After receiving an Old School RuneScape account, verify the character first, secure the Jagex Account and email, set up your own authentication and Bank PIN, and keep your personal RuneScape characters completely separate.

Jagex Accounts work differently from many other game accounts because one Jagex Account can contain multiple RuneScape characters. That makes securing the account correctly after delivery especially important.

Before changing anything, log in and make sure the OSRS account matches the listing.

Check the important details you paid for, including combat and total level, skills, quests, achievement diaries, untradeables, bank value, membership, offences, and any other advertised features. If something important is missing or different, report it through your AccountShark order before making major changes.

Once everything is correct:

Your email, authenticator, and backup codes are as important as the Jagex Account password itself. Do not share them with anyone after the handoff.

Do not import a RuneScape or Old School RuneScape character you already own into a Jagex Account you purchased.

Jagex character imports are effectively permanent. Once a character has been imported into a Jagex Account, you generally cannot remove it and move it back to another Jagex Account.

More importantly, importing your personal characters ties them to the ownership and security history of the purchased Jagex Account. It may create conflicting account-history signals that lead to additional review or account action.

If the purchased Jagex Account is later recovered, locked, or closed, your personal characters could be permanently lost along with it.

Keep the two completely separate. Use the purchased Jagex Account only for the characters that came with your purchase, and keep characters you already owned on your personal Jagex Account.

Once you have control of the account, set or change the OSRS Bank PIN before storing substantial gold or valuable items on it.

A Bank PIN provides another barrier between somebody gaining game access and being able to empty the bank.

Remember that changing or removing a Bank PIN can involve a waiting period. Get your own PIN established before treating the account as somewhere to store significant personal wealth.

Review the account for old membership subscriptions and saved payment information before making purchases of your own.

Remove payment information that does not belong to you and use only your own payment method for future membership, bonds, or other purchases. A leftover card can be charged accidentally, and if the cardholder later disputes that charge it becomes your problem on an account you now own.

This avoids confusion over old recurring subscriptions and reduces the chance of payment disputes or unexpected charges connected to the account's previous ownership.

Jagex actively enforces its rules against botting, macroing and cheating.

Stick to the Jagex Launcher, official clients and established approved clients such as RuneLite. Avoid:

RuneLite itself is widely used and permitted, but that does not mean every third-party plugin or external tool is safe. If you cannot determine whether a tool complies with Jagex's rules, don't test it on your purchased account.

A ban caused by botting, macroing, cheating, or prohibited software after delivery is not covered by the AccountShark account warranty.

OSRS accounts can contain substantial amounts of GP and valuable items, so avoid unusual or unnecessarily complicated wealth movement.

Do not use the account for real-world trading, gambling, scams, illicit gold, or wealth connected to botting or other rule-breaking activity.

For your own legitimate transfers, keep them ordinary. Avoid using drop trades, intentional deaths, trust trades, suspicious gifts, or other shortcuts when a normal trade will accomplish the same thing.

Also be cautious about somebody unexpectedly offering to return items, give you large amounts of wealth, or asking you to move GP through another account. You do not know where that wealth originated.

An established OSRS account may arrive with years of social history attached to it.

Review its friends list, ignore list, clan membership, group chats, and other social connections. Leave old clans or groups you do not intend to participate in and avoid continuing conversations with the previous owner's friends or clanmates.

Play the character as your own account going forward rather than trying to continue somebody else's relationships.

And do not discuss buying the account in-game, in clan chat, or with strangers. There is no benefit to advertising that the character changed hands.

For the first period after delivery, keep things straightforward:

Jagex Accounts can send security notifications for new-device logins and account changes, which is another reason control of the registered email matters.

Once the handoff is complete, treat the Jagex Account, registered email, authenticator, backup codes, and Bank PIN as parts of the same security chain.

For the security steps that apply to every purchased gaming account, see How do I safely use my new account?