The Dark History of RuneScape's Police (OSRS)

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RuneScape has had many player made creations that do what Jagex can't. Today's video is no exception. Today we explore the dark origins of OSRS's police force, RS Justice, as well as discuss how RuneWatch has surpassed them in every way.
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[@ColonelloRS]

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[@theholydoge7616]

What are the history of runescape rats. I know if been making this joke for a couple days now. But now I'm kinda curious about it. Cuz I'm 90% sure they went under alot of changes

[@matthewchristopher1125]

My friend just got hacked a month ago through his Authenticator. 1 def pure Ironman with bowfa and fury :( lookup “CoffeeIsBs” that’s the name the hacker changed the name too 😞

[@alexmoore2230]

@@theholydoge7616 ynuuyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyhy

[@106640guy]

The fact that they added a plugin for the game that warns you about people is so powerful for their organization

[@CaptainEdMercer]

What makes runescape so interesting is the fact that so much black market crimes or scams happen. That is a big part of the game. It's cool runewatch sees 25% items returned. That's a lot better than 0%. Just remember that if they weren't able to help everyone.

[@Rezplz]

Definition of cope

[@khrishp]

@@Rezplz verb (of a person) deal effectively with something difficult.

[@revo7814]

I remember administrating things after the founder left and Veq took ownership. I was able to run things differently and started a new way of how cases got published similar to the way RW takes upon cases. But being one man running a discord with 1 mod, and handling all cases and returns on top of a 50+ hour work week, was quickly burning me out. P.S. Thanks for not putting me under any buses here, much appreciated. I had no issues with RW staff nor any personal issues with the founder of RSJ, I was simply running cases to the best of my ability. - Dragon

[@revo7814]

Veq was also a really cool guy to work with, he gave/kept me full control over rsj, giving me the ability to help the community. It was an enjoyable experience that I wish I could have had the time to keep going.

[@yoggz]

I remember the Rune Police asking people for their passwords in Varrock back in RS2, is this the same police we are talking about?

[@ttuurrttlle]

That pic of the FAQ from the Runescape Justice saying that they think it's "healthy" for people to be able to accuse others of anything without any proof is literally insane. What could be possibly be a legitimate reason for that? All I can think of is laziness or greediness for not wanting to investigate cases. Which, I guess I can't really fault someone for not wanting to do volunteer work vetting accusations, but then don't have a website specifically for that.

[@ColonelloRS]

Agreed, when I read it my jaw dropped haha

[@grimreaper686]

I guess maybe they were thinking about the small amount of players that were scammed but were unable to obtain evidence and only knew their name. Even if you take that into account its not "healthy" because that crowd is much much smaller and of course the false reports happening instead made it more bad then good.

[@ramp622]

I got scammed a tbow split, contacted runewatch and got the guy put on there etc. but belinda, one of the runewatch mods or watever, told me to add the guys name on rs3 because it allowed me to always see their name changes or somethin. Just a fun little piece of info that many probably don't know, I know I didn't.

[@1481LimberLost]

Lol, so you went out of your way to be a soyboy? 😂🤡

[@ramp622]

@@1481LimberLost A soyboy? I was just doing some raids for some virtual pixels and the guy didn’t split lmao, so yeah I reported him, took like 5 minutes lol. We’re all like 30 year old grown men, I could care less about $100 worth of in in game gold lol. It was about the principal.

[@CalvodeMiel]

well done@@ramp622

[@Goro_Maj1ma]

​@@ramp622 OK Karen

[@KariXolu]

The main reason I quit playing RS3 about 4~ years ago was because of a scammer. I'd finally made 90m, and told myself that when I hit 100m, I'd upgrade my gear. I'm not the best player, by far. I played pretty casually. But I had fun, getting gear for myself, and seeing if I could do things myself. Saw a dude with a lot of people following him doing a drop party, so I thought 'Why not? It's been ages since I've seen one, so why not attend.' Followed along, and they lead us all to the upstairs of Varrock East bank. They began dropping full rune sets, Whips, Dragon pieces. I was genuinely surprised this kind of thing still happened. Then one guy said " Oh, I know you. You're X person from Y clan, right? Do you still do doubling? " Jump to 10 minutes later, and a few dosen trades, with them announcing what a person gave them, and how much they doubled it to. People thanking them, and then they continued doing more drops. I thought 'Alright, this doesn't look like a scam. Maybe he's a genuinely nice person.' Wrong. I traded them 5m, they doubled it to 10m in two trades. Traded them 10m. Doubled to 20m. Traded them 60m, and they said they were being flooded with trades, and that they'd write my name down. Ten minutes pass, and three of us are now asking to be traded our money back. Turns out, about 80% of the people there were in on it, and were being paid from the money they managed to scam. Being told to trade all the items they picked up back, and they'd get a cut of the profits. The next day, I asked if I could have my money back, I didn't want it doubled, just give the 60m back, and I got told 'Earn it. Work for me, and you can earn it back. :)' I crashed the guys scams until my membership ran out, and never logged in to RS3 again.

