List of Common Scams.

[Leesters]

Well, I just read the post about the guy losing 20 mil in a duel arena scam, and it makes me remember all the scam posts I've read on here, so I'm going to build a guide for the Archive of Wisdom sticky warning ppl about common scams.

 

 

 

And your input will be appreciated, and credited in the guide.

 

So please post any scams you are aware of that is not already list.

 

 

 

Staking "Player Switch":

 

 

 

This scam happens at Duel Arena. A low level person stakes a duel, and declines the final duel accept screen, stating lag, or oops, or mis click or something of the like. Then someone with a very similiar name, and a much higher level, offers the same duel, while the victim thinks they are dueling the lower level.

 

 

 

"Three-Item" Wilderness Scam:

 

 

 

This is a luring scam, where a player will lure a victim to the wild with valuable 3 items, and will offer you a gift of dragon longs, or mystic robe tops. With this gift, the whip is no longer in the "3-item" list, and a death by the victim will cause the whip to drop, and the gift items to keep.

 

 

 

Trade Screen "Switch":[/size]

 

 

 

This is a commono trade scam, where the trade items are "switched" at the last second before the final accept button is pressed. Common ones are switching big bones from Dragon bones, switching GP amounts, switching rock hammer for a granite maul, etc. It is always vitally important to double check the final trade screen on all trades.

 

 

 

Trust Clan Scam:[/size]

 

 

 

This scam starts by a player asking his victim if he wants to join a clan. In order to join the clan, you must show your "trust" and give him a valuable item. After the item is given, the scammer simply logs out.

 

 

 

Password Scam:

 

 

 

This scam is nasty. They player will tell you that your own password is blocked by the sensor, and then tells you to test it. You type in your password, and now its on the chat, and it IS NOT blocked by the sensor. You have just given your password away.

 

 

 

Alt-F4 Scam:

 

 

 

This is a way to get a player to log out. If you hit Alt-F4 your current window will close. (Please post related commands to close your Windows)

 

Lame scams include "If you drop an item, and hit Alt-F4, you can dupe it".

 

The person drops his item, hits Alt-F4, and he's out of the game, out of the website, and will probably take longer than 30 seconds to log back in.

 

 

 

Free Tinted Armor Scam:

 

 

 

This is when a player offers to "tint" your rune armor for free. Tinted armor comes from treasure trail clue scrolls, and players cannot tint armor. The victim hands over his rune items, and the scammer simply logs out.

 

 

 

Pure Essense Scam:

 

 

 

This is common at Runecrafting companies that trade essence for crafted runes, like at the Law Altar on World 66. The person will trade the victim non-pure essense in exchange for the law runes. Always make sure you are getting PURE essense if you are a crafter working at one of the company set ups.

 

 

 

Can't think of anymore, but I'm sure you can. Please post any scam you can think of, and I'll add it to the list, and credit your name.

 

 

 

Be careful out there!

[SirHartlar]

Edgeville Scam:

 

If you are making a trade in Edgeville I have seen this happen and heard about it. The scammer asks you to take him to the monastery to recharge prayer, while his friend waits in the wilderness to kill you. You can lose your stuff you were going to trade + more if you are not careful

[r2-pleasent]

Well, I've been playing F2P a lot lately and I find everyone there tries to pass their items off as Rare, or Discontinued. Popular items that are advertised as Rare are Muddy Keys on F2P, and Hollow Reeds on P2P. An easy way to avoid any scams of this fashion are to follow the Rare Item List:

 

 

 

- Santa Hat

 

- Pumpkin

 

- Easter Egg

 

- Green Halloween Mask

 

- Blue Halloween Mask

 

- Red Halloween Mask

 

- Purple Party Hat

 

- Yellow Party Hat

 

- Green Party Hat

 

- Red Party Hat

 

- White Party Hat

 

- Blue Party Hat

 

- Christmas Cracker

 

- Disk of Returning

 

- Half-wine

 

 

 

Another popular scam nowadays is Luring. People will offer a really good deal for your expensive item, and will tell you to meet them right near the Wild. They will begin moving into the Wild, and then open the trade screen. While you are in the screen, their friend pops up and begins attacking you, usually with Ancient Magic. I've known people who lost Party Hats to this trick, so I'd be very careful if someone tells you to meet them in Edgeville.

