Memoirs of a Steroid Kingpin, Episode 05: “My Anonymous Website”

I was in my office, working at my computer, when I heard Dave walk in. Dave and I were good enough friends where I established that he should just walk in to my house and didn’t need to knock. Although there were a few people who had the no-knock privilege, I knew it was Dave because he had informed me yesterday that he was stopping in before we went to the gym. He greeted me as he walked into my office. I called it my office because my grandparents before me had established this room as an office, by putting in a desk and some filing cabinets. It had psychedelic carpeting right out of the 1970’s, with bright yellows, blues, and greens. This was a very small three-bedroom house, and this office used to be a bedroom shared by my mother’s two brothers. You had to walk through this office to get to the biggest bedroom, which I currently used as my sleeping quarters. I rose as Dave entered the room to let him sit down at my computer. He was supposed to create a simple website that would be hosted by my computer. This wouldn’t cost me anything, and it would satisfy the requirement that I obtain a website in order to become a source on iSteroids.

As Dave sat down, he stated, “I have been thinking. I am going to set up the website, but I don’t think you should host it from your computer. If you host an illegal website from your computer, any law enforcement investigation would trace right back to this IP address, and right back to this computer. You need to have this website hosted outside the country, so, in the event that any law enforcement wants to investigate, they won’t have any jurisdiction to subpoena the contents of the server. “

“That is precisely what I was thinking. Can we obtain a host outside the country? Do you know how to do that?”, I asked.

“I was doing some research on it last night, and hosting from a foreign country doesn’t seem too complicated. For now, we need to buy a domain name. The domain name should be from a country where steroids are legal. I found a website offering a special on domain names-” he paused while he searched a website.

“Here is one from the Isle of Man for nine dollars and ninety-five cents a year. Give me your debit card,” he commanded with an outreached hand and a summoning flicker of his fingers.

I produced my debit card while asking, “Do you think you can find me a foreign hosting company, and set up my website for me? Of course, I will compensate you on your next steroid order.” We were good friends, but that didn’t mean that money or complementary products didn’t motivate him. Hell, I gave him reduced prices, but I still made a profit off of him when he purchased steroids from me. I appreciated bartering with Dave in steroids. I paid Dave product in prices that I would charge him, so my cost was significantly less. It was a good way to extract cheap labor.

“Good, I need some Andropen and Anadrol. I will have it done by the end of next week,” he replied. Anadrol, or oxymetholone, is an anabolic steroid highly regarded for producing mass and strength. Although a different compound than Dbol, it has physical manifestations very similar to Dbol. Dave and I both juiced and lifted in a regimen that would yield mass and strength. As is common with many juice heads, we had acute body dysmorphia. We couldn’t be strong enough, and we couldn’t be big enough.

I took more steroids than him, but he was probably a little stronger than me in everything except where it really counted; the bench press. I had an epic and legendary bench press, and had taken competitions by storm since I started using anabolic steroids. I maxed out on the bench press with four hundred and fifty pounds for one rep; four hundred and five pounds for eight reps; three hundred and sixty-five pounds for 14 reps; three hundred and fifteen pounds for twenty reps; and two hundred and twenty-five pounds for forty-two reps. I proudly remember the latter, because the year I benched two-twenty-five for forty-two reps, I would have taken second in the NFL combine, which includes linemen and line backers from the NFL. Keep in mind, I was pressing these numbers while weighing one hundred and ninety-nine pounds. There were very few people who could bench press what I was, especially at the body weight I was doing it.

“In the meantime, you should list as a source on Phantom Gym,” Dave stated as he worked at my computer. Dave had repeatedly encouraged me to list as on Phantom Gym. It was a source forum that he used to purchase steroids before he met me. I had no issue with listing on Phantom Gym, I was just focused on the bigger prize. Phantom Gym was a small forum community that had nowhere near the prodigious traffic of iSteroids. Now, while I waited for the new website to be hosted outside the country, was a good time to list as a steroid source on Phantom Gym.

“Yes, I will accommodate that request tonight.”

As I responded, he spun the computer screen toward me and said, “There you go.” It was a white background with the letters ‘BDSUPPLEMENTS’ centered on the screen and blinking in different colors. Underneath “BDSUPPLEMENTS”, in smaller letters, it said, ‘For a list of products and ordering instructions email bdsupplements at yahoo dot com‘. The address bar read bdsupplements.im. “This is a live website being hosted by your computer with a domain from the Isle of Man. Like I said, I wouldn’t use this yet, because the cops will be able to trace this right to your computer, and your IP address. That reminds me I am also setting up HideMyAss.com, which is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that will obscure your IP address so it can’t be traced back to this house. HideMyAss.com will cost fourteen dollars a month. Is that ok?”, he asked.

“I liked the idea of obscuring my IP address. He set up the HideMyAss.com VPN, and showed me how to use it.

I thanked Dave, and we left for the gym. I couldn’t help thinking that I could use the bdsupplements.im website to become an approved source on iSteroids right now. Dave said it would take him a week to find a foreign hosting company. Would the cops really catch on to my business and investigate in just a week? I was so impatient, and I wanted to make it happen right now. I knew I had to layer myself in precautions, and build a robust, safe system – but couldn’t I launch my business on iSteroids right now if it was only going to be a week until my website and email was hosted outside the country? I would be untraceable soon, and I didn’t believe there was any way law enforcement would investigate, or be able to track me down, in a week.

Next >>: Episode 06 (Steroid Source Forums)

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