I have been dealing with what I strongly believe are users with multiple accounts for over six months.
I have reported them through the in-game system and the official support page multiple times, but I have not seen any changes.
Is there anything else I can do?
Also, if anyone has successfully reported multiple accounts and seen action taken, could you share your experience?
There is also a possibility that these accounts may be involved in PokéStop submissions or interactions.
That is why I am asking this question in the Wayfarer community.
Firstly, welcome to the community. Niantic / Scopely already has measures in place that deals with multi-accounters. If you believe there is someone who is a multi-accounter, the only thing you can do is report and hope. In terms of Wayspot nominations, if you believe there is a Vote Rigging or demonstratable fake nominations, you should by all means report it.
Other than hunting them down and breaking whatever laws are in your location, there isn’t much more you can do.
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Hello and welcome @malonmilk777
Multi-accounting is clearly against terms of service.
It is taken seriously.
You can report the use to the wayfarer team by using this form.
The team will investigate their wayfarer activity.
If they are found to be in breach of the rules of wayfarer any sanctions are applied to wayfarer and game accounts.
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You could report them but you must know that multi account is one of the hardest to proof (sometime people misunderstood wife/children account as multi). Especially because you may not have all proof and only circumstancial evidence. Distinguishing multi account and family member might be even harder if its using multiple device. However, review circle is easier to detect and subject to suspension in abuse ladder system.
If you are looking for Pokémon GO action I’m afraid this is a bit outside of the scope of this forum.
For Wayfarer it’s as it has been said above - your best avenue is the form that’s been shared.
Thanks, I understand. I had tried the URL that was shared earlier, but it didn’t help.
From a Wayfarer point of view the issue with multi-accounts is most likely to be a voting ring leading to invalid wayspots.
If you have a group of invalid wayspotsI find the best thing is to report them together as that gives the analyst more context. You can do this through the Reporting Abuse link.
For example, give a description that all these wayspots are invalid and you believe there is a voting ring in the first box, and in the second box give the wayspot name, coordinates and a detailed explanation about why that particular wayspot is invalid (use the Wayfarer Map to find the coordinates and names, but don’t report multiple wayspots through the map is my advice).
Let’s start with the obvious: Niantic’s Terms of Service explicitly forbid owning multiple accounts (ALT).
And yet, despite what some Wayfinders here might insist, everyone knows PoGo is absolutely saturated with ALTs.
No one has hard numbers—because of course we don’t—but I once saw an influencer poll where roughly 30% of respondents openly admitted to having ALTs. And since that was self‑reported, you can safely assume the real number is higher. Much higher.
The situation is even worse in rural areas.
PoGo culture has reached the point where the more ALTs someone runs, the more they’re treated like some kind of local hero. And depending on where you live, people will straight‑up tell you that raids simply don’t happen unless someone brings a small army of ALTs.
So yes, it’s perfectly reasonable to assume Wayfarer—now almost entirely populated by PoGo players—is contaminated to a similar degree. And since Wayfarer and Ingress officially split last year, it’s not hard to imagine the ALT ratio getting even worse.
Now, as for what Niantic or Wayfarer are doing about it…
Well, “not much” would be the polite answer.
Niantic can’t take action without clear, undeniable proof, and unsurprisingly, ALT users don’t leave notarized confessions attached to their accounts. And when it comes to Wayfarer, things used to be even messier: back when PoGo and Ingress used separate logins, anyone with both accounts could review on both. Technically that’s ALT behavior too, but I don’t recall anyone on the forums raising a serious complaint about it.
So where does that leave us?
Niantic would need to clearly communicate what consequences rule‑breakers will face, and both the PoGo and Wayfarer communities would need to take a firm stance against ALTs and coordinated review groups.
But given the current culture in PoGo—and the fact that Wayfarer is now overwhelmingly PoGo‑driven—I’m not holding my breath.
Unfortunately, this is just where things stand right now.