Like a variety of other people who are being plagued by this experience, I will go ahead and share the information that I have gathered in the long 4-5 days that I have been barred from entering my account.
One morning I awoke to an email about my account being "locked for suspicious activity", and loading up my Runescape client to see that I had a messaged stating "Too many login attempts. Please wait a few minutes before trying again."
As most people who have invested a lifetime into their accounts like I have, I immediately panicked and clicked that email in my inbox to figure out why my account was locked. This is where mistake number one happened, and I was greeted with a message from my Anti-Virus (thank Saradomin) that the link was a potential phishing link.
Immediately I closed the link, went to the official site and checked my accounts status and every button on the account section to see if my account was truly locked. Low and behold, nothing about my account being locked anywhere.
As a high priority target, a maxed player with a decent amount of wealth, I am essentially being barred from entering my account by someone who is abusing the flawed login system for Oldschool Runescape.
This is because someone is using a bot or a script to spam login attempts on my account from somewhere else. Recently a YouTube video from an ex-player moderator was created about this issue and testimony of people being locked out of their account for up to 7 weeks have surfaced (however, I have no proof that this is true).
There are two things I have discovered. You can manage to get onto your account 1 of 2 different ways, 1) if you have the 1 tap login on mobile, either Apple or Android or 2) if you have an Android device, you can link a fresh google account to your account and log onto an Android device using a Google account. You can also log into RS3 with a Google account that is linked to your account, however, nothing for OSRS
13-Sep-2020 23:10:20
