Well, Im facing this question at the moment. My account (the name of which i wont reveal for security reasons) (lvl 132) was locked, because it got hacked when I visted a scam site suggested to me by a friend on rs that I had known for awhile. He built up my trust, then asked me to go to his website to register. Anyway, I'll post a little something that I originally posted on my clans official website. Hopefully it will help someone out. To answer the question this thread asked, no I won't play again if my account isn't unlocked. I spent years on that character and don't even wanna try again. so anyway, here it is. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ A guy who I had met in game maybe a month back named M 3 S S 3 D (lvl 114) Asked me to join his clan as a clanfriend. Last night he had me pm his leader, who asked me to go to a certain website which I wont post on here. Because I had known the guy, I accepted, and went to his site. The site by the way looked amazing, with sweet features and stuff..it looked legit. On the scam site, there was a place to fill out your application, where the requested that you fill out and app and post it on the RS Forums. HERE IS WHERE THINGS START TO GO BAD. They gave a link to their clans thread on what looks to be the rs website. In reality, it was an identical clone to the Runescape website, down to the last detail. I went and clicked the green "login" button on the upper right hand corner of the rs page, and logged in on that fake site like I usually do on the real rs site. Everything looked the exact same as it does on the real runescape website. I soon realized my mistake, and logged out to try to go save my password, but to no avail..it had already been changed I hopped on one of my other accounts, and talked to the hacker as he dropped 10m worth of items that were in my inventory on the ground. By the time my account recovery was processed and I went back on my file, all my armor and stuff that was in my inventory was gone. This included Full Dh, Verac, Fury, 5 of my skillcapes, Infinity boots, torso, whip, defender, etc... To make matters worse, when I woke up this morning, to my dismay I saw that Jagex had locked my account, because they suspected it had been stolen. Since I recovered it last night, my old recovery questions were deleted, and all I have left now to recover my account is a 250 word paragraph and supplying a few old passwords. I don't know if I will ever get it back. There are a few things that you can do to prevent this from happening to you: 1. I wouldn't suggest going to a website that someone says in game, especially if it has some wierd ending like [LikelyScam], as it is most likely a scam site. 2. If on any runescape related site, if they give a link to the Runescape Website, never click on it. It could lead to a fake runescape webpage as what happened to me. If you do click on the link, make sure it says "Runescape.com" in your address bar. When I hit backspace after I realized my mistake, the url on the top of the screen was completely bogus. 3. BANK YOUR ITEMS AFTER YOU LOG OUT! This was one serious mistake I made. After I realized my account had been stolen, I was still logged on to my account, but in a panic I logged off with all my stuff in my inventory to go and try to change my password. This is bad. You need to remain calm and bank your items first, then after everything is secure, log out. That way the hacker won't do anything to your hard earned items. 4. If you ever need to recover your account, change your recovery questions afterwards. Mine were deleted after I recovered my account last night, and forgot to create new ones. Now my account is locked, and there is a small chance I will be able to show enough proof for them to give it back to me. I made a horrible mistake, I would like to think I should have known better. I have been around long enough to know the common scams, I have heard of many Runescape Phishing sites before. But this was different. They made a personal connection with me, and as a friend asked me to go to their site. Because of this I didn't have one ounce of suspicion. Don't trust anyone on RS. Not everyone plays by the rules, and the innocent will get suckered.
