Well to start things off i first have to explain my situation. I went on a popular forum for account buying (wont name any names ^.^ U KNOW WHAT ONE) and of course after a couple days of playing on the account BAM invalid username or password. Well i'm a smart person so i knew that i could get back on the account at least once by doing an account recovery using the member info that i had STUPIDLY put on the account. Well anyways i got back on the account to transfer all the money and stuff over to a bank account and while on the guy that had sold it to me got on yahoo and started boasting how he scammed me so i put together a plan to get him baned and quickly wrote a stupid program that used clickmouse and sendkeys and stuff ran that for a while dropped all 3 of his god books and cleaned out his bank. well ends up the account wasn't banned and in fact the membership was renewed >.< theres a 5$ slap in the face.
Nows when my information comes to light. i put in several recovery requests getting the same thing over and over: DECLINED!. well when i got my account charged i sent a message to jagex telling them to stop all transfers and to refund the money to which they responded that they couldn't refund the money but could tell me that my account was not recovered due to the old passwords not being old enough. this alone was the reason that it wasn't recovered. not that my recovery were wrong which i know they were cause he canceled mine. so what i gather from this is that if "someone else knows your recovery" they look at older passwords and whoever has the oldest wins. This isn't really that important but every bit of knowledge of jagex's systems can help right?