Old Runescape Scams Were Wild

[@therunescapehistorian]

Keep in mind these are just the scams involving the trade window from the early Runescape 2 days. ~Dishonorable mentions~ Herb seed scams Unidentified herb scams noted iron equipment swapped for rune big bones sold as dragon bones via a quick switch.

[@rocktheboat56]

theres also the whip/rope one

[@susanthejew6351]

lunagang for all your runescape knowledge

[@typerightseesight]

i actually fell for one in like 2011. I logged into the forums except it wasnt actually runescapes website and lost everything. it was to join a lottery for a phat too. I knew it was wrong. there was a bank pin confirmation to log in. how did i not know. that.

[@luketargett2233]

How about the 'leave cash pile that looks max cash stack but is onlly minimum amount for bait' or the old school zammy wine bait and close door method lmao

[@joshher92]

where is the video u upload about the falladore massacre ??

[@CheesesteakImeancake]

I must have been about 13 at the time, but I remember spending weeks standing in the W2 garden, flipping barrows items and trying to save up for that beautiful Guthan's set with the swirly purple effects I so desperately needed to have. At this time, the whole set was around 10m, with the spear alone being the bulk of it (like 8-9m.) Fell for the leaf-bladed spear switch last second and cried for hours, to my moms confusion.

[@Gndlf_TheOrange]

People who played back then understand the heartbreak 😅

[@MrDontclickthislink]

Got the Vskirt scam pulled on me. My mum couldn't understand too. I feel you though bro.

[@international_hippie]

My first time getting scammed was in f2p.. saved up for weeks and got full rune and went to Varrock pvp to flex (not actually pk) and a group of kids like 5 of them spent 45 mins convincing me to go full rune pking with their group and how much money we would all make.... finally did it... got smoked at greaters by them and Def remember crying too haha... was like 9. Good old rs days lol

[@nathanhouterman3440]

@@MrDontclickthislink my bad lol

[@AWESOMO5]

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[@GameTandT]

I remember when I was really new to the game and a guy wearing full rune (g) was saying armor trimming for sale. I wasn't a member and didn't know about clue scrolls at the time so I handed over my full mithril set. He trades me again and says it's now trimmed and I could clearly see it was the same armor with nothing done to it. He was asking me for like 25k for doing nothing which I didn't even have so I told him I wanted to see how it looked on me before I gave him any money. He said ok and traded it back and I x logged. I don't think he knew how the scam worked. To this day, anytime I feel dumb, I think of this guy and feel slightly less dumb.

[@therunescapehistorian]

LOL. That guy was pretty damn dumb.

[@cardenw]

I fell for the 'buying Rune 2h 100k!' scam back in 2004 :d they they swapped it for 1004gp and due to the text colour not changing and no 'trade modified' alerts at the time it got me pretty good.

[@Falleax69]

I remember as a kid someone tried to convince me I could dupe my black armor by dropping it on the ground and pressing ALT+F4. I fell for this scam, luckily for me however I didn't actually know how to do that right, so I just typed ALT+F4 into the chat and when nothing happened, I grabbed my armor off the ground and ran away, swearing at the scammer. After that, I learned to be careful and was never scammed again.

[@Kyotan-]

Haha. I also fell for this scam under the Varrock bank in 2005. It was a team. One person told us about the glitch and another person 'confirmed it'. Even though I fell for it, I still wanted to test it out first so I dropped a bucket and did the alt + f4.

[@seanc2699]

Late to the party but thank you for that memory. I forgot I had gotten scammed like this back in the day.

[@usmctwin61]

I'm not afraid to admit at least 90% of us were young/desperate enough to fall for the doubling money at least once in their life.

