I remember playing before the wilderness ditch existed. Some guy in edgeville said he was quitting and to trade for some of his stuff. As soon as I hit trade he had ran over the border of the wilderness, and I was quickly executed by his friends. I had a bunch of nature runes and alchables and lost them all, probably quit for like a month after that.
External link →Back in the days of peak Falador park trading I would buy and sell whips for 25-50k profit per. After a while I got enough gold to buy 2 whips to carry this on with while venturing into other markets. I bought an Ahrim's skirt which I listed on the forums and someone wanted to pay 300k over... but I had to meet them just north-west of the Jolly Boar Inn.
I knew it was a lure attempt but thought I'd do the classic "I can outsmart them" not realising I'd forgot to bring air runes for my teleport... anyway yeah that's how I lost the majority of my profit :)
Also I guess technically not a scam but I believed if I reported everyone who broke the rules and reminded people in-game to abide by them, Jagex would make me a PMod. They never did. Little did they know I was in it for the long run and now I work here I got my silver crown (and a gold one too I guess).
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