Scams

Scamming is the act of stealing items or accounts from another player through trickery. This is strictly against the RuneScape rules and doing so will typically result in banning of the violator's account. This page is not meant to promote scamming, but rather to prevent players from being scammed.

Types of Scams
Spirit Shard Scam

Someone will approach you at the Grand Exchange telling you they need shards to train Summoning as they've maxed out their order and then tell you to go to Taverley to buy from the npc shop there. They will claim to be nerfed by Jagex and therefore unable to purchase from the shop..(yea, right :p) and tell you to buy shard packs in amounts of 21 which is impossible as the shops don't sell in that quantity..only in amounts of 1, 5, 10, 50 and 500. So when you buy them in quantity of 50, you spend 1.6m at the shop and the price only shows 1.5m in the trade window..you lose about 100k each time. The scammer gets cheap shards and you lose bank. In other words, you pay 25gp each for the shards and the value drops to 23gp each, which is the G.e. guide price.

Phishing site scam
Let's say someone walks up to you and asks you to join their friend's chat channel. They will then tell you to post on their forums upon doing so, and then send you a website link telling you to enter your username and password. If you go to the site and do so, the scammer will log in to your account as soon as you log off and steal all of your items.

There are also hackers who do the same thing, but will tell you that you have been selected to become a moderator because they have been "watching your account and have noticed maturity and leadership." Do not fall for this, as they will send you a phishing link and you will lose everything. Jagex will never ask you for any personal information in-game. They will always message you via your message center on the RuneScape main site. If you attempt to ask if they are moderators, they will always say "I do not respond to messages in-game." They can, however, be reported for advertising websites and impersonating Jagex staff, and the phishing link can be reported to be shut down.

Famous player scam
A player may start at a crowded place (such as Void Knight Outpost in Pest Control official worlds) and spam phrases such as "Follow to win 350M!" and start gathering crowds to follow him. The scammer may also hire advertisers to spam phrases hinting that the scammer is a famous player to gain authority. Sometimes advertises may even say "Thanks for your (Rare Items)!" to show that the scammer is legit. When the time comes, the scammer will hold gambling games and start to scam victim's cash. After scamming enough victims, the scammer will simply log out, leaving scammed players behind.

Dungeon leeching scam
A player may be offering to be rushing dungeons for people for a fee. Normally, this is not a scam and the person will legitimately rush through the dungeon for you. However, this is usually quite costly, ranging from 1mill to 3mill in cost per dungeon floor. If a player is offering a very cheap price for leeching they are usually lying and will log-out after you join their dungeoneering team. This scam is very effective as there are many spammers on the main dungeoneering worlds, making it difficult to report the scammer.

Armour trade scam
A player may come up to you and tell you to remove all your armour and that he/she will give you a more expensive type of armour for it. They then say their client is lagging and to do the trade fast. They will show a legitimate expensive armour set first but will decline the trade with the excuse that their client lagged to much and do it again. After this they may catch you off guard and trade you a cheap armour set, such as iron and you will be scammed out of the armour they offered to upgrade.

Drop to double
A player may say that if you drop an item in a certain place and leave it for a while, it will double, and you get 2 of them. They will often say that you can only do it once a week or once a month to create an incentive to do drop an expensive item, or say that it only works for an item over 1m. They may then spam you with Teleother menus so as to stop you from being able to pick the item up, then pick up your item, or get someone else to do it while they are spamming you with teleother menus.

Daemonheim drop party
Some people will announce a drop party and for everyone to follow them. The scammer will then take you to Al-Kharid and ask for you to go to Daemonheim with him. Once everyone's in Daemonheim, he will walk south to the wilderness gate. The scammer would bolster the scam by standing several squares away from the gate and dropping money. The money is usually actually just 10k, but since 10k and 10m look the same, one could not tell until they exited the safety of the gate and picked it up. The scammer will then proceed to equip a fast weapon, such as dragon claws, and kill the player on the spot after freezing them, or use a multicombat spell from Ancient Magicks to kill the whole group.

"I am quitting and giving away my account"
Usually when people are making this scam they go to a popular area like Varrock Town Square. They will then proceed to tell the victim that they are quitting and are now giving away their account. They will ask the victim to add as friend then they will actually give the player the username and a simple multiuse password.