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

what about those of us using the landline to coordinate the scam with your buddy who declares the doubling money is totally legit, then cutting him in by a third of the gains when some poor kid gives you their cash stack I was such an asshole as a kid! 21 years in this game and I've never been scammed

[@yeaaasonido]

​@@AdamOwenBrowningI used to do that with multiple accounts as a kid lol

[@PhillyFaithful93]

I never fell for that scam in particular, but I did fall for the “gold trimming” scam when I first started playing in 5th grade. Lost my full adamant armor and I was devestated 😂

[@aaronball4700]

@@AdamOwenBrowning Some of us are born with drug addicted parents and some of us are niave. The funniest is when the scam artists don’t realize they had drug addicted parents. Here’s an example “Now son losers just let everyone take from them, you have to find creative ways to take from those losers around you.”. I’m half joking but my uncle was a meth addict and the quote is from him so, whoever you want to be when you grow up I guess.

[@WillMoxonFloatsOnOil]

People still do

[@Mikestrike1]

I'd love to see a follow-up on some of these as well. I remember before you had grimy ranarr, grimy Guam, etc.. all herbs were "unidentified herb" with the same sprite. You used to see people identify 1 in the stack to know what the rest were so you could sell off unidentified Guam's as ranarrs for a lot more. There was another that took advantage of people wanting to dupe items using the poh. You would have say 2 whips in your inv and drop one in your own house. Trade and show the victim you have only that in your inv then use it on a table or something. Wait a couple seconds, pick it up as well as the one you dropped initially and trade again showing both items. Now you just get them to try, and since there's an animation when someone puts an item on the table, once the scammer sees that, they kick out other players and lock the house. Then you just wait for it to show up

[@anabolicino]

Way back in the day, I was able to pull off trading the Black Desert Robes from The Shadow of The Storm quest off as Ahrim’s. I’m not sure why the case was, but at the time in RS2, the robes were an identical color to Ahrim’s robes, minus the chain texture from it being Barrow’s. You made them by rubbing the dark mushrooms on them from the obscure little tomb in the farthest corner of the desert at the time, they weren’t just the regular black wizard robes. However the sprite for it looked exactly the same at the time, or atleast 99% close enough to pass quickly enough if you were able to do a quickswitch in the trade window before trade notifications existed. I have never seen this mentioned in any OSRS/RS2/Classic videos regarding scamming, history, trade bugs, etc. Thought it was funny and would be worth sharing, even though I know people will always shit on me for it

[@sup_my_bwana]

I can’t find anything saying they used to be tradable 🤔

[@justindavis2024]

The 1711k was the best, most consistent scam in the game pre-ge. You would find someone selling materials (sharks for example), trade them, and put in 1711k. Wait about 5 seconds while they calculate how many sharks are worth 1711k, then decline and tell them the number they probably already calculated. Then put up 1171k in the next trade. Easiest 600k of all time. Worked nearly every try.

[@nathanhouterman3440]

hahahahahhaa smart one.

[@warr90ladx60]

I remember on classic there was a scam in the duel/trade screen where they’d add the cash as the amount stretched across the screen and then they’d add Needles to the end of it and you’d not be able to see the needles due to coins text but you’d see amount of needles but it’d look like extra coins had been added. Great video as always!

[@stevensytha8903]

I fell for a similar scam mentioned in the last section. I was dumb enough and greedy enough to fall for it. Some guy was selling mole skins for 1m each. I got a PM from a guy asking me to sell him a mole skin for 2m each. I bought the mole skins and immediately hopped worlds. Only to realize it was a f2p world. My greed caught me lacking that day. Here's what made it worse. The guy pmed me a week later thanking me for the whip.

[@0Wayland]

I've fallen for trimming scam once and lost my mithril armor. Hard lesson learned. Also I remember getting scammed for buying big bones then the scammer switched to small bones. I just wasn't paying enough attention.. Another lesson learned there.

[@LeoparditusRecords]

I'd buy you trimmed mithril to mend the wound, lol.

[@collinsmith7572]

I still remember vividly, even where the trade happened (varrock east bank), trying to buy a rune longsword and ended up buying an iron longsword lol.. That was a throwback. Haha

[@ComradeTomatoTurtle]

I remember losing my vercas flail to 1000 willow logs that I thought was magic logs. That was all my net worth in 2007. I had barely rune armor and some dragon weapons. I put all my assets into castle wars, thousands of runes, bolts, etc. just to play castle wars.

[@Clowyd]

Back when people played games for fun and not to grind! I miss CW.

