The Easiest Way to Get 99s on RuneScape is to be Hacked.

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[@zacharyyarost5804]

This comment literally popped up while the in-video ad roll was going haha

[@ThePivotgiant]

Hi! Big fan! I was recently hacked 450 Mil, no idea how it happened :C Please keep up the good work and any tips on making my wealth back would be appreciated I'm out of the loop on flipping!

[@tingaling77]

Damn, going straight to the source

[@stealthquil1sants870]

Pissed me off, i wouldve loved to share me experice, where did you post the question asking for our stories??

[@hadleyjordanconnonbray831]

Sirpugger you should build a ironman 10hp pker like kempq, build it to 99 range 1 pray 80 def 1 attack 99 mage 10 hp and get full arma rune cbow and dfs and it will be most op pker ever and you can pk on 10hp, 15hp if u get guthix rest, you can use this account to attack emblem farmers sir pugger

[@HQ4575]

"his account was literally turned into a food buying bot" that hurts it truly hurts

[@costlyempire6725]

My account was hacked and had the same thing happen. I appealed a ban and got my account back to a cleaned bank and 3 strength levels...

[@Gugah2006]

That's annoying, specially when you need food to get a defender and there's none in stock!

[@devinlevitt6953]

What is my purpose? "You pass butter"

[@dustinjames1268]

@@devinlevitt6953 My IQ is too low to understand that reference

[@igo0di]

Loool

[@ImRealmZ]

Not that I want my account hacked or anything, but taking a break and coming back to 99 range, 99 mage, and a Zulrah pet sounds kinda nice lmao

[@TheBontekraai]

Happened to me through one of those phishing emails. I fell for it somehow, but back then i thought i would take a break wich i wouldn't come back from. So i didn't care. A month ago i recovered and got a zulrah pet out of it. And luckily my defence was still 45.

[@petergreve988]

i came back to 86 smithing and a 3m cash stack from some cannonball botting

[@BunnyHelp]

hey its me ur brother what's your passwrod again?

[@paulymolly3616]

Thats pretty much what happened to my med level , 7.7k zulrah , got me pet and both 99

[@brettnelson7518]

I have 70+ mil in 4 stats and never got the pet but at 89 summoning in RS3 I got one. It's so random.

[@capslock5704]

Imagine being excited to recover a hacked-botted account only to find out its only used to bot buy food RIP

[@slayermusiq1]

6:44 is what exactly what happened to my oldest osrs account. After recovery I found 3k red chins in the bank

[@techniksnoob5494]

Slayermusiq1 Hello and Welcome to Sirpugs Bot Guide.

[@mcmuffin563]

Hello and welcome to my guide

[@nickdotti1089]

same thing happened to me!

[@nurthimothyflupefiasco309]

Loooove your videos friend, they are most helpful...thnx for all your hard work

[@Spmatik]

Atleast you didn't get defense levels :D

[@ycaesthetics1058]

Imagine being a pure and this bot fks up your stats lmao

[@mattconman805]

That literally happened to me with the blue dragon bot. Came back to my pure sitting at blue dragons in budget bot gear and 47 defense :(

[@Mistyfgdf]

Matt Conman what was your password out of curiosity Stolen another way or was your password something like “12345abcde”

[@lukasmartinaitis1513]

Same here green drags bot...

[@pakazemuk]

@@Mistyfgdf jagex needs to make symbols available in passwords

[@Wildm0use]

Daddy, I got you level 12 defence while you were in the bathroom!

[@pyxylation]

"Obviously eventually came back to the game." As we all do!

[@OfficialSaintzeth]

It just pulls you back in

[@lolollol9291]

Yup. Either OSRS or Diablo 2. Lately I've come back to both games, loving this Hardcore Ironman thing.

[@JB-bt4kk]

Playing on and off for a decade 😂😂

[@Jmich69]

It's unfortunate for me to say; I logged into my OSRS account today, for the first time in over 2 years, only to find my account had NOT been hacked. No pets, no 99's and no free GP. Truly sad.

[@blackwng]

Same man sadge

[@blackwng]

Gotta go to those streams where people are “quitting” and sign in on the “ RuneScape homepage”

[@amyx231]

I logged into my old account and thought I got reverse hacked: 65 level skills now 30. Turns out, I had an alt a decade ago. Lol. My main was hacked, appealing macro ban now.

