Niantic, which owns the Pokémon Go, Ingress and Harry Potter games, has thrown out 2020 million players it stole by 1.
In a publication, Niantic informed its public that in 2020 banned 1 million players who stole in the game. He also revealed that for 2020, punishments were issued to over 5 millions players, in all augmented reality games. 20% of these players were denied entry.
More than 90% of the "fraudsters" stopped their "illegal" activities after the first warning, while 10% continued to cheat their teammates.
With most players of Niantic's ARG games stuck indoors due to the pandemic as well, most of the game's cheaters use tools for mobiles to spoof their location to continue playing the games, pretending to be somewhere else.
Spoofing may seem harmless, but with players who have the ability to have access σε απομακρυσμένες fundamentals, gyms, etc., cheaters can dominate the game.
We read from Niantic's statement: "We do not talk much about our anti-fraud efforts, in part because we do not want to provide cheaters information that can help them better understand our detection mechanisms. But rest assured that our reluctance to share is not due to a lack of effort or intention on our part. ”