[@Stormmblade]

I remember one of the more obscure scams from back in the day: the scammer giving a high level player in fancy gear half of an inventory of Limestone, and then ask the mark to smelt it on behalf of the scammer because their own smithing level is "too low". It would prompt to ask how many limestone they want to smelt, they'd typically select 'all', and then promptly blow themselves up repeatedly because that's what limestone in a furnace does. Most people aren't aware of that and get caught totally off guard or afk because smelting is generally a safe activity, and it doesn't seem like a scam since it doesn't involve giving anything away

[@tylerkirkpatrick1212]

That's pretty cool played for over 15 years and never knew that.

[@P-XIII]

I remember falling for the team item scam with a slight variation to the one described in the video. One guy was buying a whip for 2.4 Mill, and another guy was bying a guthix stole for 2mill. Whips were worth 1.4-1.6mill back then. I traded the guy who wanted to "buy" the whip for 2.4 mill, and he offered a gutix stole. I thought, oh, "If i accept I can sell the stole for 2mill right away to the other guy" and then buy a whip again for 600k profit and I accepted. I then went to the guy who wanted to "buy" the guthix stole for 2 mill, Who showed me the 2 mill, then declined and logged off. It took me a while trying to sell the "rare item guthix stole" before I figured out that I had been scammed, but only after I traded it for a Torag's hammer, which was worth even less back then.

[@Clowyd]

Thanks to your comment, I remember trading items around not knowing what they were worth as a kid, total crapshoot. Totally forgot about that. Thank you!

[@valaraz]

I think the earliest trade screen scam I can remember was a needle in the second slot of the old trade screen in RSC. Basically added a digit like the 4 did in RS2. It was quite clever really.

[@RsDynastyDukeVids]

Started in 2006 July 4th, I remember going to the old Wildy picking up addy arrows in F2P I seen rares and was offered a piece of charcoal for 3k addy arrows, I was told it was worth 2m to the right buyer. I still have that same piece of charcoal in my account. Such a dumb way to lose hours of picking up arrows as a kid lmao.

[@dillon4321]

Regarding the item look-alike scam, some OG players might remember that ranger boots looked exactly like green Fremennik boots up until late 2004, and thus were a popular target of the scam way way back in the day They weren't nearly as valuable as they are now but still worth a good chunk of gp

[@bane4743]

I have seen this scam happen in person at friends house. Luckily we all pulled together some GP and bought him some. Didn't want it to be a mood killer for the night.

[@MoreBlackWhirlybirds]

I remember losing 7m on a guthan set to a leaf spear, so I was left with either having to make the money back, or trying to scam someone else. I got my money back 5 minutes later. I think that's part of why there's so many scammers, the scammed have to scam to make their money back.

[@fwapdokopjai]

although simple, I appreciated the timer you put during your patreon read. as someone inclined to skip I didn't skip :)

[@TheBourbonWrench]

So get this; back in ~2005, my cousin came up with this “brilliant” scam. The item we used was called “hallowed Reed” and it was a tradeable item you got from legends quest I believe. So, one of us would stand in the bank say “selling reed 100k” over and over. No one clearly had the item unless they did the quest and kept. We’d then leave, and then the other person would come in and say “buying hallow reed, 500k please I need it for this quest.” No joke, we had people add my friend and buy his hallow reed for 100k to then come and try and sell it to me for 500k. It didn’t work often, but we got a few fools. I’m sorry to those 3 people that 11 year old me got ya. Man, the world before grand exchange lol

[@ToLateForYouMr]

I remember when I lost a whip to the lend scam. I was devastated after just getting it

[@kamilkrol977]

Great video. Recording history is so important. I personally remember and will never forget: Black Armor(g) set scam: scammers would show you that armor several times when you were trying to trade them, but quickly remove it if you didn't have your money/items ready. So in that moment, when you were few miliseconds away from pressing accept and seeinmg flicker the item you want, they'd finally switch some of the items to normal Black pbody and/or Black platelegs (g) and insert some gold jewelry among them. (necklace/rings) . The problem is, a tired, young and frustrated player (from long market searching bc grand exchange didn't exist) would sometimes just hastily press Accept, seeing as they finally found a seller for the item they want. That way I lost my money I saved up for buying the Black plate (g) set, to a scammer back then.

