Busters Accessories- quick warning

anders · Banned Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Karma :

Heads up...

I found this on another forum:
https://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=30032&highlight=

Just becareful for the moment!

Thanks
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instigator · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Karma :

Was going to use them this week. Laughing

Have neveer used them if I am in a rush for parts though, they're crap at quick deliveries. And their packaging is amateurish for want of a better word!

anders · Banned Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Karma :

mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mad

crap crap crap!!!

i just used them today, on my parents nice big visa card Evil or Very Mad

(hey they let me use it so guess im only going to be half f**ked over)
iv used them once before though so im hoping everythings going to be ok...
and as far as shopping online goes im seriously thinking about using a different account for all my online transactions (i got £95 nicked from my account last month but have since got £90 of it back and dare i say its from online shopping, although the bank said its probibly the atm machine)
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busters can f**k right off now Thumbs Down

not only that but their packaging was shite too
erm... anyone know a good retailer for moto gp merc? they do good socks Mr. Green

dodsi · Dirty Carny Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Karma :

Perhaps post this on other forums.

Similer situation with "byke bitz" with me just recently.

Someone tried to take £200 off my card from a "zoom clothing" which my bank rang me and its sorted.

Just a warning, spread the word dont use byke bitz

mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

who would use a shop that spells bike as "byke" Mr. Green

anders · Banned Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Karma :

Matt,

Cancel the card ASAP!

There is no charge and they reissue a new card as soon as.

Hope yours is fine.

I have seen this on a few forums now, just becareful with them.
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mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

good idea XD still i think the payment has probibly already gone out (i dunno) so guess i just gotta wait, or somethin. not to mention i most likely wont speak to the parents till tomorrow morning now (gone out) so that just sucks even more

anders · Banned Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Karma :

mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

its a debit card me thinks

anders · Banned Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Karma :

mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

yeah i hope so too!!!
ill tell everyone i know but i dont think alot of people i know use busters anyway Laughing

bigedyant · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Karma :

Happened to me a few weeks ago on my debit card. Luckily my bank refused the transaction that the scumbag attempted because it didn't match my usual spending habits.

Thanx Natwest Thumbs Up

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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

Sounds like Busters are aware of this, and I expect they will take the necessary steps to stop it from happening again.

Of course, it is up to you whether you want to use them again, but I would be surprised if anyone has the same trouble now that it has been reported.

Busters are a reputable company, and I have had a number of trouble free transactions with them. I think it would be churlish to assume that the whole company is corrupt just because of a few problem transactions...

As I said, be careful what you say, and if you choose to not use Busters then its up to you, but don't make assumptions especially published on a web forum based upon what is said on another forum (especially when what was said was deliberately ambiguous for that exact reason... )

Karma

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EuropeanNC30R... · Gay Hairdresser Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Karma :

I got had earlier on this summer, someone charged £280 of train tickets to my card. I'm fairly sure it got frauded from a net transaction I did on Tesco.com.

wristjob · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Karma :

2 points to remember.
1,i have ordered things from busters and they have arrived when expected with no extras.so its probably some minimum wage lowlife that works in thier phone /internet sales dept taking numbers.they will find him and sack him/her.
2, AlWAYS use a CREDIT not debit card when paying online or down the phone.
because with a debit card the crims take YOUR money and then you have the job of getting it back.
with a credit card the crims take the banks money and they have more dogs to set on these people than you do.

mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

haha sounds good, as soon as im 18 ill get a credit card or something like that, as for fraud i got £95 ripped from my account about a month ago and only got £90 back (the first transaction was £5 from a warner bros cinema around the m25 (near london?) never been up that way before so the bank started watching, then 3 x £30 came out in 3 transactions on a tesco card machine or something (it was a phone topup and they didnt have my bank card which was only a cash card but i can use it online anyways) i didnt get that first £5 back but i got the rest back, not too bothered about a 5er anyway now, for the record though always check the cash machines (atm machines) for shit as the bank recon someone did something witht he machine to read off my card details Evil or Very Mad

-teh fuzzy

Method · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Karma :

Something similar to this happened at a local supermarket near me.

