The threat of location spoofing and fraud

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