Can you get banned scamming runescape

Unusual trade methods like dropping, death or trust trades are particularly risky and we strongly advise against them. If any of your accounts obtained items or wealth through rule breaking activity, for example macro use or real-world trading, then all your accounts may be banned. For example, it is against the rules to have a number of accounts in a minigame all controlled by the same person, in order to try and guarantee the minigame outcome.

Jagex staff will never message you in-game and ask you to visit a website for any reason. Jagex staff in-game will always have a gold crown next to their name in all chat channels. Jagex staff can be reported just like any other player, so if you think a Jagex employee is breaking the rules please report it. You must not ask any other player for their personal details and you must not provide your personal details to another player if they ask for them.

Giving out personal details may affect the security of your game account or risk your own personal safety. Very rarely some adults will lie about their real age, gender or other things because they have an unhealthy interest in attempting to contact or meet younger people in the real world and may want to harm them.

The only way to stay safe and be sure you are not putting yourself at risk is to not provide any personal information to anyone you meet online.

Players must not take advantage of any bugs they may find in our games. If you discover a bug, please report it to Jagex. We will not ban anyone who discovers a bug in our game, lets us know about it and then does not use the bug again. We do ban players who continually exploit a bug, particularly if the bug provides unfair gain or advantage over other players. For example, by sharing the information in game or making a video or similar that explains how to exploit the bug.

Encouraging other players to abuse a bug or sharing information about it is treated in the same way as continually abusing the bug yourself and can lead to a ban. It is generally OK to play and use items where a bug is minor and does not give you any advantage.

We will not take action against you if you play with a graphical bug that causes your cape to not display properly, for example. You must not encourage, support, or help anyone else to break any of the rules set out here.

Encouraging or helping others to break the rules is as bad as breaking them yourself. If you encourage someone to break a rule, we treat it as if you are also breaking the same rule yourself even if you haven't actually broken the rule. This rule covers any website or similar that is not approved by Jagex but is typically aimed at RuneScape players and is maintained by players with good intent.

These sites are welcomed by Jagex and are an excellent addition to the overall RuneScape community experience. However, to ensure the safety of all our players who may use these sites, each site must comply with the below requirements:. If a game account you created has been muted or banned by us you may have the right to appeal the penalty. The following links will let you know if you can submit an appeal, and provide you the next steps if you can:.

You can submit a report to us whenever you feel someone is clearly attempting to break the rules or has broken the rules. Our Support Centre contains a useful guide about how to report rule breaking. We use a mixture of tools to deal with abuse reports. Some reports are dealt with by automated systems and some are reviewed by human moderators who work for Jagex.

Human moderators review every report about really serious issues. For example, where somebody might get hurt in the real world or if a player is using extreme hate language. We also monitor all chat even if it is not reported to us to check for child protection issues. We use a mixture of automated systems and human moderators to identify if a child might be in danger or a person might want to harm a child.

You can read more about the limited ways we monitor chat in Section 5 of our Terms and Conditions. However, should you see a player who is clearly breaking any of the rules outlined above, you can always report the issue to us.

If you are worried about another player because you think they might harm themselves or other people you should contact your local Police force - even if you do not know much about the player you are worried about. Police Officers can contact Jagex by email at lawcontact jagex. Please note we may not respond to any emails sent to our law contact address unless they are sent to us by a Police Officer.

This includes: In-game items In-game Gold GP Account names In addition, paying someone to play your account for you is covered by this rule. Further Detail Note: Our rules are written in clear language so that everybody can understand them easily. Software that is not allowed includes anything that: Tries to interact with our game worlds without logging in. Tries to look at or change the communications between your device and our game worlds.

Performs things in-game for you that you're meant to be doing yourself. Changes parts of our game. Copying the code we use to run our games is not allowed. Using edited versions of our game code is not allowed. Other software that shows pages or content from our website s must not be used to go to our website unless the software follows all of our other rules.

Repeatedly asks for information from our website or is extremely demanding on our website. Each page on our website should only load if you open the page yourself. Gets around the normal steps used to log in. Any software should make sure you log in as normal to reach a game world. Hides or supports the hiding of any of the adverts on our website.

