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djh101

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You give them a small amount of money - they give you double the amount back.

These days a lot of doublers will run with the test trade since they know that most people aren't going to go higher and are just trying to get free money.

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Lol, is this still a thing? Even if this were legitimate, you would basically be handing your gems to another player so that they can devalue them for you. Old School Update Priority: Fix Broken Skills > Revitalize Dead Minigames > Everything Else

28-Jul-2017 23:12:13

Dufa

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Awesome Thread thanks for the post.
It also reminds me to bring up a terrible Lure in effect as of right now.
It is called Corporeal Beast scam/lure, do not fall for it, I tested it out and purposely lost 22M.
Play safe, Do not trust anyone that tells you to drop your
items or coins

27-Sep-2017 22:46:27

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A recent "Scam" I've witnessed is people who ask about ways to make money fast. They ask this to engage nearby players, thinking they want to legitimately advance. Often they will state something like "100k from getting a bond" to put a cash value on the distance from their goal. However they will only reply asking for supplies for whatever you suggest. Otherwise they will ignore you, or restart the loop.

I.e. today I told someone in f2p "try telegrabbing nature runes in the wildy, one of the best profits in game currently" They replied" how many runes should I bring" when I gave a few suggestions they replied "I can't afford that many"

This "scam" is intended to imply that they've legitimately earned the majority of their goal, and are at the end of their rope trying to finish the goal. It's targeted to players willing to hand out cash.

12-Oct-2017 13:31:31

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So I was at g.e and a lvl 8 "pol lution" (his name) approached me and told me to follow him so we went north of g.e and I thought ok ill play his game, his friend "grote kut" (didn't know at the time) pmed me and convinced me to anti scam him since he apperantly already did now the lvl 8 gave me games necklace and said tele to corporeal beast ill meet you there, his mate grote kut told me to search "these are the results of idiocy" so I watched it and it shows the antiscammer dropping his items at corporeal beast and accepting the scammers gp (30m) I think and being told to drop the coins on his items which apparently teleports you out but the anti scam I assume was to pick up the items as soon as he gives you the gp and don't leave...
but from what just happened to me, i joined his cc "pol lution" and went into this white portal.. here i am as soon as I dropped my items... and he traded me... before accepting 25m.. he kicked me from the clan chat and I got kicked out of that area and ended up at that place when you teleport to beast with the games necklace and i couldn't get back into the portal unless if i have 200k or if I'm in a clan... since my inventory is completely empty after losing 8 items I was in shock for like 5 seconds i didn't know what to do.. i then home teled to lumby then i thought hang on ill get a games necklace from the bank so i got my hopes up again i ran to the bank i grabbed my necklace and noticed i didn't have any gp since i dropped my 500k along with the items... i then teleported to varrock ran up to g.e sold some stuff then teleported back i paid 200k... and no ones there.. half way through writing up this post the 2 scammers "pol lution" and "grote kut" (lvl 123) and another victim "jasonnn" are standing in the same spot and he just lost 40m...

i know scamming is breaking the rules but i wanted to see what the fuss is all about when i got approached the way i did and try to play his game and gf 50m after i bought 20 bonds. rip

13-Oct-2017 17:20:07

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the corporeal beast scam set up will still exist in future cause not everyone will ignore a scammer and will decide to try and antiscam him expecially if someone at a bank pms you and tells you to antiscam the scammer and will help you... a lot of people in this situation will end up being scammed.. yes its your fault for talking to the scammer and letting a lvl 123 (grote kut) convince you to watch a quick video on youtube which the scammer irl is commentating the video and in the video his explaining how he anti scams the scammer but in actual fact the video is a set up for the victim... after watching it you think your gonna pull the same trick.. in the video he doesn't get kicked from the clan chat which exits you out of the area.. he accepts the trade and quickly picks up his items... then when you end up in a clan chat with him your at corporeal beast dropping your stuff and trading him and in the 2nd trade window "attempting to kick player from clan chat" lol now my point is since I searched "corporeal beast scam" and seen that its been happening for about 2 years now and theres hundreds of victims dropping their 25m+ put it this way.. in future how will it stop? it wont lmfao it will continue to happen and getting kicked/exited from an area after being kicked from a clan chat is a smart idea for scammers to make B A N K dw jagex ill buy another 30 bonds through you on Tuesday <3 rip

13-Oct-2017 19:52:40

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Awesome job putting this together @Motley Crue, very very informational :)
As I already knew about most of these as a long time player of RuneScape I still wanted to have a read & I am glad I did, as some of them listed I hadn't seen yet until reading this just now :P

I did notice there wasn't the common scam that required both people involving the scammer & the person being scammed - I forgot what exactly it was called, but I use to get hit with this one a lot.

It involved going to Seer's Village with your most valuable items in your inventory & heading down the ladder to the room where you get the 'Boots Of Lightness' from; here the scammer would tell you to climb down the stairs into the room and drop your items while they did something that turned off the light downstairs I can't remember how it worked but your items would remain on the floor and unable to pick up due to not having some type of 'light source' on you at the time (In most cases, not many people remembered to bring one with them/the scammer was talking to the person to the point you'd get side tracked and forget to bring with you'.

Once again, thank-you for this thread I hope it keeps a lot of people from being hijacked in the future. ;)
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15-Nov-2017 06:16:53

Motley Crue
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That's an old lure, which is a form of scamming, albeit far more complicated and I think if anything it would deserve it's own thread about luring, but I'd like to keep this isolated to scamming in the sense most think of when the word is spoken. If enough people would like a luring thread like this I could consider it. The lure you mentioned did happen a fair bit back when OSRS was first released but it has since lost popularity since things have settled and updates have happened. If anything, mentioning it again may have an adverse effect by informing people with less than honest intentions about it and repopularizing it and that's the last thing I want.

Thanks all for your posts and thanks.
Mötley Crüe

22-Nov-2017 05:28:11

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