The victim usually doesn't consider to change the password, recovery questions, and email address. The scammer then changes his password, transfers items and moves on to a different victim.

It is against the RuneScape rules to receive or purchase an account from another player.

"Hey check it out: you can't say your password backwards anymore!"
This is a common scam in which the scammer says a variation of the above line and enters 'shift 8' a spontaneous amount of times into the chat bar, giving victims the impression that you can't say your password backwards. (ex. *****) Then people try this out and the scammer now knows your password because you just told him/her your password backwards. The scammer then uses your password to log into your account and changes the password.

Membership scams
Sometimes scammers will log into free to play worlds and start offering to buy membership for other players, in return for payment or expensive items. They will usually keep the items given to them and then log off or teleport without keeping their end of the deal. A variant of this scam involves asking for your password in order to upgrade your account to membership status only to have them hijack your account and steal all of your items.

There are also websites that claim they can make you a member for free or for a smaller fee than what Jagex charges. Do not trust these sites because they will also attempt to steal your items and/or your account.

Just press "w"
The scammer will ask the player to get full armour set and all his/hers money and trade. The scammer will ask you to accept once and keep pressing the "w" in wealth transfer in the trade window. And if you fall victim to this you will be pressing the "w' as fast as you can and he will press accept if you keep doing this you will press accept a second time thus the scammer presses accept and you lose everything.

Inventory showing
Players will ask you to show them your best items in the hope that you'll forget they're there, and press 'accept'. Be wary of anyone asking you to show your inventory and make sure you’re concentrating.

Rounding money
People will offer to round someone's cash stack up to the nearest million coins for someone else. This is one of the 'too good to be true' scams. When you show the scammer your money (let's say it's 850,000 coins) they will put 150,000 coins in the trade window - and the initial impression is that you are indeed getting the difference between your cash and one million - but don't forget you have put 850,000 coins up - if you proceed with the trade you will hand over 850,000 coins and receive 150,000 coins in return, the net effect being a transfer of 700,000 coins from you to the scammer.

Always check what you are losing and what you are gaining - don't be tempted by what is being offered to you without considering what you are also giving away! Always check your trade window to verify what you are giving and in exchange for what. Oftentimes they will also round it down, so they will still make a small profit, and are more likely to fool common users.

Doubling money
Similar to the 'rounding' scam. The scammer will say they can double your money and offer to 'prove' it. You give them a small amount of money - they give you double the amount back. They will then try to get you to give them a larger amount, but instead of doubling it they'll just keep it. They may even use a friend to help, who will stand next to them saying that the player really does double money, in which they actually don't.

Some players take advantage of great difference of the street price and the Grand Exchange price. One might say for example: "Doubling 2m in one trade!" You give 2 million gp and one gives an item worth of 4 million gp. You think you made a great deal but then you notice nobody is buying the item worth 4 million gp and the price of it is steadily going down, resulting in a loss.

Some variants of this scam involve players claiming to add certain percentages to your cash instead of doubling it.

Some players take advantage of this scam by betting small 'test' amounts of coins (around 50k or so) and moving from doubler to doubler trading these 'test' amounts. The doubler will likely try to earn the player's trust in hopes of the player betting a larger amount which the doubler would (if it were high enough) likely run off with. However if the player only trades the 'test' amount and then leaves, it is possible for them earn money from the scammers. Note, this is not a guaranteed way to earn coins, if the value of the trade is of high enough value to the scammer, they may well run off with the 'test' amount.

Clan wars red portal drop party
This scam works like this: The scammer will ask a victim with rare/expensive armour if he/she wants to be in a video hosting a drop party, usually after promising the victim a good payment. The scammer will take the victim through the Red portal in the Clan wars area and tell him/her to NOT cross the safety-line and just to walk as much east as possible. When there, the scammer will drop a fairly valuable item behind one of the trees and give the victim some runes so they can do the Telekinetic grab (one air rune and one law rune). Whenever the item appears, the victim is asked to pick it up with the telegrab. As the item is behind a tree, the victim will overstep the safety-line so he/she can cast the spell. Then most commonly a companion to the scammer runs into view and freezes (Ice Barrage) the victim and kill him/her quickly using for example the Dragon claws. As the victim is caught off-guard he/she probably won't have time to turn on a Protect-Item prayer or curse. The victim will spawn outside the portals as usual when killed inside the Clan Wars arena. This time, without their belongings.

