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Internet forums: a source of intelligence to monitor the online diffusion of doping products Thomas Pineau, Adrien Schopfer, Lionel Grossrieder, Julian Broséus, Pierre Esseiva & Quentin Rossy
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Introduction Aims: Assessing the doping product market – Detection of products and suppliers and popularity analysis – Trends analysis To settle monitoring and digital evidence collection strategies
Selected means: Community forums analysis – Open-source, structured and huge amount of data – “Safe” space to share information
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Ethical consideration Accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) Data sources are publicly accessible online (without any step of registration or any kind of protection) No sensitive personal data
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Methodology (OSINT) 1. Source Code extraction of Forums
Popularity indicator: number of authors posting a subject
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Methodology 2. Words extraction from topic subjects
Example: {prop; tren; masteron; eq; cycle; eq; question}
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Methodology 3. Filtering relevant words 4. Words description - Establishment of a reference file
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Methodology Reference file, example: Words
Class
Category
Name
Active substance
sus250
product
steroid
sustanon
testosterone
sustanon
product
steroid
sustanon
testosterone
sus
product
steroid
sustanon
testosterone
cyctahoh
product
steroid
sustanon
testosterone
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Collected data 13 forums ~1’000’000 topics analysed since 2001 1757 relevant words identified as: 158 active substances 320 doping products 327 suppliers
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Products popularity
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Main types of temporal trends Chronic
Upward
Sample of the 158 actives substances
Downward
Temporary
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Number of authors
1200
Most popular suppliers RUI-Products (ar-r) Ttokkyo Laboratories British Dragon Denkall Generic labs Organon Norma Hellas Black Cat Lab Sciroxx Laboratories Geneza Pharmaceuticals Axiolabs AG-Guys Desma Zambon Galenika Orbit Nutrition Balkan Pharmaceutical Euroking gear Syd Group Pinnacle Labs Hardcorelabs
1100 1000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200
Authors Forums Observation time 1131 10 11 733 7 11 602 13 14 420 7 14 405 11 14 389 12 14 333 11 12 286 12 14 230 12 7 195 12 7 189 11 8 184 9 11 181 7 12 177 10 14 168 8 12 162 13 8 161 10 5 159 9 12 158 9 13 152 10 14
Number of suppliers
Supplier detection and popularity
N = 327 suppliers
80
RUI-Products (ar-r), 11 years
60 40 20 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Observation time [years] Ttokkyo laboratories, 11 years
British Dragon, 14 years
Generic labs, 14 years
Denkall, 14 years AG-Guys, 11 years Orbit Nutrition, 12 years Desma Zambon, 12 years
Organon, 14 years
Norma Hellas, 12 years
Pinnacle Labs, 13 years Syd Group, 12 years
Black Cat Lab, 14 years
Axiolabs, 8 years
Sciroxx Laboratories, 7 years Geneza pharmaceuticals, 7 years
galenika, 14 years Euroking gear, 5 years
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hardcorelabs, 14 years
Balkan Pharmaceutical, 8 years
0 0
2
4
6
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Number of forums
10
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Conclusion Dynamic adaptation of the collection plan based on discussions of users/suppliers
ü Structured approach to identify relevant keywords ü Trends analysis: popularity ü Emerging products detection
ü Suppliers detection ü Promotional strategies ü Popularity ü Seller’s websites detection
The methodology can be widely applied to other types of crime problems
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