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In 2018 Mod Jed at the time hacked into a bunch of 1 letter names and gave it to ROT members and mine was included "5". Even with 2 step auth and everything they managed to get into my account and swap the name before I could even do anything about it. I contacted jagex support and never got a reply back from them so I gave up because I didnt use reddit that much and didnt have any hope since jagex customer support isnt the greatest. I only have a few people added in the game and now 3 years later I just noticed that the username "5" for the first time since I got hacked had the name swapped to another account. Whoever hacked me sold the display name "5" for RWT and the account has been deleted. the name was recently RWT'd and sold and since jagex monitor 1 charsheavily, they deleted the name from the game making it unaddable and unclaimable for everyone. "5" is now deleted from the game because of someone who hacked me sold it for real life currency and jagex cant take 10 minutes out of their day to just look into this. I just need a J mod to look deeper into this so they can realize that I was hacked during this time and they never returned the username back. I still play on"5" since that account is my main. The gif is me logging into my account. The reddit post linked below is a post that showed some 1 letter names that were detected. Dont know why mine wasnt. Thank you to whoever has made it this far with reading my post. It really is my last ditch effort to get someone to look into it and maybe possibly getting my name returned to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/7gni6e/rot_just_lost_all_their_1_letter_usernames_so/

I recorded myself logging into “5” but I can’t post a gif and have over 300 characters. If a jmod contacts me or if this blows up I’ll post it so I can prove it’s me.

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almost 4 years ago - /u/JagexAyiza - Direct link

I know there's a lot of curious people here eager to learn all about the name.

Here's its journey as it appears OP isn't being entirely truthful about the ownership of it...

It was sold to another player back in 2016. It was stolen from that player in late 2017 and returned to them, following an investigation, in early 2018.

So, the name was in fact returned to its previous owner.

A bit more context, if you're curious. The account which held the name was actually banned from the game earlier this month, following Real-World Trading activity. Which is presumably what led to the OP chancing his luck at getting the name back after originally selling it.