[@seancorrigan_]

luring scams were wild back then too. i lost my first whip because someone wanted me to be in their “youtube pk vid” and told me to take my whip and only that into the wild with me and they were gonna kill me for a vid and that i had nothing to worry about since i can’t lose 1 item unskulled. he traded me 4 notes dragon battleaxes in the wild (for my time helping) and then killed me and found out the hard way the battleaxes protected over the whip. rip

[@CuriousMisterG]

You know what prevented the scamming of people taking your materials, till it got abused, the "Assist" feature. Iirc, you can literally "lend a hand" with your stats next to the person and they could basically use your stats for whatever. Such as smithing armour out of level

[@jamesbyrnes8507]

Would love a deep dive of all types of scams, lures, etc. Ive always found them entertaining to see.

[@chewybacaking]

I got tricked for the leaf bladed spear/guthans scam in late 2006. I think the set was around 8m, with most of it being in the spear. I was a noob and my offer was like 3m cash and items, but before I put all my items up in the trade the guy accepted quickly. Somehow I actually came out on top (I guess the RS gods were looking out for me that day) by like 1m in total so I just bought the spear the next day and used the rest on like rune boots and a warrior ring. Good times.

[@realize2424]

just admit you rwt’ed with mommy’s credit card for the 8m at $8-9 per mil

[@mrboston6555]

Same bro

[@mrboston6555]

Was so pissed

[@chewybacaking]

@@realize2424 lmao nah I was terrified of getting banned. But I did give my friend from school $20 on the bus for d legs (2m) 🤣

[@13luken]

6:45 someone got me with the noted rock hammer granite maul when i was like 7 years old. Was so excited to upgrade to the granite maul as my main weapon, traded a guy in fally east bank my entire cash stack for my brand new weapon, and was heartbroken when i couldn't even equip it. Took me a long time to get that money back to get a new granite maul, which i continued to use as my main weapon for all activities until switching to, you guessed it, the dragon 2h sword XD

[@EmadBro]

Thank you for this video… just bringing back so many iconic memories and tears.

[@Brentastrophe]

I see verac set 2 skirt no helm scam thumbnail, I watch

[@m8ofm8s]

😮😮😮

[@Intolerant93]

Except that wasn't the thumbnail?

[@PulseTriangle]

Funniest way to scam the scammer: - have lots of smurfs in the GE - trade the doubler small amounts with each character until they leave - profit

[@superninjaraidingman]

Love the documentation you provide for the community

[@EdwardGordington]

when you said the words Rune HQ i unlocked a hidden memory and watched my whole childhood flash before my eyes, on a real note tho damn forgot about them.

[@daleHarrison93]

do u remember swiftswitch and swiftkit haha feels like forever

[@realize2424]

Zybez

[@joezep]

Same but with Sals Realm for me. It just ran better on my old shitty pc I felt like and I was used to the layout. Rune HQ was def a great one too.

[@LibbriAVal]

@@realize2424 what is this and why does it ring a bell, priv server?

[@Clowyd]

@@LibbriAVal It was a website where you would post which items you wanted to buy or sell and your RSN to meet in-game.

[@xamfam]

I can remember when I was like six years old I scammed some guy for black trimmed (g) because I told him I had a “special examine tool.” I got the set and then traded it for one rune scimmy that I couldn’t even wield at the time 😭😂

[@treasuretrails]

I got scammed trying to buy a full guthans set back in 2006, I knew about the spear scam so I spent so much time double checking the spear was real I didn't realize the guy put up two guthans skirts instead of the helm lol

[@DeadlyRealityTV]

I wanted to buy a rune pickaxe and when I found a seller, he “accidentally hit decline” and when he put the offer up again, I immediately hit accept not knowing it was a adamant pickaxe. If you note them, it’s almost impossible to tell the difference

[@koenbax3221]

Nice video! Though i disagree about the kids being lazy for research part. When i would ask my parents about something RuneScape related in that time their best guess was to see if a library had a book about it. If we knew what google would become at that time i would have bought some stock 😂

