Thomas C.

Majority of the accounts you see on this website are from 2 groups of people. From my personal experience the accounts I saw were from either: (1) account farmers who botted their accounts to max level (99str-attk-def-hp) w no other stats or (2) sellers who had regular accounts for sale (ex. Max Main full quested for $140) for some you might say this is 100% a scam, but for many reading the description of the account seeing that the sellers are quitting the game for personal reasons, or whatever it may be for, the account seems like a steal. Where these sellers get you is they paint a picture making it seem like they have great feedback/reviews from buyers which make buyers more comfortable buying accounts from them.

You may be asking, well how do they scam you? Many sellers post threads about their accounts without mentioning security questions or the info to the original email address attached to the account. The MOST important part of buying an OSRS account is getting access to the ORIGINAL email attached to the account. With that 1 single piece of info a seller can easily recover the account. There is an option on the Runescape Website to recover stolen accounts, which ask users to answer questions such as: date created account, last password, where the account was created, SECURITY questions (favorite teacher, school you went to, maiden name of your mother).

I'm not saying every seller is a scammer, but many of them are. If you are buying an osrs account make sure you read this post. This website has to figure out a solution to this problem, it's so obvious what's going on.