The trust game
Players who ask to let them hold on to a valuable item of yours in exchange for payment. This is often a scam where they will not return your item as promised. Even if it is not necessarily a scam, players who offer to play the trust game can be reported for encouraging rule breaking, as trust trades are specifically against the rules.

"Do you trust me?"
The scammer will tell the victim that they are going to quit RuneScape and will give off a huge amount of money. But for a condition, the scammer will give the victim the money in exchange for a valuable item the victim has. The scammer will ask "do you trust me or not?" If the victim says yes, the victim must give the scammer the item first before he or she could get the money, as a form of "payment." Once the item is in the scammer's hands, he or she immediately logs off.

Accepting a teleport - safety
Make sure you know where the location is before you accept a teleport from another player. The Ice Plateau is in the Wilderness, and there are often a group of Player Killers ready to kill whoever gets teleported.

The flower game
You will be asked to hand over some cash for the bet, then the player will plant a mithril seed and ask you to guess which of the nine colours of flower the seed will produce. If you guess correctly, the player will claim to double your money. They may keep to their side of the bargain, but it’s more likely that they will log out and run off with your cash. Players use Mithril seeds to grow these flowers. It should be noted that not all Flower Games are scams, but it can be hard to find a legitimate host. On the other hand, the chances of you guessing the right colour is 1/9, while you may get your money doubled, tripled, or more, depending on the host.

Another, more popular version of the flower game is "Hot and Cold" where instead of guessing the flower colour the player guesses if the flower planted will be a hot colour or a cold colour. If the player chooses "Hot", they win when the flower planted is: Red, Yellow, or Orange. If the player chooses "Cold", they win if the flower planted is Blue, Purple, or Pastel. The host wins always if it is a "mixed" flower (red/yellow/blue). White or black flowers are disregarded and a new flower is planted, but it depends on the host to choose if it will count as a fault. A common practice that makes this seem more legitimate to potential victims is the scammer will accept as many losing bets as possible, and actually provide a reward for the first winning bet. This may entice nearby players when they see the winner go away happy. Thus, it is more often a scam than not, and under no circumstance should players be led to gamble.

Armour trimming
No one can 'trim' your armour - it can't either be 'trimmed' or 'untrimmed'. It is not possible to trim untrimmed armour. Trimmed armour can be gained by completing clue scrolls, or through buying it in the Grand Exchange. It is, however, possible to add a gold trim or extra spikes to dragon armour using an ornamental kit. This is currently not possible with any other type of armour, however.

"Rare" items
Many players will ask inflated prices for items claiming they are rare. If in doubt, please check the current price. This is stated at the bottom of the trade interface or you can use the Grand Exchange or look up the market price on the Grand Exchange Market Watch.

Team item scamming
Many players will band together to try to scam you – one will be selling an item for a high price, the other will claim to be buying the same item for a higher price. This will fool some players into thinking that they can make a quick sale and large profit if they buy and sell the items being offered.

Alt + F4
Some players will claim that dropping your items and pressing Alt + F4 will double your items. All it will do is close the browser or client, which will log you out, so they can pick up your stuff. (F5 may do the same thing by refreshing your browser page or ctrl + w which will close your tab). This scam has recently lost popularity as the game shows a message confirming whether the player would like to leave the page or not.

"Trade me your item for a minute, I'll give it back!"
Don't believe them, they'll probably run away with your stuff. Instead of trading it to them, use the Item Lending system instead. Often they will say they just want a screenshot with the items in their inventory. This is essentially the same as the "trust game." Any player who offers to perform a trust trade can be reported for encouraging rule-breaking, even if a scam does not take place.

"Set your password to [x] and log out for free stuff!"
If you do this, they will hijack your account (because they now know what your password is) and steal anything valuable. This is also known as Phishing Password Scams.

