ABUSE - Winter Garden (St. Cloud related?)
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Last week a member of a global Wayfarer group on Facebook posted about a new Pokestop for exercise equipment that had been created near them, noting that the real world location does not exist, and it is just private residential property. Today I ended up reviewing a second fake wayspot in the same neighborhood and decided to investigate. Please note, the neighborhood is semi-newly built and still shows as dirt/under construction on Google Maps, however, Microsoft satellite images are more up to date in the area and shows the majority of the neighborhood completed. This can be viewed on Zoom Earth or Bing Maps.
Community Exercise Park
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=28.418988,-81.621902&z=17&pll=28.418988,-81.621902
Fake wayspot located on private residential property. Photo stolen from a Spanish website called Espinho.tv. The trees behind the wayspot clearly do not match this location.
community playground for kids
14936 Guava Bay Dr, Winter Garden, FL 34787
Fake wayspot located on private residential property. The primary image is stolen from Austin, Texas and the supporting photo is stolen from Ontario, Canada. The trees behind the wayspot clearly do not match this location.
While only the two wayspots above were found to be abusive after I investigated, a third wayspot also caught my eye. While the wayspot itself is legitimate, the photo for Austrina Oak Loop Playground is one I have seen before, as it was used to help create a fake wayspot in Metrowest Orlando (I think it was this one), which I documented in my first update post about the St. Cloud, FL abuse ring. The fake photo from the abusively created stop has since been removed by Niantic, however I did happen to have a copy of it saved on my computer from when I looked into the area previously to be able to confirm:
It may be a complete coincidence that this photo was previously used by the St. Cloud abuse ring, after all they did steal one of my own photos as well, however the close proximity to St. Cloud / Metrowest Orlando and the presence of active abuse in the same neighborhood with the same M/O makes me believe that this case of abuse may be related to the St. Cloud abuse, so I wanted to be sure to document it.
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Stick with it Andis, some of us appreciate your effots.
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