+ 14 HUGE fake review ring busted
Below is a list of 76 user names that were without a doubt registered here solely to create reviews and votes for
ROIDBAZAAR.NET, BUY-AS.NET, LEGITGEAR.CC and BOLDER.CC.
These were manually checked and selected as fakes with help from a 3rd party spam/scam analytics service.
- 90% of users listed below voted for every source listed above.
- 100% of these users follow the register-pic-vote rinse and repeat pattern. (e.g.: voted 7 weeks ago, last seen 7 weeks ago)
- IP and ISP all reported (anywhere from 20 to 2000 IPs per user), at some point by major spam-hunting services.
- Zero to 5 friends.
- Mostly no content except replies to their own pics.
- Karma voting ring, meaning they only vote other scam "buddies" accounts.
I'm leaving these accounts and content available for one week so you can check for yourself.
Above sources are of course penalized. Votes deleted and a banner warning posted in their review pages.
I apologize for taking this long to crack this down.
CRBB, Juiced_World, jared, Rhino002, Lucky_IJ, Neon_DbigMuscles, dxwar, neepin, Shoko, khalesi, Prange, Heavyliftingg, segroMass, Fierce, 1Agnes, AphaDansk, zeeso, Hood, python32, GGok, Msucles43, Test_the_limits, Jaguar, GYM_freak, bigbeast, Mr.Swole, crackedgene, DC4512, Bakht, Le_Pump, PaapiChoolo, Crazypump, Bodybuildingis.., Assasinadrol, bbaso, Ron0000007, Test_overload, waltgang, veereal, FitnessDOK, BigJJ, Bazin, JJmon, DKD, frank87, Zamib, Chemo_Muscles, LuckySchmid,MMJM, Ironreception, extremebob, Iamabeast, ironmuscle89, ironmuscle89, BigrickG, neepin, Beast123, Kungfuskater, ShrekTTB_11, L_Dcamp, Testother, Duper_Drol_Gains, PINIT, stevedd, Ironreception, Ryanzz, spider2050, Zamib, Thess, Huge-Oli, Basitgains, TrenHard00, Gymguy, BigMsucles43, Ironlaw6, Jimgym
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Nice work , seems like eroids is a great site looking out for people
jayiskI have never chosen a src by their review page. I closely follow their SI pg constantly. That will give you a more accurate picture of the src and enough red flags will show up there if the src is off.
and i never follow the rating system.
take for example the US domestic. its top 10 is mostly international srcs offering domestic shipping.
But why pay 2 to 3 x's more for the gear, $30 shipping, and having it take just as long as an international order for you to get your gear.
makes no sense to me when there are a bunch of good solid domestic srcs with good prices and fast t/a times.
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Right. Therea already several great US domestics already that really seem to be booming. I can see if actual Doms suck or are not on existent
well at least the effort is being put in. i mean this isn't a darknet market. of course they will get busted after time but more will always replace them. they at least have better security measures in place (plus prices aren't so insane but that is relative to the demand of the user of course). This is better than nothing, but there is zero protection here compared to a darknet market where you had protection if you tried to get scammed. again, user at your own risk so is what it is. i just appreciate that some effort is being put in for people's protection so thanks.
Darknet markets are far from safe bro. Look at what happened with Silkroad. There was actually proposed legislation that would make you subject to LE scrutiny and possibly prosecuted for even using a TOR browser or onion router. The darknet was invented by the military. To think that you can anonymously operate there is naive, but that's exactly what they want you to think. Not to mention the lack of accountability sources have there. This site is as safe as any other. Actually it's safer for the consumer due to the Eroids source verification process. Why else do you think it's been around so long.
AWESOME JOB! Glad to know that you keep an eye out for all of this, someone like myself being kinda iffy on a lot of this I really do rely on the reviews so thank you for keeping them accurate and REAL! THANK YOU!!!
ClassyChassisIts also possible that this is just people taking advantage of sources that offer discounts for reviews. Especially since 90% of them voted for all four sources. That seems way more likely to me than 4 sources colluding together.
Say a source offers a 20% discount for a review. I create a fake account and leave review for said discount. I then may as well use the same fake account to vote for other sources that offer discount. That makes way more sense to me than a conspiracy between these 4 sources.
Of course by offering a discount a source is encouraging this behaviour.
Way to go BFG. Always looking out.
You see this gives me pride in being a member here.
FortySIXand2I never once had a good feeling about Bolder.cc
Who_CaresSources should not be posting on this thread in my opinion. Whats worse buying reviews or serving bunk gear SOMETIMES.
Stay on the case ; reduce the deception; it hurts all of us!
×2. It's hard to trust the reviews.
That's the whole point of the site.
This is why I don't put much faith into reviews from low karma or new members. Need to have at least a little bit street cred before I consider what they are saying. Most useful aspect of the site is bloodwork I think. Look at the reviews AND bloodwork to pick your source.
Bunk reviews are obvious. After reading so many of then it's almost a cut and paste, seen the same post over and over knocking the source and referring another source to the post. I'm dumber than a coffin nail and I can pinpoint them without much effort. Common knowledge really
Like you said on a prior post, and I could not have phrased it any better and it's a "hit and miss" for me at times; It's a broad phrase but for crying out loud, now this just throws up red flags. It doesn't mean that this stuff is bogus or bunk or however, but the Fn greed. This is not a game. Few of these sources have legitimately worked their ass off to get to their spot. And then these mods will bust some ass on here real quick. They really do catch on to BS or will eventually catch on and just start banning. Seen it. No arguing, no talking or lecturing, NadA, whi needs a threat to not only financial but to also our health and well being
Hi bros,
first of all sorry for the late reply, as we are deeply in investigation of this issue with our developers.
