This guide is in detail.
You wont fail getting accounts from late 2001-2002


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v2.0 Edits and updates for your convenience by Gino

Table of Contents:

Section #1: Introduction

Section #2: Where to start

Section #3: What is needed to get accepted

Section #4: Gathering Info

Section #5: Making the appeal tips and tricks

Section #6: Useful links & proxies

Section #7: Conclusion











Alright I am sure you have all purchased this guide in an attempt to make billions of RuneScape gold from recovering accounts.
Well I am going to teach you how to be successful and some pros and cons of recovering.
Recovering can be good because it gives you something to do while you bot there also is the potential to get billions in a single recover,
did you also know that recovering is how Winallday and Chessy018 were hacked.
If you go after inactive accounts you also wont have that bad feeling of hacking somebody, anyway now for some cons.
Sometimes this can be very hard and tedious work and can take multiple appeals. You also cant just recover any account you want unless youre a professional,
but for now the account(s) you recover should meet some basic requirements to make it easier on you.




Recovering accounts can either make get you 3 party hat sets in 2 hours or frustrate you for days;
it all depends on luck this is not exactly a reliable money making method unless you know what youre doing.
Before you start you need to realize it is much easier to recover old abandoned accounts from 2001 then active accounts that play more than two times per week.
But anything is possible if you know what you are doing.
When searching for an account you want to look for an experienced player who knew what they were doing not some poor noob.
You want to make sure they have decent stats (remember back in 2001 75+ stats were considered good, and party hats were not rares)
Now that you have an account with decent stats do a google search of their name. If literally nothing comes up I highly suggest moving onto another account.
What you want to look for is users that had forum accounts that you can find some info about.



When going to recover an account these are things you are going to want to look for:
Try to find
- E-mail
- Country, City, State
-Real name
-Birthday
-IP, Internet service provider
Here is a list of 4,000+ accounts from 2001/2002 that you can start using.
I personally recoverd a few accounts from these lists to make around 1B.
The two websites are password protected the password for both is bear
2002 accounts: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
2001 accounts: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Remember what I told you to look for and gather it all on a notepad document.
^ Here is an account I recoverd from this list ^



If you want to get accepted here are some tips:
#1 You are going to need the creation year unless you know like all 3 previous passwords.
#2: Internet Service provider is highly needed, but some recoveries have been successful without it.
#3: The hardest part is previous passwords, you are going to need to have one previous password.
This may seem impossible but some people are horrible with passwords and this is where the luck comes in.
Try passwords like:

Master Jagex qwerty password soccer dragon killer boxing
Football baseball username123 password123 123456 987654
Scarface rocky runescape hunter NASCAR omglol

You can also try the top 500 worst password list apparently 15 in 20 people have used one of these passwords before.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Also the biggest tip I can give is if you are not 100% sure of something dont just randomly put info in there it will hurt your chances,
only thing I would recommend guessing on is Internet service provider and of course passwords. This is way researching info is essential.
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If you want a little confidence boost here is a dummy account made in 2001 on Tutorial Island I will provide info and you try to recover it.
Eventually it will get locked by JaGex but use it as a confidence booster.

Username: Ex4
Previous passwords: Jagex
Kklolson
(Guess the next one)
Year created: 2001
Service Provider AOL
Then write a little sob story in the bottom something along the lines of
[Dear JaGex, I have been playing RuneScape since early 2001.
I have not played RuneScape in years but I have heard of all the great updates
I have forgotten my password. I really would love to get back into the game soon. Thanks, Ex4]




This is the most important and sometimes the hardest part of the recovery. Here is the order you should go in when checking for accounts.
Find a random name from the list > Look it up for stats > check adventure log to see if its still active > Google search for information.
If the account youre trying to recover passes all of these tests then continue to work it.
Try to get accounts with no dungeoneering, summoning, hunter, construction. These accounts are the most inactive ones that you will want to go after.
If google searching is not doing you any good try taking a look at this list of 10,013 RuneScape users IP addresses.
Who knows the account you are going after might be in here. Link: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
This part is what can make or break you. The main thing you are trying to find is where the guy created the account (where he lives)
once you find this out from a forum account or another source you then can set-up a proxy to make the appeal look like it was made from near where that person lives,
proxy set-up and use will be discussed later in the guide.
If you can get a hold of the IP address of the user do a lookup on the IP using the IP lookup this will give you where they live and their internet service provider
and hostname(put the host name in that little box at the bottom of the appeal that lets you add 300 characters of additional info.

