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Fake Runescape Sites


Caedis

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Hi,

I recently switched computers with my wife and gave my old one to my kids. My wife's computer came to me and she got a new one because it was her turn for a new one. So, I try and search for bookmarks for my gaming sites and I go to add runescape. My wife is using Swagbucks for her search engine because she gets "points" and cash.

I usually use Google and I don't know Swagbucks from Adam West. So I try and search runescape, innocently. I get www.usrunescape.com a fake runescape. I log in and things actually work just like runescape. I adjusted some things and logged out.

I had a car accident which totalled my car and the next day I tried to log in to Runescape, thinking, "Wow, I nearly died last night I need to go relax and kill sum Munsters".

Shock and horror, some chinese dude had stolen about 1.5 billion of my stuff and had me botting in Taverly. Another couple weeks and he would have owned my whole account.

I look at this as a great opportunity to start over and learn new things about the game and how to make back all my cash and gear. I am doing great so far and I finally made enough money to feel good about going full time runescape and Gladz again. I really think losing all my stuff breathed fresh air into the game for me. Loving it so far:)

Long story short, I work for an ISP, I know all about this kinda crap and it can happen to anyone. Just be careful, be safe, and have a great day:)

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I don't understand how you can work for an ISP but get caught into an obvious ploy of logging into a none-rs site...

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I don't understand how you can work for an ISP but get caught into an obvious ploy of logging into a none-rs site...

I'm sure being away from the game for several years would help quite a bit. :P

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You work for an ISP and got...........

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy godddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

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Yea, my wife had Swagbucks up for our search engine on "her" computer. I switched computers with her when she bought a new one and was getting back my old bookmarks by "Googling" them. Swagbucks gave me the fake site and I didn't even look at the address bar. As far as how can it happen? Well, I am pretty sure "I" am not perfect. Hope you weren't expecting that?

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Some fake sites look convincing, even in the url. I remember seeing one like... they made two letters look like another letter which looked convincing.

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Pitpirates08

A mate at school misspelled runescape and entered www.runescaoe.com at school and it redirected to porn :)

That addiction might be healthier.

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And as the original post says I had a car accident the night before. A guy with his headlights off at dusk hit me doing 70 mph and tore the whole front of my car off. I was kinda shook up about it the next morning. That and getting a new computer that morning and using what I thought was Google to look up my bookmarks kind of contributed to the whole situation.

In any event, I think I am doing great on the rebound. I have gotten Verac's skirt and Arhim's robe top for Barrows drops in the past three days. I kinda worked my way up from scratch to be able to run Barrows so I could make money to buy all my gear back. I find starting with nothing and remaking my wallet a fun challenge. I had the character since 2001 and I hardly ever sold anything so I had accumulated a ton of raw materials for everything.

I am not implying in any way that I am "Lord of the Internet" because I work for an ISP, lol Jake, but I am exposed to a lot of this bullshit on a regular basis because I install and maintain software for the company. Yes, shame on me. Anyway, I have never been afraid to admit when I am wrong. I always thought I was so dam careful it would never happen to me. I always wondered how anyone could ever get hacked if they were careful like me. One stupid little mistake on a day when you are not at the top of your game is all it takes.

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I almost got my neopets taken away because of trickery of this sort.

Wow. Were you hit by a car too?

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Incase you do run into those sites via pm or accident there is a forum in the runescape forums for reporting the websites.

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Someone crashed into you at 70 mph, took the front of your car off which made you 'kinda shook up' the next morning?

Kinda shook up sounds better than kinda not breathin'

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Deserved it if you fell for that

you dont gotta be a dick

Really? It's Luke. He's a walking penis with herpes.

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