My team and me were shocked when we read the announcement.
And now i have to announce as well that we are not a part of this fake review ring !!
This is most probably a group that tries to get store credits and free products for reviews.
And unfortunately they were at the right address with us, as we easily give store credits and free products for a given review according to our loyalty store credit program.
http://www.roidbazaar.net/loyalty.html
We are researching all our data, and we found out already proofs, how they acted with their accounts in our system, via which they were in contact with us.
We are still checking all details, also informed admin about our own researches.
Again ... these reviews are not written by us, and we are not a part of this organization.
We also saw, that many more than the named 4 sources received reviews from the given nick names. and we are in absolutely no contact to the named 4 sources, and we are not a part of this group of people who wrote these reviews.
As said, probably as they understood that they get free products and store credits easily at us, they wrote several reviews on our review page. When a review is written, we check the review and then give as promised in our loyalty store credit program a store credit or free products, and most of the other sources do that as well.
And there are many more reviews on our review page than written from these named nicks. And they are all real. Many of the written reviews are from well known members.
And they are written positive because of our good service. We did, do, and will always continue to offer best highest quality genuine products at best prices with best service.
I hope this issue gets resolved soon. If there is any support needed from our side we will do it. And as said we are still in research of this in our system.
Again, sorry for the late reply, but we had to understand first, what happened here.
We have also proofs from our system, that we also passed over to admin (of course without sensitive information) and we first would need to wait for the OK of admin to give a link to those.
Of course i can just give the info we have by ourselves, admin has much more info and i hope this issue will get cleared soon.
And don't worry, all given and ongoing orders are processed as usual and all new orders will be processed without any problem.
With very best Regards,
RB
I’m so glad that you are able to respond. It is so unfortunate that these sick individuals would target your amazing stand up company and spend that level of time and resources to make you look good. It pisses me off that they would do that to you! enter TREN RAGE There is nothing worse than a bunch of people forcing your company to rise in the ranking against your own will!
I hope they ban the Sons of bitches who did this to you RB. We all know you are innocent!
You better keep that bathtub full because me and all my friends are gonna buy all the sweet nectar of the RB bathtub before anyone can get to it!!!!!
Love you RB! No homo
Ed
The big mistake you have here is offering free gear in return for a review. That's deffinately against the rules.
I've had good dealings with you but admitting that is just as bad. Basically you just said you bought reviews.
Goodluck
....review and vote on the product to be in good standing and enter into the next promo. Kinda deceiving, and lures in temptation such as myself; blindfolds the vulnerable and naive new guy whom aren't familiar with promowhoing, and again, such as myself, well, I can't blame them for my greed anyhow. Offers of Free gear anyhow
This isn’t Legitgear first time doing this either
When the guys hand out promo for free to raise their ranks in the top, someone will conquer the market effortlessly due to their punctuality and speed. It is naive to think that everything is honest here. This is a war for the market. And the money decides what place you occupy in the top. Good job guys.
You can’t use those tactics to fake blood tests from trusted members. 2/3+ negative blood test in this community and members will stop ordering from you until you can prove you’ve not only sorted the quality but made right any customers who have received low quality gear.
This is what makes eroids the place it is, the accountability of sources to this website. On other forums I believe sources pay the owners to censor bad reviews/blood tests from what I can see from my limited time at theses places.
Well said..
Well done!!! Keep on going!!!
PS.: I just registered to write this and your post is indeed worth to be a member!
are u kidding?
I think there are more people than we realize that read this site and don’t post or register. Shit, I didn’t register for like 2 years. Just read.
I was on this site for six months before I posted anything. My brother has been here a while too and hasn’t posted yet.
no! but why are you asking?
Can't get away with shit on this site. Lol. Good thing though. Why lie. The honest are at the top anyhow.
Good shit. thanks BFG. Your job can’t be easy.
Hence the reason eroids is the number 1 site of its kind!
Thanks for the hard work you guys put in
Good going on weeding out the fakes! EROIDS!
Awesome work!
Awesome! Great work
Good job guys
This is why I stick to eroids
You play silly games your gonna win silly prizes
Hopefully this sends a huge message across the boards these guys aren't playing with u...
Again great job...
Wow!!
Great job
BFG,Pale,Greg and all you guys who make Eroids safe place!
Big thank you!
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i totally agree with u.
they always do great job since i came to this big family 6 years ago
much appreciated
As you guys know, we always try to be fair whether it is member or source. If you are operating honorably you will always have us on your team.
No matter if anyone is in top 5 or top 3 i respect that they got no mercy if there is cheating!
And big shit is that some little shit guys make money from writing fake reviews.
Big Respect
how stupid are these souces lol
Wow! Awesome work! Thank you!
Thanks.
Thank you BFG for being steadfast and maintaining the integrity of this site; I know how important this endeavor is not only to you as the admin and those affected but to the community as a whole. Thank you. -S
Sometimes i wonder how or why notactive members can leave reviews anyway
Well, changes to prevent this type of thing from reoccurring may be necessary.
Thanks for looking out for us