Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice or insight.

About a week ago, I was permanently banned for RWT while killing Araxxor. The ban happened mid-kill, and when I tried to log back in, I found that my account had been permanently banned for a serious offense.

I've already submitted an appeal, but it's been 7 days and I haven't received a response.

The only notable trades I can remember are:

• Transferring around 100M GP from my alt to my main account about a month ago. My alt account has no offenses.
• Giving two real-life friends around 10–15M GP each to help them out.

I don't know if those trades could have contributed to the ban, but that's all I can think of.

Has anyone experienced something similar or have any idea how long appeals typically take?

Thanks.

got wrongfully rwt banned for transferring rs3 gp to osrs which i've done quite a few times in the past. Got flagged as rwt this time and resulted in a permanent ban. Just hoping this gets seen by the right people.

Hey everyone,

Hoping to get some visibility on this, or at least advice on what else I can try.

My recently created Group Ironman account, "FF Viruxs", was permanently banned for macroing. I made the account to play GIM with my group, and the bond for membership was transferred from my main, which has a clean history. I haven't used any botting clients, macros, or automation.

I play via the Runelite client accessed from the Jagex Launcher on PC. At the time of the ban I was cutting Oak trees in varrock.. prior to that I was doing some early quests and the museum

I get that fresh accounts grinding early-game methods can look suspicious to detection systems, and I get why Jagex can't share detection details.

My biggest concern here is that I don't know what flagged me, it's scary knowing that it can just happen again with the next GIM i'll be making to join the group within a week (after the 7day cd of my group kicking the old char)

For the record my Jagex account has 4 other characters on it all without any bans and good account standing any advice would be appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some insight into a bizarre interaction I had in the God Wars Dungeon, as I’ve been out of the loop for a long time and I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else.

I recently logged back into my main account (RSN: Neurophunk) after taking a break from the game for about years. I have a full-time job and just wanted to casual play some Slayer. I got a task of 149 Spiritual Warriors and went down to the Saradomin side in GWD.

Because it’s been years since I played, my game knowledge is pretty rusty. I tried to set down a dwarf multicannon right there, which didn't work and literally exploded in my face. (there was a grey smoke animation)

Shortly after this session, my account was hit with a permanent macro ban. I am completely certain I haven't used any third-party software or bots, so I'm trying to understand if trying to place a cannon in a restricted zone like that can trigger a false positive flag in the anti-cheat system?

Has anyone else experienced an instant automated flag after a weird item interaction like that, or is there a specific way to get a human to review the login logs to see if it was a hijack?

Thanks for any insight.

Hey all,

Got permanently banned on OSRS on 09-Jul-2026 for "Macroing Major." Never used a bot or macro. I was in the middle of agility training then logged out for a couple hours and when i came to log back in i was banned. Appealed and asked for specifics on the ban, got a generic template back, no actual details.

Not saying Jagex never gets it right, just genuinely stuck since I have nothing to go on and I was not macroing at all.

Has anyone had luck getting an actual human response on a second appeal, or a better channel to try (Discord, Twitter/X, etc.)? Any tips on what actually worked for you would help a lot. I have put alot into this account and am devastated with this appalling call.

Also, not sure if its related but a couple weeks ago I got a notification email that my account was logged into from Pakistan and China. I thought it was spam and ignored it.

I logged into my account today and found that I had received a 6-day ban for RWT (Buying). The problem is that I have not bought or sold GP or items for real-world money.

The vast majority of my wealth has come from PvM and raids (primarily Tob), with some flipping and merching on the side. Recently, while waiting for Raids 4, I started focusing much more on flipping because I was getting a bit burned out from PvM.

A friend of mine, who is also taking a break until Raids 4, loaned me approximately 2.5 billion GP to use for flipping and merching. We discussed this on Discord, and I have screenshots of those conversations. Since receiving the loan, I've been experimenting with bulk item flips and 3a merching. I also trade GP between my main account and my alt to work around Grand Exchange buy limits and to purchase additional items when needed.

I genuinely don't know what triggered this ban because no evidence was provided. What's even more confusing is that the friend who loaned me the GP wasn't flagged or banned for "selling gold."

The only other significant trades I've made recently were player-to-player trades on Worlds 302 and 330 while buying and selling items for fair market value as part of flipping. I also have Discord messages documenting many of these transactions and discussions.

