# Old School RuneScape/Guides/Cheats

Since the start of Old School RuneScape, players have searched for cheats. Cheats in MMORPGs are strictly forbidden since they give an unfair advantage over other players. Cheating in RuneScape is a violation of the the terms of service agreement: cheaters may be be banned, depending how Jagex views the rule being broken. Several internet sites claim to offer cheating tools; users should be extremely wary of these sites; they are usually not what they seem, and the programs they offer many times:
* Contain a w:keystroke logging w:Trojan horse designed to steal the users RuneScape password and obtain their valuable items.
* Use 'auto clicker macro' style techniques, which are now detected, and often get the user's account banned.
* Infect systems with spyware or viruses and even damage or replace critical system files.

## Bot/Auto/Macro/Scripting current issues

There are still a number of auto-clicker programs available. Macro programs used in Runescape include SCAR, Aryan, Sbot and xScar. Aryan was released free for the developer's own reasons (whatever they may be.)
SCAR was created by Kaitnieks, and is a color/mouse clicker programmed in Pascal. It is somewhat limited in what it can do ever since the Silent Mouse feature was broken ages ago by code implemented by Jagex. There are also other workaraounds for Jagex's anti-macroing methods such as fixing the screen position and colors in the client code. Scarscape is one such client. The advantage to SCAR is that more human-like mouse movements may be achieved. The major disadvantages are the fact that it is a color/client clicker (more chance of breaking) and can only be ran on one client and must never lose focus. It is still good, so long as the scripts used are programmed well.
Aryan is a fairly complex hack of the RuneScape client. It basically hijacks the client code and allows a script to make alterations to the data being sent and also allows for checking of pretty much any variable set by the RuneScape server. It is an open source bot and, due to that, it is able to be tweaked by power users, or just checked over to gleen some insight into RuneScape's inner workings. The developers RegeX, Sean, philodespotos, Kamu and eXemplar. Work continues on Aryan in private, but public instances of Aryan still exist, although most are slightly bugged and a few may even contain keylogging java code (since it is open source.)
Sbot was created by RichyT. It is a bot along the lines of Aryan in that it hijacks the client code and sends altered data programmed with a script. It is a very nice, private bot with all the features of Aryan (in fact, some may say stolen from Aryan in it's current version - Sbot3,) with a price tag of $100.00USD or 10-15 million RS2 gold pieces. The benefit to this is the scripts you use will not be in such a great abundance, and Jagex has less information to work with. The only drawback is the initial cost (which can be made back in a matter of a few days.)
Feel free to post other pertinent information, such as a legitimate take on the recent massban, other private bots, cheating history, et cetera.
this is been extracted from the website

## Password stealing
### Impersonating moderators or JAGeX staff

Scammers will ask for other players' passwords under the pretense they are moderators and/or that Jagex requires their password. It is usually easy to identify this sort of scammer as moderators will always have a crown next to their name.

### Censored passwords

Players may say that Jagex will censor your password if you type it. However, Jagex does not censor your password and a player who attempts to test whether this is true by typing his/her password may instead reveal it to all players in the vicinity.This is a typical scam of most low levels on Runescape. Also after you type your password they will try and buy time as they change the pass by saying "See it came out like this ***** on my computer you can just see it because it's that accounts password" don't believe them quickly run and change your password.

### Other websites

This sounds fairly simple, however, it is the most common way to lose an account. The only time you should ever type your password into the web browser (or anywhere else, for that matter), is when the address bar says http://www.runescape.com/. Jagex will NEVER ask you for your password in the game, through an email, or on a forum. Keep it secret, keep it safe. Pretty simple. IMPORTANT: If you sign up for forums or communities other than RuneScape and the official forums, don't use your RuneScape username and password as your username and password on these other sites. Any email or forum links that lead to sites looking like the RuneScape page are suspect - don't log into any page unless you went DIRECTLY to the RuneScape homepage yourself, not following a link.