Tries to make it easier to enter a busy game world than it would be for users not using the software. Has its own chat feature separate from our game chat that does not follow our rules. If the software has a chat function, then it should make it very clear to users that this chat is not part of our games and is not official, supported by, or moderated by Jagex Limited "Jagex" This chat should still be moderated just not by us , and the moderators should not allow chat that does not follow our rules set out on this page.

Silver or gold crowns should also only be used to identify moderators in the official game chat. Uses any of the unacceptable features specifically banned in our Message About Unofficial Clients which can be found here Inappropriate Language or Behaviour We want our community to be fun and welcoming for all our players, so text that is considered inappropriate should not be used in our games. To be clear: It is against the rules to use chat that is likely to upset other players, using slurs, slang words and other inappropriate phrases that target specific people or groups Unacceptable chat includes bullying and harassment.

Solicitation It is not okay to ask for a boyfriend or girlfriend in-game. Games of Chance You must not advertise, organise, promote, or take part in any games of chance. Scamming It is against the rules to try and obtain items or Gold GP from other players by scamming them. For example, claiming an item is rare and valuable when it is not Not carrying out a trade as agreed. These websites are usually fake copies of official sites and are designed to trick players into logging into them with their game account details, which will lead to their account being hijacked Anything else that uses scamming techniques, dishonesty, misdirection or similar and results in a player losing items or wealth that they did not expect to lose It is not possible to multi-log and move Gold GP or items between the RuneScape and Old School RuneScape games.

The scammer will then ask the victim to remove his or her armour and will trade the victim the amount offered and then decline the trade. The scammer will then ask the player to show his or her inventory in the trade to see how many inventory spaces the victim has in order to give him or her food. The scammer will then trade the player back and show the money he or she promised to the player, and then the scammer will wait for the player to put all of his or her items in the trade, and the scammer will then put the food in and accept the trade hoping the other player didn't notice that he or she got all of the victim's stuff inside the trade.

This scam is a play on the "free stuff" scam. Phishing is the act of tricking a player into divulging their login details, particularly their username and password. Once a scammer has access to a victim's account, they can then steal all of the victim's items and money.

Players should never enter their login details into any website except runescape. Note that scammers can run websites that appear to be the official RuneScape website ; for this reason, it is important for players to carefully check the address bar at the top of the web browser to ensure that the website is, in fact, runescape. There are multiple forms of the phishing site scam. All of them involve the scammer attempting to get the victim to enter their RuneScape account's login details into his or her website, which may or may not resemble the official RuneScape website.

The scammer then logs into the victim's account and takes all of their items. Scammers will often offer victims incentives to login to the fake website, such as membership in a clan, or being given a valuable item. Some scammers will also pose as Jagex staff and tell their victims in private messages that they are being considered for a position as a player moderator , which they will receive if they verify their account details on the fake website. Another way is scammers will send out fake emails telling players they have been banned and need to log-in to appeal their ban.

However, Jagex staff will never contact players in-game and will instead use the Message Centre. Anyone who offers a position as a player moderator in-game should be reported for impersonating Jagex staff. Note: A variation of the YouTube scam is also often associated with the Fishing Trawler and Corporeal Beast scams in which scammers produce fake anti-luring videos to deceive their victims.

Some scammers will stand at Varrock West Bank with spam bots and claim that if players search YouTube for a specific phrase or player name, they can watch videos that teach them how to easily make money or promise a giveaway of items.

Instead, these videos attempt to phish victims' login details by telling them to log into a third-party website controlled by the scammers or find the username's details and use a password cracker to compromise the account. These third-party sites may resemble a site controlled by Jagex.

For example, the scammer may provide a link to a "post on the RuneScape forums" which is actually a third-party site disguised as the forums, which then prompts you for a password. Some scammers also stand there and tell you that you can be in a YouTube video they're making when you follow them.

If you follow them, they will take you to a dangerous place like the Wilderness and eventually kill you when you're in the dangerous zone. Always lookout if there is a second person following the person who has invited you.

He will act like he is also participating in the video but will eventually help the other person kill you and eventually get a part of the loot. A scammer will attempt to get a victim to say their password aloud. One possible way to do this is to say, "Look, Jagex changed it to where you can't say your password backwards anymore!

