Keep in mind these are just the scams involving the trade window from the early Runescape 2 days. ~Dishonorable mentions~ Herb seed scams Unidentified herb scams noted iron equipment swapped for rune big bones sold as dragon bones via a quick switch.
i actually fell for one in like 2011. I logged into the forums except it wasnt actually runescapes website and lost everything. it was to join a lottery for a phat too. I knew it was wrong. there was a bank pin confirmation to log in. how did i not know. that.
How about the 'leave cash pile that looks max cash stack but is onlly minimum amount for bait' or the old school zammy wine bait and close door method lmao
I must have been about 13 at the time, but I remember spending weeks standing in the W2 garden, flipping barrows items and trying to save up for that beautiful Guthan's set with the swirly purple effects I so desperately needed to have. At this time, the whole set was around 10m, with the spear alone being the bulk of it (like 8-9m.) Fell for the leaf-bladed spear switch last second and cried for hours, to my moms confusion.
My first time getting scammed was in f2p.. saved up for weeks and got full rune and went to Varrock pvp to flex (not actually pk) and a group of kids like 5 of them spent 45 mins convincing me to go full rune pking with their group and how much money we would all make.... finally did it... got smoked at greaters by them and Def remember crying too haha... was like 9. Good old rs days lol
I remember when I was really new to the game and a guy wearing full rune (g) was saying armor trimming for sale. I wasn't a member and didn't know about clue scrolls at the time so I handed over my full mithril set. He trades me again and says it's now trimmed and I could clearly see it was the same armor with nothing done to it. He was asking me for like 25k for doing nothing which I didn't even have so I told him I wanted to see how it looked on me before I gave him any money. He said ok and traded it back and I x logged. I don't think he knew how the scam worked. To this day, anytime I feel dumb, I think of this guy and feel slightly less dumb.
I fell for the 'buying Rune 2h 100k!' scam back in 2004 :d they they swapped it for 1004gp and due to the text colour not changing and no 'trade modified' alerts at the time it got me pretty good.
what about those of us using the landline to coordinate the scam with your buddy who declares the doubling money is totally legit, then cutting him in by a third of the gains when some poor kid gives you their cash stack I was such an asshole as a kid! 21 years in this game and I've never been scammed
I never fell for that scam in particular, but I did fall for the “gold trimming” scam when I first started playing in 5th grade. Lost my full adamant armor and I was devestated 😂
@@AdamOwenBrowning Some of us are born with drug addicted parents and some of us are niave. The funniest is when the scam artists don’t realize they had drug addicted parents. Here’s an example “Now son losers just let everyone take from them, you have to find creative ways to take from those losers around you.”. I’m half joking but my uncle was a meth addict and the quote is from him so, whoever you want to be when you grow up I guess.
Way back in the day, I was able to pull off trading the Black Desert Robes from The Shadow of The Storm quest off as Ahrim’s. I’m not sure why the case was, but at the time in RS2, the robes were an identical color to Ahrim’s robes, minus the chain texture from it being Barrow’s. You made them by rubbing the dark mushrooms on them from the obscure little tomb in the farthest corner of the desert at the time, they weren’t just the regular black wizard robes. However the sprite for it looked exactly the same at the time, or atleast 99% close enough to pass quickly enough if you were able to do a quickswitch in the trade window before trade notifications existed. I have never seen this mentioned in any OSRS/RS2/Classic videos regarding scamming, history, trade bugs, etc. Thought it was funny and would be worth sharing, even though I know people will always shit on me for it
I remember as a kid someone tried to convince me I could dupe my black armor by dropping it on the ground and pressing ALT+F4. I fell for this scam, luckily for me however I didn't actually know how to do that right, so I just typed ALT+F4 into the chat and when nothing happened, I grabbed my armor off the ground and ran away, swearing at the scammer. After that, I learned to be careful and was never scammed again.
Haha. I also fell for this scam under the Varrock bank in 2005. It was a team. One person told us about the glitch and another person 'confirmed it'. Even though I fell for it, I still wanted to test it out first so I dropped a bucket and did the alt + f4.
I'd love to see a follow-up on some of these as well. I remember before you had grimy ranarr, grimy Guam, etc.. all herbs were "unidentified herb" with the same sprite. You used to see people identify 1 in the stack to know what the rest were so you could sell off unidentified Guam's as ranarrs for a lot more. There was another that took advantage of people wanting to dupe items using the poh. You would have say 2 whips in your inv and drop one in your own house. Trade and show the victim you have only that in your inv then use it on a table or something. Wait a couple seconds, pick it up as well as the one you dropped initially and trade again showing both items. Now you just get them to try, and since there's an animation when someone puts an item on the table, once the scammer sees that, they kick out other players and lock the house. Then you just wait for it to show up
The 1711k was the best, most consistent scam in the game pre-ge. You would find someone selling materials (sharks for example), trade them, and put in 1711k. Wait about 5 seconds while they calculate how many sharks are worth 1711k, then decline and tell them the number they probably already calculated. Then put up 1171k in the next trade. Easiest 600k of all time. Worked nearly every try.
Nice video! Though i disagree about the kids being lazy for research part. When i would ask my parents about something RuneScape related in that time their best guess was to see if a library had a book about it. If we knew what google would become at that time i would have bought some stock 😂
Started in 2006 July 4th, I remember going to the old Wildy picking up addy arrows in F2P I seen rares and was offered a piece of charcoal for 3k addy arrows, I was told it was worth 2m to the right buyer. I still have that same piece of charcoal in my account. Such a dumb way to lose hours of picking up arrows as a kid lmao.
I fell for a similar scam mentioned in the last section. I was dumb enough and greedy enough to fall for it. Some guy was selling mole skins for 1m each. I got a PM from a guy asking me to sell him a mole skin for 2m each. I bought the mole skins and immediately hopped worlds. Only to realize it was a f2p world. My greed caught me lacking that day. Here's what made it worse. The guy pmed me a week later thanking me for the whip.
I remember losing my vercas flail to 1000 willow logs that I thought was magic logs. That was all my net worth in 2007. I had barely rune armor and some dragon weapons. I put all my assets into castle wars, thousands of runes, bolts, etc. just to play castle wars.
I've fallen for trimming scam once and lost my mithril armor. Hard lesson learned. Also I remember getting scammed for buying big bones then the scammer switched to small bones. I just wasn't paying enough attention.. Another lesson learned there.
when you said the words Rune HQ i unlocked a hidden memory and watched my whole childhood flash before my eyes, on a real note tho damn forgot about them.