[@Fabian-kp3jd]

I remember the noted iron scim scam back then it looked nearly the same as a noted rune scim so people would make a quick item switch with that

[@mattw6152]

I got scammed with the magic logs swapped to willow logs back when I was like 13.. never trusted anyone else again in runescape

[@Mark3O9]

Early on with the re-release of OSRS, the GE didn't exist for about a month or so as the Dev team had to bring 07 runescape back up to speed. The market was essentially the Wild West again those first couple weeks with players having to trade one another for items and no one really knew exactly what price to pay for things and the trade windows didn't yet give warnings to any offer changes. This was the golden opportunity for scammers to quickly swap items like you mentioned right before the victim clicked accept. Well, I had gotten scammed trying to buy like 100 prayer potions for 100k and the scammer swapped them for attack potions (essentially the same color). Attack potions were basically worth nothing since they're literally one of the first potions you make to start training herblore. I was so pissed as that was pretty much my entire cash stack up to that point within a couple weeks, but had a good chuckle afterward as it brought me back to the good ol' days of being so naive to fall for such a simple scam.

[@eyedentity1849]

Back then I remember convincing people to trade me their expensive armor for Graahk armor (some random hunter armor) and people thought it was super expensive because of how it looked. They would trade rune trim and other items for it. Hilarious part was you needed 10 Hunter to wear, lol

[@Clowyd]

On one of the first few days of Hunter being released I bought a spotted cape for I don't remember how much (15k maybe?) and was disappointed to see that I couldn't wear it as well.

[@maniacmatt7340]

Had a guy say he could take my staff off air and make it a bstaff. I saw it in the crafting guide and was like "oh sweet!" I got I've it quickly and stopped trusting everyone. Great lesson.

[@MotivationalMAC]

we used to double 5-10m sometimes and make 200-300m in the next trade back in 2011 when the trade limit was removed

[@naathhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

I was scammed with the old armour trimming sale when i was young. I knew about it but still fell for it. He took me to doric's anvil took off his untrimmed rune full helmet, did a smithing animation and then put on a rune g helmet. I traded him my full adamant immediately

[@thomasshitt1665]

The ol' "Selling rune scimmy 15K" worked so often. You would note the rune scimmy and trade, then "accidentally" click cancel, then swap with noted iron scimmy.

[@Mercules77]

Around 2005, I was trying to buy a rune scimitar at varrock west Bank. The scammer threw up a rune scim noted, and while I was putting the gp into the trade(30k ish) he swapped it out for a mith scim. This was before trade values or any kind of warning when things were altered in the trade.

[@therunescapehistorian]

Ugh. I got scammed this way but with a cavalier. Was buying a black one for 1m, ended up with the dark one that was worth like sub 200k

[@Mercules77]

@@therunescapehistorian the good ol days.

[@Mercules77]

@@therunescapehistorian you should do a video on the TeamViewer scams.

[@TheBossOcats]

I remember getting hit with the leaf bladed spear scam and just logging off for about a week lmao

[@fishermansam5983]

“Trimming armor” was the best way to get a black armor set back in the day

[@runescape-o4l]

You had to remind me man oh man... I traded full inventory for bow-sword which obviously i didn't get.

[@gamewithadam7235]

People used to tell you to attack their familiars to be in a KZbin video. Or lend partyhats, return them and kill the victim. And then there's returnofwilderness.

[@AfricanRituals]

I got hit with the doubling money trick at 13. I didn't believe it at first but the guy had some explanation about how he had some client that doubled the money in the game. Idk why I bought that haha

[@MrWhiskey1]

I got wrecked by the iron->rune gear swap. Got my 41 WC on Draynor oak tree and someone put the rune axe up to my 40k and declined, made me panic, and put up an iron one in the next trade. Ruined my entire week.

[@cheddars2]

I'll never forget the time I got a set of torags but the legs were iron plate. Or lured into wildy for just an obby shield. Back then I thought having an obby shield was amazing.

