People often scam you in Runescape for something they would like to get of you with a cheaper price by tricking you. You wouldn't like that would you? If you were scammed and would like to know how to spot a scammer, then say no more, here is a guide on how to keep away from scammers and how to keep your stuff safe!
Scams & Hacks
- One popular scam has surely got to be the mistaken amount scam. For an example, you are selling something for 25k, you see that someone is wanting to trade with you and they put in 25k. They accept it and when it come to the, “are you sure” bit of the trade, they retrade and change the amount quickly from 25k to 2.5k hoping you wouldn't notice and you would accept it. This has happened to me but the best thing is to do is take your time while trading. This usually happens with valuable stuff like rune, dragon, etc.
- The two people scam trick, this I have seen in Varrock twice or thrice. This is when two friends or someone random join forces. One of them in a bank or a packed are announces buying something for a higher price than something is usually by a huge amount. The second person, down the road in a less packed is selling what the first person wants for a super cheap price. A random guy notices it and thinks they can make a pretty big profit so they buy the cheaper item and decide to sell it to the first person. The first person declines and that means you get ripped-of and the other two make money.
- Trimming, I reckon the MOST popular scam. This happens usually in a packed area once again. The scammer shouts out trimming armor or weapon for free. If you are stupid enough you will trade him and find out that he has just got your weapon or armor for free! Hopefully I'm completely sure none of the people reading this have fallen for it. You can only get trimmed items from treasure trails which are only for members.
- The “doubling item scam”, which I reckon is really dumb. If you trade them, they often just walk away and are often low levels with really dodgy names to remember to report them.
- If you do surf the net for free memberships and guys that say they are member of the Jagex Staff and are giving free stuff away, often ask for your username and password. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT give them your username and password and this is also one of the rules in Runescape, "do not give your password out".
- There are also websites which have a program like thing which you put your username and password in and says you are a member, log in after some amount of time. The websites look so similar to Runescape's website and I too have fallen for this trick and so have others.
This is my second guide, my first guide was The Easiest Runescape Money Making Guide.