I got tricked for the leaf bladed spear/guthans scam in late 2006. I think the set was around 8m, with most of it being in the spear. I was a noob and my offer was like 3m cash and items, but before I put all my items up in the trade the guy accepted quickly. Somehow I actually came out on top (I guess the RS gods were looking out for me that day) by like 1m in total so I just bought the spear the next day and used the rest on like rune boots and a warrior ring. Good times.
I got scammed trying to buy a full guthans set back in 2006, I knew about the spear scam so I spent so much time double checking the spear was real I didn't realize the guy put up two guthans skirts instead of the helm lol
I remember losing 7m on a guthan set to a leaf spear, so I was left with either having to make the money back, or trying to scam someone else. I got my money back 5 minutes later. I think that's part of why there's so many scammers, the scammed have to scam to make their money back.
I remember on classic there was a scam in the duel/trade screen where they’d add the cash as the amount stretched across the screen and then they’d add Needles to the end of it and you’d not be able to see the needles due to coins text but you’d see amount of needles but it’d look like extra coins had been added. Great video as always!
I think the earliest trade screen scam I can remember was a needle in the second slot of the old trade screen in RSC. Basically added a digit like the 4 did in RS2. It was quite clever really.
So get this; back in ~2005, my cousin came up with this “brilliant” scam. The item we used was called “hallowed Reed” and it was a tradeable item you got from legends quest I believe. So, one of us would stand in the bank say “selling reed 100k” over and over. No one clearly had the item unless they did the quest and kept. We’d then leave, and then the other person would come in and say “buying hallow reed, 500k please I need it for this quest.” No joke, we had people add my friend and buy his hallow reed for 100k to then come and try and sell it to me for 500k. It didn’t work often, but we got a few fools. I’m sorry to those 3 people that 11 year old me got ya. Man, the world before grand exchange lol
I once sold a bgs for 6 bgs and 10m spamming "selling ags 46m" (which was underpriced, around 2008-10 I believe) - It funded my 19 jad attempts for my first fire cape (it's true, actually kept count - the lag and the shakes). Obviously a dick move in hindsight - kids can be real cunts. Hope the poor guy bounced back quickly
6:45 someone got me with the noted rock hammer granite maul when i was like 7 years old. Was so excited to upgrade to the granite maul as my main weapon, traded a guy in fally east bank my entire cash stack for my brand new weapon, and was heartbroken when i couldn't even equip it. Took me a long time to get that money back to get a new granite maul, which i continued to use as my main weapon for all activities until switching to, you guessed it, the dragon 2h sword XD
When the German servers came out back in rs2 I went to visit them and alch with my fashionscape on. I was wearing my Green Halloween Mask that I cut yews for all summer to afford. Welllllll… I saw a drop party train walking by and decided to follow to join it. Next thing I know a pop up appears with skulls on it. Not being able to read German I clicked a random option 🤦🏻 only to be teleported to deep wildy where a clan was waiting for me… having no other choice I alched my green mask last second so they wouldn’t get it. Its been over 15 years and that shit still hurts lmao
When I was in my early teens I got absolutely cleaned because I wanted to buy third aged platelegs, and someone put them up, I put up however fucking much it was I can't remember because that was many many many years ago, they quickly swapped out the noted third Aged platelegs for noted white legs, like the white knight armour or whatever it was back in the day. Yeah I got absolutely rooted. I'm 27 now and that introduced me to the real world for sure.
About 6 months back I was on osrs at lumby giving noobs free gear. Then, I suddenly saw a rune mace on the ground and picked it up. Not 5 minutes later I found a low lvl in draynor with a rune Mace. I told him to trade me his rune mace and I'd double it. He was hesitant at first, hell even some randoms came up to warn him that I was a scammer and to report me. After about 15 mins of "I'm not a scammer, trust me bro" he handed over his mace. I traded him again, gave him both and hit a tele to varrock 😂
I remember falling for the team item scam with a slight variation to the one described in the video. One guy was buying a whip for 2.4 Mill, and another guy was bying a guthix stole for 2mill. Whips were worth 1.4-1.6mill back then. I traded the guy who wanted to "buy" the whip for 2.4 mill, and he offered a gutix stole. I thought, oh, "If i accept I can sell the stole for 2mill right away to the other guy" and then buy a whip again for 600k profit and I accepted. I then went to the guy who wanted to "buy" the guthix stole for 2 mill, Who showed me the 2 mill, then declined and logged off. It took me a while trying to sell the "rare item guthix stole" before I figured out that I had been scammed, but only after I traded it for a Torag's hammer, which was worth even less back then.
Thanks to your comment, I remember trading items around not knowing what they were worth as a kid, total crapshoot. Totally forgot about that. Thank you!
Most untradable slayer shop items used to be freely tradable but they were mostly all used in scams so they all became untradable to combat these types of scams...miss selling leaf bladed spears for 5m each 🤣
I got hit with the doubling money trick at 13. I didn't believe it at first but the guy had some explanation about how he had some client that doubled the money in the game. Idk why I bought that haha
I still remember vividly, even where the trade happened (varrock east bank), trying to buy a rune longsword and ended up buying an iron longsword lol.. That was a throwback. Haha
Got scammed from the armor trimming at like 8 or 9 years old, then a couple years later I got conned into buying like 500 grogs for a bunch of money. Also someone I know 😅 tried scamming somebody by selling their account for 50k. The guy traded the gold to the account he was selling and then got beat to the password change... lol good times in the wild west
Regarding the item look-alike scam, some OG players might remember that ranger boots looked exactly like green Fremennik boots up until late 2004, and thus were a popular target of the scam way way back in the day They weren't nearly as valuable as they are now but still worth a good chunk of gp
I have seen this scam happen in person at friends house. Luckily we all pulled together some GP and bought him some. Didn't want it to be a mood killer for the night.
luring scams were wild back then too. i lost my first whip because someone wanted me to be in their “youtube pk vid” and told me to take my whip and only that into the wild with me and they were gonna kill me for a vid and that i had nothing to worry about since i can’t lose 1 item unskulled. he traded me 4 notes dragon battleaxes in the wild (for my time helping) and then killed me and found out the hard way the battleaxes protected over the whip. rip
Back in the day I got scammed for my Dragon Full Helm. I went deep wild with it and a "Friend". I only had 4 items on me and just assumed the DFH would be protected since it was around 30 or 40m (my entire bank basically). To my shock I had the 3 other cheap 10-20k items and NOT the DFH after he killed me suddenly. I almost quit but some nice guy gave me a DFH, 50m and then taught me to flip. 12 y/o me was so impacted by it I actually ended up studying Finance hahaha
There was this one we did when they released the German worlds , get target used to being tele-other to like Camelot and Falador , then ask them to check out the new German worlds … then teleother to Ice Plateau.. 😂👍😂 nostalgia
You forgot to mention how back in the day trading was only a single screen and so quickly removing an item for trading was a serious risk. Some players would trade with me and when I put up my stuff first it'd say "player has accepted the trade" or something like that, even as a kid I knew to end it there. One legit one was free gem cutting. The players would always give me back the cut gems since they were just training crafting. It probably helped "free armor trimming" seem more legit.
