targeted for RWT??

pkerpure9 · Jul 22, 2012

Hey i was just going through my email, and I checked my junk mail and noticed an email from jagex.

The email was: [email protected]

It pretty much said:

All of your accounts, main and otherwise, are now on our watch list and will be monitored for real-world trading. Regardless of who you are or how long you've been with us, if you decide to real-world trade ever again we will have no hesitation in: (1) permanently removing your account from our wonderful community in order to protect Jagex's rights, and (2) naming you as a defendant in Jagex Limited v. John Does, which is a lawsuit based on antitrust law violations that is currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California .

Should I watch out or no?

gioom · Jul 22, 2012

Jagex never sends emails. Fake, I think?

BGlave · Jul 22, 2012

It's not jagex. Ignore the message.

WzdsRS · Jul 22, 2012

pkerpure9 said:
if you decide to real-world trade ever again we will have no hesitation in: (1) permanently removing your account from our wonderful community in order to protect Jagex's rights,

The part where they say "-world trade ever again" sounds wrong to me.
I'm not sure as to why, but I don't think that's correct legal terminology when sending a notice to a user. That being said, do they ask you to log in or anything throughout the email? Even if it is from [email protected], the name can be switched out. The [email protected] could technically me an e-mail mask.

82yz250 · Jul 22, 2012

that sounds like the email that jagex sent out to everyone who used the snellman brothers bot [ nexus]

pkerpure9 · Jul 22, 2012

I never used nexus before. So I am kind of worried...

SocalOmega · Jul 22, 2012

I got this exact same thing.
The weird part was that my dad got it, and I've only used his email for one rs account I made 4 years ago.

Just ignore it. It was one of the better phishing emails ive seen in a while though.

deevee · Jul 22, 2012

its fake, prob a phishing email

pkerpure9 · Jul 22, 2012

alright, I hope it is fake...

X:X · Jul 22, 2012

Really man.. it's 100% fake got that same e-mail sent to me also.

Laptop65 · Jul 22, 2012

It's fake, unless you get anything in your in-game message inbox, I wouldn't pay attention to it.

pkerpure9 · Jul 22, 2012

hopefully, I am actually pretty worried

Lee Sin · Jul 22, 2012

Fake. Jagex don't email you about rwt/bans, they inbox you on Runescape.

pkerpure9 · Jul 22, 2012

oh ok, slowly calming down a bit here.

KerokeroCola · Jul 22, 2012

The funny thing is that I got that email, but AFAIK it wasn't a phisher. Maybe they failed with their link parsing, and since then they have fixed it. The "click here to log in and see" link went to ACTUAL runescape.com.

pkerpure9 · Jul 22, 2012

So do you think i should not worry about it then?

Zerkerfist · Jul 22, 2012

Definitely a fake phishing e-mail. If you've posted your e-mail address anywhere on Sythe, you will get loads of those. Many newcomers fall for them as they join Sythe and start RWT'ing, and all of a sudden they get an e-mail from "Jagex" and freak out thinking their account is in danger.

Don't ever click any links you get sent in am e-mail like that, and don't worry too much when you receive them. If you think it may really be from Jagex, check your ingame inbox. If it is really that important, they will have sent a message to your inbox in the message center.