[@SchwererGustavThe800mm]

About 6 months back I was on osrs at lumby giving noobs free gear. Then, I suddenly saw a rune mace on the ground and picked it up. Not 5 minutes later I found a low lvl in draynor with a rune Mace. I told him to trade me his rune mace and I'd double it. He was hesitant at first, hell even some randoms came up to warn him that I was a scammer and to report me. After about 15 mins of "I'm not a scammer, trust me bro" he handed over his mace. I traded him again, gave him both and hit a tele to varrock 😂

[@PURENT]

I used to pull this scam after the flashing trade update for laughs: Get rune set off GE, get like 10 iron sets off GE. Say you're selling a rune set for like 25k or something ridiculously under priced. And then just screw around with the buyer for a bit, put the rune set in the trade window, decline "oops" eventually you put the iron set up and they don't notice. Trade window didn't flash if you never actually took items in or out of the window.

[@B.e.e.z.N.e.s.t]

Got scammed from the armor trimming at like 8 or 9 years old, then a couple years later I got conned into buying like 500 grogs for a bunch of money. Also someone I know 😅 tried scamming somebody by selling their account for 50k. The guy traded the gold to the account he was selling and then got beat to the password change... lol good times in the wild west

[@reggie7653]

I very remember distinctly the day I got lured when I was 10 years old. I had always thought that blue mystic top+rune platelegs looked so cool, and shortly after I finally managed to afford it somebody lured me into the mole pits with no light source and I died to the bug swarm. I cried to my mom and she didn't let me play for a long time after that lmao.

[@attonthegreat]

When I was in middle school me and some friends came up with a scam that involved charcoal. Since charcoal was slightly obscure at the time (burnt trees were only in the wildy) The person with the charcoal would ask to buy someone's rune armor/weapon. Put the charcoal up and say it's rare. Then the second guy comes in with a way better offer to buy the item to induce FOMO in the target. The target argues that they had the trade first and we'd trade the charcoal for x item and get away with it. This absolutely worked and was super scummy but in hindsight its interesting to see how psychologically affective it was.

[@brandonmyers3525]

When I was around 12 I created a very basic website that “explained” I could spawn items in someone’s inventory using the games source code but I needed access to their account to spawn it. Started spreading the word around to people in game that I found a website to get any items I wanted. And that’s the story of how I got my first few full rune sets.

[@lowkey1202]

I remember alt+f4 back in the day people used to say it dumped items after trying it once I always had public chat turned off

[@magikmus8672]

I used the look alike scam with noted rune platelets and noted saradomin platelegs. It was really two identical items once notes.

[@I_Crit_My_Pants]

Rock Hammer - G Maul one got me back in the day lol. Glad they changed the icon for it

[@phillichillin1716]

Loved this video. I did about 80% of these wow. Brought back memories hard. Thank you for this ahahah

[@FlyinRaptorJesus]

Swapping noted rune scim for noted iron scim worked too lol

[@meabhmurphy9090]

A friend of mine did the team scamming trick by himself using the GE- he would put out the ridiculous request for an item with almost no trade volume, and the only person selling that item would be himself at a much higher price than the average.

[@levelengineSR]

6:14 another honorable mention for item lookalikes: saradomin sword -> steel 2h sword

[@patrickconway2587]

i remember losing a full steel set and 2k i got off goblins with the zammy wine lure. i even made the steel armor myself. this was in 2004, i was around 7 years old. made me quit for almost a year before coming back. in 2011 i got lured by this clan called ku klux lures out of a blue ween. the lure involved a glitch to see in inv with dungeoneering and white portal clan wars where they trick you into dropping items, starting a race and spearing out off the item and picking it up

[@Anthony-qu7qd]

5:33 and in 2004 2005 there was no dwarven furnace or anything of the such. The "most efficient" furnace from what I recall was in Fallador, which you'd have to bring the coal and the rune ore to make the bar. Not least to mention, there was less in game currency in existence and in circulation. So getting scammed 100k back then was like getting scammed 2 mill today.

