These are the basics to account safety.

Hacking is tricking someone into giving you the password or taking it by means of a key-logger/virus.

• Don't ever tell anyone your pass word. Not even your brother or best friend
• Change your password often. For example once every 2-6 months
• Make your password complex, but still memorable. Something like “j23kem4h” would be a bad example. Also something personal or obvious like “runescape” or your username would be bad.
• Don't use your Runescape password for anything except runescape.com.
• Set and change your recovery questions every month
• Run virus scans weekly to check for key-loggers or other virus
• Make sure you have a firewall. Download Zone Alarm (free) if you don't have one.
• Always Always! have a antivirus scanner if you cant afford one use online ones like housecall or panda also use www.virusscan.jotti.com to scan .exe files!
• Always have a personal spyware/ad-ware remover!

Anti-Scamming

Scamming is tricking another player into giving you some thing without a fair trade.

Tips to avoid scamming:

• Never give anything without collateral
• Don't believe every thing you hear
• Always check the second trade window
• People of all levels scam people

Here are most of the scams:

• Free trimming-People claim they can trim the armor. Remember the only way can get trimmed armor is by treasure trails and buying them from other players
• “Tell me your pass and I will pay for you membership-That person just wants to hack you and ….GET REAL! Do you actually think people will pay 5 dollars a month for you?
• “Selling account *price*”-First of all they will give you a wrong password or use the recovery questions to get the account back. Second of all, it's against one of the rules
• “You can say you password out loud, see “********”- They are tricking you. Your password will show up unless it has a swear word.