 

 

 

The only other effective scam I've seen that's not on this list would be Unidentified Herbs. A friend of mine was selling a Blue Party Hat, and someone put up a ridiculous amount of Unid'ed herbs (like 20K) and said they were Ranarrs. My friend did the usual anti-scam maneuver, he bought 2 of them, identified one, and then held the other Unid'ed herb as a note in a full inventory. However, when he made the trade, he somehow ended up with 20K unid'ed Marentills. The basic moral of this is not to accept Unidentified Ranarrs in massive quantities.

[jwrm22]

Trust Clan Scam:[/size]

 

 

 

This scam starts by a player asking his victim if he wants to join a clan. In order to join the clan, you must show your "trust" and give him a valuable item. After the item is given, the scammer simply logs out.

 

 

 

or go pk with your new clan and get killed by clan leader and some other clan members for only full rune... and more things like lure etc.

 

 

 

Alt-F4 Scam:

 

 

 

This is a way to get a player to log out. If you hit Alt-F4 your current window will close. (Please post related commands to close your Windows)

 

Lame scams include "If you drop an item, and hit Alt-F4, you can dupe it".

 

The person drops his item, hits Alt-F4, and he's out of the game, out of the website, and will probably take longer than 30 seconds to log back in.

 

 

 

F-5 or ctrl+ F-5 just to many ways... firefox: alt + left arrow...

 

 

 

 

nice guide... but is it realy needed?

 

and add edge wildy scam, you need in walk to the wildy to the monastry or something and there is a friend of the scammer... (tb + entangle+ whip = scammed)

[aussy4321]

Tele-other'ing people that are killing dharok...a known killer to those people that didn't understand why the guide said to turn accept aid off

[All_Bogs]

Tinted armour? That'd be trimmed armour :P

[Who]

its more often 4 item wilderness scam

[Leesters]

Tele-other'ing people that are killing dharok...a known killer to those people that didn't understand why the guide said to turn accept aid off

 

 

 

Yeah. I didn't want to put the "why" in the guide, because then it would have taught ppl how to do it. I'll add that one with your credit.

[spuriousmonkey]

A very simple scam.

 

A friend asks if he can hold your whip. And says: don't you trust me/I'm your friend. He is playing with your conscience.

 

 

 

Just say that you don't loan out stuff out of principle and that it is not personal. Or at least, don't do this with anything you are NOT prepared to lose.

 

 

 

edit:

 

i guess it is close to the clan scam.

[genju24]

I actually thought I was scam proof, I've been a target of several of those simple tries, changing money ammount after first trade screen mainly. Once someone also tried to sell me willows instead of yews.

 

 

 

I felt very safe because I read about most scams here on Tip.it forums (btw, thanks people).

 

 

 

But yesterday they tried one on me I never read about. I was selling some runes on a forum and some guy says he'll buy. He asks me to go the range guild, says he's training there. I go ok, it's fairly close to a tele spot.

 

 

 

I've never been in there before and go in without thinking twice. I see the guy waiting for me at the base of the center tower and he immediately goes up the stairs. I follow, not knowing anything about what happens there. Up there he trades me and immediately runs outside. I like to take things easy and I smell something fishy, so he doesn't get me.

 

 

 

But after a few seconds of him being outside, I move outside too to trade, and immediately get attacked. I get downstairs just in time to survive.