[@froznfame]

The one I remember the most from like 20 years ago was someone would be selling noted rune daggers or any noted rune items and then try to quickly change it to a noted bronze dagger . They almost got me all the time when I was trying to spam sell my shit at the varrock bank lol

[@cyborgninjamonkey]

The raw materials one kinda makes me sad. Definitely glad they added Request Assistance shortly before I started playing-and it only took my child brain a year or so to notice it existed.

[@Anthony-qu7qd]

When in started in 2004 there was a software that would rapidly switch items and accept the trade. Trades would literally be swapped in the blink of an eye. Mind you, back then there was no trade confirmation window or exclamation point indicator when this happened. People got wiped when it had come out.

[@Brandon-tj1dh]

This happened all the up until recent and still happens, it’s called auto hot key. Lol

[@RUNESCAPER123]

The rock hammer looking like a granite maul was a huge scam in 2013 when osrs came out, that and bronze skirt looking like veracs skirt lol, i must say i did trick a few people with those 2 in particular :)

[@ApoxehGraphics]

when i was a kid i asked someone how they got the red book in their off hand (zammy book) and they told me theyd give it to me for my addy armor set. he traded me a construction manual and i was distraught for days

[@Gymthingz]

Bro we need you back

[@Omar_R__]

You forgot to mention how back in the day trading was only a single screen and so quickly removing an item for trading was a serious risk. Some players would trade with me and when I put up my stuff first it'd say "player has accepted the trade" or something like that, even as a kid I knew to end it there. One legit one was free gem cutting. The players would always give me back the cut gems since they were just training crafting. It probably helped "free armor trimming" seem more legit.

[@jordanlego]

I remember “trading cuts for uncuts” and thinking I was getting a good deal lmao

[@TheDogDIDit]

I remember the noted obby cape/ black cape scam and the scammer would be like sorry I’m lagging trade fast. Trying to get you to accept a noted black cape instead of a noted obby cape.

[@kromagva9653]

Back in the day I got scammed for my Dragon Full Helm. I went deep wild with it and a "Friend". I only had 4 items on me and just assumed the DFH would be protected since it was around 30 or 40m (my entire bank basically). To my shock I had the 3 other cheap 10-20k items and NOT the DFH after he killed me suddenly. I almost quit but some nice guy gave me a DFH, 50m and then taught me to flip. 12 y/o me was so impacted by it I actually ended up studying Finance hahaha

[@Clowyd]

Have you succeeded in Finance?

[@MoliorRS]

I remember selling someone 10 mole skins for 300k. I asked them what their crafting was and they'd say 45, then I'd say "Well at 46, you can make an obby cape and sell it for 600k. I just don't have the crafting level".

[@Davion197]

I got scammed as a young youth early in Runescape for a Green H'Ween mask. they were probably ~15m or less at the time, but it was some sort of duel arena trick where for some reason he was able to equip weapons and armor. I think it might have been an exploit, or maybe I was just really stupid. Regardless, it devastated me. Maybe I deserved it though, because I used to go to a popular bank with a friend and i'd say "Buying charcoal 250k" and my friend would be on the other end saying "selling charcoal 50k". I also used to go to the wildy, usually outside of varrock, and I would run around poisoning people with a DDS P++. My friend would be selling antipoisons at a gross overprice and people would usually buy them. Edit: Oh, that sort of buy-sell trick was mentioned. Fair enough.

[@williamjoseph1300]

Just a reminder, there used to be no trade verification page either. Once accepted, that was it. It got to the point bots were used to a swap

[@jpkush5198]

i used to grab potions from varrock, and they look like prayer pots. this worked early in osrs when p pots where worth alot. take a few min to gather a full invo

[@artificialintelligence4684]

Nobody was able to get me with the removing money trick mainly because I would take too long and always read what I was receiving vs what I was giving.

[@chinglamyung]

I've encountered a more clever scam back when they added GE value to the trade window. The initial deal was favorable to me showing I'll make 300k. They then closed the trade window, saying it was lag and asked to re-trade (so that the big flashing red exclamation mark wouldn't show up). Finally, they'll put up a similar-looking noted item but this time it's worth much less. However, the GE value still shows 300k difference, just to the other guy. Thankfully I did not fall for it but it made me chuckle. I think it was a wizard's hat (t) replaced with a non-trimmed wizard's hat. The trim color was black so it was hard to see the difference in a bank note.

