r/RSBans

Just posting this to see if there are any success stories of account ban appeals being successful after being hijacked, I’m so devastated this happen after a stupid mistake I made.

I’m a returning player, decided to get back into playing osrs after a few years not playing, I’m extremely casual and I have a new born so I only really play when I have a moment here and there especially on mobile. A few days ago I made the rookie mistake of clicking a link, I know I’m stupid. But someone was out saying they had burnt themselves out playing and where doing a giveaway on YouTube. So I went to the YouTube, clicked the link and it took me to what looked like a legit osrs forum. You had to comment your total skill level and combat level to enter but the formum wasn’t logged in so it asked me to log in to post. I logged in with my Jagex account and then it asked for my bank pin at the end. For a split second I though this was so weird and why would I have to give the bank pin but I checked the site url and it’s seemed really legit and was a clone of the Jagex login screen. As I thought this was weird Jagex sent me a you just logged in email so I was like oh must be legit. And I don’t know why I swear years ago I remember there being an osrs forum? But anyways long story short guy logged in and stripped my account of like 80m. I was so cut so I made an appeal to find out they don’t give items/money back which sucks but I get it. I followed their advice to change my password and end all sessions. I did that and then let the guys in my clan know what happened. They were all so helpful and managed to hustle together 60m to give to me to get me back on my feet after being wiped. All was good until the next day logged in again and I was wiped once again. I had no idea how but that morning I went into my account settings and saw there was a linked steam account so I assumed maybe they linked steam and still could get in even after password reset? Anyways now even more devastated I went to go and tell my clan again if the new but realised I was muted. Figured maybe the hijacked was talking some smack or something and it said it was going to lift after a day or so. After spending some time realising now I’m just going to have to rebuild manually from scratch i high ached a couple of left over rune items they left to get some cash. Brought some jerbora tails and went to go get some pyre foxes to start making back some money to buy some gear. Did one run, logged out then logged back in a little later to do another run and bang. You’ve been banned for macroing… I’m so upset. This was my childhood account. I’m sure this has happened to others and man it’s a wild ride of emotions. I legit started playing again thinking how cool would it be to give this account to my son when he’s old enough like a family heirloom lol. But yeah man this sucks, is there any hope? I know I’m stupid for falling for this probably basic and common scam I’m kicking myself but to be banned for macroing really hurts when I have never macroed. I’m sure if they went and checked the ip addresses they’d see my account was accessed from the UK when I’m in AUS.

Please anyone have any positive news? And jmods, if you’re reading this please please look into this :(

I’m not here to get roasted over clicking on a sneaky link, I know I’m a spud and I’ve learnt my lesson. Just need some hope 🙏