"Give me your item and I'll duplicate it!"
Item duplicating is not possible. They will just simply run away and you will lose your item.

Fake drop party
Similar to the above, the scammer will claim that he's dropping valuable items and encourage you to drop yours. He or she will not drop items, and simply just take yours. Use the Falador Party Room for safe drop parties.

Random emote game
This game may affect several emotes, that have a randomiser in it. Some emotes with this are the Seal of Approval emote, and the Classic cape emote, as well as the Easter ring emote, where the player turns himself into one of several easter eggs. In the Seal Game, players bet on which number will appear on the back that appears when the host uses the Seal of Approval emote. An alternative version exists where the player's bet is multiplied by the number on the seal's backpack instead. At the Classic cape emote, there are three possible objects in the thinking cloud: a Bar, some Arrows, and an Axe. The player guesses what object will come. If he is right, the owner would probably not get paid and the host would take his money. This game is against the rules to play, even if no scam takes place; since it is considered a trust trade, a player who offers to host the random emote game can be reported for encouraging rule-breaking.

Information for cash
A player sees a new item and wants to know more about it. The scammer states he will inform the victim on how to obtain the item for a fee, but when the scammer receives payment, they log off. The scam is most often performed with uncommon or unusual items like a Barrelchest anchor, Ceremonial swords, Katanas or other newly released items.

Similar items
Some players will look for someone selling a valuable item, they will offer to trade the person offering a Barrows item, the trading player will see the profit he is about to make and press accept, the scammer will then decline say it was an accident and offer to re-trade. in the re-trade the scammer will then offer a similar looking item like a Bronze armour set and immediately press accept, the trader still excited from the barrows offer instantly accepts loses their valuable item and is left with bronze armour.

This is also the case with Saradomin Swords. Scammers will open a second trade and will ask you to put in money. In actual fact, it is a Steel 2h sword or a White 2h sword. This also implies to bones wealthy players will want for prayer training thus buying, for an example, 20,000 Dragon bones and the Scammer will put up 20,000 Big bones or Babydragon bones as they cost much less than Dragon bones. So therefore it will trick the player as the bones can look very similar in the noted form thus tricking the player to put up the original cost for 20,000 Dragon bones but for Big bones or Babydragon bones.

Password for item
Some players will claim to give away the password to one of their accounts (including possibly the one they are scamming with) for a certain item they want. It is against the RuneScape rules to purchase or receive another player's account.

Player-owned house kicking
Some players will try to give you a rare or expensive item for something you might have. In the case of the player-owned house scam, the scammer may ask that the player drop his or her items or put them on a table, claiming that they will also put something valuable on the table as well. As soon as the scammers see their desired item(s), they will kick the victim from the house and lock the portal so they can't come back.

Goody bag
In this scam, the scammer will offer a chance at getting a rare/high value, supposedly drawn out of a goody bag, in exchange for a lower value stake. For example a victim gives 200,000 coins to the scammer. They then are told either to pick a number (e.g. 1-5) and the goody bag item is chosen this way. The scammer will likely offer and show several high-value items to a victim, along with several low value ones in order to seem legitimate. Once a victim has paid and chosen a number, they will offer up the lowest value item, earning in the process, giving a good reward to lure you to continue or simply log-out without giving anything. A variation is a player simply claiming they have a real "goody bag" tool in their inventory and as such, they cannot guess what item will emerge from it once loading it with 'prizes'. This is false, no such item exists.

Real world trading
Real world trading sites are a scam. What the site runners do is they will ask for the payment, the player pays them in real money, then they ask for your email to email you when the order is done, then after the order is done they email you, then they will use that email to attempt recovery questions to hijack the coins back. Even if this is not a scam, real world trading is against the Rules of RuneScape.

Fake dicing and horse games
A lot of people still do not know that dicing has been removed from the game, and toy horseys now only have one possible outcome, and there are hosts who take advantage of this fact. The hosts will ask for bets and simply log out upon receiving these bets.

Silent Scamming
This scam is some what slow at times and would rarely be seen but, this scam is fairly new to some players as to how they abuse the new reporting system to their own advantage.

