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@TheDragonsRoost

10 ай бұрын

I still played Wizard101 (and I'm a Death Main too!) for a while, but haven't played since they released the final world before Karamelle. I hope the game gets more players after being advertised by you! W00t!

@jackbruno4748

10 ай бұрын

Wow. I am actually shocked to see a Wizard101 ad, but a welcomed one. Ngl I haven't played it since like when Pirates of the Caribbean Online was still alive. I might check it out with the link.

@TheTundraTerror

10 ай бұрын

I mean, I'll take this over some gaudy mobile trash.

@skipthegym9863

10 ай бұрын

dont click anylinks!! BE AWARE!!

@TeamImpulseLA

10 ай бұрын

I'm not clicking that link RYAN

Give a man a phishing website and he's rich for an hour. Teach a man how to phish and the FBI is at his doorstep.

@grimreaper686

2 ай бұрын

Teach a man how to RAT and youll find him following you home from work the next night.

@Jwpreme

21 күн бұрын

underrated

There's a detail you missed. The scam would work as a 'worm'. Player A would get hacked and then he would go through Player A's friend list. So when you get your friend messages you about a clan, it's far less sus. I fell for this exact scam. I lost my sara sword back in '09 from this scam

@williamcorby5350

10 ай бұрын

Facts.

@shinobuoshino5066

6 ай бұрын

If someone I added for any reason messages me out of nowhere it's more sus than a random lmao.

@Philtrip78

16 күн бұрын

I imagine you saying "back in 09" like it was Viet'nam' lmao

@FullThrottleRacing535

11 сағат бұрын

wow. i lost my sara sword around that same time too, and torags. i miss that account.

This is a huge piece of RS history that people really don't seem to recall unless they were involved in it - great coverage and super interesting to look back and see all these things again. Ofc there are a thousand other related scams, but it's wild to think about how prevalent one person can become in this type of industry, especially given the right circumstances like this dude was.

@WorldWideGamerr

9 ай бұрын

This started around the time me and firefly purchased fagex. Now that is a hell of a story.

@JamesLard32

7 ай бұрын

It went much further than RS. I remember having issues with this on Xbox 360 as well.

@grimreaper686

2 ай бұрын

Well nowadays with media being shared around as much, gamers hear all this kind of stuff about hackers and scammers that they get very defensive of their possessions, now people dont do trading at all unless it profits them. No more fair trade like "I'll give you this for this since they are equal in value", its "Ill give you this if you give me this which is worth a similar value but I still gain profit". It's like selling or buying from a pawn shop. Someone has to be unhappy for someone to be happy now.

Ive never really thought about it, but early 2000's internet was literally the wild west. The kids using it today have no idea. I turned 33 this year and remember using instant messengers, checking myspace, loading swift switch, playing on miniclip at school. Things were so different.

@RynoDinero

6 ай бұрын

Mini clip was the shit man

@simongratson

3 ай бұрын

33 here too. It really was an 'anything goes' world online back in the late 90s and early '00s. Hamsterdance, obnoxious myspace pages with sound effects + pirated songs + a dozen or more animated HTML effects, backgrounds, mouse trails, and gifs. Limewire, prime Newgrounds, staying up for days until your eyes were bleeding reading forum posts on Internet connection speeds that we'd scoff at today. If you have any nostalgia for that era, you should check out a game called Hypnospace Outlaw, it's like a time machine.

@randomcameron2161

2 ай бұрын

Haven't thought of mini clip in so long. Wow that was a lot of memories unlocked in one instance lol ty sir

I remember when Blackshades went down, that’s when I decided (as a 13-14? year old) that hacking is not for me, all these guys I looked up to were getting 10 years in prison, it was insane.

insanely well researched and presented - good stuff gamer

@ColonelloRS

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

I had no idea this happened on a scale this large. I did have a couple friends that migrated to this once the game got boring to them, so I knew how it occurred and how to dodge it. Used to watch them do it over Skype, Crazy times.

@yamisukehiro2696

9 ай бұрын

The fact you call those people friends….. disgusting

@HenkjanDeKaasboer

9 ай бұрын

@@yamisukehiro2696 This white knight over here

@-sleepy-

9 ай бұрын

@@HenkjanDeKaasboer you don't seem to know what that term means

@APinTheAK

9 ай бұрын

@@-sleepy-you don’t seem to understand back handed sarcasm….

@basedmod2139

5 ай бұрын

​@@yamisukehiro2696womp womp

stealing RuneScape gold is literally like stealing money from someone, it takes a lot of work to get GP.