You know what prevented the scamming of people taking your materials, till it got abused, the "Assist" feature. Iirc, you can literally "lend a hand" with your stats next to the person and they could basically use your stats for whatever. Such as smithing armour out of level
Lost my first set of full rune to some guy that promised me he would trim it lol. Needless to say I never got them back. Made me quit the game for a whole year, but when I came back some random guy gave me free rune platelegs and helm, wich instantly got me hooked to the game again
I have a similar story. I was doing something without the proper ranger gear and he gave me a full set of ranger stuff thst I couldn't wear and brought me back to it. There are son *nice* folk around the game
I aint gonna lie I was pretty good at the trade window scamming when I was a kid 😂 Even after the red ! thing which definitely ruined it a little bit but still doable because people were lazy and wanted to trade quickly
I can remember when I was like six years old I scammed some guy for black trimmed (g) because I told him I had a “special examine tool.” I got the set and then traded it for one rune scimmy that I couldn’t even wield at the time 😭😂
People used to tell you to attack their familiars to be in a TH-cam video. Or lend partyhats, return them and kill the victim. And then there's returnofwilderness.
I was scammed with the old armour trimming sale when i was young. I knew about it but still fell for it. He took me to doric's anvil took off his untrimmed rune full helmet, did a smithing animation and then put on a rune g helmet. I traded him my full adamant immediately
I remember one of the more obscure scams from back in the day: the scammer giving a high level player in fancy gear half of an inventory of Limestone, and then ask the mark to smelt it on behalf of the scammer because their own smithing level is "too low". It would prompt to ask how many limestone they want to smelt, they'd typically select 'all', and then promptly blow themselves up repeatedly because that's what limestone in a furnace does. Most people aren't aware of that and get caught totally off guard or afk because smelting is generally a safe activity, and it doesn't seem like a scam since it doesn't involve giving anything away
Allow me to take you back to 07 for a moment. Man approaches me at bank in Lumby "Let's play trust game" Me "no" The end. Never understood how people got scammed, just always under every circumstance say "no" problem solved. Trade scams were more tricky, and i admit i likely got lucky never falling for the seed bs or quick switches lol. But the obligatory "Follow me to wildy" ended in a "no" "well fk. . . ok bye" "fack owff!!!"
The one I remember the most from like 20 years ago was someone would be selling noted rune daggers or any noted rune items and then try to quickly change it to a noted bronze dagger . They almost got me all the time when I was trying to spam sell my shit at the varrock bank lol
Back then I remember convincing people to trade me their expensive armor for Graahk armor (some random hunter armor) and people thought it was super expensive because of how it looked. They would trade rune trim and other items for it. Hilarious part was you needed 10 Hunter to wear, lol
On one of the first few days of Hunter being released I bought a spotted cape for I don't remember how much (15k maybe?) and was disappointed to see that I couldn't wear it as well.
I remember getting scammed by a Rune Satchel, a completely useless item for the Tower of Life quest that had released around that time, that was both tradeable AND useable in F2P worlds for some ridiculous reason. I can't remember what I got scammed out of, probably Rune armour, but my child mind just thought Rune item = must be valuable, only to find out I had received some worthless member-only quest content.
Back then, like 2005 ish I "bought" account lvl 40 or something from some guy standing in the al kharid bank, it was obvious scam, but i paid 70k or so and tried to logg in to the account for few times and to the surprise account didnt exist. So logged back to my "main" lvl 20 ish and found the guy which scammed me, and shouted on the public chat "give me the password". Then recieved permanent manual ban for "stealing accounts" by jagex mod. Good memories lol.
I had an account back in the day, a random person gave me lile 40mil (think he was quitting and i was a lvl 50 noob). I bought full gilded armour. A "friend" i played xbox with for years. Told me he found a glitch where he can double money and items. So I went in the wildy with him with everything. Ofc he pk'd me and then deleted me off everything. Legit trusted him as played cod with him almost everyday.
One day I bought coins on RS and got a Dragon platebody. I was really young btw. I went online and some guy asked me for his help with something. He said he needed to transfer something into another account or something like that and I would get a reward for it. It was the trade scam, he quickly removed the item he was trading to me and I got left with nothing. I was sooo upset.
Sold my Santa hat to buy a guthans spear. Walked away from falador with a leaf-bladed spear and proceeded to quit the game. Hearing it mentioned here hit me right in the feels 😂
Had a guy say he could take my staff off air and make it a bstaff. I saw it in the crafting guide and was like "oh sweet!" I got I've it quickly and stopped trusting everyone. Great lesson.
The tiles behind the rune plate body seller House in edgeville back when Wilderness had no warning/trench : lure players to that spot to PK after reuqesting for trade items. I got tricked by it. Though is that more of a lure than scam itself?
I wanted to buy a rune pickaxe and when I found a seller, he “accidentally hit decline” and when he put the offer up again, I immediately hit accept not knowing it was a adamant pickaxe. If you note them, it’s almost impossible to tell the difference
People who don't pay attention to the second trade screen deserve to be scammed to be honest. The second trade screen lists items and amounts traded and can't be modified, it has been that way since '01.
I scammed by the "oh, a piece of candy" scam. Basically, some dude named Pikachu (18 years ago) said he was making a RuneScape PK video but sucked and needed paid actors. He assured me that I neednt worry about losing my gear as I should only bring 1 item, my Abby Whip. We went into the wildly and they put me to one shot when out of the blue 3 pairs of noted torags hammers appeared. My monkey brain activated and I picked them up after which I was immediately pk'd and my whip dropped. I was VERY upset. My main money making job was fishing lobsters. That was A LOT of lobsters worth in money.