The scammer will then log into the victim's account and take all their items. Another variant of this scam is to tell players to change their password to something specific, then log out in order to receive free items. This will simply result in the scammer logging into the victim's account and stealing their valuables. This scam will not work on members who have set a character name at least 28 days prior, as such players must use their original account names to log in. Also, this scam will not work on free players who have their accounts created after the 24th of November , as such players must use their e-mail address to log in.

Therefore, this scam may have lost popularity. Sometimes, scammers will log into free-to-play worlds and start offering to buy membership for anyone who gives the scammer their password. Rather than upgrading the victims' accounts, the scammers will simply steal all their items. Scammers may also offer membership in exchange for coins or valuable items, with which they will simply run away.

This is a form of trust trading. Furthermore, there are websites that claim to upgrade players' accounts to members status for a smaller fee than what Jagex charges. These sites will simply take the victim's fee, then log into their account and take their in-game items as well.

Suggested action: If you wish to purchase membership with your in-game wealth, the safest way to do so is by purchasing an Old school bond over the Grand Exchange. Aside from violating the Rules of RuneScape and risking a permanent ban , players who engage in real-world trading may find themselves at risk of having their accounts compromised. An RWT website may request the victim's email address in order to verify the transaction; using the email address, they will then attempt to guess the victim's recovery questions in order to get their gold back and take all of the victim's items.

Similarly to real-world trading , players who use macroing software may have their accounts compromised. A website may offer "undetectable" macroing software that is "guaranteed to work", but actually contains a keylogger, which records any keys the victim presses on their keyboard such as when logging into RuneScape and sends them to the website's owners.

The owners then use the login information to break into the victim's account. Players may be sent a warning purporting to be from Jagex stating that their RuneScape account has been credited with an infraction. It will provide a link that claims to lead to the section of the RuneScape website that will show this offence and allow them to appeal. Needless to say, this link is fake and should not be followed, however, convincing the email looks.

A few things to watch out for:. If you have any doubts about the legitimacy of the email, then you can check your account status without following the link in it. Go to the main RuneScape website in another tab, either via your bookmark or the URL, log in there and check the account status section of account settings.

A player will ask that you meet up with them in a safe zone in which " banks are designated as safe areas where combat is forbidden" according to Jagex in the PVP World update. Although players should NEVER conduct trades on PvP , the problem really consists of meeting and trading the scammer at a limited safe area like Shanty Pass and being pulled outside the safe zone, which is only three squares in size.

Like Wilderness luring , the victim is attacked and killed, thus losing his or her cash stack. It is most likely a lure. Although this scam primarily existed prior to the Grand Exchange , it has emerged in a different form.

As in the GE scam , this scam also aims to take advantage of price discrepancies. In the Wilderness , particularly in the Revenant Caves or Wilderness God Wars Dungeon , a player will teleblock and attack you if you're wielding valuable items like an Abyssal whip or Toxic blowpipe. Once you've killed them and exhausted your food supply, appearing will be a drop of four noted items valued higher than your whip or valuable items on your person at the time.

As soon as you inevitably pick up the loot, the player's friends will appear and kill you, and you will only keep three of the noted items or all four if you used Protect Item. Since the GE price is set higher, you will lose whatever valuable item on your person.

Previously, items held on death was determined by alchemy value, so for example, four Dragon sq shields would be prioritized over Bandos tassets despite being much cheaper to buy. As the GE price is now the deciding value, there are fewer items that can be exploited for this. A notable example are the weapons dropped by Revenants that had a street price much higher than their GE price, prompting Jagex to manually increase the latter Craw's bow going from 10 to million, for instance.

For this reason, caution should be exercised when using newly released items in the Wilderness. A scammer will approach a victim who owns a valuable item and ask to fight them in the Wilderness. The scammer will recommend that the victim bank every item except the valuable item, and use the Protect Item prayer to keep their sole item safe.

After the victim attacks the scammer, the scammer will initiate some form of prayer drain i. Smite to drain the victim's Prayer points and deactivate Protect Item. The scammer will then kill the victim and take his or her item. Take nothing into the Wilderness. The scammer may also ask the victim to activate the Redemption prayer along with Protect Item. The scammer may ask the victim to hop worlds together, citing an excuse such as lag or a lack of people in the area.