[@shivur5073]

i love that theh founder of RSJ made RSJ to help prevent scammers but in the end he was just a scammer himself

[@devonwarnock2625]

This is awesome man. Ive been playing for nearly 20 years and never knew about this. Thank you for making this video, this is great information.

[@AsBrightAsDarkness]

I love your commentary, looking forward to see you branch out and expand

[@ozaDazo]

He already has pal, check the description for his second channel he goes in depth on some pretty interesting real life topics, definitely worth a check

[@michaelmcgovern966]

dude ive been watching through a ton of your videos,and damn you make some of the best rs videos out there, serious props to you man. Great work. I watch maybe like 4 other creators every upload, but yours are the only videos that actually make me want to play rs again. I'm not going to play again, but that says something. Maybe its the nostalgia factor, but damn man, you have found a magnificent niche

[@michaelmcgovern966]

also perfectly spiced with your humor

[@SethWistful]

Great vid - highly recommend the Oregon trail video. It's as excellent as Colonello's rs vids, but just another interesting topic

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much!

[@eddiemeekin9180]

A massive metric to look at is if reported cases are going down. That shows it’s working better than percentage does. Scammers be scammers and could just create a new account to scam on and transfer to a main. So returning and the list still doesn’t matter too much to them

[@joshuamiller4934]

Pretty informative video! Thanks for putting out the info!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@azkrouzreimertz9784]

If you have not watched the oregon trail video and you got some time over just head on over there and watch it! Amazing content as always nello!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much! :D

[@azkrouzreimertz9784]

@@ColonelloRS leaving a comment is the least i can do :D

[@alecwhite-cheshire2942]

Damn thanks colonello great content as always!never knew this existed!!

[@otomachiuna9617]

make sure to get out plugin!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you!

[@nadsv3]

Love the runelite plug-in. Nice video!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you!

[@red0death1]

Cool thanks for the heads up I'll try the plug-in

[@yoshark2540]

Hey that’s me in the video at 0:52 seconds wearing the monkey backpack and gilded scimi!

[@JmanJoshua]

Great video bro

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you!

[@WatchListConnoisseur]

Add "Limp Man" to the list. Scammed me out of a red party hat back in 2003.

[@robertbelyea5767]

How?

[@WatchListConnoisseur]

@@robertbelyea5767 The good ole needle trick.

[@runewatch5172]

Great video!

[@drew8235]

Just when you think Runescape can't possibly get an shittier.

[@m.c.i.d23]

Turns out this vid was a runewatch sponsored vid and our boy colonello got a second sponsor in there

[@ColonelloRS]

Haha I wish, RuneWatch didn't pay me anything for this video :)

[@m.c.i.d23]

@@ColonelloRSit's a funny thought tho, the real grind

[@aKalishnacough]

love your channel bro

[@johndoe1139]

Double name changes do work. I'd like to hear where you got that information from.

[@binda33]

Once you're listed with RuneWatch, double name changes don't work. :P

[@nocapvisualz]

It's crazy that players help other players more than jagex. And then we have people like sirpugger who do 100000x more than the owners of RuneScape. It's literally so sad. I'm not sure how they have kept so many players around for so long.

[@peanutbutter7357]

Because Jagex will have to pay employees to do it then have them update/watch over it and I bet they dont want a Mod Jed episode happening again

[@BoxTM]

sirpugger fakes/stages most of his videos and jagex ban thousands of bots every day lol

[@rubikquitous8482]

the game is good. the content we play for is good, yes jagex is a questionable company with questionable decisions but we are here because the game interests us

[@rubikquitous8482]

@@BoxTM 1000s. every day. ????????????????? r u sure?