Link for IP lookup: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

If you can find his name try doing a pipl search to find his Facebook or accounts and info linked to the person
you might possibly find out hobbies and such to use for passwords. Link for pipl the people search: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

It takes a lot of effort to find information but if you cannot find any information at all it looks like you are going to have to move on to another accounts
unless you have a very good feeling about the accounts that you are going after.

If you really have a hard time finding accounts what sometimes works for me is Google searching
Post your bank pictures here Runescape. This will bring up old clan forums showing banks of people from clans and usually the forum shows the country they are
from Di-RS forums link to that thread is here: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Always do forgotten never ever do stolen, JaGex will check IPs and login dates to see if they account was ever actually stolen
at one point or another so always forgotten.

Always do manually unless you hack their E-mail. If you hack their e-mail it only is an instant recovery if they dont have recovery questions
which you will find out on the next picture. If they have recovery questions you still need to fill out the forum.

For recoveries always check that you have not set recoveries unless while researching for info you found the answers to THREE or more of them.
Here is how to tell if they have recovery questions, If it looks like this they DO have recovery questions set.
My Name?
How old am i?
I started runescape when?
If it looks like this they DO NOT have recovery questions set-

Mother maiden name
First best friend
Etc..

Try to avoid subscription details unless you know for sure they paid via credit card or something then put Credit card and year that they paid.
For previous passwords do what you learned a few pages above what passwords to try and using the list of top 500 passwords.
It only takes one correct password unless you dont have any creation details then its weird.

ALWAYS FILL OUT THREE PASSWORDS, They are all guesses that could lead you getting the right password.
For contact details you can put their zip code if you find it that really helps,
do not put e-mail unless like I said earlier you hacked it somehow if you put an e-mail it JaGex sends and e-mail saying there was an appeal attempt for they account.

^ For the contact details if you know their zip code that will really help you A LOT. Do not put their e-mail even if you know what it is.
JaGex will send them an e-mail saying if they account is being appealed for and they might notice.
Only put the e-mail in if you have access to their e-mail.
Remember like I said earlier dont guess unless its previous passwords do not fill it out unless you know it.
For previous passwords you also must fill all three out and it will take lots of guessing and luck.
Lastly but for sure not the least important is the creation details and the 300 characters of additional information.
You will always want to put the creation year in. As for internet service provider guess it if you have an idea of the year and country.
AOL, Comcast, and Roadrunner where very popular service providers in 2001 and 2002.
IF THEY DID NOT LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES GOOGLE SEARCH Internet service providers in (Country name)


^ This is the box that will make a break you. Everything in RED is whats really required to get a successful recovery.
If it is in yellow it really helps if you have it correct but it not required. Internet service provider can be found simply by knowing their country.
If you find their country on forums or something like that then just do a google search of Internet service providers in (Country name).
Ones like AOL, Comcast, and Roadrunner were only popular in the United States, and AOL for the United Kingdom.
Now the very last part of your appeal the 300 characters for extra proof. This also can really help if you do it correctly. If you have the IP or hostname or even some display names put them in. Below I am going to show you two REAL ones I used in actual recoveries.
Example #1:
Dear JaGex, I have recently moved out of my parents house to attend school in Maidenhead, UK. My old IP address was 94.194.191.75,
and the old hostname was 94-194-191-75.zone8.bethere.co.uk. I also once had the display name Mark_Wright, but then changed it back. I would like to start playing

- Mark
Example #2:

Dear JaGex, Hello my name is Eric Lopez. I created this account in June of 2002 when I lived in Los Angles, California.
Recently this year I moved to new york city for college. I don't know many people here and I would love to get back into playing RuneScape.
Thanks,

- Eric Lopez

Putting in their real name always helps you.