Upon logging back in, the victim's Protect Item prayer will be turned off, and the scammer will attempt to kill the victim as quickly as possible before the victim can reactivate Protect Item. It is also possible to quick-hop to a high-risk world from within the Wilderness , so even one-itemers with quick reactions are at risk. Suggested action: Do not hop worlds if you think you are not fast enough to active Protect Item after you've hopped or at all without checking the type of world being hopped to.

A skulled player will try to trick an unskilled player to skull by either using a freeze spell or the Zamorak godsword special attack. After a successful hit, the skulled player will then run in the victim's spot, forming a death dot, and pop back out with his or her alternate account or friend. In order for this work, however, the two accounts must possess similar names and be within proximity of Combat level. Suggested action: Set player options to Hidden , and never manually attack anyone.

You will come under attack by a player killer in Deep Wilderness near Deserted Keep and try frantically to escape. As you try to slash the web after being frozen , a camouflaged alternate account donning all black priest robes , including hair and skin colour , will log in and slash the web, forcing you to accidentally click and attack and become skulled.

Alternatively, a player killer could just begin attacking you and jump in with his alternate account of a similar name. If you click to manually retaliate, and you happen to attack the alt , you will become skulled and run the risk of losing all your items if they kill you. Skull trickers have other means of disguising themselves, such as dressing up like NPCs or monsters e.

If victims forget to set nor have their player option set on Hidden , they'll become skulled should they accidentally attack another player in PvP. A scammer will announce a drop party and then lead everyone to the Wilderness borderline.

The scammer will drop an item on the other side of the line, in the Wilderness, and then kill anyone who enters the Wilderness to take it.

The scammer may cast Ice Barrage to prevent victims from running and also Teleblock to prevent victims from teleporting out. This scam may also occur in the vicinity of the Wilderness ditch. Suggested action: If you really want to take part in this type of drop party, bank everything before you do so.

This scam involves the use of Tele Group Ice Plateau to transport an unsuspecting player into the deep Wilderness , wherein they can be killed by the scammer and any accomplices for their items.

Although the spell has a confirmation screen warning players that they are about to teleport into the Wilderness, scammers may attempt to get players to accept the teleport anyway.

A scammer may offer a teleport to another location, such as Catherby , and instead cast Tele Group Ice Plateau in the hope that the victim won't notice. A scammer may also enter a populated area such as Varrock West Bank and claim to be hosting a drop party or giving away valuable items.

The scammer will attract a large crowd of players, then cast Tele Group Ice Plateau telling the crowd that whoever accepts the fastest will receive valuable items. Suggested action: Never turn Accept Aid on unless you are in Barbarian Assault with others or during a boss fight.

It is also a common sight to see someone asking for help with training Magic via the Teleother Spells. So, if you are helping anyone, be careful on where you are being teleported.

This lure is popular on World 2 where people carry a lot of valuables with them, and it starts with lurer shouting out, "Drop party mil". After enough people are following, the lurer says something like this:. These are a few types of scams where a player attracts an aggressive monster to another player to kill him or her, or a player will command another player to attack a high-level monster for a "reward. NOTE: Due to the updated death mechanics, players will have up to 60 minutes to retrieve any tradeable item on death, which renders monster luring ineffective since lurers have nothing to gain other than grief.

Player 1 would lure lower-level players to tribesmen found in Karamja and trick them into attacking them, or if they're low enough, under a Combat level of 65, the tribesmen would aggressively attack them regardless. Tribesmen poison very often and can poison up to 11 Hitpoints. Player 1 would try and stall them by saying that they had antipoisons and was willing to give them one or tell them there was a nearby bank they could deposit their items in.

After 1—2 minutes the poisoned player would die, and the scammer would take all the items they dropped. Suggested action: Report the player for Item Scamming. A higher-levelled player says to a player, usually below level 9 Combat , "Follow me! The higher level goes upstairs in the tower and stands at the doorway of a room on the 2nd floor and says, "Fight the wizard and I'll give you 10, gold".

The low level, intrigued by the offer, begins to fight the wizard. When he or she tries to exit the room because they are low on HP , the high level shuts the door before the low level can get out, thus leaving him or her to die. This can also be done at the dark wizards in South Varrock. Over the years, they have caused a lot of casualties. Player 1 would take someone into the Ranging Guild and tell them to attack the tower guard.

