Gerhard believes that because they

 Jagex's cooperation with badge appears to OSRS gold acquire yielded results, and an arrest has been fabricated in the Avon and Somerset region.

Several RuneScape annual holders were tricked into absolution their accommodation by way of a targeted phishing scam. Mark Gerhard, arch controlling of Jagex, declared that the afflicted numbered a "few thousand" and that the consistent arrest had been the end artefact of a abiding investigation.

"Account annexation and the use of phishing websites is a botheration adverse the absolute online amateur industry and Jagex maintains a specialist aggregation to activity any law breaking aural our games" said Gerhard. "Players advanced years of time and accomplishment into developing their RuneScape character, so the annexation of a RuneScape annual shouldn’t be advised abnormally to the annexation of any added admired backing such as a amateur console, television or car."

Gold farming, the activity of architecture absurd abundance by endlessly repeating assisting activities aural the game, was afresh addressed by Jagex via changes to RuneScape's basal code. Gerhard believes that because they abandoned this arbitrary acclimation of gold acquisition, abyss were afflicted to accretion an accession way to aquire loot.

"Once you abutting one vulnerability you move the advanced credible to accession part," said Gerhard. "They were activity anon afterwards the user accreditation and aggravating to cheapest OSRS gold get at the abundance that way."