[@poppoppa6497]

the most unreal thing about this video is that people recovered their accounts imo

[@greatleader4841]

Most companies are pretty chill when it comes to recovering accounts. I used to do that to hack into runescape accounts. I'd get their email address from the recovery form then go to gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc then recover their email. Then recover their account or if more steps were needed i'd recover their facebook so i could get personal information on them. It's a LOT harder now but back in 2011 it was easy to convince someone behind the desk to just reset the password if you knew basic details.

[@SwoleHobo]

I recovered a 17 year old rs3 account in like a total of 20 minutes after not playing it for 3 years and previous time I played was a whole different country.

[@zets8238]

My account got hacked and it got recovered the day after I realised I was banned. Jagex seem to be pretty chill about helping out people who have never even put money into the game.

[@willyluciano9036]

@@zets8238 How do you do this? Who do i contact? My account didnt even allow an appeal so i quit. I know if they have a person look into it ill be proven innocent. I gambled on the account once 100k but it claims i was botting. I was basically just grinding out the quest lines and my stats wer basically just for that plus a boat load of smithing as blast furnace was my main income. On that note, it only had a couple mil. Theres no reason i can think of that theyd think i was botting.

[@willyluciano9036]

Update. It said i couldnt appeal when trying to log into a world, didnt investigate further at the time, but someone in another youtube thread said they did a "general" appeal. no idea what that was but decided to try to find out. I could log into my account, just not my character into a world and play. Went to appeal ban on jagexs site and low and behold, a full 8 months after the ban i find out i could appeal. Couple days later got an email, they reset my password said my account was compromised. Log in well shit, they were right. No gold, valuables gone (fuckers lost my graceful) but like 8k wine in the bank. must have been hacked, hacker botted my account, ban hammer. sucks i lost my bank and graceful but needed 70 agility anyway for quests and dam...im just happy to have my character back and play again

[@EternalF1re]

About a year or so into osrs launch I quit playing. Came back about 6 months later to find out I’d been hacked and my account was used as a green dragon bot farm. Went from 70 ish strength to 94. Account had about 40 mil worth of bones / hides on. Which was more than what I had on it when I quit. Result.

[@xpelta6478]

I have 2 accounts 1 got perm banned for me botting about 2 years ago and I did . I created a new account right after and trained it legit I quit and went back to it about 5 months ago to notice that account I had to recover password did that and noticed it was also perm banned . I recovered password and then sent a claim that I was hacked I got the account back with 90 smithing + 15mill and my old account that was perm banned 2 years ago was also unbanned .

[@zets8238]

Same happened to me lmao except I onlt really had about 8-10 mill worth.

[@MinelasV2]

all the botters are like "why are we getting so many accounts now?"

[@mnnesotance7004]

My character was turned into a sex bot. When i got my character recovered i made sure to make use of the client list. That's the story of how I became a runescape postitut*.

[@davidmoore3755]

Oh no I hope someone doesn’t hack me and get me 99 runectafting!

[@marce4241]

lol

[@OnlyRusseLLHD]

after lvl 77 RC is chill you're fine bro :P

[@michael0o5]

as someone who had thier 97 runecraft account hackd - jagex will nerf ALL 91+ skills down to 83 when an account is banned for botting.

[@azureandnoir3274]

Pauly-Wauly Doodlealdaday thats fucked they roll it back so much

[@YungAngel13]

The horror

[@yoshh21]

Thats so funny I would be livid to find out I got hacked just to farm green dragons XD

[@rhettbarnes1421]

Mine was hacked and used to spin flax Lmaoo

[@sdewey4152]

I gave an account to someone with 85 slayer a d 95+ WC, he messaged me a week later asking if I could appeal his ban for botting, I asked what he botted....fucking Yews. He deserved the ban.

[@tarheels4lyfe23]

Happened to me, and my recovery was denied

[@urrexp]

How are so many people getting hacked? Also, can they get through Bank Pins?

[@arnoudvanderkolk1]

@@urrexp Just is 2fa thats the best way to secure your account

[@TheStartledNinja]

Its really obvious to see Demonic gorilla bots, leaving a drop on the floor when it appears for others, you see multiple people instantly flood towards it, litterally the tick it appears, kinda funny, i wonder if you can bait them into dieing...

