More than 100 fake portal in one city
Hello. I am not sure about category, but I guess it is the right place.
More than 100 portals are faked in one city(Blagoveshchensk, Russia) https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=50.263998,127.529027&z=15&pll=50.263998,127.529027. I think, it's possible because of some reasons like access pgo to opr, sly fakers and the neighbourhood of the other country(China), (chinese people dont know our culture and history, even the cyrilic alphabet is pretty hard for them), so they probably approve any kind of nominations they see.
Here are the typical examples how the cheaters fake their nominations:
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8402/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of memorial plaque, the copy of the existing plaque from another region(Kurgan)
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8403/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of memorial plaque, the copy of the existing plaque from another region(Murmansk)
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8411/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of memorial plaque from native city
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8410/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of the sculpture from the another region(Barnaul)
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8409/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of memorial plaque, the copy of the existing plaque from another region(Ryazan)
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8408/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of memorial plaque, the copy of the existing plaque from another region(Saratov)
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8407/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of memorial plaque, the copy of the existing plaque from another region(Kaliningrad)
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8406/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of memorial plaque from native city, duplicate of the existing portal
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8405/invalid-portal#latest - the fake location of the sculpture from the another region(Saint-Petersburg)
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8404/invalid-portal-report#latest - the fake location of the sculpture from the another region(Tyumen)
the authors of the portals are two Ingress accounts(Kaloama778e, KrossoverXTRAIL) and unknown pgo trainers.
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One month ago I reported on both agents(obviously they came from pgo, reached the 10 lvl and stopped) to restrict them from nominations, but nothing has changed and the quantity of fake portals is only growing.
There is a similar case in my region, about 10 fake portals. I have reported here on the forum and nobody has even responded. I will follow this thread, you may have more luck. 🤞
I think the same: there should be severe penalties for trainers and agents that falsify nominations. But so far I don't know such a case. Recidivism exists!
Also got such a case. 14 fake, 2 misplaced and 2 not anymore existent POIs in a range of 1km in this area: https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=50.807289,7.199671&z=18
There are absolutely no painted things in this area except for the train of which the location showing the front is almost correct. I reported everything, no reaction yet. Some pics are stolen from here: https://die-sprueherei.de/
If the additional picture would have to contain the POI within it and in general would have to be useful, reviewer would have a much easier time kicking out fakes. Well, if the reviewer care enough and don't accept blind... Also the pics should have a visible temporary, maybe even random generated watermark all over the picture in Wayfarer, so stealing them there would become completely useless.
And yeah, faker need to have permissions being removed. At least for half a year.
Vol. 2
They took the photos from the memorial park "Marsovo field/Марсово поле" located in Saint-Petersburg.
If you can't go there (or report by comm activities), don't even waste your time with report by other means, they will ignore. I tried multiple times, a "portal" that is inside a private property and is just a regular blue domestic water tank of 1000 litres or less. But there is no streetview in the location, and I can't simply go there just to do it and ask a appeal.
They've actually handled other cases of mass abuse like this through the forums. It's rare but they seem to appreciate when particularly egregious cases are brought to their attention.
Vol.3
2 memorial plates were clonned. The real location is Chelyabinsk
2 memorial stones were faked from local park:
memorial plaque from Belgorod, Russia:
metal sculpture from Saint-Petersburg
fountain from Saint-Petersburg:
memorial plaque, fake location and duplicate:
2 memorial stones from Chinese Politechnical University:
Mosaic, fake and duplicated:
@NianticBrian any comments to this? Will there be any action / Investigation in those matters generally speaking?
You cant expect people to use the existing appeal system to report every portal one by one.
I also have a lot of unanswered reports that contain evidence of fraud. Waiting for an answer moderator.
Thank God Niantic has free serf labour digging into the archives of godforsaken outposts in Russia.
Send in here and Niantic warning agent and remove the Portal.
@AzureDragonSS как успехи? Есть телеграмм для связи?