Simply in this new report system, players can only report another player by finding them on any of the chats unless they enable "Right Click Reporting" in the options menu. As so, players may go to a highly populated world and try to find players who would want their money doubled. The scammer will trade them and take their money and log out without saying a single word, making the scammer unreportable.

Money or item doubling as a whole is another form of scamming and should, of course, be avoided.

Soul wars Zeal
This scam involves people spamming that you can earn extra Zeal, which you can't. Pay no attention to this. They all require you to go to a youtube page and then to another website which will involve going to a bogus website, which allows hackers to hijack your account. You can only get 3 zeal for victory, 2 for draw and 1 for loss. The only exception to this was the Bot-Busting celebrations when you could get extra Zeal in game.

Inventory lending scam
A scam usually involving someone saying that they want to trade you their item if you lend them yours until logout. Then they cancel the trade in the last window making it look exactly as if the trade was completed. If you didn't pay close attention, you wouldn't notice that the lend was canceled. As a result the item you were going to lend would go back to your inventory and when he asks for you to trade 'his' item back, you would in fact be trading YOUR item back to him. The trick to catching this scam is to watch for the "trade declined" warning. If you don't, you will fall for this scam. And this results in no evidence for reporting the player, and your item gone. Common with rares. In response to this, on 4 January 2012, Jagex has made the trade declined notification much easier to see, making this scam relatively easy to foil.

A way that some scammers avoid the new declined trade message that Jagex has implemented, is by having you join their free chat whilst among many other players and telling you to click friends chat (they say this is so that they can talk to you, but really it is because using this setting filters out all game messages) so that you cannot see when the trade is declined. A way to stop this, is to simply turn public chat on to the 'hide' setting which will allow game messages and the friend's chat to be visible in the chat box.

"Buy me items in the Grand Exchange"
This scam involves the scammer (or an accomplice) asking others to buy some items in the GE for a certain price; reasons for the request include lack of cash (but having items of comparable value) and having bought the max amount. The scammer usually promises to pay extra for the trouble, but typically tries to sell the items for which surrogate buyer requests are made, thereby selling the victim goods for at an exorbitant price. Of course, rather than paying the "surrogate" buyer, the scammer logs out or leaves.

However, given the anonymous and peculiar nature of grand exchange, the ruse, unless involving an extremely obscure item, such as most high summoning scrolls, with a completely dead market, does not benefit the scammer.

"Are you a trustworthy person?"
This scam involves someone, the scammer, to ask if the victim if they are trustworthy. If they 'pass the test', then they will be rewarded. It usually starts out as the scammer asks the victim if they want like a free whip. So what happens is they take the victim to a rural area and make them 'take the test'. The test consists of the victim having the same item as the scammer. The scammer will supposedly give the person their item, and borrow the victim's until logout, then have the victim give theirs back for a reward. So during the first trade before the scammer is about to give the victim their item they decline. If the victim doesn't look at the text bar they're toast. Then the scammer asks for their item back, causing the victim to give them theirs and not return the scammer's.

Redemption scam
This scam involves the victim getting skulled in the wilderness or going into dangerous clan wars. The scammer commonly says they are making a video and will ask that you bring one valuble item (either a discontinued item, or sometimes just a whip) and put on the Protect Item prayer to make you feel safe. Then they will ask that you put on the Redemption prayer which will heal you, draining your prayer to 0 at the same time, thereby making you lose your now unprotected item.

Dungeoneering cape game scam
This scam involves gambling on the Dungeoneering cape and the three different emotes it can yield when the skillcape emote is selected. The scammer will announce a "dungeoneering cape game", wherein the victim reportedly gets 3 times his/her bet if s/he guesses which emote the scammer ends up performing. However, the cape's emotes are performed depending on what attack bonuses a player has at the time of the emote as well as the armour worn, not at random. Rings are invisible, and some of them, namely the berserker ring, warrior ring, archers' ring and seers' ring, give bonuses that determine which emote will be performed, unbeknownst to the victim

"Free [item] show me inventory"
This scam involves someone giving free items to the victim. They first advertise the item they are giving and make you show your inventory. When the scammer puts the items and you put your inventory, he will accept the trade without you knowing you are giving your inventory away, losing money. (Example: you offer a Whip and the scammer offers 28 of the same items. He accepts and gets the whip, leaving you with the item he advertised.) The scammer will only accept if he/she earns profit.

