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I was in line getting my coffee and saw a guy using hacked pokemon app.

Asked by unixphone8 years 1 month ago

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sees guy in line spoofing

taps guy

Me: Really bro, you're even spoofing outside?

Then I'll just ??? my ass off!

I will take a photo of him from behind trying to capture the username and report him to Niantic for sure.

Look at the image, MiguelAmstaff has like 40+ gyms in different cities around, nothing has been done even him has been reported for tons of players. If we don't say anything and don't take our actions this will keep happening always. Stop spending real money on the app if you can't enjoy the 100% of the game or your area is full of spoofers/hackers/bots.

Wont be easy to take a photo without him noticing it....

Probably you are right, but I am very mad with those things, the guy I talk about even send some screens to our Facebook group and laughing about what he has done. He has 54 gyms at this point, 271 Tyranitar, 42 Blissey, 491 Lapras, 429 Snorlax and 323 Dragonite, do you think that we should stay quiet and don't do anything about it? I will keep trying my best reporting every single one I can and multiple times and won't pay a cent more until something is done.

Can someone explain how it is posible that this is allowed?

wow; what is his satisfaction?
Leave his gyms alone for 1-2 weeks, like he and his gyms don't exist?

Are you serious? So leave a guy that has 54 gyms and probably even more as we speak that plays 24 hours with a bot/hack account and is taking every day probably 75% of the gyms on 25km radius ruining the game for hundreds of people? Not an option, at least for me, and I hope they are getting hundreds of reports with his screens and they ban him forever.

Note: being Niantic of course they won't do anything, hundreds of reports with screens of his pokédex and they will clap him and send him free incubators...

Not impressed w his catches, just the Tyranitar one, so really he isn't that good of a spoofer even. His gym count is high, but I know legits w 60 gyms, so even though he's tryna flex, he ain't shit. Keep reporting him!

I get you don't like cheating in a video game but taking pics of someones phone over their back would be a good way to start a fight. IMO that kinda behavior is far worse than cheating in a silly game.

This is actually true.

I assume you mean hacked as in spoofing and the map you saw didnt match your own location.

Or did you see something else?

Well, we were all waiting in line to order coffee. I saw him fighting a gym. The coffee shop only has pokestop. For sure, using hacked app.

If i was not in line, I probably will ask which team color he is to start a conversation. It would be odd to talk to him across a few folks.

There is a small chance that he wasn't "hacking" just so you know.

You can engage a Gym, turn off your location after engaging so drift/etc doesn't move you

And do that 1 run through the Gym anywhere. (2nd run would require hacking)

Which if the Gym was close by, and he knew he was going to be stuck in line, might have been what he was doing

Ive never done this, but many people on this board have mentioned doing it during winter for warmth

Interesting. I will try that next time.
Basically, when the gym detect me, i turn off location. Open the pokemon app during my coffee wait.

Like I said I have never done it.

But based on what I have read on here, you would need to leave your app open till you finish fight.

My reception is really bad in my apartment and my character drifts and I can take down the nearest gym from home.

If he was on an enemy team I would probably have a quick friendly convo with him and compliment his pokemon and mention my player name in hopes that he would remember me and not take my gyms. "Oh I remember that guy from the coffee shop! Was a cool dude, I'll leave him be."

Telling him cheating is lazy, disgusting, etc won't stop him. Keep your enemies close right?

Lol you read my mind!
I wanted to start a conversation with him but there were folks between us. I took a peek. His level is only 20 something. I guess he only plays when during coffee break.