I got wrecked by the iron->rune gear swap. Got my 41 WC on Draynor oak tree and someone put the rune axe up to my 40k and declined, made me panic, and put up an iron one in the next trade. Ruined my entire week.
THe fact that scamming is against jagex rules makes them soyboys. Scamming isn't breaking the game, its tricking idiots. Eve online encourages this gameplay and as a result the community is hilarious. Jagex should have embraced it, hacking against ToS, scamming = ok.
when i was a kid i asked someone how they got the red book in their off hand (zammy book) and they told me theyd give it to me for my addy armor set. he traded me a construction manual and i was distraught for days
The rock hammer looking like a granite maul was a huge scam in 2013 when osrs came out, that and bronze skirt looking like veracs skirt lol, i must say i did trick a few people with those 2 in particular :)
I was the most notorious scammer as a young buck.. first i sold about 60 black skirts lol.... and then to maple longbow salesman/mercher lol... when osrs dropped again i repeated & spending that coin chinning and alching mage.. to then harvesting 5000 souls in the wildy for a billions of gp.. sellin gp.. good times when osrs dropped!! all them poor slayer dudes/skull trick victims... im on mobile plz plz ... just made my chops water more... ahhhh reminiscing about the good old days!!!!!!!
Quick swap Rune Scim > Iron Scim Quick swap 1.4MGP > 1.14MGP Lure into using limestone on furnace after HP lowered in house party All got me back in the day
I was a victim for team scamming when I was a kid when the Abby whip was released, I wanted it so badly, but they were like 8-10m at the time. These 2 guys scammed me for like 1.1m or something like that and the item was olive oil and my dumb ass fell for it. The one guy said buying Olive Oil for 10m and the other guy said was across Varroc square by the lady who sells robes, and he said selling Olive Oil for 1.1m and my dumb ass fell for it. I wanted a whip so badly and I didn't even have 70 attack and ended up getting scammed lol. That was the only time that I can think of where I got scammed.
I've encountered a more clever scam back when they added GE value to the trade window. The initial deal was favorable to me showing I'll make 300k. They then closed the trade window, saying it was lag and asked to re-trade (so that the big flashing red exclamation mark wouldn't show up). Finally, they'll put up a similar-looking noted item but this time it's worth much less. However, the GE value still shows 300k difference, just to the other guy. Thankfully I did not fall for it but it made me chuckle. I think it was a wizard's hat (t) replaced with a non-trimmed wizard's hat. The trim color was black so it was hard to see the difference in a bank note.
I scammed some one about 4m once, kept typing "doubling money 1 trade in items" at the time equa leaves came up at around 1.2k in trade window but i was buying them in ge for about 5-30 gp each. couldnt believe it worked and i never tried again. ended up getting muted for a week and started seeing other people try the scam. a few months later they fixed the trade window prices lol edit: also this was in about 2015-2016 on osrs
Let's not forget these scams which were 80% Lethal, almost 8/10 people fell for those. 1. You offer 1911k for seller and tell them to give you right amount of product, you then cancel trade tell them the amount and now you trade 1191k (720k less) 2. Selling 100k iron arrows 4.5gp each all 4.5m. (Actual price would be 450k, but because the 0.5 mislead people thinking the 4.5m was correct. Lot of people fell for those hourly incomes was even as high as 30m/h.
Nooooo you have the shit fucked up….the scammer has a bot that logs your username earning small profit when you give them like 250k for the doubler It only works on your favor the first time their botnet flags your username
I got scammed as a young youth early in Runescape for a Green H'Ween mask. they were probably ~15m or less at the time, but it was some sort of duel arena trick where for some reason he was able to equip weapons and armor. I think it might have been an exploit, or maybe I was just really stupid. Regardless, it devastated me. Maybe I deserved it though, because I used to go to a popular bank with a friend and i'd say "Buying charcoal 250k" and my friend would be on the other end saying "selling charcoal 50k". I also used to go to the wildy, usually outside of varrock, and I would run around poisoning people with a DDS P++. My friend would be selling antipoisons at a gross overprice and people would usually buy them. Edit: Oh, that sort of buy-sell trick was mentioned. Fair enough.
Keep in mind these are just the scams involving the trade window from the early Runescape 2 days.
~Dishonorable mentions~
Herb seed scams
Unidentified herb scams
noted iron equipment swapped for rune
big bones sold as dragon bones via a quick switch.
theres also the whip/rope one
lunagang for all your runescape knowledge
i actually fell for one in like 2011. I logged into the forums except it wasnt actually runescapes website and lost everything. it was to join a lottery for a phat too. I knew it was wrong. there was a bank pin confirmation to log in. how did i not know. that.
How about the 'leave cash pile that looks max cash stack but is onlly minimum amount for bait'
or the old school zammy wine bait and close door method lmao
where is the video u upload about the falladore massacre ??
I must have been about 13 at the time, but I remember spending weeks standing in the W2 garden, flipping barrows items and trying to save up for that beautiful Guthan's set with the swirly purple effects I so desperately needed to have. At this time, the whole set was around 10m, with the spear alone being the bulk of it (like 8-9m.) Fell for the leaf-bladed spear switch last second and cried for hours, to my moms confusion.
People who played back then understand the heartbreak 😅
Got the Vskirt scam pulled on me. My mum couldn't understand too. I feel you though bro.
Those were the golden days, glad at least you got to play them :)
My first time getting scammed was in f2p.. saved up for weeks and got full rune and went to Varrock pvp to flex (not actually pk) and a group of kids like 5 of them spent 45 mins convincing me to go full rune pking with their group and how much money we would all make.... finally did it... got smoked at greaters by them and Def remember crying too haha... was like 9. Good old rs days lol
@@MrDontclickthislink my bad lol
I remember when I was really new to the game and a guy wearing full rune (g) was saying armor trimming for sale. I wasn't a member and didn't know about clue scrolls at the time so I handed over my full mithril set. He trades me again and says it's now trimmed and I could clearly see it was the same armor with nothing done to it. He was asking me for like 25k for doing nothing which I didn't even have so I told him I wanted to see how it looked on me before I gave him any money. He said ok and traded it back and I x logged. I don't think he knew how the scam worked. To this day, anytime I feel dumb, I think of this guy and feel slightly less dumb.
