Niantic is launching an attack on the spoofers. Since Wednesday morning, many cheaters in Pokémon GO have been warned or even banned.
Some players in the Pokémon GO community gain advantages over decent players with the help of third-party software. Spoofers use apps that allow them to change their GPS location and deceive other programs – like Pokémon GO – into thinking they are located in Berlin instead of Buxtehude, for example. They often teleport to rare monsters or gyms without having to go there “in real life”.
Once again, Niantic is taking action against these fraudsters. This time apparently effectively.
New round in the fight against spoofers
Since this morning, reports of warned and banned spoofers have been increasing on Reddit. Reddit user derBirx mentions that spoofers on a Discord server are suddenly complaining about the red-black warnings appearing on their devices.
The warnings indicate that users are utilizing unauthorized third-party programs. Such reports already surfaced in March in Pokémon GO.
The special thing is that many spoofers have previously been spared from these warnings. But that seems to have changed in the last few hours. Some spoofers are said to have received not just a warning but a ban directly.
Initially, there were only reports about affected cheaters on Android devices, but now iOS users are also said to be affected by the measures. On the Discord server, a banned spoofer reports his encounter with the ban hammer:
Cautious hope in the community
Other Reddit users are receiving this information with curiosity. The joy is often great when fraudsters are banned from the game. However, people are now only cautious and do not want to celebrate just yet. Perhaps not that many players are affected after all.
It will likely take the next few days to show how many spoofers are banned and how effective this measure from Niantic is.
Some players quietly hang out in spoofer groups on social networks like Facebook or Discord to see how the feedback is there. User ShadowDash1089 does the same. He says that many GPS cheaters have been complaining about these warnings in the last few hours, although they never used IV-checkers, bots, or multi-accounts. These programs have previously been the reasons for the appearance of the warning. In previous ban waves, spoofers often escaped this.
Shadow bans are now distributed faster – IV-checkers are affected