[@Crypto4always]

that would not hurt the bot i think. they woud just come back and loot their shit

[@drpureinsanity]

@@Crypto4always with new death mechanics it will cost them gp now.

[@jarrodwalker9099]

Hmmmmmm 🤔 time to start dropping zenytes to lure them.

[@balagadoo]

"...and quit the game. *Obviously* he eventually came back to the game" yup

[@stefangrobbink7760]

One cannot quit runescape, only take a long break

[@jmeistur2879]

@@stefangrobbink7760 It's true.

[@arazaliassi9010]

It’s the random runescape related KZbin videos dragging me Back in

[@Macarite]

"He quit. When obviously he came back he found..."

[@KidzOnDidz]

I can see a lot more people getting "hacked" after this video 🤣

[@alexd4102]

Step 1: Give friend ur pw Step 2: Bot 2.6b worth of gp Step 3: claim it was hacked Step 4: enjoy 20k zulrah kc xddd

[@MNtoCali]

Just use express VPN to safeguard your information no hacks there ;) ;)

[@MrHeroicDemon]

@@MNtoCali You missed the idea. People will use this excuse for actually botting. Enjoy your bot scripted filled game lawl

[@HanzorRaphael]

I had something happen to me as well, I took a break from RS since 2007 then came back to try it out again. I logged in to see that I was actually still where I probably was when I logged out then. All my friends were offline and I was left there with the feeling of sadness, reminiscing the times I'd wake up at 1 AM to play with my friends of a different timezone when my parents were sleeping. Man.

[@overdue4950]

I haven't played in forever and when I tried to log back in I was banned for botting. I tried looking up my old name but there was only like two skills on my hiscores. I tried recovering the account but was told I didn't have enough proof it was my account. Anyone got any ideas to help? EDIT: my name was changed too.

[@BondedgeXD]

You can come hack my account, train it, and then let me recover it too please lol

[@kurrupt9959]

Fr fr

[@Youseeinthisrn]

99 Construction Pls

[@HeyImLucious]

cute pfp

[@904Syn]

I get emails almost 3 times a week of people trying to recover my accounts, haven’t played in years lol.

[@colewerner7178]

What's the names and passwords??... Lolol

[@brettnelson7518]

It's probably posted on a website for hackers lol

[@michael0o5]

Jagex has the worst customer service and security. its not your fault when the company has vulnerabilities like that.

[@sigsour518]

Pauly-Wauly Doodlealdaday thats the fucking truth. Only company you cant contact and speak to. My account was 16 years old i dont have payment details from 200 fucking 4

[@kylejones1532]

@@michael0o5 yeah seriously considering the amount of hours people can put in and the countless hours of bossing for money just for some low life to take ya shit is really dumb... Granted sometimes the people are really dumb and click easy bait.. But people do get hacked with all the security I think they should just add a few more security issues like questions only you would know... Like first pet name. So many possibilitys and if they attempt to get into it after 3 attempts it's gets locked and you have to prove its you to get back into account be a pain in the ass for the team but would stop alot more people getting hacked

[@joshcboy]

how do people get hacked? ive been playing runescape since 2005 and not once have i ever been hacked. do they go on dodgey websites or something? Or can someone just hack your account even if youve never been on dodgey rs sites/ ?

[@aliiibrahim6668]

How do I recover my old account, I stopped playing on it for a couple of years and came back to it being banned. It was just a low level pure so I wasnt too phased but now im kinda curious.

[@russ4550]

what i want to know is how these people are recovering their accounts that have been perma banned

[@darksungwyndolin9977]

Jagex is able to look at where in the world your account was looged into at the time of the ban. If you were playing in the U.S. for years, then suddenly you were botting in Venezuela for a month or 2, a ban appeal will probably go pretty smooth.

[@Black-Dawg-Jesus]

@@darksungwyndolin9977 But this also means I can technically just "hack" myself by using a VPN/Proxy and suicide bot a skill I dislike, e.g. Runecrafting and then recover my account because they noticed suspicious activity.

[@jaybizzal]

@@Black-Dawg-Jesus hax

[@DaVandie]

@@Black-Dawg-Jesus VPN and proxies are detectable though. It is clear if it is a bypass or a another ip adress from another country or continent.

