Suppose a \((\lambda n,n,\lambda n, \lambda )\) relative difference set exists in an abelian group \(G=S\times H\) , where \(|S|=\lambda \) , \(|H|=n^2\) , \(\gcd (\lambda ,n)=1\) , and \(\lambda \) is self-conjugate modulo \(\lambda n\) . Then \(\lambda \) is a square, say \(\lambda =u^2\) , and \(\exp (S)\) divides u by Turyn’s exponent bound. We classify all such relative difference sets with \(\exp (S)=u\) . We also show that n must be a prime power if an abelian \((\lambda n, n, \lambda n, \lambda )\) RDS with \(\gcd (\lambda ,n)=1\) exists and \(\lambda \) is self-conjugate modulo n.