Someone stole the photos from my submission
DoktorZahn-ING
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Someone stole both of the photos from the reviewing section of one of my submission and got a fake portal accepted. The original is this:
Its a church in a town 1 hour away from my main location.
And this is the fake portal:
Also one of the nearby portals of the fake portal is also fake because it is photoshoped:
My question here is: where and how can I report this? And is it worth reporting or will it be a waste of time?
PD: I attached my photos of the portal and as you can see the floor match the floor on the other portal
Thanks in advance
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It is unlikely to be a waste of time and you can do it via the Wayfarer help chat here: https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/help
You'll see an orange chat bubble at the bottom right.
Thank you very much, I'll definitely do it, cause it is not fair that I travel 1 hour to make the submission and someone just steals it
Good luck! I've generally had good results getting fakes removed. Be sure to leave the help chat open until you get a response.
If for some reason you don't succeed you can appeal by posting in this category: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/categories/removal-appeals
The help chat quality has gone downhill recently. They'll always direct the ueser to use https://www.pokemongolive.com/report-location. Contacting Niantic that way is much more effective, imo.
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