LOL. That guy was pretty damn dumb.
I fell for the 'buying Rune 2h 100k!' scam back in 2004 :d they they swapped it for 1004gp and due to the text colour not changing and no 'trade modified' alerts at the time it got me pretty good.
I'm not afraid to admit at least 90% of us were young/desperate enough to fall for the doubling money at least once in their life.
what about those of us using the landline to coordinate the scam with your buddy who declares the doubling money is totally legit, then cutting him in by a third of the gains when some poor kid gives you their cash stack
I was such an asshole as a kid! 21 years in this game and I've never been scammed
@@AdamOwenBrowningI used to do that with multiple accounts as a kid lol
I never fell for that scam in particular, but I did fall for the “gold trimming” scam when I first started playing in 5th grade. Lost my full adamant armor and I was devestated 😂
@@AdamOwenBrowning Some of us are born with drug addicted parents and some of us are niave. The funniest is when the scam artists don’t realize they had drug addicted parents. Here’s an example “Now son losers just let everyone take from them, you have to find creative ways to take from those losers around you.”. I’m half joking but my uncle was a meth addict and the quote is from him so, whoever you want to be when you grow up I guess.
People still do
Way back in the day, I was able to pull off trading the Black Desert Robes from The Shadow of The Storm quest off as Ahrim’s. I’m not sure why the case was, but at the time in RS2, the robes were an identical color to Ahrim’s robes, minus the chain texture from it being Barrow’s. You made them by rubbing the dark mushrooms on them from the obscure little tomb in the farthest corner of the desert at the time, they weren’t just the regular black wizard robes. However the sprite for it looked exactly the same at the time, or atleast 99% close enough to pass quickly enough if you were able to do a quickswitch in the trade window before trade notifications existed.
I have never seen this mentioned in any OSRS/RS2/Classic videos regarding scamming, history, trade bugs, etc. Thought it was funny and would be worth sharing, even though I know people will always shit on me for it
I can’t find anything saying they used to be tradable 🤔
I remember as a kid someone tried to convince me I could dupe my black armor by dropping it on the ground and pressing ALT+F4. I fell for this scam, luckily for me however I didn't actually know how to do that right, so I just typed ALT+F4 into the chat and when nothing happened, I grabbed my armor off the ground and ran away, swearing at the scammer. After that, I learned to be careful and was never scammed again.
Haha. I also fell for this scam under the Varrock bank in 2005. It was a team. One person told us about the glitch and another person 'confirmed it'. Even though I fell for it, I still wanted to test it out first so I dropped a bucket and did the alt + f4.
Late to the party but thank you for that memory. I forgot I had gotten scammed like this back in the day.
I'd love to see a follow-up on some of these as well. I remember before you had grimy ranarr, grimy Guam, etc.. all herbs were "unidentified herb" with the same sprite. You used to see people identify 1 in the stack to know what the rest were so you could sell off unidentified Guam's as ranarrs for a lot more.
There was another that took advantage of people wanting to dupe items using the poh. You would have say 2 whips in your inv and drop one in your own house. Trade and show the victim you have only that in your inv then use it on a table or something. Wait a couple seconds, pick it up as well as the one you dropped initially and trade again showing both items. Now you just get them to try, and since there's an animation when someone puts an item on the table, once the scammer sees that, they kick out other players and lock the house. Then you just wait for it to show up
I see verac set 2 skirt no helm scam thumbnail, I watch
😮😮😮
Except that wasn't the thumbnail?
The 1711k was the best, most consistent scam in the game pre-ge. You would find someone selling materials (sharks for example), trade them, and put in 1711k. Wait about 5 seconds while they calculate how many sharks are worth 1711k, then decline and tell them the number they probably already calculated. Then put up 1171k in the next trade.
Easiest 600k of all time. Worked nearly every try.
hahahahahhaa smart one.
although simple, I appreciated the timer you put during your patreon read. as someone inclined to skip I didn't skip :)
Nice video! Though i disagree about the kids being lazy for research part. When i would ask my parents about something RuneScape related in that time their best guess was to see if a library had a book about it. If we knew what google would become at that time i would have bought some stock 😂
Started in 2006 July 4th, I remember going to the old Wildy picking up addy arrows in F2P I seen rares and was offered a piece of charcoal for 3k addy arrows, I was told it was worth 2m to the right buyer. I still have that same piece of charcoal in my account. Such a dumb way to lose hours of picking up arrows as a kid lmao.
I fell for a similar scam mentioned in the last section. I was dumb enough and greedy enough to fall for it. Some guy was selling mole skins for 1m each. I got a PM from a guy asking me to sell him a mole skin for 2m each. I bought the mole skins and immediately hopped worlds. Only to realize it was a f2p world. My greed caught me lacking that day. Here's what made it worse. The guy pmed me a week later thanking me for the whip.
Love the documentation you provide for the community
Thank you for this video… just bringing back so many iconic memories and tears.
I remember losing my vercas flail to 1000 willow logs that I thought was magic logs. That was all my net worth in 2007. I had barely rune armor and some dragon weapons. I put all my assets into castle wars, thousands of runes, bolts, etc. just to play castle wars.
Back when people played games for fun and not to grind! I miss CW.
I've fallen for trimming scam once and lost my mithril armor. Hard lesson learned. Also I remember getting scammed for buying big bones then the scammer switched to small bones. I just wasn't paying enough attention.. Another lesson learned there.
I'd buy you trimmed mithril to mend the wound, lol.
when you said the words Rune HQ i unlocked a hidden memory and watched my whole childhood flash before my eyes, on a real note tho damn forgot about them.
do u remember swiftswitch and swiftkit haha feels like forever
Zybez
Same but with Sals Realm for me. It just ran better on my old shitty pc I felt like and I was used to the layout. Rune HQ was def a great one too.
@@realize2424 what is this and why does it ring a bell, priv server?
@@LibbriAVal It was a website where you would post which items you wanted to buy or sell and your RSN to meet in-game.
