Interestingly this doesn't involve pvp at all. The person will claim to have a method for duplicating items and instruct you to follow them from lumbridge. They will tell you to stand at this spot:

 

 

The person will then instruct you to perform a few more actions before having you run to another spot and drop your item you wish to have duplicated. What really happens is as soon as you drop your item the game forces to walk off the square the item is on, and any attempts to grab your dropped item forces you to the square one south of the item. The lurer then waits until your item appears and telegrabs it.

 

I wasn't dumb enough to drop anything of value, but the other people weren't so lucky.

Edited January 20, 201214 yr by LJ13

lolz Im doing it, dropped a grimy marrentil.

Daym. That would suck if you fell for it. :wall:

Wonders if it's possible to make anti-scam autotypers, every world, have one set up saying "If someone has led you to this area to duplicate items, it's a scam! Report them and leave now!"

Wishful thinking. :twss:

Thanks for the heads up. :thumbup:

In my opinion anyone who is not a newbie to Runescape would never fall for such a lame attempt at a scam...

Don't drop items you are not willing to lose.

In my opinion anyone who is not a newbie to Runescape would never fall for such a lame attempt at a scam...

Although I can imagine people trying it, not knowing there is this glitch that you can't pick your stuff up anymore.

Don't drop items you are not willing to lose.

 

Simple.

Drop cabbage, or spades. Hopefully they rage and make good screenshot material.

If it's coupled with the coin pouch, it could be used for good trolling by dropping a stack of 10k gp

Jagex should ban the victim as well, just to send a message that they don't tolerate people breaking (or in this case attempting to break) the rules. Someone getting scammed like this and reporting the person reminds me of when you see on the news someone calling the police saying "I was trying to buy crack and they took my money and gave me nothing/plaster/baking soda, I was defrauded!" Then the police arrest the person for admitting they were trying to buy drugs.

These spaces have been around for a while...unfortunately now someone has found a way to abuse them.

 

What these spaces are doing is essentially this: They're supposed to be unwalkable squares, that for some reason are not. Apparently player code has some built in check to see if he should be able to stand there, and if he shouldn't be, the game will make him leave it. It was the same with the edgeville wormhole glitch that's been fixed some time ago. I'm sure there are other spaces like that around that haven't been discovered yet.

What keeps you from just opening your notes page to get back onto that square, like in the first place?

Moves you away before you can pickup

Then how do you get onto that square long enough to drop something in the first place?

So you're telling me you can stand back over the item you just dropped, but not pick it back up?

Correct.

i found a place like this at the entrance to the warped torts. i was taken away by a random as i was exiting the dungeon, when i returned, my box was in a place i could not pick it up. when i tried to walk on top of it, i would be taken outside.

smart one, and yea i can def see ppl drop items just thinking, wth i can grab it at any time. I would never bring any value items when following scammers/bug abusers for fun. but out of 10 im sure 1 would fall for it, and that's usually enough for a scamer.

 

And banning the victim would be wrong, some do it to find out whats beeing abbused, so they can report it, i meen its not like LJ13 tried to double a pie? and if it had worked, its not like she would run of and get her D claws to double them? Most players when they find a glitch are vice enough to report it, then walk away.

 

anyways, nice to see this, was unaware of this type of spots.

Then how do you get onto that square long enough to drop something in the first place?

So you're telling me you can stand back over the item you just dropped, but not pick it back up?

 

This. I don't really understand how you can drop it fast enough but not pick it up.

Then how do you get onto that square long enough to drop something in the first place?

So you're telling me you can stand back over the item you just dropped, but not pick it back up?

 

This. I don't really understand how you can drop it fast enough but not pick it up.

Dropping happens from inventory - at that moment your "character" won't look where it stands.

 

When you try to pick up you send to the sever the code where you stand and a request to pick that item up. The server than sees that you stand in a spot where you shouldn't be capable of going, and simply thinks you "hacked". As a measure it puts you away from that spot and won't let you pick up the item. You're moved away BECAUSE you interact with the world. With dropping you don't interact with the world.

There's a similar spot at desert strykewyrms. A wyrm dropped an elite clue and I was unable to loot it... Ran to bank for telegrabs and got 100k loot from the clue lol.

There are a couple around the clan citadel portal too.

Then how do you get onto that square long enough to drop something in the first place?

So you're telling me you can stand back over the item you just dropped, but not pick it back up?

 

This. I don't really understand how you can drop it fast enough but not pick it up.

As long as you have the add note or any other interface open while you are standing on the square you won't walk off it. Its just that add note allows you to switch tabs and access your inventory.

I remember there being one in the edgevill general store as well?

I went there looking for scammers to report, tried it out and it seems to have been patched or something, because you can't drop on that square. If you select drop, it will just move you and you'll keep your item. Not sure if this is all locations, or just the Lumby one.