The theory to achieve a successful recovery:
From past experiences this is all the info I think you need in order to get instantly accepted on your appeal.
Creation Year + Internet service provider + ONE previous password + A good amount on info in the 300 character box = an Accepted appeal.
This does NOT mean you should not put things like Zip codes and subscription details in if you know those put them in they can help.
If you do not know them and are guessing it will HURT your chances of success.

Where to go after being denied
Obviously you did not come here to get denied on your appeal here is some things that will help you after being denied.
When you get denied for recovery questions ignore unless you actually guessed some recovery questions JaGex does this to throw you off.
Recoveries are not required but help a lot if you know them.
The most common thing to get denied for is previous passwords.
This is always the hardest part but until it says that you are not being denied for previous passwords you need to guess three every single time.
Try things such as username123 also use that list of the top 500 most common passwords provided a few pages above.
Getting denied for creation details. This and previous passwords are usually the two most common reasons to get denied.
But unlike previous passwords the creation details can be found much easier. The only thing you need for creation details is creation year and internet service provider everything else other than that is just extra help. You can get the internet service provider by looking up their IP address. But all you really need is their country. Once you have their country do a Google search for Internet service providers in (Country name)
JaGex does tend to deny you for absolutely no reason given at times.
It will say sorry your appeal has been denied for not enough information.
In this case you most likely have one password right and the internet service provider and creation year right.
Here is a few ways I have found to help force that denied for no reason appeal into an accepted appeal.

- Changing the order of passwords mixing them up but using the same passwords.
- Adding a month to the creation date
- Deleting internet history and cookies.
- If none of the above methods are working switch proxies. Make sure you are using a high anonymous one so JaGex does not know it is you.
One last method JaGex does to throw recovers off and to make them quit.
Sometimes JaGex will for no reason at all deny you for everything even though you got something right they do this after you send multiple appeals from the same IP.
Example of this is


Appeal #1: Denied for (Creation details, passwords)
Appeal #2: Denied for (Creation details, passwords)
Appeal #3: Denied for (passwords)
Appeal #4: Denied for (passwords)
Appeal #5: Denied for (Everything, Wtf?)
After this happens the best way to fix it is deleting your browsing history/cookies. Also switching proxies and making sure it is a High Anonymous proxy!








If you do not know what a proxy is In short it hides your IP and you can customize it to make it look like youre in a different country or city.
I highly recommend only using proxies on the Internet explorer browser and not Firefox. Make Firefox you main browser and use Internet explorer as a junk browser.
Anyway, here is how to set up a proxy. NOTICE: Most proxies run very slowly because they are free to use, if you find a fast one good for you.
Step #1: Open Internet Explorer and go to the Internet Options
Step #2: Go to the Connections tab and open LAN Settings
To then turn on the proxy check the box that says Use Proxy server


Now all you need is an address and port which can be found at [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Once on the site click on Proxy list by country

After picking a country it should give you something that looks like this:

Ok for best results you are going to want to use something like the one I highlighted in green those are best because they are high-anonymous
which means the proxy wont be detected by JaGex.
The ones in orange are transparent which means they can SOMETIMES be detected by JaGex and they might see right through you
but if its the only proxy that you can find so be it.
The ones in the red are CoDeen/PlantetLab owned proxies,
if you attempt to use a proxy owned by this company it will not let you make an appeal and disconnect your proxy right after you click the Recover password button.
Once you find a good Proxy Lets use one of the green ones I highlighted for example.
It shows you 200.84.168.86:8080, Everything before the double dots ( : ) is the address after that is the port number so it should look something like this.