@Priest_Of_Zebak

6 ай бұрын

Imagine not being ironman and working hard for all your gp. Just go work for an hour and buy 3 bonds sell for 30m. Do that once a day for a week. You can now play the end game and grind on the side on a iron man.

@andrewlee3981

6 ай бұрын

It “took” a lot of effort

@run8scap80201

5 ай бұрын

​@@Priest_Of_Zebakthat's not a bad idea. Thanks for giving me a idea.😅

@Priest_Of_Zebak

5 ай бұрын

@run8scap80201 just don't buy bis items. Earn those. Early to mid game money-making is horrible and a waste of time.

@shannone1409

5 ай бұрын

​@@Priest_Of_Zebakyeah but now jagex is real world trading allowing bonds to be purchased for $ then sold in game for gp.

I actually didn't know anything about this. I vaguely remember hearing the name, but that's about it. I've been scammed and hacked multiple times (bound to happen when you grow up playing the game), but I never knew anything this big was going on. Absolutely wild.

@vincentyoo6297

10 ай бұрын

i play this game 21 years and never got hacked. Just dont login to stupid sites

@spiritofnex

10 ай бұрын

@@vincentyoo6297 Neat. You're one of an extremely small amount of people who've been playing this game for that long and never got hacked. I imagine you didn't start playing as young as most of us.

@hentaihaavard

10 ай бұрын

​@@spiritofnexhes not the only one, started when i was 9, ive never been hacked.

@spiritofnex

10 ай бұрын

@@hentaihaavard You'll have to excuse me today. I've slept 4 hours a night for 5 nights, so I'm more irritable and less level headed than usual.

@chaos.n.dissonance

10 ай бұрын

@@vincentyoo6297 Yeah! It's not like they've literally had game developers start stealing accounts! Oh wait... Grats on being lucky. Not everyone is.

I really love your channel man.. you put so much effort into them. Your research, editing and commitment to this game and how nostalgic it has become is inspiring.

when i was 11 years old my computer got somehow hacked. At the time I was playing runescape doing dungeoneering and suddenly my pc got restarted without no reason. Then when it opened back, a text screen showed up with hacker threatening me to give him my bank PIN code or he will destroy all my computers file. I immediately pulled the power cable from my computer and didnt play for a week. I think I was one of his victims, who knows.

@benjaminmills95

14 күн бұрын

Been there myself a chat window appeared probably 2009 possibly did you have a unlegit version of Windows at the time ? I plugged my pc myself and reformatted straight away 😂😂

I remember back in the day a common way to transfer gold was to die in bounty hunter with a Sara or zammy set in f2p. It would be like 2m a pop, and relatively safe in f2p. My friends and I used to transfer money this way and we would kill anyone in BH wearing Sara and zammy. If you were transferring it was easy to escape, and if you were killing, if you were competent with the BH mechanics and f2p magic it was free money. Also we used to “EP” in the pvp world hot zones with the 76k trick, which I’m not sure if you’ve made a video about, but we would afk in a hot zone for hours and farm the random loot. The best thing I ever got doing that was a dfs which was insane back then

@FU-Utube

10 ай бұрын

I lived for 1 iteming and 76k tricking back then lol

@l0lan00b3

10 ай бұрын

Could die with 1k stacks of stuff as well. If there were more than 1k of any given stack it would be limited. I remember killing a couple rwts in BH back in the day. Good times

Thats weird. I'm an og player and still i never heard of failfishes or this story. I only heard about the aftermaths and jagex stepping up their game. Wonder where you find this info.

A Colonello video always starts off so hyped and immediately gets me wanting to play Runescape right away lol

I was litterally asking about wizard 101 the other day, never played it but, those commercials where them good ol' days frfr, love the history videos my mang, keep it up!

@Souls_p_

9 ай бұрын

Hey, ive been playing since 2010 on Wizard101, the game is still incredibly active and now mostly full of adults and older teens! Game gets consistant full-scale updates, new world comes out every year.

hey i appreciate your channel, played from 05-07 so missed out on a lot of history that you're catching me up on thanks.

What is the soundtrack used at 12:53 if I might ask? Sounds familiar, but I cant quite place it.

I got stung by something similar. RuneScape mobile was the hype at the time and it was close to release. I was browsing through Facebook on my phone and an old school RuneScape ad was on my feed regarding the launch of RS mobile. I quickly clicked the ad. Being absolutely stoked about it being released I was unaware of what I was doing as it asked for username, password, Auth # and bank pin 🤦 I was oblivious to what I was doing. As it was an ad on Facebook so thought it had to be official.. After no joy, I decided I'll just jump on the computer tomorrow and just carry on. Only to find myself in lumbridge bank with absolutely nothing left. Cleaned.

