Runescape Game Play

I was visiting a popular Runescape website that incorporates a stats, skills and other banners facility for use on websites, forums and blogs, I wont mention the name because they were prominently showing a banner that if the services are used you stand a very good chance of you losing your account and real life money, the site was named after a village where people like to cut willows and there is a manor house with chairs that follow you around, hopefully this is enough to give experienced players an indication what the site is and the less experienced (the ones more likely to be fooled by the adverts) wont.

Real world trading was a problem before the GE, fair trade and pking updates and the problem has almost diminished, as a matter of interest I decided to take a look, my computer is protected by virus scanners and spyware scanners (Not Microsoft defender so it does work) and I use Firefox.

I get to the first page and it looks like an OK site nothing major, probably a little better than a 12 year old could make on his BBC electron, They were still advertising gold, I was a little curious how they would transfer it so decided to dig a little deeper, the first thing they ask for is your username and password and ask that you do not change your password after they have been given it, who in their right mind would give out their login details to anyone let alone a company that sell Runescape accounts? well the answer is obviously the very gullible and yes I know there are many out there.

The way they get you the cash is by using your account and doing skills to make cash for you, you leave them with the account for a set amount of time and if you can login after you may have the cash, or they will have your account and credit card details ready to sell to someone else.

They also do quests and train levels for cash.

This sounds OK if you like to take risks, I don't but look at just some of the risks listed here.

You give your account details to a strange company or it could be a 12 year old in the Netherlands*, either way you stand a chance of losing the account.

If it is a company and they have your account details and your credit card details to pay for it you can lose your account and any amount from your card up to and exceeding your credit limit.

If it is a company and they respect your card and do the service requested you get your account back and credit card is not abused you can then play with your new characters skills and all is OK, 10 days later (can be longer) Jagex realise that the IP address the company use is a gold selling company they will ban all accounts that have been trained on that IP address.

Is it worth the risk?

*Age and country picked at random could be any age or country