[@greatleader4841]

I've had many accounts banned for botting. Most of them i was able to get unbanned with a sob story about getting hacked. I don't play anymore but my main bot account i had unpermabanned 6 times or so. The sad part is the only account i didn't bot on, they refused to unban. this was back in like 2006. i even pretended to be my mom, (i was like 13) and they refused to unban my ACTUAL account.

[@RaymarFootball]

How do these people even get hacked wtf

[@kaydog890]

jagex insider job.

[@cradilyz]

jagex database leak

[@FattyBeef]

not a single person used 2fa probably

[@rhandycs]

My shit was hacked as well 2fa enabled and it was still enabled when i figured out i was banned due to someone using my account as a zulrah bot

[@Mooshimoca]

idk bro, i was playing yesterday like normal, just got on today and lost my 60 mil bank. No clue how it got hacked :/

[@dilpickle5435]

How do you get your accounts back? I have an old account from 5 years ago I tried logging into and it was banned for bottin so I'm very curious as to what's on it

[@edwardsimpson8954]

one of my old accounts that i stopped playing years ago got hacked. i cant even recover it because it says that major macro is unappealable. how do you guys appeal?

[@ikobom]

plot twist: 90% of these account owners were actually botting but wanted to look cool with a nice story

[@elitelewis1179]

Double plot twist. People loan their accounts to be botted by someone else. Botter gets the GP, owner gets the xp/KC.

[@kaylor87]

Triple Plot Twist - This actually happens to people's accounts all the time, and as someone who has personally been a victim, it's hella annoying to have to explain your sketchy-looking stats to in-game morons who are flipping you shit and won't believe the truth even if you told them... Or perhaps you're right, and I'm just in that legitimate 10% you spoke of. Cheers!

[@droxxy94]

kaylor87 if you got sketchy looking stats ur a noob anyway

[@Mattlife97]

Big man Ting ... and?

[@bleepblop2897]

This happened to me I had 350k flax when I got mine back

[@rhettbarnes1421]

I had 120k flax lmao

[@petrolinocaabrices1855]

is there any way to recover my account I left for 1 month of vacations and when I return my account I found it suspended by gold farmer any solution?

[@woltergrant]

Saw an email the other day that my rs account I used to play on back in 2007 password was requested to be reset. So I decided to reset it and check out what was going on. Logged into rs3 and it said last logged in 3 days ago... how did they get in? Does this mean my email is compromised?

[@remcosl4115]

New guide to kill zulrah easily! Step 1, create a mid to high tier account. Step 2, get hacked. Step 3, ???. Step 4, profit.

[@Only_Now_Matters]

keep getting few emails once a month that someone tryina recover my main account lol

[@RumourRS]

I have been getting one once a week for the past 2 years. Even though I’ve changed everything on my account. I stopped playing old school when I deployed, when I came back I recovered my account to minimal ores, standing in edgeville with 96 smithing.

[@OSRSGhost]

hey sir pugger, my old account got hacked and banned i tried recovering it from jagex and was told that it was a perm ban... how would i go by recovering it

[@Ratlstrap]

I recovered my account after taking a 2 week break last year. Tried logging in and my account was already online. After I got it back I logged in at barrows wearing mystic hat and robe top dragon legs and boots with Ivan's blast setup. Went from 54 to 76 mage. According to the kill count in barrows chest it had done over 1600 chests in 2 weeks

[@tetnums]

This isnt a new thing btw. Back in 2010 i was comming back to rs. Logged into my account and had gotten from 70s in combat stats to 90s. 4k green dragon loots and green dragon bot gear. No ban though.

[@MH-fq9im]

my takeaway: Jagex doesnt really give a shit about botting or gold farming if they are letting people appeal for them after 2 billion gp being made

[@tiwrrhunter3441]

They probably get more money from bots than players

[@techniksnoob5494]

At the 70k daily players 30k are bots 10k are gold farmers (10k are real players) 10k are alts and another 10k are 3rd and 4th alts.... rofl

[@graham9334]

Dude it happened to me i still no idea how, think about the victims here harsh..

[@graham9334]

@@techniksnoob5494 yep

[@TheCarpenterUnion]

No shit, they make more money from bots than real players

[@duncanwright7528]

tried loggin on but i had a authenticator but i didnt have one before so i got my account back and i had 17k vorkath kills with 66m range xp but now i dont know what to do to keep me from getting hacked again any tips?

