Some Runescape players may try to cheat or take advantage of you. Runescape isn't much different than real life. Mostly it's common sense that you need to avoid these scams or tricks. If somebody asked you for your credit card saying they wont use it, will you give it to them?

Here are some common scams:





1. Free Upgrades. There is no such thing as free upgrades. The scammer asks for your armor so they can upgrade it. When you give your armor to them, they just take it. There is no such thing as Free Upgrades.





2. Free Smithing. Try not to trust strangers who will smith your metal bars for you. Besides, if you smith the bars yourself, your smithing level increases. Free Smithing is not always a scam though. I myself smith metal bars into items for people. The only thing I gain are smithing levels.





3. Some people claim to sell something but instead give you something else.

For example: BadPerson sells Steel Plated Armor for 350gp. When you open the trade window and give BadPerson 350gp, they will give you armor.

Later you would find out that what you got was not Steel Armor but it was actually Iron Armor. Iron, that is cheaper than Steel.

Always point your mouse-cursor at the item(s) you are trading to see a description before you accept the offer.




4. Duplicating is also fake. Someone tells you to drop your expensive items that you want duplicated and then press Alt+F4. By pressing this, the game window closes and the thief easily takes your items with you out of the way. By the time you load the game and log back in, the thief is long gone.




5. Common Sense. Never give away your password. Not even to your friends. Make sure your password is hard to guess. If somebody does guess your password and takes your items, then JAGeX is not responsible. If you do lose your items to scammers then they will not be given back.





6. Some players may trick you into believing that they are JAGeX personnel. Remember, real JAGeX personnel will never ask you for your password or any items or money.