Make sure the seller at least gives you the account login (and verify it's the correct one) before paying him/her!
RuneScape accounts are fairly easy to recover if the original owner attempts it. While there's almost no way to stop the owner from recovering the account back after selling it to you, you can make sure that no one else on this site (if not other sites) purchases the same account and gets scammed like you were!
This is a thread containing a list of all the usernames (usernames differ from display names) of recovered accounts!
A RS username is the name you use to sign into the game itself. A RS display name is the changeable in-game name you see. BE SURE TO REPORT THE USERNAME/LOGIN NAME AND NOT THE DISPLAY NAME!
To avoid any confusion and false reports, only the login names of accounts that have had a scam report placed upon them will be added to the list! If you bought an account and it was recovered, file a scam report here!
*I'll be looking over past scam reports for recovered accounts and hope the logins were posted. If you can link me to some, it would help a lot.* DON'T PURCHASE THESE ACCOUNTS!
leaveour2d@hmamail.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/42036- - @Clarity
pk3r 505 - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/41652- - @Clarity
issark1 - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/38016- @OS Joshua
rule factor - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/38128- - @Dat weed
inonroids@live.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/38617- - @ImOnRoids
lifebeach@live.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/38497- - @Al Pacino
loathsomers@gmail.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/38066- - @Vocal
greenarrow@inbox.LV - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/42849- - @Bible
stak3r-1b@hotmail.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/46903- - @tophighscore
gutsman310 - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/47315- - @kelton
oskari.sauli@gmail.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/48051- - @ultimedown
deffailed - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/48769- - @Jay Cutler
crayoninpvp@hotmail.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/48754- - @kathan30
xsonnneee@gmail.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/54641- - @HindyBC
a fd - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/53834- - @YinZ
temejamsa@hotmail.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/56625- - @tebamies
qscwvd - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/83317-account-recovered/ -
19854runner@yahoo.com - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/99093-dispute-against-chenier/ - @Chenier
nzcoon@outlook.co.nz - http://osbot.org/forum/topic/102045-report-against-kappabug/ - @KappaBug
brat@66.com - Account recovered - @M1tch
stxtics@1.com - scammed by womenbecrazy - @womenbecrazy
psychduck123@gmail.com - Dispute Spiderman - @Spiderman