FAKE "Dac Nhon Church"
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Posts: 8 ✭✭
Title of the Wayspot: Tượng đức mẹ Maria
Location: 11.613650, 108.924811
City: Ninh Thuan Province
Country: Vietnam
Screenshot of the Rejection Email: none
Additional information:
This is a tricky fake case. Last week, my community reviewed around 6 fake nominations at this area.
All these nominations claimed to belong to a fake "Dac Nhon Church", which does not exist.
These photos showed a big church which cannot be seen from satellite view and also the official website of Vietnam Church (Nha Trang Area) does not have any information about this fake Dac Nhon church.
I personally spread this information for my friends so we can review them and vote them as fake nomination.
And somehow yesterday I found out that one of these fake nominations had already gone live. So I assume that this is a result of a successful appeal from the abuser.
I re-check the area and find out a fake church pin on google map, which created 6 days ago.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/b4QKVP12pev2rys69
This pin has total 8 photos, which all are the fake nominations that I reviewed last week.
After some research, I found out 6 photos belong to Tra Giang Church of the same province (and 2 photos I don't have source)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/x1RNWFahRnmoqvfQ7
https://youtu.be/_c905A7f4Ss?si=wN2QftZqrFtHplzL
Although the live fake wayspots is 1 of 2 photos that I don't have any source, please take a look again this abuser. At least this wayspot's description claims to belong to non-existent Dac Nhon Church
Your team also can easily check his/her nomination history and find out other fake nominations (using other 6 fake photos) . Thank you for your consideration!
Comments
we can see this church in this area is not real. Who created this Google Pin and added Image are faked at all. I never heard about Nhà Thờ Đắc Nhơn, even though This area only has a small number of churches. I can belive Niantic just recive appeal and see a Pin and acepted when satellite map doesn"t have this church. The man who make this stop also admitted that they had stolen pictures from other areas to bring home
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