Numerous spoofing and multiaccount accidents ruining normal gameplay in Korolev, Moscow region
I would like to draw your attention to the problem with the @AgentMarshall10 agent in my city. He plays by mocking his location with several accounts @MyNight0rgasM, @Rezwera, @Skarlotina, @MagicSonis. (see #ETR_2020_2021, 10389269, 10319206, 10261375, 9548359, 9823803, 10389269, 10389312, 10338783, 10329016, 10471985, 10474288).
Recently we have faced many spoofing issues in Korolev city. Unfortunately, our TR report was rejected due to the lack of remote portal activity. So forum is our only hope to get our bad actor banned. We kindly ask NIA representatives to take another look at our reports and ban the spoofer.
The activity of the spoofer includes and not limited by the following actions:
1. This operator interferes with urban players activity by creating blocking links.
2. This operator use his accounts for win trading.
3. Operator of these accounts use GPS spoofing for preventing ENL activity.
We hope that rigorous investigation of spoofers' activity will help NIA to improve their investigation algorithms, as current support response is really discouraging.
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Example No. 1.
Bad actor applies win trading to level up his accounts.
He use accounts Rezwera to deploy portals and AgentMarshall10 to destroy it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wh5yZxiFg8q3VNQf6bQovF5Lf1PaEMvS/view?usp=drivesdk
Example No. 2
Spoofer threw blocking links by accounts Rezwera and MyNight0rgasM at the same time and the same portal.
Example No. 3
The operator threw blocking links from the portal where the agent was located and whose activity he blocked. There was no one in the portal vicinity.
Example No. 4
The operator used account Skarlotina to destroy the anchor portal with GPS spoofing. After several attempts he loaded another account (MyNight0rgasM), used ADA and then he did blocking links to cross all the plan of ENL agent.
This post was written from the behalf of agent thehels, who is predominantly haunted by the spoofer. Personally I would like to add that Niantic report responce system looks completely rotten: to initiate the investigation of multiaccounting one has to use the incognito mode or varoius browsers to fill the form several times... And several hours after the report is sent agent receives the feedback showing it takes ~30 seconds for the support representative to "carefully review the report and take actions while appropriate".
It is very difficult and not interesting to play when you are being watched all day and deliberately interfered with. Especially When the bad actor does it with gps spoofing. Niantic, please take action.
Please pay attention to the recent reports: 10474961, 10499998, 10538400
**** want to highlight suspected spoofing activity to the Trusted Reporters, follow these steps.
-Do not submit actions to Trusted Reporters that are over seven (7) days old.
-Enlightened: @IngressEnlTRBot
-Resistance: @IngressResTRBot
-Using Telegram, send a “/start” message to your faction specific Trusted Reporter bot account. Submitting a report to the opposite factions bot may get you banned from using the bot:
-Complete the four action items listed by the bot.
-Within 48 hours a Trusted Reporter will review the activity you flagged and inform you via the bot that they will or will not escalate the activity to NIA OPS to review.
[...] At this time we are only accepting reports of accounts suspected of spoofing. For all other support related issues please submit a ticket via the normal process at http://support.ingress.com.
@thehels their goal is to keep you off the game.
This is the script followed by spoofer communities:
-Spoof, spoof, spoof.
-Chase down anyone who tries to undo the spoofers work, the harder, the better, until they quit.
-When no oposition is left, stop spoofing and turn to legal activities.
-Enjoy victory and celebrate winning events and cells.
Go check out any spoofer area you like, they all are in one of these 4 steps.
Unfortunately urban spoofers activity without any restricted access portal involvment and large fields destruction is out of the scope of TRs.
Thanks, I'll keep it in mind!)
What can we do? Standard reports is not working, TRs too...
I'll try all I can, before stop playing!
u can never win against spoofers or cheaters unless they get banned from game, they will always have advantage no matter what u do...
Thank everyone, MyNight0rgasM is banned, we are looking forward to further investigation of AgentMarshall10, Rezwera, Skarlotina, and MagicSonis activity which hopefully will lead to their ban.
hi niantic, can younplease also look at account of player who started this thread ? it looks like he is using some player tracking modification of inte, which should be against ToS.
Unfortunately only 1 spoofing account of 5 has been banned after the topic initiation. Nia OPS, please consider the investigation of the following accounts activity:
1) Skarlotina 18:09 9 Nov 2020 UTC+3 https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=55.934087,37.852581&z=17&pll=55.934087,37.852581
2) Rezwera 19:27 9 Nov 2020 UTC+3 https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=55.929053,37.852472&z=15&pll=55.929053,37.852472
Tickets 10635097, 10635471.
Operator resumed his activity several hours before the Eos Protocol event to ruin the AP gain of the specific agent.
After ban of account MyNight0rgasM he suspended his activity.
The event started today and operator resumed it too. He interferes with urban players activity by creating blocking links.
The operator used two accounts to do this. He destroyed the portal with account Skarlotina (see screenshot) and then started to create cross links with account Rezwera. See timings and locations above. Here is another ticket: 10636692.
Nia, please, take action before the event ends!