 |
|
|
 |
Sponsored links make TruthScape possible. See here for more information about ads.
 |
TruthScape.com 9 The Truth About RuneScape Account and Password Scamming and “Hacking” 9 Common Ways Players Get “Hacked” Outside the RuneScape Game |
|
Letting Others Do Work on Your Account
One way that scammers hijack accounts is by convincing victims to reveal passwords through offers to do work for them on their accounts, either for free or payment. Some of these offers can sound very convincing, but in addition to being cheating—account sharing breaks Rule #6—they always put your account at serious risk.
You may find players who offer to do any of the following (among others):
- Level up your character's combat skills;
- Raise a boring non-combat skill such as woodcutting
or fishing;
- Complete a difficult quest for you that is easier
for them because they have done it already (perhaps many times);
- Do a difficult minigame for you, like Barrows or the TzHaar fight caves (to get a fire cape.)
Once again, the only way someone can do work of this sort on your account is if you provide the person with your password. As soon as you do this, you lose control over your account. Sometimes scammers will make these offers to get items that you leave on the character to do the work, but more often they will steal the whole account, usually re-selling it to someone else. They may also require payment first for the “work” they are doing, so you will also be out the RuneScape gold or items you paid them too.
Many victims get into trouble here by finding scammers who offer services like the ones described above on “outlaw” web sites that are dedicated to illegal RuneScape activities, like buying and selling accounts or trading RuneScape gold for real money. Some of these sites, recognizing how easily people can get scammed with these sorts of trades, try to create “safe” markets for accounts and services, and even claim they have “safe middlemen” and “trusted brokers” to do these transactions.
Well, all I can do is laugh. As the saying goes, “there is no honor among thieves”, and since these are sites dedicated to cheating, by definition you are dealing with dishonest people. In fact, I recently saw a bunch of people on one of these “underground” sites talking about how one of their most “trusted” members scammed a big bunch of people.
Edit: Speaking of laughter... as I was revising this section, I went back to one of the more infamous cheat sites—the same one featured in Figure 97—only to find something that honestly made me laugh out loud: a thread from a site administrator telling people what to do if they had been scammed by the site’s own staff! This began with the administrator providing instructions for how to prove you were scammed by a staff member to get a “refund”, followed by various moderators arguing about who had been hacked, complaints about fake emails from the site, you name it. Yeah, they sure sound “safe” to me! J Check out Figure 109 for a sample from this comedy routine.
Bottom line? There is no safe way to let someone use your account. Period.
|
|
Home - Table Of Contents - Contact Us
TruthScape.com (http://www.TruthScape.com) - Information about RuneScape You Need!
Last Update: May 28, 2008
© Copyright 2007-2008 Charles M. Kozierok. All Rights Reserved.
All information is provided for free use at your own risk. Not responsible for any loss resulting from the use of this site.
WARNING: All content on TruthScape is protected by relevant copyright laws in the United States and other countries, and may not be reproduced in any form without expressed written permission. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent permissible by law.