@jeffreyvankouwen4722

5 ай бұрын

Got caught in the same scam. I feel you bro😔

@shannone1409

5 ай бұрын

​@jeffreyvankouwen4722 yeah careful a guy I play with got phished. Was for dbl xp weekend linked to realistic jagex site. Anyway he logged in put his bank pin in and now losses on 8b bank

I knew right away it was failfishes when I read the title and it’s the first thing you say when vid starts😂

@ritzbitz3885

10 ай бұрын

he said it so early i couldn't even hear him say it i only saw it on the screen while my car audio linked

The StarKilla and ZillaZonka reference though lol. Great vid

@colonelloRS this is insane, this is exactly how i got phised when i was younger on RuneScape. Knew nothing about it but i was with the guy that send me the "forum link" in a skype call...once i tried entering the forum which did not work he asked me to show my wealth ingame in a different world...guess what disconnect and man starts laughing...lost my bank -/+100m which was a lot back in the days made me cry.....good old days

11:28 That desktop background brings back memories hahaha

I remember watching his videos on KZread. It's insane the kind of loot that he would get.

The junk trading era was an era I thrived in to be honest. I managed to have a good amount of junk items so I was able to get some items for good trades + I still have my keepsaked pirate's hook in rs3 from that era. I paid about 4m cash but the junk had to equal the rest of the 16m the value of the hook had on ge

@m8ofm8s

10 ай бұрын

Ayy brento!

@EJSjjh

9 ай бұрын

so u scammed people?

@Edited6

9 ай бұрын

@@EJSjjh Not necessarily, it was a complicated economy that could be taken advantage of without needing to lie or steal.

I literally remember those KZread comments and messages wow

I knew someone who made phishing sites and "sold" fire capes. Helped me be aware of scams like that

Damn I didn’t expect the wizard101 sponsorship on my bingo card. That was a throwback I played the shit of that game throughout high school and college

A company hired a phisher and a rater... That's one dodgy company.

@bigdraco3006

8 ай бұрын

they must've glossed over that part of his resume

I was hacked back in 2016, both my accounts got hacked at the same time and they managed to get through my bank pin and two step auth.... If I ever got hacked again now on my iron and i figured out who it was, they'd wish they werent even born. Id be so pissed that I wouldve lost control of my actions. When you spent over 8 years on grinding hard and some idiot takes all your items in a blink of an eye just because they can afford McDonalds is just........ i dont even have words for it...

That Starkilla reference at 3:34 lol were you watching H3 podcast editing this?

Oh hey this is exactly how I got hacked when I was young. Bought my first DFS, I think it was 16m at the time? And some guy said whoa nice gear you should join my clan. I was super excited to start bossing and have a clan to be in. Nope it was phishing link and stole everything

Got hacked when i was younger, lost many millions. Not sure how it happened, however upon logging back in i was dressed in full jester outfit in middle of desert. No food or tele and a bunch of empty water skins.

I’m so mad you showed Arcanists…. I miss that game so much why did Jagex have to turn it off :(

@mynameiswambo

10 ай бұрын

Facts I played it so much!

@Elite5ereN

9 ай бұрын

its back up as a privately hosted game. look up arcanists 2

@RegiyThornton

5 ай бұрын

Those electric bombs used to send u flying 😂

Never played RuneScape in my life but I dig your content. Subbed.

Swiftkit , That has some nice nostalgia with me!

What is the background music at 13:50?

There was a limit of 50 dragon stones a day. You could use the bh craters aswell to xfer aslong as you had a clan with you

younger me was all about going to clan wars with rune armor feeling like a badass, i did not even know this happened.

yeah.... I fell for this phishing scam years ago. Boy I was stupid. I was offered to join a clan, was given a site, realized my creds didn't work and by then it was too late. He got in and stole my 3rd age armor which was worth close to 80-100mil around that time. I'm still salty about it.

In my 20 year long RuneScape history, I got hacked one time. Just once, when I was a teenager. It was by this guy. I put my login details to a fake forums website to sign up for a clan that did “weekly drop parties”. I learned my lesson that day to always check the URL first

@Enemigo96

6 ай бұрын

Same thing happened to me as a kid bro but it wasn’t for no drop party. I didn’t know that was a thing back then. I was just trying to join a clan to play with against other clans and i lost it all. Just now getting back into osrs.