I'm frustrated because I feel this is a false ban. In addition to the 6-day suspension, I'm being told GP will be removed from my account despite not having engaged in any RWT. I understand people are often skeptical of posts like this, but I can honestly say I haven't knowingly violated the rules.

I also run a clan with over 260 members and have invested a lot of time into this account. Risking it by buying GP, when I already have almost all end game items simply wouldn't make sense.

Has anyone else experienced a false RWT ban like this? If so, what was the outcome? Is there anything I can do beyond submitting the appeal, or is there any way to have someone manually review the case?

Update: I was unbanned after I served the full 7 day temporary ban, I do not believe any gp was taken off my account, however I do not know how much I had prior to being banned, at most it was 100m.

Yesterday i used super heat to melt down 1000 gold bars and after that i got banned for botting/ micros.. I wrote a ticket and now i cant do more then just waiting…..

I figured out that when i take only 10gold ores they will lay over the super heat spell and i only need to spam click to melt.

No macros no botting..

I have seen lots of posts about people who have submitted appeals 3~ years after being permanently banned and getting unbanned.

Is there anyone/is it common for anyone to submit an appeal years later and be ignored??

I've seen a few posts about Jamglex doing manual perm bans on a boatload of random accounts in early June. Tons of people catching false bans from it. Few cases of people getting those false manual perm bans quashed before they could even appeal anything, or even notice their account had been banned at all in the first place. Others, on the other hand who were not so lucky.

Well, it finally happened to me. I got a couple false manual bans on 3/4 of my accounts and only the OSRS skiller got quashed but for some reason...? The RS3 main and one of the two alt accounts that I created and played on both at the same time like 2-3 times total, and then never touched them again, did not get their manual permas lifted. They're literally not even accusing me of macroing or RWTing or something. They can just ban your accounts for literally no reason because they feel like it, I guess?

Crazy to see they're still doing this after 20+ years, although it seems far worse now than it was back then. I'm assuming its still literally impossible to get in contact with a human at Jamegex unless you're a famous OSRS content creator?

Yo someone gave me an inquisitor mace for answering a question will I get false flagged for rwt saw them in ge it's been 3 daysy homies claim I'll get a false ban

Do they take everything from this type of ban should i appeal, i traded money from my main to this acc like week or 2 ago then got hit with this while i was getting my fishing level up… ive never bought money on this account, ever, but i got bank value of 813 mill and 80 prayer….

I was falsely banned for RWT and was unbanned 3 days later after appealing.

When I logged in I noticed i had extra gp in my account, around 140m, which I thought to be compensation and about a week later I noticed I didn't have my bowfa anymore.

It doesn't appear on GE History and honestly I don't know what might have happened to it. It was corrupted, so even tough I got 140m and I could buy it back, the shards to corrupt are gone, and its about another 50m.

So I got falsely banned, and later scammed by Jagex?

Any opinions on what to do?

Hello, i just started playing on my GIM with my friends again and with 5 days left of membership i got randomly banned for no reason. This leaves my GIM group 1 member short which will make them quit because they're down a member for no reason. I appealed for my ban but they haven't reached back yet and its been a week with my membership going to waste that i paid for. Here's the screenshot of the ban and what skill i was doing last before i logged off for the day and to add on my account is a jagex launcher. I also used Remote desktop when i stepped away from which i saw streamer used aka faux odablock and a lot others.

I have been playing my main since 2004. I got bored last week and decided to make an ironman. I been playing on it almost 12 hours+ everyday. I love this game and I even bought 1 year membership with real money. Today I got banned for "Bot Busting Moderate". I have never used bot in this game. It kills me because I know a lot people are botting yet the innocent ones are getting banned. I travel a lot every week, and I been playing from different hotels/airports/trains all this time when I created the ironman. And during this time my husband have logged in my account from our home. I googled about IP changing maybe this could trigger it also. I have no idea. I'm also dealing with depression for the past year that's why I have been playing so much. Now I feel like I have nothing left.

