Aggressive spoofing in central Russia
An apparent TOS violation is ignored by support and trusted reporters.
Agent YolKree during the world quarantine period in a few days visited his hometown in central Russia, destroyed base portals in neighboring regions, breaking several tens of MILLIONS of mind units, and then he suddenly got to ICELAND, and a few hours later to the northern regions of Russia in Siberia! Outrageous spoofing. Several times it was written in support of trusted reporters, no result. We have not received even a response letter. The Niantic team can independently check all the movements of the YolKree agent and save the game from one brazen spoofer, but I provide you with dates and links to the portals that have suffered from it in recent months. Yes, months, because for months we wait for justice and do not receive it.
18.05.2020 - 22.05.2020 destroyed and deployed these portals more than 3000km away apart.
Russian Vanguard, please help us too.
@NianticBrian@NianticBC@NianticAustin @NianticAndrew@NianticAkshay @Fenyok
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I had a look at the links you provided (no dates though) and can't see any activity there from that account, barring one. When exactly did you report these actions? When they happened? Or only now?
And also, just so you know, @NianticAndrew no longer works for Niantic.
So, today Iceland-lover spoofer created control field over Central Russia region and we cannot to play.
This looks like it would qualify for a TR report (I think). Might be worth trying again?
this is why players stop playing if spoofers can roam free and nothing happens then its not funny anymore... weird this kind of gps movement can not be banned nobody can fast travel legit that way....
Its easy to say that, but in reality, location going nuts on low GNSS signal happens way too often to auto-trigger bans.
On one of my previous phones, in the center of the building where I worked, it would sometimes lose all GNSS signal and the location would fall back to wifi, which sometimes latched onto someone who did a lot of international travel's mobile hotspot (which Google's location database thought was somewhere in Manhattan). I would have maps open and watch my "location" flip from Tokyo to New York and back within seconds.
yea but go from russia to iceland is impossible thats only gps spoofing and nothing else.
But you can't rely on detecting it automatically and then acting on it. Humans need to be in the loop.
Thanks to all, spoofer was banned.
Great to hear! Did you report via TR or support site?
TR 3 times, they don't answered me. Support few days ago, maybe they helped me. Idk. ;)
Its really funny because MMO from 15 years ago were able to stop cheat and bug exploit could be easily spotted by Gamemaster back them, by a simple quick search formthe name of item and know how and when it was generated in the server and permaban the abuser.
Is it possible that Niantic database do not store sufficient data from the players to make those kind of decisions?