Spoofing
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Hi
I had my winter costal portal, Orford Ness Lighthouse Suffolk UK, that takes a 1.5 hours to walk to on shingle, spoofed down by Zekupidon on Jan 11th. Leaving no rezenators.
This account has since been banned, but the portal has not been reset to level 8 Blue portal.
Since this ENL have refeilded to other Orford Ness Island portals, why could this portal not be reinstated, when you banned the "player"
It was a level 6 player with 32 portals visited, and ZERO kilometers walked.
Niantic should know how many other portals it spoofed to get to level 6, and with all the free permanent game codes with XP in them you can get to level 6 really easily.
These codes need to be removed from game play altogether.
And you need better algorithms to stop spoofing accounts flying round the world taking out portals on unrealistic time scales
Please sort the spoofing out.

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Did you report this through the Trusted Reporter bot? @IngressEnlTRBot or @IngressRESTRBot
There's an option to ask for your portal to be reinstated if you did. If they were banned just by normal reporting, maybe fill in the form and explain it to the TR's or contact a Vanguard directly.
Niantic should know how many other portals it spoofed to get to level 6, and with all the free permanent game codes with XP in them you can get to level 6 really easily.
Something to note. In early 2018, during the Navarro event, Niantic reset thousands of passcodes, removing the AP element from them. Since then there hasn't been a permanent passcode with AP in it any more.
You cannot get to level 3 (or any higher) with passcodes any more.
Hiya @rowanmook
Just a nitpick here on my part and not related to your portal issue but.. Yikes you can actually walk 30.8km in 1.5 hours Sheesh I thought I was a fast walker,i only manage to get to a maximum of 10km to 15km depending on where I head to on a specific day and where I'm standing for very long...granted I have the scanner open and hack as I go along but my scanner only lasts max 3 hours before I need access to a charging point.
I feel ashamed of myself now 😂🤣😁
Kind Regards
PhantomR1982
Bring a charger with you. I learned the hard way that one is highly beneficial. When not miserable out a good charger will turn one full phone charger into three or four full charges. Turning three into twelve plus hours if hunting, building etc
Orford Ness has been reinstated as of this morning. Resets do not happen automatically on account bans. It's a manual process to gather and log the information, have it verified and then run along with other resets.
@Mirthmaker would you like to tell my scanner/device the good news that it can be charged out and about and that we will only have to sit around somewhere for 4 hours...I agree with a good weather day being beneficial for needing a charger it's just the sitting around waiting to get back on the grid that bugs me 😁😂🤣
@PhantomR1982 I'm not going to walk from my current position, it is from the CarPark 4 miles away, Lol
They have been keeping this account for a while, as it got the year 7 badge, what date were they given out?,
Suspect Spoofers have a lot of level 6 accounts in reserve ready to use when needed
I have a 20000mAh power pack that is also solar rechargeable, never leave home without it. 😉👍💙
@rowanmook thank goodness for that you scared me then for a bit...I was just going from the distance on the photo of the portal the spoofer took down...which said 30.8km and the fact you said it's a 1.5 hour walk.
4 miles (6.5km) walk I can understand to the portal though 😅😅😅
The Resurgence badge was given out to active agents in September I believe but I can't confirm the exact date as I can't access my badges so I'm doing this from memory...but it was also during the anniversary week when all the freebies were given out through the shop...which i knew about but didn't know how to claim,luckily I had a couple of Good (old skool) Agents that pointed me in the right direction...so it's not a 7 year old account if that's what your thinking it's just they were active during the time the badge was awarded like I was & I only got hooked last year.
I imagine there's loads of spoofer accounts out there and I suspect I've spoken to loads on Comms during my short time without realising it but oh well they'll eventually be caught.
I've got access to a couple of solar chargers but they are not as powerful as your 20,000mah powerbank...my scanner/device has a capacity of 3050mah so you would think this would last longer than 2-3 hours of exploring but thats a story for another day 😂🤣😁
At least your L8 portal has been restored now as @Azhreia advised above and I did check it on the Intel map at the time.
Although there was a lot of green around your Blue Portal I wonder how long that will remain lol.
Kind Regards
PhantomR1982