In your analogy, you could also argue that the parent is party to blame for not teaching their child to avoid strangers. i.e. Jagex not taking proper measures. ;) Or the penal/justice system for not enforcing harsh enough punishments to deter said stranger from such an act (that would be some Internet commission in your analogy). It's all relative. But the majority of the blame rests with the scammer/stranger Good point. Still, the point I was trying to get across is that you can't equally blame the scammer/scammed. IMO...its both the scammer and the person scamed falt. The scammers falt by doing it...and the scamed person by falling for the scam. You can't be saying it is equally each's fault? If there was no scammer, there would be nothing to fall for. Some of the blame is to the scammed, but most is to the scammer. Edited my first post, didn't go in depth enough to explain that I thought more blame was left in the hands of the Scammer. But to be fair, you should be weary just in-case. Granted some people might be new and might not have learnt about scamming through RuneScape, but many others, whilst knowingabout scamming, still let themselves get scammed. So they deserve partial blame for not looking/paying attention at the trade screen.