[@srgshadow538]

I have a account that got hacked 7 years ago is it still able to be recoverd and how ?

[@DivineLight661]

Imagine being hacked and logging into 4 99s and 400m cash, id put that 400m on another account and sell the account back to the botter and do it all over again

[@expeditiouscommunity9237]

l000l

[@richolas7650]

My account was hacked and banned for macroing major, wasn't able to get it back though :/

[@HatestLv]

Same

[@antb2k7]

try again jagex are actualy helping owners get them back now

[@stoneman289]

Happened literally 3 times to me, most recently a few days ago ;(

[@rileyvick8998]

@C send a recovery request dude

[@cabfare4601]

@C pay up front

[@kaylor87]

Wowwww, I'm glad to hear this is common!! Sooo, I quit OSRS for about a year and a half. I wasn't even very high level yet, maybe like base 50's ish or lower, hadn't hardly done any quests. I didn't even know my account had been hacked, but when I came back over a year later to start playing again, I ended up needing to recover it. Thought it was weird.... I had no problems recovering it though and logged right in to find that my bank pin had been reset. There was hardly anything in the bank, nothing of value, and pretty much all that was left was a bunch of miscellaneous junk on the main tab. A few more quests had been completed as well. The WEIRDEST part though; upon checking my stats I found that I suddenly had 99 thieving! And not just 99, but something like 23m xp in the skill... Absolutely confused, I decided to check my GE history for perhaps just a bit of insight. For as far back as my GE history would scroll, I saw that Ancient Scepter's had been sold. Dozens of them sold, for tens or possibly hundreds of mils. And those were just the ones I could see; who knows how many had actually been acquired and sold on the GE! After seeing my stats, the GE history, and finding some stone artifacts in my bank, it was obvious that my account must have been used to bot Pyramid Plunder while I was away. I fortunately don't have any reports or bans on my account from it, and literally all gp and items of value were already traded off the account by the time I recovered it, which I think is odd. If the account was purchased and used for botting, I'm not sure why they would stop before it got banned? But hey, I'm not complaining! I would be devastated, as this is my main account of 13+ years. The only real downside is that now my account looks sketchy AF, and I get a lot of crap from other players in-game for it. Even when I try to tell people what happened, they don't believe me. At this point, I just either tell people that I love Pyramid Plunder, or that I make my brother play it for me to make money lol. I hate lying, but it's just easier than trying to explain the truth to people, which they don't believe anyway. And lately, I've been putting a lot of work and effort into my stats and have a handful of other 99's now too, so it's not so bad anymore :)

[@Zoroarrkk]

Hey SirPugger. I know you mostly do OSRS videos, but there has been an influx of bots on a German world on RS3 (I don't think it's related to that duping glitch a few weeks back). Any ideas?

[@HyphenatedReality]

I've had my account for 16 years, long before there was email requirements and 2FA, and getting back into it a few years ago after forgetting my password was surprisingly way too easy. I filled out the recovery form, trying to give them as much information as I remembered about the account and got denied 3 times. The final time I filled out the form, I decided to just leave a majority of the recovery form blank and they pretty much instantly handed the account over to my new email address. I have my email linked to it and 2FA enabled now, but a few weeks ago someone tried hijacking it through the recovery form and I'm worried it could be just as easy for someone else to hijack my account as it was for me get back into it. Even though I only play casually a few times a year, I'd honestly hate to lose it and get it back after it was botted on. I put so much time into the account when I was much younger, but I never got any 99's, and it'd be disappointing to have someone else to steal my first 99 from me by botting on my account.

[@bradyk8850]

If you have 2FA enabled plus recovery questions you should be good man.

[@iamfebreze5773]

You will be okay brother. They can’t get through that 2fa. Idc what anyone says. If they say they were hacked with a 2fa, show the proof. Otherwise, don’t worry bout shit brother

[@AmandaNavarro]

Oops accidentally dropped my password, hope nobody maxes out my account while I attempt to recover it 👀 wink wink nudge nudge

[@PowerSurge503]

I have an acc that was phished and got banned for hitting. How do I appeal the ban to try get the acc back?

[@camerongrbich2065]

After my 1 year break I logged back in to 91 hunter (chin bot). Any way to wipe the ban from my account history since it wasn’t me who botted?

[@sphinxfn2218]

So excited to watch this!