"Pick up my drop"
This scam involves someone who drops items that a victim will likely pick up. This is only used in the Wilderness. They drop items that cost fair prices like 2h swords and a victim will pick it up. The victim will likely drop food for room and the scammer will keep doing this until the victim has no food left in their inventory. When the victim is just about to run to the bank, the player will quickly kill the victim and take their stuff and the victim's. The is rarely used and mostly used for skilled victims. This method is rarely used because of the lower leveled players picking up the dropped items before the victim can pick it up.

Giveaway scam
Sometimes people will be advertising for a giveaway. They will tell you to search a name on youtube and watch the video. The video will tell you to go to the link in the description. In fact the link will take you to a forum login that looks exactly like the real one but if you enter your username and password, nothing will happen and your information is sent to the scammers. You can see a lot of these scammers in world 53 at the Pest Control activity.

Gem cutting
Some scammers may offer a gem cutting service, supposedly for free. They expect the player to trade them uncut gems, which they will cut and then return. This is usually offered for higher level gems that most players cannot cut themselves, such as diamonds, dragonstone, and onyx. Instead of returning the gems, the scammer keeps them. To avoid this scam, insist that the other player trade you collateral, which you would then trade back for the cut gems. Any player who would not agree to such a trade would certainly be a scammer, as the player cutting the gems gets a very nice benefit, even if they offer it for free. Cutting gems, particularly high level ones, is one of the fastest ways to gain crafting experience. This scam's popularity has been lowered by The assist system in where a player asks for assistance and the other person gives them it, Giving the person who needs assistance the other person's level and the exp goes to the other person.

Pity Scam
Some players inside of the game pretend to be poor saying various things such as, "Selling toy horses 1K each, saving for Abyssal Whip.", to have other players feel sorry for them and overpay for the random cheap item they're selling.

"Whoever gives me/ first person to give me (money amount/item) will not regret/gets my (item)!"
People who do this claim that it is "taxing the poor." If you give them your money in the hopes that they will give you the promised item, you will lose it, and they will continue to spam this. They continue to scam numerous people by doing this and can be reported for scamming. 90% of players who spam this are in fact spam bots and can be reported for both scamming and use of bots, as botting is against RuneScape rules. This is also considered a trust game, and can also be reported for

"Turning 1m into 11m 1 trade!"
The scammer says that, and then the victim will offer 1m as the scammer offers 111k. This is not easy to fall for, as 1m says 1000k in the trade window,11m says 11m in the trade window, and 111k says 111k in the trade window. Not many people try this scam anymore because more and more players became aware of this, but there are some who still do, so report those people as soon as you see them. However, people tend to notice this scam right away and decline the trade to prevent scamming, making it the easiest scam to avoid.

The Drop your Item in the Wilderness and it will double scam!
In this scam, the scammer will walk up to you inside the wilderness and say something like this: Drop your rune scimitar on the floor and leave it for 3 seconds then pick it up! The people who have known of this trick before will just say it's a nice scam, now gtfo. The people who don't know will be like 'item's appear after 2 minutes, so this must be legit'. But the victim is wrong, as in the wilderness, the item appears straight away. So the victim drops their valuable rune scimtar, waits 3 seconds and then goes to pick it up. The scammer will then simply walk on the item, take it, then log out.

The Dice Game
In the Dice Game, a Dice Bag is used to roll dice (usually percentile dice), with the resulting number being broadcasted to the host's friends chat. If the number rolled is over a set number, the player wins; if it's below, the host wins. The player is generally rewarded with 2x their money for a winning roll. This game requires you to join a groups' friends chat in order to play. It may be advisable to only play this game with a high ranked member of the group's friends chat, as ranks are often earned through proof of large amounts of coins. Even when playing with a highly-ranked member of an established dicing chat, the odds will be skewed in the house's favour, giving you as little as a 2 in 5 chance to win, so over time it is expected to lose more often than win. The ability to roll dice was removed on 15 November 2011, making this scam defunct.

