"Do You Make Any Of These 17 Deadly
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(Your FREE REPORT 12 Point Fraud Checklist)

Question #1
Do they have a guarantee?

Take a look at ANY reputable ecommerce web site and they ALL offer guarantees. So here's a big question, why is Steroid Encyclopaedia the ONLY steroid membership site (at the time of writing this) to offer a full no questions asked, satisfaction guaranteed, 90 day money back guarantee?

Do other sites not have the confidence in the quality of the information they offer?

It would seem reasonable that a web site owner should "stand behind his product". I mean if it's a good site then offer a guarantee, right?

It gives confidence to see a website put their money where their mouth is. If you're not happy you get your cash back. It's only fair. So, why don't the other do it? Your guess is as good as mine.

Question #2
Do they care about your security and respect and protect your personal privacy?

Super Important! Read this...

The most important thing you need to know, and you need to know it ASAP is where is the website hosted? Why do you need to know this?

Here's a few comments from Jim - founder of Steroid-Encyclopaedia.com

".... In my opinion, no sites located in the US offer 100% privacy. Read what one of the leaders in the US webhosting business say in the TOS (Terms of Service) and AUP (Acceptable Use Policy):

My comments about Verio:

They will disclose all info they have about a user even without a court order! All they require is a request from a government agency!

Verio is one of the biggest webhosting companies in the US, and thousands of other minor webhosting companies rent their servers from Verio.

This means that even though one of the minor hosting companies might have a great privacy policy and intend to guarantee your privacy, they can't, because as long as Verio is the "Mother hoster" (who owns and operates the server) they can bypass the smaller hosting company's wishes... and give out your info.

If we look at this illustration, you'll see that even though a website hosted by one of the minor webhosts who guarantee your privacy, it's worth nothing since they're hosted on Verio's server.

The point is that they’re all covered by Verio’s privacy policy, so it doesn’t matter if someone below Verio has a different policy than them.

They offer no privacy protection at all, and they will monitor all traffic in and out from their servers without notifying their customers. The most interesting thing about Verio though, is that they host EliteFitness, one of the biggest bodybuilding/powerlifting boards on the net. EliteFitness recently sent out this newsletter:

"As you know, many powerful forces would like to shut down the EliteFitness.com website. Most of them are enemies of hardcore bodybuilding. But once in a while, some of the most vicious attacks come from within the bodybuilding community itself. Last week, Paul Gardiner, President of MuscleTech, and his lawyers came after the EliteFitness.com site, our members, and me with a vengeance.

On January 26, I received a letter from MuscleTech's lawyers at the powerful New York law firm, Kenyon and Kenyon. The letter alleges that by allowing you to post your comments about the MuscleTech brand of nutritional supplements on our discussion boards, EliteFitness.com is guilty of "false advertising ... unfair competition, product disparagement, trade libel, and interference with prospective economic advantage." They also accuse us of infringing their trademarks and copyrights.

More scary still, not only is MuscleTech demanding that we censor your free speech; they also want us to reveal to them the names of our members who have made discussion board posts on EliteFitness.com about their company.

In other words, MuscleTech and their high priced lawyers demand that we violate our own privacy policy and provide them with personal information about, our members - something we would absolutely NEVER do. They further threaten that if we do not provide them with your personal information, they will sue both the EliteFitness.com site and me personally."

Note the words "... that we violate our own privacy policy and provide them with personal information about our members...".

Seems like EliteFitness missed the point. It doesn't matter what privacy policy they have as long as their webhost don't have a privacy policy. Law enforemenct only need to send a written request to Verio (the webhost), and they will have access to all the personal info about EliteFitness members they want, without EliteFitness knowing about it.

The sad thing is that EliteFitness use this to their advantage to try to push even more of their own supplements. These are just a couple of specific examples, but the same is true for all discussion boards/websites located in the US.

DO NOT TRUST ANY OF THEM!

... Well, except Steroids-Encyclopaedia... why?

Because we use encryption to protect the data on our server from prying eyes. And we also offer encrypted email accounts (see further below).

So even if someone should be able to steal the entire server from the highly protected datacenter, they’re not able to read any of the secure private messages or the e-mails sent to and from a Squatmail account."

...

Thanks Jim !!!

Are you sending and receiving emails to steroid suppliers? Are you using PM's on a discussion board hosted in the US to contact suppliers?

If you are contacting steroid suppliers and you're not using a system like our Squatmail (secure and encrypted email system that CANNOT be viewed by the FBI's new online spy system) then the authorities probably know!!!

The FBI used to use a "spy system" called Carnivore. Here's a diagram of how it worked...