 

 

 

Now at this point I'm still not sure it's a scam, mind you. Yes, I am that naive. So I go back upstairs but stay inside safely. At this point a lvl 22 comes and starts saying that it's perfectly safe to go outside, IF I turn auto-retaliate ON. If I do, the archers will stop attacking me. At this point I pack up and leave, and the guy that first got me there either logs out or puts me on his ignore list.

 

 

 

And that's my story. I didn't die because I was lucky enough to have auto-retaliate off. I would have lost 2k nats and the black cav I was wearing.

 

 

 

Sorry for the long post, I've wanting to tell my whole story but didn't feel like it was worth a topic on it's own.

 

 

 

I think you should add this scam to your guide. And great idea on the guide, definitely something everyone should read:)

[LordSoultar]

Old Fashioned Team Scam:

 

Let's say that item X is worth 5m. Two friends, scammer A and scammer B, will be sitting in a crowded bank a ways apart from one another. Scammer A will be selling item X for 7m, which is 2m over it's actual value. Scammer B will be buying item X for 9m, which is 4m over the current value and 2m more than his friend is selling for.

 

 

 

Some innocent person will come by and notice it, then realise that they could make an easy 2m in a matter of a few seconds by buying item X from Scammer A and selling it to Scammer B. He puts up the 5m, buys the item, and turns to sell the item to scammer B. When he does he finds that they both logged and he lost 2m. :cry:

 

 

 

Random PM Team Scam:

 

This one was pulled on me one day while I was trying to sell a guilded skirt from a treasure trail. I get a message from some random person saying "Hey, long time no see!" and nonsense like that. He asked me if I would buy a master wand for him while I was at Fally Park, and that he would trade me a halfwine for it. Then he says that they sell around the santa hat area.

 

 

 

I go over and look, already knowing something was not right, and sure enough thereis someone selling the master wand for 30m more than it is worth. I tell him I know what he is trying to do, and he blocks me.

[yomom1919]

Tele-other'ing people that are killing dharok...a known killer to those people that didn't understand why the guide said to turn accept aid off

 

 

 

how does teleother while killing dharock harm you? dont you get teled somewhere? i always have accept aid off while doing barrows, but i thought it was because so ppl dont tele u when u open the chest and dont have enuf inventory room. so they get the stuff

[ronnyuk]

Tele-other'ing people that are killing dharok...a known killer to those people that didn't understand why the guide said to turn accept aid off

 

 

 

how does teleother while killing dharock harm you? dont you get teled somewhere? i always have accept aid off while doing barrows, but i thought it was because so ppl dont tele u when u open the chest and dont have enuf inventory room. so they get the stuff

 

 

 

Its because the window pops ups while you are fighting and stops you eating/praying etc

[Silverchipmunk]

The "make you a member for free scam". Simply, a person says that if you give them your password, they will make you a member. They might also offer items or gp. Another version is to say someone did this for you and give them the username of the person who can "make you a member". For a hilarious story about this scam, go to http://necrobrawler.50webs.com/sidebars/screenshots/scammer.html

[Rebdragon]

And of course, the "My Dad/Uncle/Whatever works at Jagex and will give you free stuff if you give me your pass. :roll:

 

 

 

I remember when I was at the Yew trees a few months back some lose was saying that his uncle was Svulle to some newbs, and that all they had to do was give him their pass and he'd give them a chain and whatnot. God, some people sink so low just for a few pixels. :?

[O_Qp]

I don't think this is a common scam, but I've heard about it: Someone wants to buy your edible rare (Pumpkin, Easter Egg, Half Wine). When you get to the trade screen, the scammer quickly closes the chat window, making you eat/drink your rare if it's not noted.

[Saru Inc]

cool guide, aumm.. once i was selling my crappy d med and this guy posted up 750 mage logs.... and so i accept and almost accept again when I read the second screen and it says 750 willow logs.. I decline and said nice try scammer... Lol, he tried 5 more times on me lol again.