He or she often says, "Keep Auto Retaliate on and if you kill them you get k each. Since there were three rangers that could hit fairly high cumulatively, Player 2 often died quickly, thus leaving Player 1 to collect the items. Suggested action: Again, report the player for Item Scamming. NEVER follow a player into unfamiliar territory, especially as a low level.

Make sure you know the price of the item you are buying; people can overprice an item at the same time as advertising that they are selling other items at low or market value, thus making you think the item they are selling is at a good price. Although Jagex has removed large-scale gambling from the game, such as toy horseys and flowering , some dicing clans and communities still exist. Similar to using the in-game dice formerly provided by the dice bags in RuneScape 3 , these clans use bots of any sort like text chats, autotyper scripts, and websites to perform the necessary rolls of the dice.

Because these dicing bots are controlled by the dicing hosts themselves, it is not possible to trust them to roll fairly. It is very easy for the bot's writers to adjust the random rolls of the dice in order to bias the roll in the hosts' favour. Even after somehow demonstrating an "impartiality" of the bot code, a host may alter it live to have the winner be the host or his friends. In reality, this is just another ploy to take your money. Sometimes, players will ask the victim to drop an item across a fence or other obstacle and say that the player can pick it up if the scammer makes a move to take it.

You will also not be able to tell when your item becomes visible to them, allowing them to act like they have not seen the item up to the time they cast their spell.

North of the Sawmill and over the Wilderness ditch is a tree that lurers use. The scammer will lead his or her victim to said area after persuading the victim to wear his or her own valuable items to "look good" for a video. The so-called friend is actually the lurer's friend and is in on the whole thing and could, in fact, be the actual player-killer or secondary account. When the victim hops over the ditch and casts Telegrab , he or she will automatically run into the danger zone because the stuff is behind the tree and get ice barraged , spec'd , and killed by the lurer's friend.

This is also a player-killing scam. While this is a rare scam that is hard to pull off, it can be very costly and hard to detect. One person, generally mid-level, will ask you for an in-game interview to make a video or answer questions. While this person is supposedly recording, their partner will walk up and start bugging you to be in the video. The person who is interviewing you will begin world hopping or teleporting to lose this annoying player and ask you to follow them.

Eventually, they will teleport you to the Wilderness or lead you to a danger zone and say that you should have the second person follow you. A scammer will claim that he or she is quitting the game and giving away his account, in the hopes that the victim will transfer all their items and money to their new, higher-level account.

If the victim doesn't bother to change the new account's password, recovery questions, and email address, the scammer will change the account's password and steal all of the victim's transferred items. It is against the RuneScape rules to receive or purchase an account from another player. Such action could result in getting banned. Two scammers will work together for this scam.

One will be selling an item for a high price, higher than its market value, and another will claim to be buying the same item for an even higher price. An unsuspecting victim will buy the item from the first scammer at an inflated price hoping to sell it to the second scammer for a profit. However, after the victim buys the item, both scammers will leave, thus resulting in a loss for the victim. Although fairly uncommon, a scammer may claim to be trying to start a drop party, and encourage victims to drop their items.

The scammer will then simply take the victims' items and leave. A scammer may bring a victim into his or her player-owned house and ask to conduct a trade by placing items on a table, or scammers will talk the victim into dropping an item because he or she can pick it up again before it appears to other players. Because placing an item on the table is equivalent to dropping it, the scammer will be able to expel or kick the victim from his or her house, lock the entrance portal, and take the item before the victim attempts to take it item back.

This scam may have lost popularity since players are given a warning before they drop items in others' player-owned house. Despite being difficult to report , this scam is rarely seen. Scammers will hang out in populated areas and try to find people who want to have their money doubled see the doubling money scam.

The scammer will trade the victim, take their money, and log out. The victim might then report the wrong scammer, since the only one who said anything is the conventional doubler, and it would be normal to just right-click on the "doubling money!

It's still possible to report the silent scammer by scrolling up in the trade log to get the name of the silent scammer accessed by clicking the button next to Report Abuse , and then manually typing the silent scammer's name after clicking the "Report Abuse" button at the bottom right of the chat box.

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