I had a member join me today who was extremely low levelled, When I asked them if their account was an alt, they said that it was a new account as their old one was banned for macroing around 8 years ago, so i asked more about the account and he told me the name, after a quick google search I had seen it had appeared on a forum, requesting a bot and giving his account details out (including password).
When i confronted him about this he had no recollection of that event happening and it seems strange that an account that belonged to him would openly give out a password which leads me to suspect it may have been hacked, no evidence but just my opinion.
I am wondering if his name could be passed on to the ICU team for further investigation as I would hate for his Runescape experience to be affected if it was something like a hack.
I have included the name of his banned account below for the viewing purposes of Jagex, I know you do not normally do this stuff but it would be good to know if i have a bot abuser or a victimized player in my clan, feel free to hide the post once reviewed.
Username
benbenben99
Thank you for any support you give
Rob Jones
Edit:
Also after further checking i can see that the user who posted on that forum had the name luke337 which leads me to believe that this may have been a hacked account
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26-May-2016 02:12:13
- Last edited on
26-May-2016 02:15:42
by
Leader Rob
We should know more about what Jagex is doing with
hijacked and banned accounts
after
Saturday's LiveStream
. They're looking into issues like these, but only 2% of investigated accounts have been unbanned so far. And they're kinda going by the previous month, so it might take a while for the account to get reviewed.
Mod Infinity's thread called
Bans, mutes & more
clarifies a couple of things including linking to the
Ban FAQ
which states that players are responsible for the actions of any person to have accessed their account in accordance to the Terms & Conditions which state Players are solely responsible for securing their Computer, Email and Accounts.
For now all you can do is refer your Clanmate to this Support Guide:
I'd tell him to scan his PC for malware with these programs:
1) Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/thankyou/
2) AdwCleaner
https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/
3) Junkware Removal Tool
https://downloads.malwarebytes.org/file/jrt/
4) Kaspersky Security Scan
http://www.kaspersky.com/free-virus-scan
Just give it to him straight. It's highly unlikely the account will be unbanned if Jagex has any evidence suggesting the account may have been shared or attempted to be sold.
I hate to say it but it has been stated by Mod Matthe before on this forum that this is not the proper use of this forum. Bans are handled by a different team and it is a favor if Mod Matthe decides to look into it. Its more of a abuse of privilege to use this forum for such things.
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Not appropriate for the CLF. Not something I am going to spend an age chasing, sorry.
Mod MattHe |
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Mod Matthe
said
:
Not appropriate for the CLF. Not something I am going to spend an age chasing, sorry.
No worries Matthe, I have passed on Pescao's advice anyway and he seemed very appreciative of it
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