I remember I got hacked and lost my entire bank all because I hated training dungeoneering and was looking for a bot. I ended up grinding it the hard way and loving the skill 😂

whats the song that starts at 00:16. I need it ASAP

Do u have videos on why u should start playing and telling us wha to do like a guide to start cs I wanna play but I’m not sure what to do

Did I just see a Jersey Outlaw H3 Jimmy Lee reference in the first 3 seconds, Family?

@ColonelloRS

10 ай бұрын

FAMILY

I mean, do we wanna talk about the fact that Colonello is clearly Ryan in disguise?

such extreme greed and selfishness is so depressing sometimes, even in an online game. the money made and enjoyment lost was real

wow, interesting. Never heard of this before. I got hacked like 3 times back then. The 3rd time, I lost over 2b. At that time, 2b was an insane amount of wealth

Someone i knew would get into private servers sql and database and would take the servers un encrypted account tables. He did this to multile servers and he had a huge list of account data for world of Warcraft private servers. We realized you could enter that information for other websites and games outside of world of Warcraft.

Bro I literally got hacked like this 3 months ago and they ravaged my account. It took me a while to get them from finding out my password over and over. I couldn't figure out how they can finding out my password

@PintoMatty

10 ай бұрын

Maybe key log? Yes but I kept doing antivirus searches reset my laptop. They were still finding out my password and then finally I put every security measure possible. RuneScape gives you with authenticator and that stops it

@reika542

10 ай бұрын

A data leak from another website where you use the same password perhaps? An easy password is also easy to crack or bruteforce. Key log is also a possibility, but you'd have to download a shady software or visit an unsuspecting site with a RAT.

@codegeek98

16 күн бұрын

Change your e-mail password and reinstall your OS from scratch, maybe

OMG I think I actually fell for one of these phishing websites when I was younger. I realized what happened and was able to change the password before anything happened, but I almost got obtained.

I remember getting phished and losing 192m .. I cried so hard lol

Damn I definitely remember the BlackShades and DarkComet era. I believe around 2012.

I'm just going to say this happened to me once, I had to beg them for a dragon hatchet to get a dragon hatchet because it wasn't a good day for me but they did give me the dragon hatchet back

It's actually crazy how simple yet effective this was. If any of his victims had even the slightest clue about cyber-security this could have easily been avoided.

I'm not gonna lie definetly the most shocking thing about this video was the Wizard101 ad.

yeah I got hacked by people using blackshades years ago, happy that got shut down. Private server era was wild

I'll never forget the first time I was lured to Wildy and lost all my stuff. Then the other time being hacked. Thankfully this was all bsck before RS2 days, so as a 10 or 11 year old kid this was devastating... Lol.

This is crazy to look back on... I got asked to join a clan at Pest Control back in like...2006/7? And it was AN EXACT copy of the runescape website/forums..well i signed in and got hacked lol.

Lost my original rs account with a santa and red h mask to a fishing site . Totally fell for it 😢 watched to the price of the stuff on my original account just rise and rise over the last 15 years lol

Someone did jad on a level 3 with some candies and a stick. That’s a great way to explain how nuts people are at this game

Maybe I’m sounding dumb, but why couldn’t they just drop the gold on the ground for the other person to pick up?

@colbygarcia8766

21 күн бұрын

It would disappear

I fell for that, I barely used the forums so I didn't even think to check.

SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO Dimondowner! I remember him posting that live stream link and then never posting another video lol

amazing that people actually came to his house and harrassed him into quitting.

Colonello: It may be hard to believe, but the Runescape community was much younger back then, and therefore much more trusting. Me: Pfft, I was a smart kid. Also me, age 12: Yes sir I would like you to double my life savings, thank you very much. Wait, why did you thank me and log out? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

12:43 hahaha classic bong emote

Ryan was ahead of his time with his methods. I'm in the networking/cyber field as an adult. To think a kid got up to 7,500 people to download his RAT program. Ryan could've done way worse than Runescape.

I got hacked like this too, 99 lvl in all skills, every item gone in my bank, and 2 or 3 days later my account got new password, and changed the email as well. that was the end for me playing runescape many many years ago. :D

I feel like Wizard101 and OSRS players have a decent crossover in playerbases, quite cool, especially with how different the two mmos are!

