In this Help Net Security video, André Ferraz, CEO at Incognia, discusses the impact of location spoofing and location-based fraud.
Any tool that enables users to alter the location information given by their device is known as location spoofing. Scammers are increasingly utilizing this technique as a standard tactic.
The most common techniques used for location spoofing are:
- VPNs and proxies
- GPS spoofing apps
- Emulators
- Apps tampering
- Instrumentation tools