[2019] Maybe I can get an answer 12 years later

Way back when RS was my life, I woke up one day with someone in IRC channel of Swiftkit telling me that he was banned. I was pretty bummed because this was a guy I played with all the time. He told me a 2nd person we played with was also banned. I went to log on, only to discover I was banned as well. I was in disbelief, I figured for sure that I would be able to talk to someone at Jagex and get my account unbanned. I had spent a the better part of 7 years playing the game and it was what I did every day when I got home from school.

So I filled out the ban appeal and was checking my account constantly for a response. A couple of days later, I finally got one. I got a message telling me the account was permanently banned and that any further inquires about the account would be ignored. I had no other options, so I just stopped playing. I recently started playing over the summer and I'm having a blast. I sure would like to have my old account back though.

A little more backstory on the banning. Weeks after I was banned, I pieced together what I think Jagex saw. This was back in the day when doing Kalphite Queen required a 3 man team. There was myself, Chad, and Hyd (these are shortened names, don't know if I should use the real ones). We were doing KQ one night and Chad died. It wasn't uncommon for other teams to be fighting for a world, so they attempted to steal Chad's stuff. For the newer players out there, when you died back then, your unprotected items dropped on the ground INSTANTLY for anyone to pick up. Everyone was wearing full Verac's and the GE didn't exist. The helmet was the piece that dropped and it was worth 2m back then, while the whole set was 3.5m iirc. I managed to pick it up before any of the other groups could. We decided to end our night there as Chad's internet was spotty. I gave Hyd the helmet, he then gave it Chad. Later that evening, Chad was feeling generous I suppose since we recovered his helmet, so he gave Hyd 2m as thanks, with half of it going to me. That was the last trade I made that evening. We later found out that Chad had spent THOUSANDS of dollars RWTing for RS gold, but we didn't know anything about it. He never flaunted money that much, so we never thought anything of it. I can only assume Jagex though that Chad was selling gold, Hyd was the mule, and that I was the buyer. But I feel like anyone could look into the history and see that we had been friends for months, Hyd for years and that this was a huge misunderstanding. I am only doing this here because I never had this option during my ban appeal, it was just instantly declined with what seemed to be a copy pasted answer with no explanation.

TL;DR

Account got banned back in 2007 for RWTing, have never bought gold on this game outside of a few bonds in OSRS.

Edit: Account name was Pigmonkey100 (I was young when I made it)