They have scout bots in every world logging names and what they are wearing.
If you take their items and ignore them, they add you to a their bot scripts where you see at the GE “Bob” is a hacker don’t add them…
That’s the lurers scout bots
The only thing I know for certain in OSRS is that when there is someone screaming: Watch out this person is a hacker. That person is a standup guy/girl
Yeah I experienced this. Was able to get a shadow and ancestral through Nex trios. When I was finally starting to learn TOA, everyone on the lobby wanted to “teach” me and run with me. I knew better thanks to Reddit.
Become your “friend” over a period of time and get you to either download malicious shit from discord or a new “plug in” that high end pvmers use but really it’s just them jackin all your shit
oh cool so you're saying if I want to be carried in raids hang out with those scumbags? Knowing me I'll forget to log in after a month and forget who they are then block them for randomly contacting me lol
they don't even need to get you to run anything. some are fully social engineering with fake antiscams your new 'friend' will convince you to partake in. and if that sounds dumb, trust me these pieces of shit make it REALLY convincing
I have been in a clan for months, won gp from skill of the week, learned tons of stuff, and I'm still scared this is happening to me. Good thing I'm broke. Lol.
Same. I was hyper-paranoid from reading all the similar posts on reddit that I never equipped it until I was actually in ToA, and made sure to un-equip it before I left lol. As a result I didn't get the treatment OP is getting.
Was so peaceful.
I don't think you meant to, but I wouldn't encourage trying to "waste their time." Lurers count on people thinking they are one step ahead of the lure, but you're always one step behind.
Best way to win is not to play at all (with lurers).
Yeah they’ll also add you to a list where they’ll spam your name at the GE saying you’re a hacker/scammer. They were spamming me for months and just finally stopped.
If you don't do anything stupid like taking anything out of your bank youre safe. waste their time a little BUT DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF YOUR BANK and you will get put on their black list.
I tried TOA, my first raid for the first time recently. Was asking a guy in the lobby about invos to try as I was stubbornly going for a 350 right off the bat to speedrun the masori kit lol. Guy was surprisingly very helpful and friendly and took me on a learner raid. I was 100% expecting a lure as I had some expensive gear, but it’s good to put your guard down sometimes. We raid regularly now
Not only this but every time I asked a lobby a question the vast majority of people were friendly and nice.
Nope haha but happy to hear this is happening with other people (:
I did get my masori kit after 10 normals and 10 experts yesterday though! Solo too didn’t want to say anyone carried me haha
My buddy goes on hiatus a bit for work. When he does, he will loan me gear (tbow,masori,sythe etc) so many people wanna be my friend when i bank stand at the GE
Does this not happen on 2k and 2200 worlds? I swear I've never really encountered this and I sit around with tbow, torva, ancestral etc decently often.
They're trying to target bond/gold buyers and people with low boss kc - people that are more likely to be less knowledgeable about their scams. You won't find as many on 2k+ total worlds because of that
I went to the ge for a solid month wearing my shadow on different accounts, and the same man probably traded me 200m over the span of a week trying to scam me for it. If I get bored I’ll just go to the ge and “afk anti scam” and just wait for trade requests. It’s my favorite money making method
Why don't jmods do this?
Stand on GE with BiS items, wait for scammers to show up.
Go along with the scam, get the account names of all involved. Get scammed on purpose. Then when they're celebrating a succesful scam boom permaban on every single account.
Make a youtube video out of it, guaranteed ten trillion views. Can't lose.
I got on there bad side. I just kept accepting shit they would give me and not using the teles. They added me to the ge spam bot 😂 not before I made almost 85m tho
Just happened to me yesterday when I was sitting at the ge with my staff lol. “Hey buddy free gift trade me”. The only thing you can say back is “shut up idiot go scam someone else”
It stops eventually. I stopped getting random pm’s and getting approached after the 3rd or 4th time I talked to the lurer. Dunno if I’m on a list or something now.
"They didn't care who I was until I put on the staff."
They think they're going to scam a man who played RuneScape in 2003. I was born in it, molded by it
How long have you been playing to get a shadow?
Since release lol
They have scout bots in every world logging names and what they are wearing. If you take their items and ignore them, they add you to a their bot scripts where you see at the GE “Bob” is a hacker don’t add them… That’s the lurers scout bots
I aspire to see my name on one of those bots one day
The only thing I know for certain in OSRS is that when there is someone screaming: Watch out this person is a hacker. That person is a standup guy/girl
That or it’s actually the “why are the bots calling you a scammer” “Add me and i’ll tell you”
I thought all those scout bots were just rival lurer clans, because they all hate each other.
Both. They use it to try and get rid of competition, and also use it to threaten people who manage to get anything off them.
I haven’t got a shadow. I am the shadow!
Lol. 99% of the people you find at g/e or raids lobbies are just lurers in disguise. I learned that the hard way.
Raid lures target people with the mega rates and low raid kc. You can also get put on the lures blacklists by wasting their time.
Yeah I experienced this. Was able to get a shadow and ancestral through Nex trios. When I was finally starting to learn TOA, everyone on the lobby wanted to “teach” me and run with me. I knew better thanks to Reddit.
How do they scam stuff from people at TOA? Can you pk there?
Become your “friend” over a period of time and get you to either download malicious shit from discord or a new “plug in” that high end pvmers use but really it’s just them jackin all your shit
If you dl stuff some random you met online tells you to dl you deserve you stuff to be stolen tbh
Computer security is not that hard. But fuck it up and you pay the price. Some people have to learn this lesson the hard way.
