Popular MMORPG account hacker learns a valuable lesson: 'An hour later my friend had his account back'

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

May 8, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

It's hard to think that anyone who played Runescape in the 00s walked away without ever having their account hacked. It was kind of a given that one day you'd log on and find your character in an unfamiliar place completely stripped of all their possessions.

It was a fitting thing to have happen in game set itself apart from other MMOs with the brutality of your character losing everything they were holding upon death. The social dynamics of the game itself with it's untethered player to player trading taught valuable lessons in trusting strangers when the internet was still in it's infancy… While we might have lost our first set of Rune Plate armor, I promise you that no one who fell for an "armor trimming" scam in 2005 is ever going to fall for a phone or email phishing scam in 2024.

So having your account hacked was a rite of passage of sorts, a bleeding of the games unforgiving mechanics and social dynamics out into the real world. But that didn't stop us from wanting to teach the little jerks who had hacked our accounts some very valuable lessons too…

This poster claims to have done exactly that, turning the tables on the kid who hacked his account and teaching him the reason of real life consequences.