Series of Fake Nominations in Brahmapuri, Maharashtra, India
SammyBoi00210-PGO
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Hello everyone,
I'm writing this post to bring your attention to a fake nominator in Bramhapuri, India. This person is actively nominating false POI's since last two months and Niantic doesn't seem to care about this.
They have scoured facebook groups regarding statues in parks and post them on wayfarer, misleading the reviewers into accepting these nominations as legitimate.
One example is the Pikachu statue, which exists in Suzano park, Brazil and is being nominated in India.
Similarly, these statues also have been nominated in India, whereas the real ones exist in Brazil.
Similar images of statues of Pokemon such as Larvitar, Charmander, etc. and popular media characters such as Doraemon, from various places in Japan, Sao Paulo and Korea have also been nominated by the same reviewer.
Their nominations are actually getting accepted as a Statue of Woman (20.6077, 79.8529) ( (Originally from siberia) has been accepted, giving them more confidence to nominate fake POIs.
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=20.608925,79.852497&z=21
WHY SHOULD NIANTIC CARE?
These photos are from third party sources and these third parties can sue niantic for misrepresenting them and unlawful use. I sincerely appeal to niantic to ban nomination privileges for the respective wayfarer, so that it may deter my fellow reviewers from falling into thinking them as real.
Thank you for your time.
Comments
Why do you think Niantic doesn't seem to care? That's the first I see of this case for that.
Why are u commenting such unimportant things?
That's their first post here, they found the correct subsection, although not following the form there is nethertheless all the necessary information in this text. One existing fake, two more in review. So enough to do something against the faker, if it's really the same person like assumed.
But wait, fakers often aren't stopped even after 4x appealing multiple reappearing fakes at the same location ..... so maybe you have nethertheless a point, accidentally....
The abuse is obvious, I'm sure it will be handled accordingly. Just curious why they say that.
As I said, this has been going on for around 3-4 months, enough time for the nominations to get accepted. Niantic does not care if these go through and become Valid POI's, wherein the removal becomes quite tedious.
If Niantic doesn't know why do you think they don't care? They can't act on something they don't know about.
They DO know about it. Many of my fellow reviewers have been reporting this person since last 3 months for fake nominations, but Niantic does not do anything. Fake nominations keep pouring and our review feed clog up with them. S/He gets away with nominating fake nominations, while many of many wayfarers work hard to nominate legitimate nominations, while these lazy people get away with getting fake POI's with no consequences whatsoever. It is truly a shame that the integrity and honesty of this community has stooped so low.
Here is one of the nomination that does not even make sense which got accepted. (Weird Bird Sculpture, 20.60626, 79.858828)
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=20.608925,79.852497&z=21
Yeah, if reported before,that sucks. Doing 1* abuse or using the form to report is useless. But you should have better succes here.
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