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29-Jan-2015 19:41:07

High Lord

High Lord

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SO I met this stranger who had been hacked and lost all his stuff. I walked him through how to secure his account with changes made, and he did. So then I gave him an Easter Egg. And a few days later he bought a stronger account because he thought he would be able to make money faster that way, and he was hoping to repay me I suppose.

Surprise, it was a scam. He got hacked AGAIN as soon as he gave away his stuff to buy the account. Someone took the account back, changed details, and locked it up again, so now he has his old account and the Easter Egg is gone.

I feel bad for the guy, but come on-- DON'T BUY ACCOUNTS.

Moral of the story: DON'T BUY ACCOUNTS.

It's perfectly fine to be a nice person and give to people in need or recently hacked. But make sure they have the right idea of how to keep their accounts (and wealth) secured, BEFORE you give them material help. It isn't enough to just change recoveries and pass. You need to educate people on what NOT to do as well, as I discovered. Be the Change

29-Apr-2015 20:35:53

Dt Devil

Dt Devil

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The other day one of my clanmates got scammed trough a relative "
new
" method to me. They were about to
stake
in a
Dual Arena fight
.

Just before the fight started the opposite player
banked
and quickly
logged
. After that, they came back with a player with a slightly other player name, but with much higher stats than the one before.

I was wondering, is this in any way a form of scamming?

Thank you. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato.

08-May-2015 18:23:47

Azyezl
Aug Member 2017

Azyezl

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Thank you very much Bio
nicler898. This is a very he
lpful thread indeed! Thanks again for your ti
me and effort in making this!
:) ---]-
Fight The Dead
~
Fear The Living
-[---

Neebs
Gaming

20-May-2015 15:31:04 - Last edited on 20-May-2015 15:31:58 by Azyezl

Mitsuki San
Jun Member 2013

Mitsuki San

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Note I am not looking for sympathy. I already bought back the seismic wand and singularity I so foolishly lost.

Just a warning to a new scam that is out. I could have said no but I wanted to play along. This is the first time in 10 years of Runescape I have been scammed.

So what happens in one player trades you taunting you with 200m or something expensive and asks you to follow them.

Another player messages you saying that they need to pm you about the scam.(In actuality, the other person is his partner and this is a team scam.)

The first person then invites you to the grouping system and you accept the invitation.

The first person then takes you somewhere remote like varrock courtyard and asks you to bring only something expensive (Like my seismics in this case.)

They ask you to drop it (Yes I am a fool.... That's not the point.) and he declines to trade the 200m while teleporting you to the location that was mentioned in the grouping system.

The person who "warned you" comes in and picks up your items. Boom. I lose 541m. Luckily, I have over 1.7 billion gp so I easily bought it back without any issue.

Be careful guys.

20-Jun-2015 00:30:46

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