I got tricked for the leaf bladed spear/guthans scam in late 2006. I think the set was around 8m, with most of it being in the spear. I was a noob and my offer was like 3m cash and items, but before I put all my items up in the trade the guy accepted quickly. Somehow I actually came out on top (I guess the RS gods were looking out for me that day) by like 1m in total so I just bought the spear the next day and used the rest on like rune boots and a warrior ring. Good times.
just admit you rwt’ed with mommy’s credit card for the 8m at $8-9 per mil
Same bro
Was so pissed
@@realize2424 lmao nah I was terrified of getting banned. But I did give my friend from school $20 on the bus for d legs (2m) 🤣
Funniest way to scam the scammer:
- have lots of smurfs in the GE
- trade the doubler small amounts with each character until they leave
- profit
I got scammed trying to buy a full guthans set back in 2006, I knew about the spear scam so I spent so much time double checking the spear was real I didn't realize the guy put up two guthans skirts instead of the helm lol
I remember losing 7m on a guthan set to a leaf spear, so I was left with either having to make the money back, or trying to scam someone else. I got my money back 5 minutes later. I think that's part of why there's so many scammers, the scammed have to scam to make their money back.
I remember on classic there was a scam in the duel/trade screen where they’d add the cash as the amount stretched across the screen and then they’d add Needles to the end of it and you’d not be able to see the needles due to coins text but you’d see amount of needles but it’d look like extra coins had been added. Great video as always!
I think the earliest trade screen scam I can remember was a needle in the second slot of the old trade screen in RSC. Basically added a digit like the 4 did in RS2. It was quite clever really.
So get this; back in ~2005, my cousin came up with this “brilliant” scam. The item we used was called “hallowed Reed” and it was a tradeable item you got from legends quest I believe. So, one of us would stand in the bank say “selling reed 100k” over and over. No one clearly had the item unless they did the quest and kept. We’d then leave, and then the other person would come in and say “buying hallow reed, 500k please I need it for this quest.” No joke, we had people add my friend and buy his hallow reed for 100k to then come and try and sell it to me for 500k. It didn’t work often, but we got a few fools. I’m sorry to those 3 people that 11 year old me got ya. Man, the world before grand exchange lol
I once sold a bgs for 6 bgs and 10m spamming "selling ags 46m" (which was underpriced, around 2008-10 I believe) - It funded my 19 jad attempts for my first fire cape (it's true, actually kept count - the lag and the shakes). Obviously a dick move in hindsight - kids can be real cunts. Hope the poor guy bounced back quickly
6:45 someone got me with the noted rock hammer granite maul when i was like 7 years old. Was so excited to upgrade to the granite maul as my main weapon, traded a guy in fally east bank my entire cash stack for my brand new weapon, and was heartbroken when i couldn't even equip it. Took me a long time to get that money back to get a new granite maul, which i continued to use as my main weapon for all activities until switching to, you guessed it, the dragon 2h sword XD
When the German servers came out back in rs2 I went to visit them and alch with my fashionscape on. I was wearing my Green Halloween Mask that I cut yews for all summer to afford.
Welllllll… I saw a drop party train walking by and decided to follow to join it. Next thing I know a pop up appears with skulls on it. Not being able to read German I clicked a random option 🤦🏻 only to be teleported to deep wildy where a clan was waiting for me… having no other choice I alched my green mask last second so they wouldn’t get it. Its been over 15 years and that shit still hurts lmao
When I was in my early teens I got absolutely cleaned because I wanted to buy third aged platelegs, and someone put them up, I put up however fucking much it was I can't remember because that was many many many years ago, they quickly swapped out the noted third Aged platelegs for noted white legs, like the white knight armour or whatever it was back in the day.
Yeah I got absolutely rooted. I'm 27 now and that introduced me to the real world for sure.
About 6 months back I was on osrs at lumby giving noobs free gear. Then, I suddenly saw a rune mace on the ground and picked it up. Not 5 minutes later I found a low lvl in draynor with a rune Mace. I told him to trade me his rune mace and I'd double it. He was hesitant at first, hell even some randoms came up to warn him that I was a scammer and to report me. After about 15 mins of "I'm not a scammer, trust me bro" he handed over his mace. I traded him again, gave him both and hit a tele to varrock 😂
I remember falling for the team item scam with a slight variation to the one described in the video. One guy was buying a whip for 2.4 Mill, and another guy was bying a guthix stole for 2mill. Whips were worth 1.4-1.6mill back then. I traded the guy who wanted to "buy" the whip for 2.4 mill, and he offered a gutix stole. I thought, oh, "If i accept I can sell the stole for 2mill right away to the other guy" and then buy a whip again for 600k profit and I accepted. I then went to the guy who wanted to "buy" the guthix stole for 2 mill, Who showed me the 2 mill, then declined and logged off. It took me a while trying to sell the "rare item guthix stole" before I figured out that I had been scammed, but only after I traded it for a Torag's hammer, which was worth even less back then.
Thanks to your comment, I remember trading items around not knowing what they were worth as a kid, total crapshoot. Totally forgot about that. Thank you!
Most untradable slayer shop items used to be freely tradable but they were mostly all used in scams so they all became untradable to combat these types of scams...miss selling leaf bladed spears for 5m each 🤣
will give members send ssn
Essential final step to a scam: Run away as fast as possible and be sure to say, "THANKS NOOB!"
I got hit with the doubling money trick at 13. I didn't believe it at first but the guy had some explanation about how he had some client that doubled the money in the game. Idk why I bought that haha
I got scammed with the magic logs swapped to willow logs back when I was like 13.. never trusted anyone else again in runescape
I still remember vividly, even where the trade happened (varrock east bank), trying to buy a rune longsword and ended up buying an iron longsword lol.. That was a throwback. Haha
I remember when I lost a whip to the lend scam. I was devastated after just getting it
I remember alt+f4 back in the day people used to say it dumped items after trying it once I always had public chat turned off
Dude i hear you pronounced Al Kharid that way again ill unsub. We all know you need to pronounce it with that Arabian flare!
I admit it, I scammed someone by swapping out the rune long for an iron long. Forgive me, I was a kid.
Did i just see someone threaten to send a torpedo, an underwater missile, to a streamer's house??
Is homie living in bikini bottom or what?
