Fake Nomination Hub - Gayeshpur
Hi folks,
There's an area named Gayeshpur in West Bengal, India with Geo coordinates about 22.955379,88.491943. The area is full of fake nominations. I have reported through the form but taking each one of them and reporting them separately is a hectic task so I came up to report in the forum instead. Today also I got a nomination from a different region being submitted here. The text written on the object is in Hindi and clearly says "Jamshedpur" which is roughly 330km away from the location of submission. The screenshot from review screen is given following:
Original portal link:
Please take necessary action against the people who are submitting and spamming 5* on the nominations from this region. They are simply abusing the wayfarer system throughout.
Regards,
Mysticjit
@NianticAaron @NianticCasey-ING @NianticKN-ING @NianticGiffard
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Thanks for flagging, @Mysticjit-ING! We'll have your report investigated and let you know once we have information to share.
Hey @Mysticjit-ING! We have reviewed the report and have taken action on 4 Wayspots and a Wayfinder 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
Hi @NianticGiffard @NianticGiffard @NianticCasey-ING @NianticKN-ING Today even I have also got a fake nomination in review from the same area named Gayeshpur, West Bengal. I think even after the clearing there are still many fakes in this area and there are many more people doing such nonsense.
The submitted location is Gayeshpur where as the image clearly shows the location name as Dasnagar, Howrah- 5. These two area are more than 60km apart from each other. Please take a closer look at the area and remove such fakes and take serious actions against the people doing so.
Hi @NianticGiffard today I got the original nomination for the stolen image commented by my fellow Wayfinder. This you can well verify having the exact same address as mentioned in the image itself.
Please take strong action against the people who are stealing our nominations and submitting at their places. And if possible please flag the area completely for such abuses.
Hi @NianticGiffard today I have got this fake nomination from the same area named Gayeshpur, West Bengal. I have reported the nomination already please do something so that this area could get flagged and we don't get anything to review from here. This is blatant abuse of the system. Please check the following screenshots from review screen.
The submitters from this area are shamelessly stealing our nominations images and submitting in their location. Not only that, they are creating fake GMap tags to lure reviewers to get through. Please take actions against them.
Original Portal's Link: https://intel.ingress.com/?ll=22.581879,88.315306&z=17&pll=22.581879,88.315306
Hi @NianticGiffard I also got the same fake today in review. Please take serious actions against the submitter.
Original portal link: https://intel.ingress.com/?ll=22.581879,88.315306&z=17&pll=22.581879,88.315306
Hi @NianticGiffard ,
This area named Gayeshpur is still getting more fake wayspots added every day. Please take another look and remove all the stolen nominations from other regions. I have some more evidence to proof my claims. The following two wayspots are of a huge Water Towers. Any water tower should clearly have impression on Google map satellite view. But in this case there are nothing but buildings or empty fields:
1. https://intel.ingress.com/?ll=22.966014,88.498506&z=17&pll=22.966014,88.498506
2. https://intel.ingress.com/?ll=22.956554,88.497634&z=20&pll=22.956554,88.497634
The following couple of nominations are stolen from a different state India:
1. https://intel.ingress.com/?ll=22.953127,88.487504&z=17&pll=22.953127,88.487504
2. https://intel.ingress.com/?ll=22.955983,88.491438&z=17&pll=22.955983,88.491438
Please take a full scan of the area to get more such fake nominations. I would urge to do a strict actions against the wayspots as well as the people who've submitted them.
Regards,
Mysticjit
Thanks for the follow-up! We have reviewed the report and have taken action on 5 Wayspots and 3 Wayfinders in accordance with our policies. Thanks for helping us maintain the quality of the Wayspots.