The FBI won’t fess up to what new system they now use, but according to them, the new system is able to target just one user on a network and collect exactly the information a court-order allowed them to collect, for example just the e-mail communication. There’s some info about it here:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10307

Note this part in the article:

[...] One controversy revolved around the FBI's legally-murky use of the device to obtain e-mail headers and other information without a wiretap warrant -- an issue Congress resolved by explicitly legalizing the practice in the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act.

Under section 216 of the act, the FBI can conduct a limited form of Internet surveillance without first visiting a judge and establishing probable cause that the target has committed a crime. In such cases the FBI is authorized to capture routing information like e-mail addresses or IP addresses, but not the contents of the communications.

[...] Other cases investigated under section 216 involved alleged mail fraud, controlled substance sales, [...]

Note the controlled substances part. That’s a huge point for people buying steroids through the internet, and should be enough to scare the shit out of paranoid users.

Also note that the reports they refer to in the article above only list cases where they performed surveillance without a court authorization. And there’s no report for 2004…

We’ve done several things to beat this system.

The most important is that members are able to connect to SE and Squatmail using SSL (Secure Socket Layer), which will encrypt all data between our server and the members computer. It will not be possible for anyone to read the content of this data. Here’s some info about SSL:

The SSL (secure socket layer) protocol is the Web standard for encrypting communications between users and Web sites. Data sent via an SSL connection is protected by encryption, a mechanism that prevents eavesdropping and tampering with any transmitted data. SSL provides businesses and consumers with the confidence that private data sent to a Web site, such as credit card numbers, are kept confidential. Web server certificates are required to initialize an SSL session.

When members send a private message through the SE site to another member (or supplier), or an e-mail from one Squatmail account to another, the data never leaves the server. So as long as the user is connected through SSL, the data is 100% safe.

Important: There is no way the Feds or any other authority can get their hands on our data -- and that means YOU ARE SAFE when you visit SE.

You must check this out with other steroid membership sites.

Any site that has no interest in your security and no respect whatsoever for your personal privacy has NO RIGHT to be making money out of you.

At least that's my opinion.

Question #3
Do they have "third party" recommendations?

It's too easy for anyone to say...

"Hey, we are the best steroid site out there! Join us".

But that's total bullshit unless it can be backed up with third party proof, like the testimonials we have all up and down on this page...

Take a look at any other steroid membership site and see of they have such third party comments.

Question #4
Do they have free information... like a free ezine?

This takes a lot of time and effort to make, and shows that a site is genuinely interested in it's visitors and not just there to "grab your cash".

How many pages of free information they have is a sign that the owners care about the site... and about you.

A one page site with no effort, no ezine, and no free information is very easy to put together. It requires hardly any time and hardly any effort...

...And is probably indicative of the effort that's been put into the member's section of their site, and the importance they give to their members.

Take a look at our free ezine. There are now close to 200 pages in all, plus the other pages that you can find in the "Free" section in the left hand margin.

Many membership sites only offer a members board and a few links to suppliers. That would worry me, it's too easy to make a site like that. Don't you want a site that demonstrates that they offer more?

Question #5
How long have they been in business?

This is easy to check, you simply do a "whois" look up at a website like http://betterwhois.com/

If a site has been in business for longer than 2 years, it's not a bad sign.

Although I must say that just because a site hasn't been in business for more than a couple of years obviously doesn't mean it's not a good site.

But if you're going to join and pay for a one year membership you need to know that the site is going to be around for at least the one year... and the simple fact is if it's a news site that cannot demonstrate a track record then you are taking a chance.

Steroid Encyclopaedia has been in business since 1999, which is a lifetime on the 'Net, (where most start up's don't last even 1 year).

It is a profitable site with plenty of financial reserves and serious backers and owners that are here long term. Anyone who has been a member of the site for a while now will have seen the constant improvements that have been made which demonstrate the seriousness and long term goals of the site.

That means a long term vision, and it means you KNOW that Steroid Encyclopaedia will be here, and you are therefore not taking a risk when you spend your money.

Question #6
Do other sites link to them?

Why is this important? Simple, because it means that other website owners thought a certain site was good enough to link to.

Here's exactly how to do it. Go to http://altavista.com then do a search for "link:steroid-encyclopaedia.com" (without the quotation marks).

Then just above where the search results start you will see the following "AltaVista found 91 results"

This means that 91 sites are currently linking to SE -- just from Altavista's directory.

You can simply substitute the domain name for any other site and you'll get a total number of sites who link to them (in that search engine).

(NOTE:- not all search engines allow you to do this.)

If a site has been in business for more than 1 year then they should have 20 links to them. This means that 20 other website owners thought the site was good enough to link to. If they have zero links to them, then it could be a warning sign!!!