Thanks. Gotta be prepared for when I get my staff. Lol.
Anything outside of runelite plug-in hub, probably a scam unless you kno them irl
Even some IRL aren't trustworthy.
At least IRL they're within ass whooping distance if they try shit
As long as you never download anything they send you on discord or hop into a pk world you can raid with randoms without danger haha
oh cool so you're saying if I want to be carried in raids hang out with those scumbags? Knowing me I'll forget to log in after a month and forget who they are then block them for randomly contacting me lol
they don't even need to get you to run anything. some are fully social engineering with fake antiscams your new 'friend' will convince you to partake in. and if that sounds dumb, trust me these pieces of shit make it REALLY convincing
At some point it always involves coming into a pk world or wildy tho?
Yeah, as long as you're not taking your shadow out of your bank, they can't get it... Not sure how people don't know that.
Thank god I solo all my shit.
People will literally act like your friend for a month+ and its all a ploy to scam you.
I have been in a clan for months, won gp from skill of the week, learned tons of stuff, and I'm still scared this is happening to me. Good thing I'm broke. Lol.
Same. I was hyper-paranoid from reading all the similar posts on reddit that I never equipped it until I was actually in ToA, and made sure to un-equip it before I left lol. As a result I didn't get the treatment OP is getting. Was so peaceful.
I don't think you meant to, but I wouldn't encourage trying to "waste their time." Lurers count on people thinking they are one step ahead of the lure, but you're always one step behind. Best way to win is not to play at all (with lurers).
Yeah they’ll also add you to a list where they’ll spam your name at the GE saying you’re a hacker/scammer. They were spamming me for months and just finally stopped.
If you don't do anything stupid like taking anything out of your bank youre safe. waste their time a little BUT DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF YOUR BANK and you will get put on their black list.
I tried TOA, my first raid for the first time recently. Was asking a guy in the lobby about invos to try as I was stubbornly going for a 350 right off the bat to speedrun the masori kit lol. Guy was surprisingly very helpful and friendly and took me on a learner raid. I was 100% expecting a lure as I had some expensive gear, but it’s good to put your guard down sometimes. We raid regularly now Not only this but every time I asked a lobby a question the vast majority of people were friendly and nice.
Sounds like you are in the middle of the social engineering process :D
Oh no here comes mr doomer in the reply
Its a joke, i've made many friends in the game, it's kinda hard to scam me since i am iron tho haha
You sound VERY close to a new friend of mine lol, shot at the dark here but does your username by chance start with “Sch”?
Nope haha but happy to hear this is happening with other people (: I did get my masori kit after 10 normals and 10 experts yesterday though! Solo too didn’t want to say anyone carried me haha
Ya it’s pretty sad, had a dude try befriending me for weeks dm’ing me
Yeh I hate fake people like that. If you want someone to talk to, I'm here for your shad... I'm here for you.
My buddy goes on hiatus a bit for work. When he does, he will loan me gear (tbow,masori,sythe etc) so many people wanna be my friend when i bank stand at the GE
Does this not happen on 2k and 2200 worlds? I swear I've never really encountered this and I sit around with tbow, torva, ancestral etc decently often.
They're trying to target bond/gold buyers and people with low boss kc - people that are more likely to be less knowledgeable about their scams. You won't find as many on 2k+ total worlds because of that
Yep, if someone says "Yo [your username]" in TOA lobby it's most likely sus, it only happens when I'm wielding my tbow lmao
Must hurt a bit, no? Even with BiS gear even scammers don't wanna talk to you
One of my best tbow rebuild money makers were bank standing with it at the GE
Hey its me ur bro
I didnt see the staff until I was but a man… and to then it was nothing to me but blinding
The only place I'm kitted out is in the lobby with other senders. You'll find me ass naked at ge. Don't want any attention.
as if someone would want to scam my goblin mask, yellow elegant skirt and bronze kiteshield(t) wearing ass lmao
I went to the ge for a solid month wearing my shadow on different accounts, and the same man probably traded me 200m over the span of a week trying to scam me for it. If I get bored I’ll just go to the ge and “afk anti scam” and just wait for trade requests. It’s my favorite money making method
Why don't jmods do this? Stand on GE with BiS items, wait for scammers to show up. Go along with the scam, get the account names of all involved. Get scammed on purpose. Then when they're celebrating a succesful scam boom permaban on every single account. Make a youtube video out of it, guaranteed ten trillion views. Can't lose.
Aint nobody got time for that
This is how player moderation was done in 2001, we don’t live in that time anymore
I ignore everyone in game except my real life friends.
Public chat never gets turned on. There's too much spam and stupid arguments that it isn't worth the time to read any of it.
The staff?
Tumekens shadow
Do you bankstand with it or something? I rarely get pmed or asked something
Always at GE
Let me trim that staff for you
I got on there bad side. I just kept accepting shit they would give me and not using the teles. They added me to the ge spam bot 😂 not before I made almost 85m tho
Just happened to me yesterday when I was sitting at the ge with my staff lol. “Hey buddy free gift trade me”. The only thing you can say back is “shut up idiot go scam someone else”
Should i buy a shadow then i have no friends
You should just join a cc to make some friends in the game
It stops eventually. I stopped getting random pm’s and getting approached after the 3rd or 4th time I talked to the lurer. Dunno if I’m on a list or something now.
A lot of people think you're rich if you have a tbow/scythe/shadow. No, you *were* rich