Throwaway account

A Throwaway account is an alternate account that has been created to carry out a certain task, with the owner having no intention of developing the account. It is sometimes used to accomplish something controversial or malicious, such as griefing or disrupting the community. It can also be used to experience or re-experience low level content and quests.

Legitimate usage

Throwaway accounts are used legitimately by some players, to check out updates of things they have already completed on their more advanced character. For example, when a revision of Tutorial Island was released, many players created throwaway accounts just to try it out. These accounts are mostly abandoned and rarely seen online again.

Another example, quests such as Heroes' Quest or Shield of Arrav, require a partner. However, you would need to have both accounts logged in at the same time, which breaks the multiple logging-in rule under Honour.

Illegal usage

Somebody with a throwaway account may just insult other players or attempting to scam others out of their passwords. They are often banned quickly as they do nothing except negatively influence the community's well-being, and are very soon reported.

More malicious throwaway accounts include bots such as Gold farmers that are created solely to bot 24/7 to make gold to sell to players for real life money.

Punishment

While players can just ignore the player, these accounts are often reported and banned. In some rare cases, Throwaway accounts will be traced by Jagex moderators resulting in action being taken towards the user's main account(s). While a throwaway account's actions can be considered illegal, this varies on a case-by-case basis and the account owner's country of residence.