[@sukhibooki5106]

Really you post this after i got hacked dam feels bad man

[@azothdesigns]

my old acc got hacked i logged in 5 years later..recovered the acc and they reset all my skills back to 1, nothing in bank. if i look up the acc it still says lots of skills are 60+

[@Henrique-gg4fs]

I don't know... My acc got hacked and banned for macroing in 2016, but when I try to appeal it, I just receive an automatic email telling me my account IS NOT banned, wtf should I do ?

[@TheBontekraai]

this happened to me! on my zerker pure. I got a nice zulrah pet out of it! luckily they didn't ruin my defence :D

[@jamieclarkson2067]

Ah mate, they got 66 defence on my zerker 😩

[@TheBontekraai]

@@jamieclarkson2067 damn... you could always still make it an barrow pure

[@Infinidisc]

I honestly don't understand how anyone gets hacked. I've played Runescape for 15 years and never been hacked one time.

[@Goldenleyend]

Same

[@masansr]

I was hacked as a kid by my friends, but I think back in those days it was trivial to get ownership of other accounts. I had an attempted hack via Adobe (I presume, maybe Steam) data leak some 2 years ago, but my authenticator was still online so I could intercept it. I no longer have similar passwords with the same email. Also, two step verification saves accounts, if you can react.

[@plusultra5735]

You need to get laid lmao.

[@Nicholas7137]

There is literally programs for it. Watch crumbs video two days ago, he explains it decently. OSRS had a data breach. Its literally the developers shit game security they have.

[@Corzappy]

Osrs didnt have a data breach. Other websites have data breaches, and those get used to find out your runescape password. The best way to avoid being hacked is to use 2FA, Have a bank pin, Use unique passwords for every single account you have anywhere on the internet, and have a secure email and backup email.

[@user-ce8ld5nf8d]

Hmmmm, my void pure pker got banned for macroing, I found out after I tried to log back into it after like a year or so, I wonder if the same thing happened here and is there a way I can actually get that account back?

[@moorbish]

Years ago I logged in to just a ring of dueling in my inventory/bank. That one stung a bit. It was like a week before they enabled bank pins.

[@PharmYo]

Lowkey I want my account "hacked", trained, banned, and then recovered to find that I have 30,000+ zulrah kills with pets + 99 in all combat :)

[@josephstallion1646]

so bot via a vpn and say you were hacked

[@jjames619]

So stop playing the game. 🤦‍♂️

[@PharmYo]

@@jjames619 lmao

[@android259]

lol

[@owenlegender2771]

how come these accounts are recovered after botting? i lost my main account started in 2004 and ive never had a response when i've tried to recover it? any advice?

[@CrippledMerc]

This actually happened to me on my WoW account back around 2009. My account was hacked and then used for botting for around 4 days before I was able to recover it. I lost those 4 days of playing on that account but I was playing on my 2nd account while trying to get my main account back. It was weird being on my 2nd account and seeing my main logged in and playing. Once it was finally recovered I actually ended up making money because of the botting the person did. They basically sold everything I had and just farmed a ton of gathering materials like ores and herbs. Once I got the account back a GM restored all of my stuff that had been sold or destroyed, and left all the ore and herbs instead of taking them. I think I made around 10k gold from it, which was a decent amount of money back then. It was shortly after the launch of a new expansion so those materials were in pretty high demand which is how I made so much gold out of it. With that chunk of essentially free gold I was able to flip some high value items and turn it into even more gold which was awesome. I miss those days. Now the game has gone to shit lol.

[@willfrederickson2131]

They need to rollback these accounts when they unban for macroing... it makes the highscores rather illegitimate.

[@Upup2211]

The highscores are entirely illegitimate. You can be assured most top scores are either bots, shared accounts or Venezuelan farmers.

[@graham9334]

Truth is i doubt most of the top players play legit regardless. Highscores have meant nothing to me for many years now *shrugs*

[@buckbucker8020]

@@Upup2211 honestly dont know why they don't just region ban venezuela

[@tylerkolt3993]

You are killing it on these RuneScape videos bro! Like I look forward to them all the time!

[@jeffreywolfe1723]

I don't know how to use my VPN to get into different servers for streaming services. Any help?

