I wonder if the forks get claimed at the same time too
or if you checked any of them (similar to what neurotic said, an ethereum private key can look similar to a bitcoin one).
for some addresses the number of transactions was too big and the Electrum servers were cutting me off
I think they scan in advance to see how big your wallet gets (somehow) or at least decide to load a certain number of addresses (via a tree) and decide if the tree is too big to process or not (whatever it is, it's kept those servers very fast).