Email Scam
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The Email Scam is perhaps the most ruthless scam in RuneScape. It has the possibility of damaging a player in-game and in real life.
If a scammer ever learns the player's email address he may send a "fake letter" from Jagex to the player. This letter usually asks for your RuneScape password but sometimes asks for your bank account number. Jagex never sends the player email so if the player ever receives a letter from Jagex, the best action to take is to delete it. Giving the player's password/bank PIN may lead to the player's account/valuables being stolen. The best thing is to never say your email in-game.
A variation of this scam will be composed as Jagex informing the player that they have sent a message to their accouint and asks the player to log into their Runescape message account to respond, the email will even provide a helpful link to the appropriate page. The link directs your browser to a page which looks like the login screen for accessing your messages from Jagex, but will actualy be a logger, if you enter your account name and password on this screen the scammer will have everything he/she needs to steal your account. Whenever you enter your Runescape password and account name ALWAYS make sure that the address reads "www.runescape.com" and be careful, fake addresses will be similar, but trust no variations. Or better still, download the windows client from Jagex that way you know you are on Runescape. As stated before, Jagex NEVER sends emails to a players external email account, so never trust an email pretending to be Jagex.
It is advised to report such scams to Jagex via a customer support query and they will take the appropriate actions to deal with it.
[edit] Another Way
Another way that scammers can hack your Runescape account is for you sending your Runescape account to them. On many video game hint&cheating sites there are also Runescape hints&cheats (note that there are NO cheats for Runescape).Users of these websites will post a cheat like this
- How to Hack RS Acounts
- I found a way for u 2 hack other ppls accounts on RS by hacking the RS website. All u hvae 2 do is this...
- 1.
Find the person u want to hack.
- 2.
Send this 2 Jagexrsemail@yahoo.com
Subject:rspsswrdrcvry
- =No.:4658932//$%code="yourusername"%==]
- =serident6598//%code="victimsusername"5==]
E$$code$*^%*input*%*&="yourpassword"%==] (In the " " put your username,victim's username, and your pass)
This DOES NOT let you hack other players accounts and is just a scam to get your account with out the scammers account being banned. (Note that the e-mail address is different in every post, which is another giveaway to it being a scam
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