Dice Switching
In this scam, the host "switches dice" before rolling. For example, if a scammer dice host is saying "55x2", then it means if you get more than fifty five on the percentile dice, he will double your money. This is sometimes legit, but not always. Before rolling, the host/scammer would change their dice to any other dice from the bag, say 20-sided dice; thus making the maximum roll number 20, and resulting in the host always winning. Be alert for these scams, as they require attention to notice. They can be noticed by looking in the friends chat, as it says the type of dice they rolled along with the number they rolled. The ability to roll dice was removed on 15 November 2011, making this scam defunct.

Dice Bet Scamming
In this scam, the host tells some other scammers or other people to gather around him, and start saying things like, "He is legit!", or "He is a awesome dicer, I earned a lot of money from him!". Be wary of a scammer asking you to do this. On seeing these "legit" messages from others, people think the scammer is legit, and end up giving a large amount of money to him. The host never rolls the dice for the bet and usually logs out, stealing the money. The ability to roll dice was removed on 15 November 2011, making this scam defunct.

Fake Horse Games
Just like dicing, the host would advertise their "horsey game" with text such as "HNC game!!! X3!!!!".

HNC stands for the beginning of the letters of the possible outcomes while playing with the horsey. The victim would place a bet, then chose a letter deciding which phrase they would go for. Once the host has a bet place, they would then play with the horsey saying one of three phrases:
 * "Come on Dobbin, we can win the race!"
 * "Hi-ho Silver, and away!"
 * "Neighhh! Giddy-up horsey!"

Then if the first letter or any of the phrases matches the letter you picked, you get three times your cash, and if it doesn't match the host gets to keep the bet. Often the host would log out after playing with the horsey since the stakes are very high for the host, thus scamming the better out of whatever they had bet.

"Just say neigh to gambling!" becomes the only outcome when playing with Toy horseys after 13 January, making this scam defunct.

Gnomeball scam/lure
Due to the item's kept on death update, this scam no longer works as you keep the highest valued item by the Grand Exchange guide price. The scammer would get a victim who has a rare discontinued item, a partyhat, halloween mask or santa hat.

The scammer would get the victim to be skulled (or simply just in the red portal in Clan Wars as you only keep one item if Protect item is activated). Then he/she would say put the Protect Item prayer or curse on, which made the victim feel safe because its the only item they have. Next they could ask them to either do an emote at low health, or say he is making a video, etc. Once they have a few life points left, the player would throw them a gnomeball which works even when accept aid is OFF, and it would go into the weapons slot, as long as the player has nothing equipped, making it hard to drop before you are killed by the lurer/scammer.

Since almost every item protects over a discontinued rare item, the victim would usually just bring just that one item. The scammer would quickly use special attacks on them to finish them off, the gnomeball would protect over the rare item and the scammer getting what the victim had lost.

This scam was extremely rare to find in action, and only a very small amount of players knew about it. Most widely used before the Free Trade was removed in 2006, it made a comeback in February 2011 with the re-release of free trade. It was then negated by an update which made you keep the most valuable item(s) according to the Grand Exchange guide prices.

Lending Item Scam
In this scam the victim will be asked to take an item from the scammer at the Wilderness Safezone. The player getting scammed will typically have one valuable item such as Dragon Claws, Armadyl Godsword, etc. . After the scammer has lent the victim the item they will then lure the player north to fight, or to be on their team. The scammer will then kill the victim who will keep the lent item over there most valuable item, and the scammer will pick up your valued item, and re-log to claim back his lent item.

The Drop your Item in the Wilderness and it will double scam!
In this scam, the scammer will walk up to you inside the wilderness and say something like this: Drop your rune scimitar on the floor and leave it for 3 seconds then pick it up! The people who have known of this trick before will just say it's a nice scam, now gtfo. The people who don't know will be like 'item's appear after 2 minutes, so this must be legit'. But the victim is wrong, as in the wilderness, the item appears straight away. So the victim drops their valuable rune scimtar, waits 3 seconds and then goes to pick it up. The scammer will then simply walk on the item, take it, then log out.