| ID |
Risk |
Description |
| Teams Scam |
Item Loss |
First of all, someone will say “Buying Abyssal Whip (or whatever item) for 3mil!” The price will be incredibly high for the item. The scammed person-to-be (hopefully not you) will trade the whip and will be offered something like a warriors/seers ring instead of gp. Someone else will be offering to buy the very same thing that is being given instead of the gp - like a warriors/seers ring - for 3.5mil or more at the same time as the trade. So - seeing a potential half mil or more profit, the soon-to-be-scammed accepts the offered item instead of the gp.
And then the guy with the whip and the guy offering to buy the ring log off at the same time and immediately.
The scammed is stuck with a warrior/seer ring worth 400- 500k and paid 3mil for it.
……….Thanks to Sieg for telling me about this so I could pass it on to everyone & Marlaine for writing this. |
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| Show me you're inven |
Item Loss |
There is a new scam currently doing the rounds.
You'll see someone saying giving free items to show me what is in your inventory.
When you trade them, they'll put up the free items hoping you'll click accept and forget to take the items out of the trade window.
If you remove your items, they will decline, same if you show them your junk items |
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| Pass * |
Item Scam |
Another popular scam going around is to type 4 *'s and then exclaim hey look Runescape does not let you type your password.
Unfortunately this is a scam, what they're actually doing is simply holding down shift while they press the 8 key on the top number row of your keyboard.
If you Type your Password, they simply steal your account at the first possible opportunity, and while they have it, they'll empty all of your items into their own account. |
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| Advantage |
Account Loss/Item Loss |
Another scam is another player will tell you to give them your password, they'll say they can give you free membership, fast levels, a ton of gold or whatever. Don't believe them they'll only steal your your account, and transfer your items and gold to their account. You'll be left with nothing. |
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| Jagex Impersonation |
Account Loss/Item Loss |
A player may contact you claiming to work for Jagex, they'll claim they need you to give them your password, the reasons vary, from beta testing of rs3 (WHICH DOES NOT EXIST), to anything you may think of. This is a scam, firstly All Jagex mods have a GOLD crown next to their name (if they do not, report them) secondly Jagex mods would not need your password, they already have access to it. |
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| Multi trader |
GP Loss |
Player 1 and 2 are friends; player 3 is a normal Runescape player.
Player 2: 'Selling DDS 65k
Player 1: 'Buying DDS 80k!!
Player 3 thinks: WOW! If I buy this from Player 2 for 65k, and sell for 80k, I can Profit by 15K easily!!!!
Player 3: Trades Player 2; buys DDS and trades with Player 1 but Player 1 declines and logs off.
This type of practice is common, usually player 1 and 2 are a little way apart so someone walking between them will notice one then the other and think whoa I can make a profit!! only to be well scammed. The item in question could also be any item they wish. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. |
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| Item duplicator |
Item Loss |
Another scam is someone saying if you give them items they can duplicate them for you, This is a scam, they will walk off with your Items.
Another version of this, is someone tells you a secret, that you can drop and item on the ground and press alt and F4 to duplicate the item, again this is a scam, alt and F4 actually closes any window you have open and selected, in this case, YOUR RUNESCAPE WINDOW, they will simply wait and then grab your items
Commands used are: alt and f4 (close any selected window), ctrl and w (closes browser in I.E which includes the official RS client, alt+F+C (windows OS command to go to file and close), Alt+Down arrow+Up arrow+Enter (Windows OS alt command to go File and Close) |
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| Armour trimming |
Item Loss |
This is one of the older scams in Runescape. What people do with this is they claim to be able to trim armor if you give them say your rune/addy plate. Do Not. believe them. NO ONE CAN TRIM ARMOUR. The only place anyone can acquire trimmed armor is on treasure trails. Check on The Official Runescape Treasure Trails Guide for details. |
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| German server trade |
Item Loss |
When buying a lot of something such as magic logs, you may receive a message from a seller requesting you to meet them on the German server at world 140. What they'll actually do is to try and swap the magic logs with something else. Since the names are sometimes difficult to understand on the German server, it's hard to identify some items except by their coloring. Solution: Don't meet anyone on world 140 |
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