[@medino9058]

@SirPugger, how to appeal to get ur acc back? oone of my alts has been banned permenatly ... i nvr botted or did anything that is banable seeing this video makes me think maybe it was hacked and botted on since i also didnt play osrs for abt a year

[@bradleydias425]

How do you protect from this tho... Any tips I'm using a different ingame name.... An email a linked Google account and my account is old I log in with my username too... I have the authenticator too? Should I change my password again? Idk I'm a mid level account so idk my fb is also linked with myacc I think... Should I be worried about this happening to my account cause I play members now and then when I can afford it

[@davo476]

anyone know who you message to appeal the ban? I mad a max main hacked and banned :(

[@vincentferrigine7784]

how have these account been recovered i had an account like 5-6 years ago and it got hacked and banned for botting but they never responded to my appeal

[@TheDantheman12121]

This happened to me. I made an account about 5 years ao played for 10 mins then never played again. Couple years later i go try again and i need to recover my account and when i do i have 99 wc and about 5 million in magic logs in my bank.

[@idklol3037]

My Rs3 account was hacked once, i had the old account protection system on it JAG. but at the time it only protected you in rs3 and not osrs. the hacker was unable to get into my rs3 character so they ended up using it to bot on osrs. about a week later when i realised what had happened i changed the password and when i checked the osrs character it had 45 mining (up from the 15 i had) and several thousand pure essence.

[@Buggabones]

I tried to log on last week and my acc was banned last year in march. Says permaban and I can appeal. No idea what they did

[@garethweatherley2400]

I got hacked after giving up on the game for a wile came back and had gon from 1 agility to 68 any one no what kind of bit that is and why ???

[@asvit9487]

Where do I sign up

[@MillerRL96]

Couldn’t I expressVPN for a month or so and not and then after ban claim it wasn’t me and get back and have a soldi acc?

[@thorstmixx]

I don't really play RS, but this kind of thing happened to me in 2011 when I used to play World of Warcraft. My account got hacked, and when I got it back, all but one of my characters had been deleted. The one remaining character, a lvl 74 tauren druid had had all his items sold and was parked Crystalsong Forest in his undies with an inventory absolutely STUFFED with herbs and a bunch of gold that I didn't have before. I got all my characters restored and all the items returned in the mail, but I got to keep the herbs, the gold, and the maxed out herbalism skill on my druid!

[@TheRealFlamingNinja]

A long time ago this actually happened to me on RS3, my account was likely targeted because I had high dungeoneering, it got hacked when I took a break and used to farm frost dragons. When I came back to the game my account had way better stats including over 90 ranged (this was back when it made sense to use a cannon at frost dragons). A lot of my expensive items had been sold but actually I was kind of chuffed with the extra progress on my account.

[@BC___1]

What's the best way to directly reach a jagex employee for recovering an account? My main was hacked and banned over a year ago

[@TheGRAclan]

My account got hacked and eventually banned for macroing. I never bothered to get it unbanned because I prefer playing on my iron-man and I'm now a higher total on that than I remember being on my main but because of thise video I am curious now. Might see if its possible to get it unbanned and figure out what they were using it for.

[@ThomasCoote89]

I had my mid level account hacked last year. When I finally recovered it (since I took a few month break and came back to a hacked account.....) it was stood at the Grand Exchange wearing those robes and fan that all the dicers wear, with an additional 3mil in the inventory.

[@GreenOutdoorsPNW]

This happened to me on RS3.. When I quit pre-eoc my original runescape account from 2005 was 70 attack/strength/defence. Came back and it was banned for macroing. Submitted an appeal and was approved because when they looked into it they found unusual IP activity. Came back and it was 93 attack/strength/defence. This happened at least twice. Now it's 99 defence and 93 attack/strength after the same thing happening. I'm not sure how they kept getting into my account because my email was still registered to my email and I changed the password twice. Pretty weird.

[@greenzie1879]

I was hacked for 2 weeks and recovered my account logged on to 99 crafting. I had level 50 before hacked. I have no clue why

[@Joeyfm3210]

I have an account that had pretty much no stats. It was a f2p alt and all I did on it was woodcut. I stopped playing osrs fall of 2015 for almost a year. Sometime in mid-late 2016 i started playing again and saw that that account was banned in January 2016 for botting, even though I hadn't played in like 4-5 months. I'm wondering if maybe this is what happened to me. Maybe it was hacked and then botted. I didn't officially try to appeal it because the account page said it was unappealable. Instead, I think I tried using twitter and/or reddit. After hearing what you said in this video, I found how to appeal it. I am going to try that. It's not really a big deal considering it had pretty much no stats, I mainly just want the username back.