[@BoxTM]

@@rubikquitous8482 ex Mod Tyran, part of the anti-cheating team, has alone applied over 12 million offenses over his 7 years of working at Jagex, which goes to about 4500 per day. So yes, I'm pretty sure.

[@user-jl3qb7eq2i]

Nice video!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thanks!

[@Tmzu]

I thought RuneWatch was a department within Jagex but nope. Shows the lack of care and incompetence of Jagex.

[@binda33]

Yeah, RuneWatch is part of Jagex's Customer Service department..... /s

[@ColonelloRS]

Pretty cool when a player run group does something better than Jagex haha

[@TKize777]

honestly liking the video because of the funny 4th wall "like the video"'s and "this is a joke idk who hacked runewatch" lol

[@shawnmcfadden6900]

Yahe is a great former clan leader of the old clan i was in called PAC. been friends with him since and hes still staff at runewatch.

[@vinnieg6161]

this is so weird to me. Being on that list would not affect me at all. Everything I buy is from the GE, 95 percent of what I do is solo. xD Also, if hackers have my e-mail, they can do a lot worse to me than steal my freaking runescape account mate.

[@Clbull118]

I suggested somebody make a website like this for World of Warcraft to weed out toxic players, because Blizzard were incredibly lazy about policing their rules. The community condemned me for making that suggestion. Lo and behold, RuneScape has a community blacklist...

[@strangedevice2547]

RSPD! open up! 2:34 look at the names on the list lol. You’d expect people with those usenames to be on a list like that lmO

[@TheAlbin0zebra]

youtube was hiding this video from me, saw a friend post it and had to search for it

[@ColonelloRS]

That’s so odd, glad you found it!

[@itsdonewith]

Appreciate the content, Colonello. Hope your day is good!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you! :D Hope yours is good too!

[@itsdonewith]

@@ColonelloRS

[@Dolat1984]

New video, lets go!

[@ColonelloRS]

Woooo!

[@JustJanitor]

This is really cool

[@suzuplaza]

that fact you could be added to a list other than scamming and its community operated is super sketchy

[@viliusg210]

didnt knew about this plug in , i never was scammed but good to have it just in case i raid with a scammer

[@Zxv975]

As an ironman who only does FFA tob and Nex, I had forgotten scamming was even a thing. Still seems like a really good system for mains, especially that plugin!

[@sup_my_bwana]

Know what you don’t do? Repair those barriers in GOTR.

[@Zxv975]

@@sup_my_bwana what? Repairing barriers is the best points/hr so I obviously do that. Get out of here with your prejudice.

[@woeptidu2933]

Awesome!

[@weaversgaminghq4853]

@2:17 still happens on runewatch.

[@williamsussman7343]

Wow that’s pretty dang cool & interesting…only wish this existed either time I got hacked/scam for full bank

[@MoliorRS]

Ligma73Balls73 is innocent I tell ya!

[@CC-bm3wb]

RuneScape is like the breaking bad of MMOs

[@randy6243]

Lmfao (too true)

[@CryWindy]

What’s the song at 7:22?

[@sw8353]

oh yea because my bank is only protected by a password before your allowed to log in.....................

[@sarachristy2455]

got scammed for the first time this year and runewatch helped me get it back and the whole process was very easy, shoutout to them

[@djert24]

So osrs got popos now? damn, this gonah come to rs3 or ??

[@cheddars2]

Bro, nord pass got hacked, lmao.

[@Metaman9000]

very cool

[@qvcybe]

how do they deal with alts? (sense it makes sense for some scammers to use alts to scam people)

[@ikporu]

Great vid but the sound at 8:33 was unpleasant!

[@teddy5416]

I was there when man had less than 100 subs. Now got 2 channels and working on 100K i am so proud of you bud

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much!! :D

[@teddy5416]

@@ColonelloRS absolutely my dude

[@N0TYALC]

Every time I poop, i take a moment to look at the log(s) of shit in the toilet. When i take a poop that is exceptional in any way (size, color, smell, consistency), I take a picture with my phone, and email it to myself. Every other Friday after work, I download all of the photos to my PC and print them off before deleting the files and emails. I've been doing this for 6 years now, and i have roughly 500 pictures in my file cabinet so far. If my wife ever finds the poop files, I may have to take her out of the equation so that nobody finds out.

