The mistaken amount - Many times when you are doing a trade people will try to rip you off. One of the easiest ways is to make you mistake the amount or item. Sometimes, people will say buying something for 45k, when you go to trade them they put up 45k, then they accept, when it comes up to the “are you sure window” they retrade and quickly put only 4.5k up and accept quickly, hoping you wont notice. This trick also is common between Rune and Mithril items. So make sure to always recheck the trade!
· The two people scam - The best way to tell this scam is to show an example of it in action. First, two people devise a plan as follows. One person says they are doing a quest and indeed of a item but is too lazy to get it and will pay extremely good for it ( lets say 20k for a black bead ). They will announce this at a crowded area. Now a little down the road their buddy is waiting and types “selling black bead 5k”. A player will see this and think “wow i can make an easy 15k” so they buy the beed from the person for 5k and go back to the friend and try to sell it for 20k, however the person never buys it, thus the two scammers make 5k off an item worth 5gp.
· Jagex does NOT block your password, so if someone tells you that it would turn out as ****** then they’re wrong and trying to steal your account. Not Cool! But if you make the mistake, no worries. They can’t loggin when you’re on, and you can change your password while you play.
· People can’t “double” your money/items if you trade it to them for “a sec.” They can always just walk away with your stuff. Even if you report them, it wouldn’t do much good unfourtunatly. =( The person might get banned but you will never get your stuff back, because all trades on Runescape are final. The staff wouldn’t be able to give your stuff back. So be sure to watch out for these people or report them if you see someoe like this.
· If someone tells you they are part of the Jagex staff and they can get you any item(s) you want if you give them money or something, right away you should know it’s a scam. The Jagex staff are almost NEVER on playing Runescape. But if they are, they wouldn’t tell you out blankly that they are staff, or wouldn’t give you this option.