[@chasereichel8146]

I recovered an old account of mine and when I logged in it not only had membership but it was standing inside the room that banddos spawns at. Sadly it had no pet but there was over 50 ml in the bank so I cleared it and put it on my main account 2 days later I looked at it again and it was back at Bandos again with the exact same gear so I made a hundred mil😂

[@professionist5238]

funny because while i was playing my main before some1 trying to log my account (noticed becuase i keep getting log out and when i log back it says its still log in) i have to change my pass and everything

[@professionist5238]

also i got hit by phishing scam before! i am pure f2p and still pure f2p had hard time to recover being f2p.......

[@joshboii5572]

My account got hacked and banned recently and they set up two factor authentication on it so I can’t get on to even appeal any ideas?

[@TrapsterJ]

My RS3 account was hacked a few years ago after I had stopped playing for a year or so and when I got it back, it was being used for gargoyles I'm assuming because I had loads of increases in stats and like 5000 gargoyle kills. Felt really strange getting my account back only to see that I was probably now further into the game stat wise, but I'm still not sure what else it was used for or how to check what might have been done.

[@thankyou4095]

Couldn’t staff check trade logs made with the bot ban that account and any other accounts it made traded with??

[@kirara159]

I had a similar experience, I stopped playing rs2 in 2010 after eoc, after I moved in 2017 I got bored and found the recoveries on a notebook. Before I stopped, I had 70-80's, when I recovered it, it was maxed with 200m fm xp and 700m gp. It was rs3 though soo I bought random noobs whatever they wanted till I ran out of gp then made an osrs account.

[@InItForTheAce]

Same thing happened to me a while back, logged in after an extended hiatus to see i was now max combat, left off at 93-99-99, thought i was just having a lapse in memory until i saw a tab in my bank with hundreds and anti drag shields, place holders for drops from green drags and some mid tier food

[@tastypancake4571]

i had a skiller with like 50s 60s and 70s and it got hacked and i tried to login and it said i was permabanned so i contacted jagex and when i got the account back i got 84 mage skiller ruined...

[@Yolonda69420]

Im just curious how do these accounts randomly get hacked?

[@terenceperson]

How do people get hacked? Do they just login in everywhere with their runescape accounts or what?

[@xoxoDonkey]

Pugger, these accounts arnt hacked, they are sold to venni gold farmers, and then recovered a few months later to see what progress had been made. Source - i run a large RWT group and see reports of this weekly, its old news.

[@cobrasix9575]

I would be inclined to agree with you if this hadn't happened to me, logged in back in like 2011 or something and had 20m hunter exp but no chins

[@Aeronizor]

Not me. But a close friend. He played OSRS briefly in 2013/2014 and pretty much only had trained melee and woodcutting. In june 2018, he wanted to show his account, tried to log in, found out he was banned (unchanged password too, was a very complex one) Ban date was 4-5 days before that, perma macro major. We appealed the ban and logged in a day later, now he cleaned out his bank before all this (gave it to a friend) and found himself with free 73 magic and 3m worth of air orbs. He simply said "what a nice welcome back bonus".

[@senicon]

So your saying that authenticators on accounts can still be hacked into?

[@lalaface5000]

I got hacked and my account says I am perm banned. I appealed my ban and i am getting no response...

[@adanv09]

Crazy, this morning I woke up to notification saying “ password reset at 3:55am”!!!! Shoo if I had known I would let them for a week and get my account back lol

[@RubberTag]

How can they get the account back after it getting banned?

[@Dafoodmaster]

actually, i have had this happen my little brother finally guessed my stupid password the day free trade was reïnstated, and got scammed. i only got my account back after OSRS had been out for a while, and i didn't remember my stats being that high after logging in to rs3

[@cameronisbomb1734]

I took a month break my slayer alt got hacked, botted on and banned. After trying to appeal it, jagex has not give my account back.

[@HaarekV3]

Quit the game a while back and after a few years I decided to go back on and check the account. Found out it had been used for botting wyverns, and it had wyvern drops and supplies for about 40m worth in the bank, a lot more then what I had when I quit. Can't remember what combat level I was, but I went from around 90-100 to near max as well.