Got scammed from the armor trimming at like 8 or 9 years old, then a couple years later I got conned into buying like 500 grogs for a bunch of money. Also someone I know 😅 tried scamming somebody by selling their account for 50k. The guy traded the gold to the account he was selling and then got beat to the password change... lol good times in the wild west
Regarding the item look-alike scam, some OG players might remember that ranger boots looked exactly like green Fremennik boots up until late 2004, and thus were a popular target of the scam way way back in the day
They weren't nearly as valuable as they are now but still worth a good chunk of gp
I have seen this scam happen in person at friends house. Luckily we all pulled together some GP and bought him some. Didn't want it to be a mood killer for the night.
luring scams were wild back then too. i lost my first whip because someone wanted me to be in their “youtube pk vid” and told me to take my whip and only that into the wild with me and they were gonna kill me for a vid and that i had nothing to worry about since i can’t lose 1 item unskulled. he traded me 4 notes dragon battleaxes in the wild (for my time helping) and then killed me and found out the hard way the battleaxes protected over the whip. rip
Would love a deep dive of all types of scams, lures, etc. Ive always found them entertaining to see.
I could think of more scams from the very oldschool days. It was children scamming children 😂
Back in the day I got scammed for my Dragon Full Helm. I went deep wild with it and a "Friend". I only had 4 items on me and just assumed the DFH would be protected since it was around 30 or 40m (my entire bank basically). To my shock I had the 3 other cheap 10-20k items and NOT the DFH after he killed me suddenly. I almost quit but some nice guy gave me a DFH, 50m and then taught me to flip. 12 y/o me was so impacted by it I actually ended up studying Finance hahaha
Have you succeeded in Finance?
The sara sword for godsword scsm was what made me quit in 2008
There was this one we did when they released the German worlds , get target used to being tele-other to like Camelot and Falador , then ask them to check out the new German worlds … then teleother to Ice Plateau.. 😂👍😂 nostalgia
Chad move
You forgot to mention how back in the day trading was only a single screen and so quickly removing an item for trading was a serious risk.
Some players would trade with me and when I put up my stuff first it'd say "player has accepted the trade" or something like that, even as a kid I knew to end it there.
One legit one was free gem cutting. The players would always give me back the cut gems since they were just training crafting. It probably helped "free armor trimming" seem more legit.
You should have links to the videos you are using as source material.
You know what prevented the scamming of people taking your materials, till it got abused, the "Assist" feature.
Iirc, you can literally "lend a hand" with your stats next to the person and they could basically use your stats for whatever. Such as smithing armour out of level
I remember scamming in RS classic. It was so much easier.
Lost my first set of full rune to some guy that promised me he would trim it lol. Needless to say I never got them back. Made me quit the game for a whole year, but when I came back some random guy gave me free rune platelegs and helm, wich instantly got me hooked to the game again
I have a similar story. I was doing something without the proper ranger gear and he gave me a full set of ranger stuff thst I couldn't wear and brought me back to it. There are son *nice* folk around the game
I aint gonna lie I was pretty good at the trade window scamming when I was a kid 😂 Even after the red ! thing which definitely ruined it a little bit but still doable because people were lazy and wanted to trade quickly
I can remember when I was like six years old I scammed some guy for black trimmed (g) because I told him I had a “special examine tool.”
I got the set and then traded it for one rune scimmy that I couldn’t even wield at the time 😭😂
Swapping noted rune scim for noted iron scim worked too lol
People used to tell you to attack their familiars to be in a TH-cam video. Or lend partyhats, return them and kill the victim. And then there's returnofwilderness.
You left out the "Unidentified Herbs" scam
I was scammed with the old armour trimming sale when i was young. I knew about it but still fell for it. He took me to doric's anvil took off his untrimmed rune full helmet, did a smithing animation and then put on a rune g helmet. I traded him my full adamant immediately
Ah, the classic leaf-bladed spear. Seems like yesterday
I used to love scamming people.
Sorry not sorry
we all got scammed by being born as humans.!
I remember one of the more obscure scams from back in the day: the scammer giving a high level player in fancy gear half of an inventory of Limestone, and then ask the mark to smelt it on behalf of the scammer because their own smithing level is "too low".
It would prompt to ask how many limestone they want to smelt, they'd typically select 'all', and then promptly blow themselves up repeatedly because that's what limestone in a furnace does.
Most people aren't aware of that and get caught totally off guard or afk because smelting is generally a safe activity, and it doesn't seem like a scam since it doesn't involve giving anything away
That's pretty cool played for over 15 years and never knew that.
Allow me to take you back to 07 for a moment. Man approaches me at bank in Lumby "Let's play trust game"
Me "no"
The end.
Never understood how people got scammed, just always under every circumstance say "no" problem solved. Trade scams were more tricky, and i admit i likely got lucky never falling for the seed bs or quick switches lol.
But the obligatory
"Follow me to wildy"
ended in a "no"
"well fk. . . ok bye"
"fack owff!!!"
The one I remember the most from like 20 years ago was someone would be selling noted rune daggers or any noted rune items and then try to quickly change it to a noted bronze dagger . They almost got me all the time when I was trying to spam sell my shit at the varrock bank lol
I remember the noted iron scim scam back then it looked nearly the same as a noted rune scim so people would make a quick item switch with that
SELLING 1 MIL CASH!! :D 1000K -> 10000, man i was BALLIN
I remember getting hit with the leaf bladed spear scam and just logging off for about a week lmao
Back then I remember convincing people to trade me their expensive armor for Graahk armor (some random hunter armor) and people thought it was super expensive because of how it looked. They would trade rune trim and other items for it. Hilarious part was you needed 10 Hunter to wear, lol
On one of the first few days of Hunter being released I bought a spotted cape for I don't remember how much (15k maybe?) and was disappointed to see that I couldn't wear it as well.
I remember getting scammed by a Rune Satchel, a completely useless item for the Tower of Life quest that had released around that time, that was both tradeable AND useable in F2P worlds for some ridiculous reason. I can't remember what I got scammed out of, probably Rune armour, but my child mind just thought Rune item = must be valuable, only to find out I had received some worthless member-only quest content.
Back then, like 2005 ish I "bought" account lvl 40 or something from some guy standing in the al kharid bank, it was obvious scam, but i paid 70k or so and tried to logg in to the account for few times and to the surprise account didnt exist. So logged back to my "main" lvl 20 ish and found the guy which scammed me, and shouted on the public chat "give me the password". Then recieved permanent manual ban for "stealing accounts" by jagex mod. Good memories lol.
