Big Bone Scam

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The Big Bone Scam is a scam that is common. During the trade, the scammer switches the Big bones for normal small Bones in the trade window. The normal small bones are worth a lot less (both in price and in Prayer xp). If you are scammed, you can report the breacher under Rule 2.

Scammer: Selling big bones 300ea

The victim thinks it's a great deal.

The victim trades with the scammer and gives the money for the bones.

The scammer offers Big bones, takes it out and outs in normal bones instead.

The victim gets scammed out of 290 gp per bone.

The victim reports the scammer under Rule 2.

[edit] Alternate way

Because of the new warning on the trade screen if players are about to be scammed, there is an alternate way to watch out for.

Scammer: Selling B bones 250ea

The victim thinks it is a great deal.

The victim trades with the scammer and gives the money for the big bones.

The Scammer clicks Decline on purpose, says Oops! or something of that sort and offers to trade again.

The Scammer now inserts normal Bones and both click accept.

The victim is scammed and reports the Scammer under Rule 2.

The Scammer logs out.

Correction: The Big Bone Scam no longer works because of the new way to trade. If the scammer swaps Big bones for normal bones, an exclamation mark (!) will appear and it will say Trade modified. However, the scammer may simply not put up any Big bones at all and offer normal bones, since it's hard to tell the difference when they're noted.