Any site with more than 50 links is considered to be credible.

Now obviously the longer a site has been in business the more links they should have, so a simple comparison of who has the most links doesn't mean that that's the best site.

This should be used as a simple indicator.

Question #7
Do they have a modern and clean website design, or is it cheap and ugly?

The "look" of the site is very often an indicator as to the quality of information inside a membership site.

If the site looks like it was made years ago, and has a general "outdated" look, then it's a pretty good signal that the content is outdated as well.

Besides content, a modern site is also a sign that the owners have invested money back into the site and means that they are not just there to take out without putting back in.

All successful business with long term goals know you have to re-invest in your business.

Question #8
Is their REAL objective to sell you supplements?

Now this is a major warning sign. An over-commercialized site full of adverts for supplements (and especially anabolic steroid substitutes that DO NOT WORK) usually has only one goal...

... To make money by selling you supplements -- and not by providing you with real info on the only stuff that REALLY does work -- steroids !!!

If you see a site full of hype ads for supplements then run a mile. Unless you want to buy potentially risky supplements that is :-)

Question #9
Who else do they recommend?

Take a look at the outgoing links they have. I have seen so-called "steroid sites" with links to casinos, dating sites, and the like.

Now ask yourself a question when you see these type of links... "Are these links here to help me gain more steroid information or to make money out of me any way possible?"

It's often a very good insight as to the attitude of the website owners when you see the outgoing links (or banners) they have plastered all over their site.

Personally I don't want to do business with someone whose ONLY goal is to make money out of me. I have no problems paying a fair price for a good service -- and I imagine that you are the same.

So check out the links.

Who do we recommend? The ONLY other site/person that we can stand behind 100% for total and complete "No Bull" steroid info, written to educate and entertain is Mick Hart.

We totally believe that his "No Bull Mag" and his "Layman's Guides to Steroids" are the very best products of their sort we have ever seen.

By the way, Mick is the only other steroid site owner, that we have come across, who offers a guarantee on what he sells. Say no more!!!

Question #10
Do they allow the actual members to report/give feedback on their suppliers?

If they do then they will probably have it written in the text on their website.

Steroid Encyclopaedia was the very first site to start this, and I have no doubt that others will copy.

Here's why it's important.

There is more than one membership site out there who have the suppliers section full of suppliers who are good friends of the site owners (who make handsome commissions each time a member buys from their friend the supplier).

Now as long as the member gets a fair price and good service there's no problem.

BUT the ONLY way to guarantee that suppliers who are NOT "playing ball" are exposed is by allowing members who place orders with them to give their unedited and honest feedback.

That way the rest of the members are alerted instantly to any supplier whose not doing it as he should.

Steroid Encyclopaedia invented this idea.

Question #11
Do they only push steroids or is there enough intelligent "anti-steroid information" as well?

Why is this important? Easy, because only when you are correctly informed can you make an educated decision as to whether or not you want to use steroids.

Too many people take steroids, and in dosages way too high, when they don't need to. And especially the very young, which is rotten burritos amigo.

Take a look here at this article entitled "SELLING GEAR TO KIDS?"

This demonstrates Steroid Encyclopaedia's mature and intelligent stance. You want to be dealing with a mature and intelligent web site don't you? :-)

Question #12
Do they charge, or is all the information FREE?

If all the information is free then believe me it's NOT a good sign. Let me explain why...

We know exactly the time, effort, resources and money it takes to run SE. And it's impossible to run a site like this for free.

A "hobby site" that has a lot for free information is fine, but in any field (not just steroid info), a site that is run efficiently -- like a business -- that charges a fair and reasonable fee for great information and service (and who offers a guarantee) will always be a better site.

It's obvious really, charging a fair fee means that the site can pay for writers, pay for a high speed dedicated server, pay for web designers, pay for content, etc etc etc.

Question #13
Send them an email... How long does it take to reply?

In fact, see if you even get a reply. Like you I buy things over the 'Net, and if I'm not sure about a site I will send them an email first and see how long it takes them to reply.

Two days has to be a maximum on the 'net.

If you don't get a reply in 2 days then the site probably doesn't have the resources to manage their business, so you may be taking a risk with that site.

Now please don't misunderstand here.

You can't send a steroid membership site an email and ask them to give you supplier info and make you a cycle and seriously expect them to give you that info in their reply.

A simple email that says, "Thanks for your email...blah blah, blah...." is enough.

It means there's someone there. That's a very good sign !!!

So there you have it - 13 points so that you can thoroughly investigate a site before you spend your hard earned cash. Use your intuition, but this fraud check should help you have a more objective understanding.

BTW - The ONLY site that comes out positive against all 13 of these points is Steroid Encyclopaedia.