Detecting RS Scam Emails

Shane · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 11:50 am

Ok, so we all know that Jagex says they will never contact anyone by email right? So if you get anything claiming to be from Jagex, ignore it. Today one of these got into my inbox and now I am going to prove that it's a fake.

First when loooking at the email when it appears it looks like this and looks authentic:

Here is what the body of the email looked like:

To see where the link truly lead i examined the source of the email. You can do this by right clicking and go view source.
Here is what it is:

I have highlighted the link to show that you will infact not be redirected to that runescape.com address. That is a basic HTML link. If you want to stop these kinds of things from happening I recomend turning HTML email OFF it is more secure and such but you will lose all the fancy colors and images of emails. Might be worth it to be safe...

Finally I show that the email is not from a jagex mail server. It is from somwhere else:

It was sent by a secure.jhosts.com address. Therefor this is a fake email. I did not reply to it and if anyone gets one of tehse please follow these same steps.

Of course it gets deleted and ignored. Bad Scammers [-X

Shane

Adbot · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 11:50 am

daekfire · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 11:53 am

Thats some good advice but since jagex don't use email I'd just delete and messages I got that claimed to be from jagex.

Raiden069 · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 2:09 pm

I don't even check my email unless I must. Nice catch though Shane.

Jeff · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 5:45 pm

I'm got about 4 emails like that ... all of them was like what Shane said ..
But I keep them for memory..

Raiden069 · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 7:27 pm

Stanley, I'm guessing whenever you get bored you go read them all over again and just laugh at them right?

Jeff · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 7:37 pm

Raiden069 wrote:

Stanley, I'm guessing whenever you get bored you go read them all over again and just laugh at them right?

Yes, your right

Adbot · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 7:37 pm

Raiden069 · **Posted:** April 29th, 2005, 7:43 pm

Sounds fun. Don't laugh to hard, might hurt yourself. :lol:

Chief Snake · **Posted:** April 30th, 2005, 4:33 pm

I got an email claiming to be from a clothes shop the other day - I immediately knew it was fake because for a starter it was from a Hotmail email address

Also when I looked more closely at they link it went somewhere completely different. :roll:

Jrblast · **Posted:** April 30th, 2005, 8:24 pm

lol, people will stop at nothing to get people passwords, what i dont understan is why? i mean the whole fun of the game is to get ur skills up and money high and stuff, so how is the game fun like that? i swear though, im not usualy very violent even if i lose my temper but if i ever meet a scammer in real life i will beat the living ***************** out of them, not just runescape scammers but any type of internet security violator ie hacker....

spyder · **Posted:** May 1st, 2005, 1:04 am

Also, becouze? Yeah, I think that Jagex know that Big Elephants Can't Always Use Small Exits.

alexpc007 · **Posted:** May 2nd, 2005, 10:57 am

never got anything like that. But i get Bank scamming posts(4 now). They want that i give them my bank pin, because they say that theres an update, and if you dont update your pin your going to have no money banked anymore...in german. got 3 of them today. The email was authentic...bad scammers

Dragonboi511 · **Posted:** May 2nd, 2005, 3:20 pm

how do they get ur email address?

Jeff · **Posted:** May 2nd, 2005, 8:39 pm

Dragonboi511 wrote:

how do they get ur email address?

From here, or RS forums, most likely.. :wink: