I’ve been spending a lot of time around ToA and CoX lately and it honestly feels like you can’t have a normal friendly conversation without wondering if you’re being socially engineered. Someone asks you for a pot or something and acts super friendly to add you for a run. Obviously i’m not going to download sketchy plugins but I also don’t spent all my time figuring out ways to manipulate and screw over people and who knows what they’ll cook up. It sucks because you KNOW there are people out there willing to play the long con for months. Pretending to be your genuine friend just to eventually wait for you to slip up and f you over. I feel like it forces you to play with this cynical defensive mindset. I was recently mining and chatted up with another player. Felt like we clicked. Same humor, vibe etc…but the second i invited them to my clan, they instantly went offline and deleted me. Looking back, i realized they probably thought that it was ME that was trying to scam THEM. since fake clan recruiting seems to be such a common phishing tactic. I’m not crying over a an “unrequited” friendship here but this is like the 3rd time this has happened and man it’s just a bit depressing because friends really enhance this game. I know scamming isn’t new to runescape…i’ve played since 2005. But something about the new age scammers feels different. Idk…what do you think? submitted by /u/No-Difficulty795
Originally posted by u/No-Difficulty795 on r/2007scape