The place had only been open say 6 months, and seemed to be doing well, i'd been there lots, used my card lots... no problems me thinks...

Well in the paper about 6 months after they opened, was a story about their till systems overcharging customers... i thought nothing of it but read on anyway...Turns out, the system had been charging the customer up to 8 times for the same bill. So someone came in spending 100£ on food, 2 weeks later they are £800 down.

The total money taken from bank accounts during the ordeal came to a staggering £17,000 Laughing

Funny as hell realy, purely because it didnt involve my card Laughing

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Method · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Karma :

Actually, just thinking about that last post...

I bet there was some bloke in a suit, walking around the staff quarters of the shop shouting "Bloody hell lads, look at this! Christmas bonus's coming early this year! We've been taking more money than any other store in the franchise, and we've only been open 6 months! Nice bloody work guys!"

*Turns up next day in his Ferrari - Maxed out his credit card buying the night before. Chose to go to the garage to fuel his new baby up the next morning instead of his normal haunt to get a paper... turns up to see the headlines splashed around the shop front... "SHOP TAKES OVER £15,000 OF CUSTOMERS MONEY"*

*...His heart sinks*
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carlmalibu · Spanner Monkey Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Karma :

I'd say things like this happen more because of insecure connections on the user side rather than nobheads at the company side.

Being a freelance computer fixer-er(the technical term) it seems to me no one realises how easy it is to get trojans into computers these days.

home users with broadband, without a decent form of firewall (No, XPs firewall is not a good firewall), downloading things that are not entirely legal (everybody does it, some are just more careful). And in a lot of cases, even if you have a software firewall, if the file gets onto your computer through semi legit means, it'll reconfigure ports and things quietly, so you may think you're protected but arent.

Once these programs have buried themselves within your computer they start scanning for anything vaguely profit making for the owner - credit card numbers, bank details, personal details, etc. and relay them automatically to wherever they're configured to go.

The truly scary thing is there are applications on t'internet so that anyone with a limited amount of computer know-how can set something like this up

and scarier yet is that the mafiosa and other organised crime groups are starting to cotton onto this being a very good way to make money.

Moral of the story? LEARN HOW TO USE YOUR COMPUTERS PROPERLY!

Sorry, bit of a rant, but hey, I get paid to fix the same problems over and over again because people just dont learn.
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mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

carlmalibu · Spanner Monkey Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Karma :

the most dangerous thing to do is believe your computer is secure, when it isnt.

I use a hardware firewall/router, and very strict port forwarding policies, and firefox, and AVG anti-virus, and spy doctor monitoring but I still check with online virus scans and spybot/ad aware every couple of weeks because it always pays to be cautious.

I'm freelance because I'm a durrrrty sixth former. I have no formal qualifications when it comes to computer stuff, but I've been building/fixing them since I was 10.
(And no, I'm not an overweight spotty geeky type teenager stereotype Neutral

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mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

haha, cool, sounds like you've learnt quite a bit over the years, sounds like you need to get yourself in a few college courses and really get into it (somewhere where the big cash is not to mention something your good at, im currently in a city & guilds system support course)
sounds like you got your security setup pretty good aswell.. my college tutor and teachers use all the same type of protection (hardware firewalls and selective ports and so on) we still managed to use telnet from the college computers to mail him that his home pc was down for maintanance (the college blocks the telnet port and his home connection is custom so its pretty hard to get in, but not impossible) Twisted Evil

now if only i knew as much about motorbikes as i do about computers... then i would be fine Mr. Green

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mattfuzzy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Karma :

nah the pays getting crap, even so after i complete this course ill be on about 7 or 8 quid an hour so its not too bad, and i got certs at the end of it so its not all bad