Then simply hit Ok and your now looking like youre from Venezuela.
REMEMBER: Not all proxies will work this is sometimes one of the hardest parts, but using a proxy alone can boost appeal chances up by 30%.
Whenever you are done using the proxy ALWAYS uncheck the Use a proxy box or else it will use that proxy while youre on tools such as:
Swift kit, IRC, and it can cause major lag.

Last minute tips and tricks to get accepted appeals:
After 3-5 attempts at recovering the same account using the same proxy clear out your cookies and browsing history

ALWAYS Log your appeals, open up a notepad document and write all of the information you used on your appeal then if you get denied
what you got denied for weather it was for Creation Details or Previous passwords.
Sometimes JaGex will deny your appeal but not put a reason for getting denied, this is good because it means you are getting very close.
When this happens here are some tricks you can do to force it to be accepted,
1st change the order of the previous passwords mix them up and try to hope to get them from oldest to most recent used passwords.
Also another thing that helps is if you are not putting a month for creation year then add a month and this will sometimes force the appeal to get accepted.
The last resort you might have to do is switching up your proxy and clearing out browsing history.
Never get discouraged from being denied it happens 100s of times to all good recoverers.
Proxies will not work 100% of the time.
The proxies you are using are free so of course you need to respect that but other than that here are you options if your proxy is too slow or youre having issues.


- You can wait for the website to refresh their proxy lists and update their proxies which they do once per day.
- Sometimes when you click on the Recover password button it will immediately say this page cannot be displayed.
In that case it means your proxy will not let you log in. BUT if it says the page will not be displayed after you have waited for a few seconds
then there is still a chance it will connect. If you do not instantly get the This page cannot be displayed then using the <- Back feature then refreshing
and trying again. It has worked for me many times before.

- But if you are struggling to find a proxy then you have one LAST RESORT option.
If you have a friend who lives in that area you can use team viewer and appeal through his computer this method is somewhat new but is becoming more common.

-Never over stress about the proxy if it is just too hard to find one try it without a proxy (only if you think you have enough information).
If not just go after another account there are always more you can hunt for.


The art of SAFELY Transferring your earnings!
-If you are not yet aware JaGex sometimes just randomly decides to ban people when they transfer over a certain amount of wealth they classify it as
Account Hi-jacking. Here are ways to keep it safe and to completely avoid that mess.

-If it is less than 500m in earnings than simply trade it through the regular trade window.

-If it is over 500m I would highly suggest buying a member pin for 7 or 8mill and making it a member.
Once it is a member you have the option to stake against your account or gear up and pk against your account for loot.
If you want to be SUPER safe do what I told you above and use a proxy for your account.
Even in the rare chance it does get banned you will be able to appeal saying the account was stolen JaGex will check the IP and see it was not you.

-Example of the staking option: I went to world 22 and won two 400m stakes in a row

-400m in the inventory from the first stake and 400m shown here from the second stake.


For those of you thinking that drop trading is a safe option that one is very weird to explain.
JaGex now can detect drop trades from what I have heard even if you are using a proxy to help you it still is not safe to drop trade.
Your safest two options are staking it in two half stakes or pking it in a high risk pk fight.


Recovering is not for everyone it is something you get better at with time and it can bring you partyhats and loads of gold.
It can also give you old abandoned accounts that you can use to bot and gold farm for you. There is endless possibilities.
You are all going to now ask When should I give up on accounts 10 appeal 20 appeals 50 appeals?
The answer I think it after 15 appeals if you personally think youre getting nowhere with the accounts then you must be lacking some major info,
But if you actually do feel like you are getting closer than do not stop until it says Accepted. But remember that next appeal could be the one for a partyhat set.
When recovering and item to lookout for is a Warship this is an item that is very rare and most players do not even know about it.
It is untradeable but you will find people that pay upto 400$ for and accounts with a warship.
Some people are into recovering for Runescape riches and power some are in it to make real life cash.



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