[Mirror]

Wine of Zamorack Scam:

 

Person says he/she asks for your help, you follow them to the building with a wine on the table. He asks you to get it and when you go and grab it, they attack you. You try to run but they close the door, and if you are not strong enough you will die.

 

 

 

You can reword it better if you want.

[Bloodredsword]

thanks for the guide

[ortiz9471]

The "make you a member for free scam". Simply, a person says that if you give them your password, they will make you a member. They might also offer items or gp. Another version is to say someone did this for you and give them the username of the person who can "make you a member". For a hilarious story about this scam, go to http://necrobrawler.50webs.com/sidebars/screenshots/scammer.html

 

 

 

That was frikin hilarious! :lol:

 

 

 

Hey can you deal with "superlew2004" He was my best friends friend and scammed his whip. He then said that he was hacked and it was the hacker that scammed his whip :roll:

[Rune_User]

The Duel Arena scam:

 

 

 

A low level player will offer to no armour range duel you.

 

 

 

They will either turn off arrows or turn off the shield, no arrows means only throwing weapons and crystal bows can be used, and no shields means no bows can be used.

[Juanflores]

this one happened to me but I'm not sure if its a common scam

 

 

 

i was just walking around catherby heading for the bank when some person i'v never met messages me and says if i want a whip for 1mil or a green phat for 2mil since i don't care about phats i chose the whip and he told me to go to his world edgeville so i head there and wait at the bank then he tells me to go to another world but at that monstery near the wildy and next to edgeville and i log and head there so i get there and some guy runs up and tells me theirs somebody high alching green phats up near the cliff at lv 2 wildy so i follow him wearing mostly crap except for the 1mil like he said and i see the guy and he does snare and hits me with arrows so i lose the 1mil and keep the crap...

 

 

 

 

 

i kinda figured out it was a scam but i was curious with how he was gonna pull it off and i paid for it with my 1mil...oh well

[mini193]

this almost happened to me but i avoided it....

 

Two friends wait by the edge of wilderness. The pker friend stays off minimap. The non-wildy friend says he wants to sell u somehting really cheap worth a lot. Foir me it was a whip for 1.5 mil in itmes. I go up to him in non-wildy, he runs into wildy drops an item worth 50k and comes back. He trades again but declines. He says oops lag. I see item appear in wildy and I run to get it. could have telegrabbed but inventory was full. So i run in to get it his mage friend comes running. Entangles then fire waving me. Luckily he didn't teleblock me and I teleported almost losing all my stuff.

[kwimbob]

On the free "tinted" armor I'd go ahead and say "tint" or "trim" your armor for you. You can also get rid of some of the extra typo size closing tags :wink:

[Satenza]

Old Fashioned Team Scam:

 

Let's say that item X is worth 5m. Two friends, scammer A and scammer B, will be sitting in a crowded bank a ways apart from one another. Scammer A will be selling item X for 7m, which is 2m over it's actual value. Scammer B will be buying item X for 9m, which is 4m over the current value and 2m more than his friend is selling for.

 

 

 

Some innocent person will come by and notice it, then realise that they could make an easy 2m in a matter of a few seconds by buying item X from Scammer A and selling it to Scammer B. He puts up the 5m, buys the item, and turns to sell the item to scammer B. When he does he finds that they both logged and he lost 2m. :cry:

 

 

 

Random PM Team Scam:

 

This one was pulled on me one day while I was trying to sell a guilded skirt from a treasure trail. I get a message from some random person saying "Hey, long time no see!" and nonsense like that. He asked me if I would buy a master wand for him while I was at Fally Park, and that he would trade me a halfwine for it. Then he says that they sell around the santa hat area.

 

 

 

I go over and look, already knowing something was not right, and sure enough thereis someone selling the master wand for 30m more than it is worth. I tell him I know what he is trying to do, and he blocks me.

 

 

 

Same happened to me but replace 'master wand' with 'Grogg' and 'half wine' with 'full dragon'. Pathetic people, actually think I will fall for it.