### Soliciting email

Scammers will post on websites and forums making false claims in order to entice players to email their account information to the scammer. Of course those players who respond to the message will have their accounts raided, losing valuables, and sometimes permanently losing the account. Forum users finding these types of scams are encouraged to report the scam to a forum moderator or the site administrator and in persistant cases to contact the ISP which offers the email service to make them aware of the fraud.
Variations:
* fake password recovery
Scammer states that they have found the e-mail address for Jagex password recover. They instruct you to type in a long fake coding which includes as part of the 'coding' your username and password and the account you wish to hack or recover.
* fake item gifts
Scammer lures victims with promises of wealth or items which are very hard to obtain.
* fake skill increases
Scammer lures victims by stating they can send a code to an email address which will raise character stats very quickly.

## Common ingame scams
### Armour trimming

Trimmed armour is only available through members-only treasure trails (though it can be traded to free players), and comes already trimmed. Anyone offering armour trimming services is a scammer who wishes to steal armour.
** this Scam has been foiled due to Runescapes new text monitor anti-cheat**

### Free skill services

Players who offer skills (e.g. people who smelt your ores or cut your gems). Some such traders are genuine, but others are scammers. The safest way is to directly swap unprocessed for processed items (e.g. cut gems for uncut gems) or ask for the equivalent amount of gold to hold while they work on your item(s) (they are getting xp from doing the work so they have incentive to help you). Generally it is lower levels who will use this scam on you as many higher players like the free experience

### Buying rare items

It is advisable to check the RuneScape forums or a reliable fansite to find out the availability of an item and its regular price. Many scammers try to sell valueless common items such as burnt ("black") fish and unfermented and bad wine (rare in RuneScape Classic) as "rare".

### Trade scams

If a player never rushes through trading, and always checks the trade completion screen says what it ought to say, they will not be trade scammed.
Cheating experienced players will try to trick less experienced players into trading items for less than they initially offered or for items worth less that look similar. Greed and haste overcome normal reservation, and scammed player clicks "Complete Trade" without checking to make sure he is getting exactly what he asked for.
* Cheating players will oftentimes substitute similar looking and cheaper objects for more valuable ones, such as noted iron ore for noted coal ore, and noted fire staffs for noted lava staffs. Also iron weapons and armor (very cheap and almost anyone can make worth at most a few hundred gold pieces)look very similar at a quick glance to rune weapons and armor (the highest quality that can be made by only level 85 - 99 smithers worth 20,000 - 60,000 gold pieces) and used by 40+ attack or 40+ defence players
* Cheating players will also remove gold from the trade window very quickly and click accept so that 100,000 gold becomes 10,000 gold in the hopes that it will not be noticed.
* Another variant of the trade scam is to do several trades to gain trust and then switch the item to a lesser item when they have gained confidence.
* Another method scammers will use is building frustration in a player. They will make sure a player really really wants that item, decline the trade a few times, then finally accept the trade with a cheaper item, and hope the player will not notice while he/she was in a rush.
If a player is careful with the verify trade window, a scam is unlikely to occur.

### Two person team trade scam

The first scammer shouts "Buying [common item] for [a VERY large amount] gold"
The second scammer just a screen away shouts "Selling [same common item] for [1/2 of VERY large amount] gold"
The player who buys the 1/2 price very overpriced item will be left unable to sell it to the first player who either logs out or thanks them but states they no longer need the item - "just got one, thanks!".
This is also done via the private message system in game.

### Clan trust test or loyalty test scam

Normally used as a "trust test" on the pretext of clan entry,two players will lure their victim elsewhere.Then,the two scammers pretend to be giving each other their valueables,while all this while pretending to be total strangers.After all the valuable items from the second scammer have been given to the 1st scammer,the 1st scammer returns them,Then asks the victim to trade.After getting the victim's valueable items,both scammers leave or log out.

## External links

* http://runehq.com/RHQSpecialReportsView.php?id=00568 - Anti-cheating fansite's Anti-Scam Guide
* http://runehq.com/RHQSpecialReportsView.php?id=00395 - Anti-cheating fansite's Anti-Hack Guide
* http://runescape.salmoneus.net/security_p1.html - Another Security guide
* http://www.runescapecommunity.com/index.php?showtopic=136820 - item prices guide with extensive anti-scam warning section
* Another Anti-Hack/Anti-Scam guide