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Bots Using Lures

The other evening I came across 8 Pokestops close to each other in my town, each of which had an active lure from a user with a random, forgettable user name such as "6sgh54n0023".

This appeared to me as a coordinated bot action.

Anyone else seen anything similar ?

Asked by HalfPastLunchtime8 years ago

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I think a lot of us can relate. I wonder if that's his username if and after Niantic changed it

It's a tracker bot.
Third party trackers uses bots to track pokemon.
Some of these trackers gives the player the option to use the lures that the bots get from leveling up.
The names of the bots are randomly generated, so it's basically a cluster of numbers and letters.