The best souvenir to bring from your holiday: faked homeportals
Title of the Wayspot: Church in the grass, The great painting, Maria auf dem Hüsten
Location: 50.823958,7.443906 , 50.824148,7.444214 , 50.823884,7.441296
City: Oberlückerath
Country: Germany
Screenshot of the Rejection Email: Not availlable since my community stumbled across this while reviewing
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While reviewing someone in my local community came across this nomination located in the village of Oberlückerath which seemed quite odd.
As you can see there are 2 Photospheres available in Google Streetview. The nomination was linked to #1
Seems quite unrealistic, doesn't it?
If you take a look around you will see, that every car in this photosphere has an italian license plate.
So this photosphere is definitely fake! And someone (the guy named in the top left corner) uploaded it to fake a wayspot.
I took a look at the wayspots arround to see if there are more fakes to find and came to this: a bunch of shrines (just like in the faked photosphere)
- Church in the grass.
- a historic shrine in front of trees located in the (alsmost treeless) backyard of a private home? for shure!
- The great painting
- again a historic shrine in a private backyard. Just like the wayspot before the surroundings don't fit at all. And this time we have another photosphere (#2 in the second picture). Let's have a look
Same uploader, same month, doesn't look like a backyard at all (how tf can stuff like this get through the review process??!)
As you can see there is a tiny emblem on this shrine and after some research i found out where it belongs.
http://www.parcobarro.lombardia.it/_parco/index.php
an archaeological park at Monte Barro in Italy!
I also found this: https://mapio.net/pic/p-33843812/ , the exact same shrine with its location in the park.
So I took another look at streetview and voila: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.8306941,9.3724164,3a,75y,137.85h,79.46t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNp3bmCL0kyJgaJ4Ehmqac58yNNOVRYT6wnVsL-!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNp3bmCL0kyJgaJ4Ehmqac58yNNOVRYT6wnVsL-%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya38.253426-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120
Same terrace, same shrine.
Definitely fake
Looking arround the park i also found this photosphere https://www.google.com/maps/@45.8308421,9.3744556,3a,75y,103.74h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipN93XVgKSE9YS44KOFsuQKhtujjreyYmmtHJia5!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN93XVgKSE9YS44KOFsuQKhtujjreyYmmtHJia5%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya33.76476-ro-0-fo100!7i9728!8i4148
Same uploader like the two in Oberlückerath but uploaded last year. I guess he spend his holiday in northern Italy and brought himself some homestops as souvenirs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
3. Maria auf dem Hüsten:
To be honest i don't have evidence for this one. I just want to bring it to attention since it's also a shrine and the probability that this one is fake is high. i checked the monument-list of the district https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Baudenkm%C3%A4ler_in_Ruppichteroth and couldn't find it.
But if the wayspot was created by the same player as the other ones i guess it should be deleted as well.
Comments
These are already obvious. Your decision, please @NianticGiffard ?
@patsufredo-PGO they deleted them but didn't answered here
Thanks for flagging and sorry for the delay in writing back, @OdiMahoni-PGO. We have reviewed the report and have taken action on the 8 Wayspots and 3 Wayfinders in accordance with our policies. While we are unable to discuss our actions in detail to protect the submitter’s privacy, they may include, but are not limited to, sending a warning message, placing restrictions on their Wayfarer, Pokémon GO, or Ingress account, putting their account on probation, or placing a temporary or permanent suspension on their Wayfarer, Pokémon GO or Ingress account. Thanks for helping us maintain the quality of the Wayspots.