What should I do if I’ve discovered a mass theft of wayspots?
I’m almost certain that the few duplicates I’ve found are just the tip of the iceberg — this mass theft likely involves a larger number of wayspots.
Should I report each one individually? In most cases, it’s nearly impossible to identify the original source wayspot. I can’t trace every origin, and neither can the nia (or whichever now) reviewers handling my reports.
It seems likely that the thief originally lived in Tbilisi, Georgia, since the earliest stolen wayspots appear to have come from there.
Part A/ Stolen from Tbilisi
Перемен требуют наши сердца
This is a very popular portal for theft. It has been stolen, I think, 3 times already. The funniest thing is that I am not sure that the source in Tbilisi itself was not stolen from somewhere. I was not able to find the portal in this place.
Woman on the tiger
The second source for the theft in Tbilisi - and again I’m not sure that the source is still there. However, that’s not a reason to steal it, I think.
After Tbilisi, the thief moved to Belgrade, looked at what portals there were. And then went to live in Kraljevo. After that, it all started again…
Part B/ Stolen from Belgrade
I won’t go into detail about the history of the portals in Belgrade. They are most likely in their place. I’ll just show the stolen portals and sources.
Bujobič Zoran
Here the thief got a little confused in the Serbian Cyrillic script, so he wrote down the Serbian letter В (pronounce as V) as Б (pronounce as B).
За Партизан
Perhaps this is a rare case where the thief uploaded their own photo, because the source portal does not have such a photo. However, the chips on the stones and the stones on the road match.
За Партизан #2
(It must be said that the thief has little imagination sometime)
Kosulje po Meri
One day the thief realized that they can’t steal only the showcase photo. These are portals in the center of Belgrade, they have a lot of photos uploaded, there is something to choose from.
Kraljevo Eddy Grant
Вришти девојка
Here we learn that the thief knows how to use crop tool in a photo editor.
Škorpija
This photo is also cropped.
The final
This was the story of portals theft that I wanted to share with you — and I have.
Thank you for your attention.