My buddy was the victim of 100m gold buying phish

Bro the sponsor took me back to getting home from school loading into the Rs homepage watching those commercials while waiting for my pepperoni hot pockets 😂😂 kick ass job with the sponsor

im pretty sure their was ratting software on the public librarys where i would play rs because one day i logged into my account back in 2009 and found all my good stuff gone. i quit after that till osrs released

Dang how have I never heard of this before

I used to use silent java drive-bys back then, you would get infected without a popup even showing, crazy shit lol

wizard101 jesus thats a blast from the past, havent played that in a few years

My have been him may be not, but I got hacked back in the day around this time trying to join a clan to do gwd for the first time. I remember the guy was trying to get me to do things for him for my bank back, at that age I just got upset half choked up told him to go to hell and logged out of chat, think it was around this time I quit.....or took a break for 4 or 5 years.

I was hacked from a facebook ad I saw for OSRS mobile... I thought I missed the release and of course signed in.... lost my gold in minutes... the guy was gracious enough to tell me on my alt account that they were done and I can start the recovery process.... lol

What a surprise the hacker used to be a pker😂

Fel for the 1m to 10k gp trick in like 2007 when i was 12 and a few othe scams and once lured,but never had a run in with this rat or even heard of it happening in the times this happened

I remember the trading limit. people were PISSED

12:57 song?

having an advertisement every 3 seconds is fucking insane dude.

I remember being a kid and seeing a “power leveling” site, put my info in no question asked, few years down the line I finally pked an ags in bh crater, sold it, bought all the barrows items, logged out, logged in the next day with an empty bank 😂

Haha I was duped by this scam when I was young x) That and the infamous : "Hello this is Jagex mod, there's a problem with your account, give us your password so we can fix it". 7 years old me learned it the hard way...

I liked it better when Jagex removed free trade.

Can someone explain how the tokkul trick worked? didnt you need millions of gp worth of runes in order to get the tokkul to buy the dragonstones?

@HoMMLoL

10 ай бұрын

Nah a dragonstone was like 150 tokkul, little to nothing. But it was typically never in stock by default - so another player had to sell one for you to buy it that cheap.

You should get a neopets sponsor next. Good vid.

This is it. around 15 years ago i got hacked by what now seems to have been "ratting". Nobody told that this was even possible and even as very clever and usually smart player when it coems to weird websites and all i fell victim to this while playing diablo 2. All they needed was me to go on a site, no clicking there nothing. Just openned the website and they started to throw my shit on the floor. Luckyly i was fast to slam the computer off button so i did not lose everything. Never before this video i knew how it was done. thanks. One more mystery solved :D

i wonder the best way to avoid being phished, is to instead using the link to goto the official site and then serch the fourms for the post, if it cant be found then it dosent exist on the official site and is a phish.

This era was golden for beginner and pro hackers. I did some things myself wont go into detail, today the old methods wont work anymore, but its similar ( not going to explain this). and also its best to not do these kind of things because eventually you get caught. To anyone that wants to become one. choose the road of a white hacker. it gives you much less stress then being on the opposite group. more then 9 years ago i choose to be not one of each. But instead to become a game developer. the advice i can give to everyone is. don't be tempted by money or to just learn. if you want to test and learn. set the defenses up yourself. then you know both sides and can become much better. Use your skills for something better. And besides if you are a really good hacker, programmer or whatever you can do in the IT sector. Make your own company.

@PropaneTreeFiddy

9 ай бұрын

99.9% of blackhats are skids. Anyone competent enough to develop the software is a gray....sell the utility for "pentesting." Throw the skids under the bus when they get too big.

Damn been a while since I have seen a wizard 101 ad lol. Crazy to see a game running on nostalgia doing an ad for a game running on nostalgia lol

song at 13:00 ?

Someone has been doing the exact same phishing giveaway for weeks now in members worlds the logon page even asks for your bank pin

"not everyone would scan the address bar" I doubt they do today based on the number of 'quitting osrs' bots I see at the grand exchange

at that time i was 11yrs old that cup sucker got me

This actually happened to me in like 2007 someone came up to me when I had my full dragon on and was chatting with me was a girl (I thought) seemed really nice got chatting on Skype she sent me a file and said it was a picture but it was a .exe file I opened it as a dumb 12 year old kid would and it shut down my pc logged back in after about 5 minutes and all my stuff was gone

You could also transfer gp by putting it on a table and grabbing it on the other account i did it all the time EDIT: bro i think my trading method worked the best lnaooo i was table trading for year's

I was SOOOOO easily scammed at like 10 years old lmao, I fell for the, if you type your password in it blurs it out: ******* trick 🤦🏼‍♀️

Got incredibly lucky. Legit prison time if your caught doing that today.