[@ehnlyten844]

Wish I saw this video yesterday. Just got scammed for half my bank and I'm taking a break from the game. Wish I had thought of taking screenshots but didn't think I had a reason to and getting scammed is as embarrassing as it is depressing. Never heard of these services or plugins until now.

[@baardnaap]

You didnt get scammed. You clearly traded your whole bank.

[@paulklette580]

Imagine getting scammed in 2022

[@MrPY7]

lmao deserved

[@ehnlyten844]

@@MrPY7 you're right

[@GameOverFiles]

Players submitting false reports is rare and they catch them all the time is an oxymoron is it not?

[@ColonelloRS]

Good catch! I should've worded that better

[@thalanoth]

Ah I miss the days of og runescape... as a 12 year old kid I learned quite quickly how easy it was to scam noobs lol. When rs2 came out I actually rejected the transfer and stayed on rs1. Karma got me though, got scammed out of my own account hahaha. Good bye phats and mask sets and Santa's

[@robertbelyea5767]

How'd you get scammed?

[@thalanoth]

@@robertbelyea5767 back then the only way to get defense experience was melee so I was making a pure account aiming for 40 def 60 mage tryin to get god spells as low as possible with rune. Needless to say that was far too tedious so I set up a bot program to auto click on a man all day while I was at school. Had a keylogger on it lol... got all my accounts hahaha.

[@thalanoth]

@@robertbelyea5767 I suppose the "scam" aspect of that was that the guy who wrote the bot was one of the people I used to scam people with... a fitting end.

[@user-jy5oi9bi4i]

Everyone’s saying about the crimes and scams, What do they actually mean tho I used to play RuneScape but never knew anything of this sort ? Can someone update me a bit lol

[@AChunkyDog]

@@user-jy5oi9bi4i Cutting gems! Trimming armor!

[@ffcc4g30fk1lling]

I love the black market world of rs. Tbh the only reason I still play

[@NQQTNQQT]

Everyone will be using this if OSOSRS comes out ;)

[@Dablo97]

whats that?

[@NQQTNQQT]

@@Dablo97 Jegex has been asking if people want a version of osrs with no updates (so like how it was on day 1) so people have been calling it ososrs (oldschool oldschool runescape) ;3

[@mighty679]

They need this for rs3.

[@ColonelloRS]

Agreed :D

[@SCH292]

For sure. Now I can report "girls" who promise to be my GF if I pay them money or bonds. ahahahaahahaah. Jokes aside though. We should consider this idea on RS3.

[@BondBought]

i see alot of the alerts and they all say its "false" lol

[@gearfear3017]

Runewatch did nothing for me and my friend getting scammed tbow drop with proof... never put the guy on their scammer list after 2 years i left their discord smh.....now ill finish the video

[@randyjd3706]

U gonna cry bro?

[@HeavySpark]

The fact you think it's Runewatchs fault as a free service lol.

[@oddballer3183]

@@randyjd3706 got exp bro?

[@justrafat9575]

Hello, I'm from RW If your report was not published, its because of the evidence that was lacking. if you wish, feel free to re-join the discord and send us the evidence if you still have it. We unfortunately can't save every player, but we do try our best. Please remember these are people with irl jobs that do this as a hobby while still playing osrs

[@AChunkyDog]

@@randyjd3706 Imagine dropping a tbow

[@firewalkwithjuno5421]

This watches like he got billions in gp sponsored by rune watch

[@WaveFrameTv]

NordPass is a nice tool, but be careful. I got locked out of everything; email accs, Google accs, etc. Because NordPass thought I was a bot.

[@criptin4075]

Say I scam 10 people and 1 of them reports me for it. Down the road I decide I am tired of people knowing im a scammer cause I can't scam as easy anymore. Now I just pay off the 1 scammers stuff to clear my name. Now I can look for that big payoff right? =p

[@ColonelloRS]

I believe as long as all 10 people file a report, you'd be required to pay back all 10 to be de-listed. However if only one person submitted a report, and you scammed 9 other people, you'd just have to pay back whoever reported you. :)

[@rezarfar]

RuneWatch are legitimately awesome.

[@tilled6695]

runewatch are the digital equal to HOA karens.