[@calest6251]

I remember in Runescape classic when dylock4 duped party hats, I got one, only to be scammed hours later with feathers instead of coins.

[@circa2008]

leaf bladed spear with the guthans set... classic.

[@pepponi]

Ah, the classic leaf-bladed spear. Seems like yesterday

[@DG7Fender]

I'll admit it, when I was 12-13 I got scammed a few times and that led me to trying to scam as well. The most successful scam I did involved "trading 1.9m for 1.8m" a free 100k for no reason. Put up 1911k, accept their 1800k once, then decline and say "too slow" or "oops." Then when they retrade put up 1191k instead of 1911k. Most people wouldn't notice the difference and you're up 600k per trade. Got trades back to back at an absurd success rate. Mentioned in the video, removing the item entirely at the last second would work best with the abyssal whip, because the second trade screen said "absolutely nothing" which oddly resembles "abyssal whip." But the richest I got wasn't even from scamming. I'm sure many of you remember the "flower game"- bet on which color flower the mithril seeds would grow. Many people did scam doing this. But I gave players 3x their bet if they won and since the odds were in my favor I didn't have to scam. House always wins. I believe we all learned valuable lessons from Runescape. Nowadays, I can smell an IRL scam from a mile away. It's better we lose pixels as children than our savings accounts as adults.

[@XIIIthSpirit]

This should show you into a glimpse of what the real world is like.

[@cman2670]

This footage is so nostalgic back when draynor village was the place to be

[@Bloods2006]

The charcoal selling method was genius. Took me years later to figure out how it was actually done but in Varrock West/Fally, Person 1 would be buying charcoal for an obscene price like 900k. Then just off screen, maybe on the other side of the bank, person 2 would be selling charcoal for 500k. Hoping to lure people to buy a worthless item and make a quick 400k turnaround.

[@MineCrafterCity]

One day I bought coins on RS and got a Dragon platebody. I was really young btw. I went online and some guy asked me for his help with something. He said he needed to transfer something into another account or something like that and I would get a reward for it. It was the trade scam, he quickly removed the item he was trading to me and I got left with nothing. I was sooo upset.

[@Diegobrinter]

Lost my first set of full rune to some guy that promised me he would trim it lol. Needless to say I never got them back. Made me quit the game for a whole year, but when I came back some random guy gave me free rune platelegs and helm, wich instantly got me hooked to the game again

[@SorrySoulWolf]

I have a similar story. I was doing something without the proper ranger gear and he gave me a full set of ranger stuff thst I couldn't wear and brought me back to it. There are son *nice* folk around the game

[@prosperitynuggets]

Back then you could also sell your account and then recover it back although this was more risky for the scammer. The luring into the wilderness scam as well. I knew 2 friends who used the "math scam". I don't remember exactly but was along the lines of "selling 100k willows = 10m". When 100k willows cost like 1m or something. They actually made a lot of money off it.

[@Kyotan-]

When I was a kid playing in 2005, someone got me with the secret change your password cheat. Said if I changed my password to jackpot then I'd get 400k in the bank. This was a lot to me and I excitedly changed it. Back then, your account name was the same as your login, so when I changed it and logged back in I immediately realized the error of my ways and cried. Jagex customer support did indeed exist back then though and I was able to recover my account. Still use the same one to this day, but I never forgot that dude.

[@Aywusgod]

I remember falling for the armor trim scam and the replace item scam, that shit probably gave me trust issues lmao

[@joezep]

Lol was gonna share that G Maul scam cause that's one I can think of when I was a kid. I saw people use it and really wanted one when I became a member and upstairs in seers village bank someone traded me it. Not sure if it was noted or not but when I was like 7 years old and excited for that big bonker I wasn't thinkin. Fun video, have a good one.

[@experiment.3324]

Ahh the Magic/willow log one hurts me. That was the first time I got scammed.

[@MS-bx7ow]

Essential final step to a scam: Run away as fast as possible and be sure to say, "THANKS NOOB!"