http://www.gamersdailynews.com/story-14860-Man-Arrested-for-Runescape-Account-Theft.html 

Jagex Games Studio, the UK’s largest independent games developer and publisher, today confirmed that a UK resident has been arrested following collaboration with the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU). The arrest is part of Jagex’s ongoing effort to combat the theft of accounts in RuneScape.com, the world’s most popular free-to-play massively multiplayer online game.

RuneScape players’ accounts were stolen through phishing websites, which duped unsuspecting players into providing their game logon credentials.

“Account theft and the use of phishing websites is a problem facing the entire online games industry and Jagex maintains a specialist team to combat any law breaking within our games” said Mark Gerhard, Jagex CEO. “Where there is any evidence to suggest someone has committed a crime, as is clearly the case with any phishing or hijacking, we work closely with law enforcement agencies around the world to bring these people to account.”

“Our first and only concern is protecting our player community as we know the high value players place on their unique accounts” continued Gerhard. “Players invest years of time and effort into developing their RuneScape character so the theft of a RuneScape account shouldn’t be treated differently to the theft of any other valuable possessions such as a games console, television or car. Our internal investigations revealed that just a handful of individuals are responsible for over 95% of all account hijacking in RuneScape and we have a zero tolerance approach to anyone who attempts to undermine the integrity of our vibrant community. I would like to extend my sincerest appreciation to the professional and hard-working individuals at the PCeU and the FBI, who are assisting us with similar actions in the USA.”

“A 23 year old man was arrested in Avon & Somerset on the morning of Tues 24th Nov by officers from the Police Central e-crime Unit, following an allegation that a number of RuneScape gaming accounts had been hacked and misappropriated” said a PCeU Spokesperson.

Following the discovery of the compromise, PCeU detectives worked closely with JAGEX and through this cooperation the necessary evidence was secured to ensure that an early arrest could be made.

“People who seek to destroy others online gaming experience could be committing criminal offences, leaving themselves liable to prosecution” continued the PCeU Spokesperson. “The PCeU will continue to work with the industry and investigate these allegations where appropriate.”

GDN applauds the men and women of the PCeU and the dedication of Jagex to help maintain the game experience for all of its legal users. If only all companies were as focused. But we understand it takes a lot of time and resources to pursue such a case and it is generally far easier to just let it slide. Perhaps this will stand as an example of what can be accomplished when the game maker seriously considers it.

Do you agree with this, and is this something that will become more common?

 I got this, was beating that ridiculously overpowered boss then my PS3 got the yellow light of death :\

 Maybe you should just suggest MMORPG.com to do an official one, not saying they will but I don't see this working too well.

Either way I'll vote  AkaJetson

 Interesting stuff.

Originally posted by Rarek0

Its the in-game community which makes it seem this way, alot of the in-game members are extremely immature and deter people from continuing to play the game. The only reason after 4-5 years of playing it, I continue to play it is because of the pvp/clan action. There is an unbelievable amount of off-site clans which makes the game the only worth while reason to stay and play it, any time of the day there can be fairly huge free to play and pay to play based fights consisting of anywhere from 20-30 people to 150-170 people per clan. The huge amount of pvp/clan/guild action is the only reason I continue to play this game, I’m surprised alot of other gamers havnt caught onto this.

I mean the clan that I am currently in is making enough money from forums advertising they are giving away Ps3s and Xbox360s for recruiting.
 

Corruption?

Originally posted by Teala

Still here and yes I am still winning.    :)

No you're not

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Discuss, so which one surprised you most..

I don't know much about them but they look interesting and I hope to find out more about them.

 Thanks for the laugh, even more funny than the actual thing lol.

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by AkaJetson

RIP Di

LOl I didn't  do it.
 

Don't you go talking smack again about VR .. LMAO! they are almost as bad as Df posting pics of themselves with their junk hanging out. LMAO...

Well they're gonna get a lot stronger now aren't they 

RIP Di

 So what is it with you and bumping topics?..

Originally posted by InfoWarz

jagex allowed player to change their game name but now I cannot find my friends name in the highscore list? who else have the same problem, please reply soon........=(

Erm try typing their new name?

This topic is obviously not going to turn into a flame war. 

Not surprised by the 3rd world countries, didnt know Australia was so patrotic though..well in a way I did, but still..infront of the US..

 For me it goes like this - PS3 then Wii then PC.

Originally posted by ng_min_teck

Originally posted by deviliscious

Originally posted by ng_min_teck

you know only good clan clan leader can acess clan leader forum that the clan that jagex actually check our clan forum ,irc and the clan history to quality it,the requiment is at least 2 year and with at least 200 member that active,the clan leader forum was not the nornal 1  like player mod have their own special forum.

 

Okay I am a little rusty since I left over 2 years ago, but from What I have heard since then is that is a joke amongst most of the top ranked clans .. What are they .. skilling clans? LOL

Sure TT and DI used to Jagex cup forums only to deal with the cup, but for everything else we still us our own forums...

 

 

the jagex cup reward is free membership thought

There reward was just front page mention.

By the way this is just a tip, before posting make sure that your sentences and spelling are correct and make sense.

 CHICAGO ARE OUT

 That's old mate, Solar Angels are on the first page and they closed ages ago

Still, good they did that I suppose, but if they want more of the real clans posting there they need to upgrade their forums, though there would be problems with that etc..

 Whats your name on that site?