So I’ve been an avid player of RuneScape since I was young, I got back into osrs back in about 2017 or there abouts. I’ve taken a few small breaks over the years due to fatigue of the game but always came back. Back in 2023 I left home and began travelling for about 3 years, not having a regular home or gaming setup I only played on mobile once every few months. My last break was probably about 18 months or more and I returned recently to try and log on to my account to find it banned. I tried appealing the ban and they said they are confident that the evidence is correct. I appealed the ban under the fact of me not having had access to the account at that time but they still denied it. Any help on what to do, this was my main account with over 3000 hours in it and I was close to maxing. Quite disappointed really wanted to see the cape

After years of thinking people are stupid for falling for these scams I have just fell for one myself! Promise of lots of gold if I left a comment on a RuneScape forum. Stupidly I entered my username and password before autopilot giving them my bank pin. I knew Instantly what I'd done but hey ho life goes on.

I know the exact time period the hacker transfered my stuff to his account. Is it worth me letting jagex know so they can at least ban him?

Or will they not do anything?

Never rwt’ed. Never botted. They don’t even explain what the ban is for ? Anyone else seen this before ?

So I haven't played in over a year and I went back to log in and play, just to find out I forgot my password. Alright, so password reset. I log in after that, see a few things with my account. My account had gotten hacked a few years ago so I set up 2fa and it's now disabled. My character has no name. I figured that's my character name getting wiped for inactivity, oh well. Set up a character name, log in and I'm on tutorial island as a level 3. I try to do account recovery but, "Oops, something went wrong!" I then try a different approach to contact through the chat and see "Your account has been blocked." What do I even do to get my stuff back or do I just quit the game?

Posting on behalf of a friend because we’re both pretty confused by what’s happened.
He had an old account that was recently unbanned and had been playing it regularly for a few months. During that time he migrated it to a Jagex Account and everything seemed fine.
The last time he was on the account was about 3 days ago. Since then it’s seemingly vanished.
A few things we’ve noticed:
● The account is no longer on the hiscores.
● The display name appears to be available again.
● Jagex Support have told him they can’t find any record of the account.
● The account was previously on Wise Old Man with tracked stats and history.
● For a short time, the account showed up on my friends list as #Friend4 instead of its normal name.
● The #Friend4 entry then disappeared from my friends list entirely.
What makes this weird is that it doesn’t seem like a normal ban. Every banned account I’ve ever known still exists somewhere - you can usually find it on hiscores, Jagex can identify it, or there’s at least some trace that it existed.
In this case it feels like the account has just disappeared completely.
Has anyone seen anything like this before, especially after migrating to a Jagex Account? We’re trying to work out whether this is some sort of account-linking issue, database issue, or if anyone has managed to get a character recovered after something similar.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

Yesterday I completed a Chambers of Xeric with 2 others. One was an Ironman (no split), so I split the Twisted Bow (~1.55B) with my one non-Ironman teammate — roughly 750M each. Standard raid split.

Minutes later my account got permanently banned for "Real World Trading – Gold Farming."

I've never bought or sold gold. Max melee, 148 Cox completions, active clan member, daily mobile player. This is my first ever ban. I've already submitted an appeal but wanted to share this here because it's genuinely gutting — one of the biggest drops of my RS career and it cost me my account.

Has anyone else been falsely banned after a large GP trade? Any tips for getting through to Jagex?

Have a few accounts under my jagex account, all fresh off tute island as name place holders. Logged in to name change to grab one today and it said it was perma'd for major macro. How can that be when it is total level 24 or w/e it is sitting at lummy as a fresh spawn?

Only thing new is i traded a bond from my main to make it mems to name change. This is just ridiculous

edit: May delete the post soon as its annoying reading replies from 1 brain cell degens accusing me of having a bot farm. Not sure how else to make it clear, my characters are on the same jagex account as my main and sit at lummy to hold key usernames i like and use, sometiems for rp.

Appealed but got denied.

I was deciding between OSRS, Neopets, and Maplestory to play a nostalgic game and decided on OSRS. Created an account, started playing, paid for a membership, doing quests and combat when I was paying attention, and fishing when I was paying less attention.

Got banned a day later for a macro offense so I didn't even get to play a full day of membership. I feel like I just got scammed from Jagex since I only played <24 hrs and paid for a membership. Any tips on what to say in the second appeal? Or should I cut my losses and play a different game since false positive offenses seems to be relatively common?

I’m surprised this worked