OSRS Tips: How to Avoid Scamming in Old School RuneScape
Scamming is as old as RuneScape itself, it is the act of stealing money, items or accounts from another player through deception or trickery. Today MmoGah will share with you how to avoid getting scammed in OSRS, players who adhere to the following suggestions will find it much easier to spot scams and avoid being fooled by scammers.
Firstly there are a couple of things we want our customers to keep in mind:
No matter how urgently you are in need of gold. Be sure to read this before placing order, or you might lose your gold!
Sometimes when you are trading with RS Gold provider in game, you might already have been aimed by scammers who are standing around and looking for potential victims. Once the trade is done, the scammer will come to you with an ID that is quite similar to the real provider’s. He will ask you to give the gold back to him, using excuses like he wants to change another place to trade to make sure the security or he forgot taking pictures of the trade process etc. Do not let the scammers take advantage of your trust or kindness! Do Not Give Him Anything! Make sure to contact our reps at mmogah immediately if you are facing such issues after you got your gold.
Next, we will talk about how to avoid scamming as noobs. If you are new to the game, you might want to find ways to beat the system to get rich quick. But older players will use these ideas to take advantage of some of the younger or naive players, below are some scams a lot of people fell for as noobs.
1. Alt F4 Scam. In this one, a guy will pick up someone who is wearing expensive items and tell him about a new glitch in the game. You will get curious and ask what it is, and he tell you that you’ll make double of any item. Then he will tell you how to make the glitch. First to drop your item that you want to duplicate and then you have to hold down the Alt button and press F4. But in fact what that combination of buttons does is: It closes your browser window that you have opened. Another machanic of the scam was that at the time you have to pick your world from RuneScape home screen, so it is much more difficult to switch world, if you don’t remember what world you were logged into, then you'll have little chance of getting your items back. After 60 secends, whatever you've dropped will appear on the ground and the scammer will take it and continue on his day.
2. This one is more of a Lure than a scam. But this is the Dark Wizards or Scorpion Scam. How this works is a guy will find a lower level player who has some decent armer, and ask him to follow him if he want to see something cool. So he will take you to the Dark Wizards outside Varrock or the Scorpions in Al Kharid, or sometimes even the King Scorpions in the Dwarven Mine. All thses monsters will attack you automatically as long as you are not more than twice their level. The scammer will reassure you that something cool is going to happen and you’ve just got to wait, so you just sit there and let yourself die. After you die, you probably won’t be able to make it back there in 60 seconds, although in Old School RuneScape the death time is 30 minates, so you have a pretty good shot at getting back in time to grab your items. Click for more: MmoGah