I had an account back in the day, a random person gave me lile 40mil (think he was quitting and i was a lvl 50 noob). I bought full gilded armour. A "friend" i played xbox with for years. Told me he found a glitch where he can double money and items. So I went in the wildy with him with everything. Ofc he pk'd me and then deleted me off everything. Legit trusted him as played cod with him almost everyday.
we used to double 5-10m sometimes and make 200-300m in the next trade back in 2011 when the trade limit was removed
One day I bought coins on RS and got a Dragon platebody. I was really young btw. I went online and some guy asked me for his help with something. He said he needed to transfer something into another account or something like that and I would get a reward for it. It was the trade scam, he quickly removed the item he was trading to me and I got left with nothing. I was sooo upset.
Sold my Santa hat to buy a guthans spear. Walked away from falador with a leaf-bladed spear and proceeded to quit the game. Hearing it mentioned here hit me right in the feels 😂
You sound like Wendigoon:o
They got me with dh .. 🤣
Had a guy say he could take my staff off air and make it a bstaff. I saw it in the crafting guide and was like "oh sweet!" I got I've it quickly and stopped trusting everyone. Great lesson.
The tiles behind the rune plate body seller House in edgeville back when Wilderness had no warning/trench : lure players to that spot to PK after reuqesting for trade items. I got tricked by it. Though is that more of a lure than scam itself?
Loved this video. I did about 80% of these wow. Brought back memories hard. Thank you for this ahahah
I wanted to buy a rune pickaxe and when I found a seller, he “accidentally hit decline” and when he put the offer up again, I immediately hit accept not knowing it was a adamant pickaxe. If you note them, it’s almost impossible to tell the difference
People who don't pay attention to the second trade screen deserve to be scammed to be honest. The second trade screen lists items and amounts traded and can't be modified, it has been that way since '01.
I scammed by the "oh, a piece of candy" scam. Basically, some dude named Pikachu (18 years ago) said he was making a RuneScape PK video but sucked and needed paid actors. He assured me that I neednt worry about losing my gear as I should only bring 1 item, my Abby Whip. We went into the wildly and they put me to one shot when out of the blue 3 pairs of noted torags hammers appeared. My monkey brain activated and I picked them up after which I was immediately pk'd and my whip dropped. I was VERY upset. My main money making job was fishing lobsters. That was A LOT of lobsters worth in money.
I got wrecked by the iron->rune gear swap. Got my 41 WC on Draynor oak tree and someone put the rune axe up to my 40k and declined, made me panic, and put up an iron one in the next trade. Ruined my entire week.
the amount of veracs sets I sold in fally park with a bronze skirt instead of veracs skirt
im going to hell
THe fact that scamming is against jagex rules makes them soyboys. Scamming isn't breaking the game, its tricking idiots. Eve online encourages this gameplay and as a result the community is hilarious. Jagex should have embraced it, hacking against ToS, scamming = ok.
when i was a kid i asked someone how they got the red book in their off hand (zammy book) and they told me theyd give it to me for my addy armor set. he traded me a construction manual and i was distraught for days
I used to scam noted iron weapons to look like rune. Mostly did the rune b axe for 50k. I did it after someone did it to me lol
The rock hammer looking like a granite maul was a huge scam in 2013 when osrs came out, that and bronze skirt looking like veracs skirt lol, i must say i did trick a few people with those 2 in particular :)
I was the most notorious scammer as a young buck.. first i sold about 60 black skirts lol.... and then to maple longbow salesman/mercher lol... when osrs dropped again i repeated & spending that coin chinning and alching mage.. to then harvesting 5000 souls in the wildy for a billions of gp.. sellin gp.. good times when osrs dropped!! all them poor slayer dudes/skull trick victims... im on mobile plz plz ... just made my chops water more... ahhhh reminiscing about the good old days!!!!!!!
Quick swap Rune Scim > Iron Scim
Quick swap 1.4MGP > 1.14MGP
Lure into using limestone on furnace after HP lowered in house party
All got me back in the day
I was a victim for team scamming when I was a kid when the Abby whip was released, I wanted it so badly, but they were like 8-10m at the time. These 2 guys scammed me for like 1.1m or something like that and the item was olive oil and my dumb ass fell for it. The one guy said buying Olive Oil for 10m and the other guy said was across Varroc square by the lady who sells robes, and he said selling Olive Oil for 1.1m and my dumb ass fell for it. I wanted a whip so badly and I didn't even have 70 attack and ended up getting scammed lol. That was the only time that I can think of where I got scammed.
I've encountered a more clever scam back when they added GE value to the trade window. The initial deal was favorable to me showing I'll make 300k. They then closed the trade window, saying it was lag and asked to re-trade (so that the big flashing red exclamation mark wouldn't show up). Finally, they'll put up a similar-looking noted item but this time it's worth much less. However, the GE value still shows 300k difference, just to the other guy. Thankfully I did not fall for it but it made me chuckle. I think it was a wizard's hat (t) replaced with a non-trimmed wizard's hat. The trim color was black so it was hard to see the difference in a bank note.
I scammed some one about 4m once, kept typing "doubling money 1 trade in items" at the time equa leaves came up at around 1.2k in trade window but i was buying them in ge for about 5-30 gp each. couldnt believe it worked and i never tried again. ended up getting muted for a week and started seeing other people try the scam. a few months later they fixed the trade window prices lol
edit: also this was in about 2015-2016 on osrs
Let's not forget these scams which were 80% Lethal, almost 8/10 people fell for those.
1. You offer 1911k for seller and tell them to give you right amount of product, you then cancel trade tell them the amount and now you trade 1191k (720k less)
2. Selling 100k iron arrows 4.5gp each all 4.5m. (Actual price would be 450k, but because the 0.5 mislead people thinking the 4.5m was correct.
Lot of people fell for those hourly incomes was even as high as 30m/h.
Nooooo you have the shit fucked up….the scammer has a bot that logs your username earning small profit when you give them like 250k for the doubler
It only works on your favor the first time their botnet flags your username
I got scammed as a young youth early in Runescape for a Green H'Ween mask. they were probably ~15m or less at the time, but it was some sort of duel arena trick where for some reason he was able to equip weapons and armor. I think it might have been an exploit, or maybe I was just really stupid. Regardless, it devastated me. Maybe I deserved it though, because I used to go to a popular bank with a friend and i'd say "Buying charcoal 250k" and my friend would be on the other end saying "selling charcoal 50k".
I also used to go to the wildy, usually outside of varrock, and I would run around poisoning people with a DDS P++. My friend would be selling antipoisons at a gross overprice and people would usually buy them.
Edit: Oh, that sort of buy-sell trick was mentioned. Fair enough.