[@TesterPresent]

If they say they catch people trying to falesly accuse people all the time, how can they also say it's rare people falesly accuse others? For sure they miss a bunch of people as well.

[@WildsDreams45]

How do people even get hacked? I've never been hacked.

[@darkdonzaloog]

Damn I wish we had this feature in RS3, theres a lot of ratbag players on there.

[@blakebennett3987]

Wow you know Jagex sucks when something this basic has to be done by the player base rather then idk, support?

[@Ninbitzero]

why did jagex let them do that?

[@thomasthetanderloin]

what the hell did i just witness?

[@ColonelloRS]

The video has only been live for 30 seconds haha

[@godric327]

Wish this shit existed when I got lured years ago lol

[@HowsDaJello]

Ur the man

[@ColonelloRS]

Ty! :D

[@Mexican00b]

i cant believe people are still getting scammed in this game... sigh

[@Nivory]

you can't believe that people do raids in teams with people they dont know that well and then they scam you and don't split the loot?

[@MagickByte]

that name tho "brb quik fap"

[@gooftroopg2623]

Did anyone else here get scammed by CLS product back in the day?

[@otbaht]

someone recently said they were reporting me to runewatch for spamming uptrades.... which is weird... but meh.

[@tate1312]

pmods have been used to scam in deadman in every single season, suprised nobody made a video, they promote fake swapping clans in ge and then block real swapping clans

[@Mastabacc]

Lol nord pass. I don't trust a site to hold my passwords for me. I just do it myself through microsoft word.

[@ColonelloRS]

I used to do the same, but if your computer ever gets a virus, all your passwords will be in the hands of a hacker.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

Honestly i don't like it. Vigilante justice is almost never done with good intentions, it's usually done just so they can feel good about themselves. Scamming is also going to exist no matter what, and the best way to avoid scams is to be smart. I remember being scammed when a guy told me to drop my valuables, then he gave me a weird food, he told me if i ate it all of my ground items would be turned into something rare. I pretended to take off my g rune armor and dropped a lobster on the floor because i knew it was a trick, and i ate it out of pure curiosity because i wanted to see what happened, it teleported me, the guy was like "thx for the stuff lol" and i replied "i dropped a lobster lol" and it was just a funny moment. That's just part of runescape.

[@Holphana]

TIL colonello speaks too fast. Watch at 0.75x speed for normal viewing 😂

[@-_Nik_-]

Had no idea this was a thing, not hating but big LOL over here

[@ghostlypresence5362]

lmao, self appointed hall monitors. Something dreadfully sad about it, and the little websites you can snitch people to hahahaha

[@Rubbly]

wooo police state let's goooo

[@crypticrs]

Excuse me while I download this plugin

[@cadcTV]

damn, that is legit, I don't suppose runewatch also works for RS3?

[@ColonelloRS]

Unfortunately I don't think they list RS3 cases

[@cadcTV]

@@ColonelloRS dang, still, thanks for letting me know!

[@nibssnibss8795]

Sorry dude, a few of us have played Rs3, but we don't have the time or resources to support both games - Nibss

[@binda33]

What Nibss said ^

[@TheDragonshunter]

Really good yes, specially with raids 3 coming

[@lifebehindtheselens]

Loot share or the drop u get is urs fuck ur team

[@otteramor26]

*Laughs In Ironman*

[@Sevenigma777]

Ok so a double name change doesnt work but hear me out, what about a triple name change? Oh and asking for a friend 😁

[@zolltain1]

Keanu forbid...bruh that was some top tier cringe.

[@ColonelloRS]

Trust me I know LMAO

[@zolltain1]

@@ColonelloRS ❤️😂 love ya anyway bro

[@gazman2626]

I use runewatch :)

[@APolishedTurd]

Why is the most popular games that grow up with a generation always rich with irl scams and rackets and those weird people who like children A LOT

[@kylej.d.]

because humans are fallen creatures that need redemption

[@theholydoge7616]

Yo you like 10k rats? Cuz I do This joke will never end

[@mathiashansen9108]

Imagine getting scammed in 2022..

[@sup_my_bwana]

I mean you can’t really control someone getting a tbow drop and deciding not to split it with the team.

[@mathiashansen9108]

@@sup_my_bwana that's not getting scammed. that's you trusting someone on the internet. that's on you.

[@praedyth2077]

>20b Thats it?