How to Avoid Drug and Steroid Scammers

When it comes to buying underground medications, scamming is rife. We hear stories daily about people trying to buy drugs such as steroids, Ritalin or Benzos and having their money scammed from them. Its so common that it isn’t a case of IF you get scammed, it’s WHEN… and how badly.

Of course, the best way to avoid being scammed, is not to buy illegal drugs in the first place…. But if you are going to gamble on buying from the online underground, how would you spot a scammer?

The first and biggest rule, is DO NOT BUY FROM SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS. We have been shouting this from the rooftops. The only people who sell openly through social media are scammers. Blindly allowing them to follow you and following them in return simply helps more scammers to find you. Block and delete.

The second biggest rule is, NEVER BUY FROM A “COLD CALLER”. This is any supplier who contacts you first, without you having talked to them before. Any “legitimate” supplier does not need to be pulling in new business in this way, only scammers do this. They often buy contact details from other scammers, or get them from messaging accounts that they have hacked, and will offer you deals hoping you’ll take the bait.

This could be contacting you through emails, social media, TikTok, Telegram, online forum messages, WhatsApp, or any other messaging platform.

So lets say you’re nodding enthusiastically and are still going to hop online and source some PEDs or medications? What else can you do to prevent being scammed?

• Check the Scammer List on our website first. This list is updated every week or so as new names come in. This will help you to avoid most websites and groups that are actively scamming – but new ones are popping up all the time, so even if they aren’t on the list you still need to be wary.
• Don’t buy in bulk until you have verified their product is legit. Order small, see that it actually arrives. Don’t do a big order first, no matter what the latest sale is.
• Test a sample from every batch you buy to monitor quality. Whether you take it to pill testing service or use a home test kit like ours – test one of every batch. If you can’t get to a testing centre, use our kits and send samples overseas for analysis periodically. Even the “good” brands go up and down in quality often.
• Search online for reviews. If someone is scamming, often the forums are a good place to hear complaints about it. Take the positive reviews with a grain of salt though…
• Be careful of website spelling, email addresses and messaging names. Scammers will change one or two letters and you won’t realise its slightly different to the original.
• Just because a supplier was legit the last time you used them, doesn’t mean they still are. Suppliers will often do “exit scams” where they switch from being legit, to suddenly scamming all their customers as they exit the game to make as much as they can at the end. Always test every batch and watch our Scammer List to see new names being added.
• ANY website or supplier that stocks Omnia or Vita brand steroids is a scammer. Even if all the other brands they sell look legit – they wouldn’t stock these two unless they are scamming.

So you’ve now organised some bitcoin and put in an order. But wait – they have more tricks up their sleeve before you get your package… some red flags to look out for are the following:

• Saying that there is Aus Post tracking but don’t give you a tracking number when you ask for it or give you one that doesn’t work. Its likely the package never existed.
• Asking you to pay more for discrete packaging, insurance, to guarantee it gets through customs, customs fees etc. These are all a scam. All of them.
• Saying that the package has been held by Aus Post / the police / customs / the courier etc and you have to pay extra to get it released or cleared. AusPost, couriers, and police etc will never hold a package and demand more money for delivery- this is ALWAYS a scam.
• Saying that your package has disappeared/been seized but you can reorder with a large discount to try again. This is a favourite one they use. NEVER give them more money if you haven’t received your package.
• If they take your money and then disappear or block you – forget it, you’ve been scammed. Game over. Sometimes scammers will send you multiple orders to make you think they are legit, then once you feel confident to put in a big order they will scam you.

Righto, you’ve received your package! How do you know that what you’ve received is good quality? Or even the same drug you asked for in the first place? Here’s how.

• Don’t assume that good packaging = good products. Some scammers have very professional packaging, mimicking legit pharmaceutical products, using lovely blister packs, glass snap vials, pressed tablets, preloaded syringes – all very convincing. Research has proven that you CANNOT tell the quality of an underground drug from the packaging.
• TEST IT, TEST IT, TEST IT!!!! Do not assume a brand that was once good is still going to be good the next time you order. Lab analysis and pill checking services are King, but if you can’t access those, use testing kits like ours. Test every batch and monitor how brands change.
• If a supplier tells you they have their own lab results – take it with a grain of salt. The odds of you receiving the exact same batch they tested are slim. And Chinese lab results from the raws supplier? Complete garbage. It’s a bit of a red flag if they show you Chinese results.
• Just because one product they supplied was legit, doesn’t mean their others are. There are PIED brands out there that have legit oils but fake orals, and vice versa.
• The idea of a “reliable” brand is a bit of a myth. Every “good” brand will have some swapped and over/underdosed products from time to time. It cannot be avoided when there is no quality control along the chain from manufacture to you, no matter how hard they try. Most of the time the brand themselves doesn’t know when a product has gone south – not many test, and those that do, don’t test frequently enough.
• Even if everything checks out, anyone taking steroids should be getting their bloods and blood pressure taken regularly to keep an eye on how their body is coping.

So, what can you do if you get scammed? Well, buying illegal drugs online isn’t like buying a blender from Harvey Norman. You aren’t going to get a refund. Same with receiving a drug that is sub-standard or fake – you aren’t going to get your money back. It’s a gamble and sometimes you lose.

You can report a financial scam website anonymously to Report a scam | Scamwatch, or to Crime Stoppers Australia – Your Community, Your Call, but there isn’t much you can do other than that.

Here is the latest Scammer List as of (20 November 2024). This is by no means a complete list – new scammers are popping up all the time. If you have been financially scammed by a site or person not on the list, let us know.