from the US, but that's a very specific non-visa case. In general rules vary wildly depending on the source and destination countries. I'm in the UK, my colleagues here in the UK who are Indian citizens for example, have a much harder time getting entrance to the US.

> So yeah, it's nothing more than a scam.

I want to be really clear here because it makes a difference. I completely agree that this site is bad behaviour, and I think it shouldn't be allowed to operate, however I don't think it's a scam (i.e. illegal), and I'm not certain how one would craft a law that makes this illegal while keeping morally justifiable businesses.

Calling everything we don't like a scam makes it easy to miss things that are useful to someone that just doesn't have the same requirements as us. As an example, there was a time when I thought payday loans were scams, why would anyone get that it's just a terrible financial decision. Well, cash flow is A Thing, it's worth something, and people earning much less than me are more exposed to cash flow issues.