Totally made up person in Chicago last week

Charlie - thanks for asking. I have been a high scorer on foursquare in Chicago. I own 2 businesses and I am out and about a lot. And I frequent local places next to each business. So all of a sudden someone names Jason F from Chicago shows up gaining 300 points in a day. That's impossible to do. So I went through all the Jason's and there wasn't one that was a high scorer. So, I know he was made up. And I didn't like it. And it made me quit using foursquare

I have myself gained dozens and dozens of points in a day without alot of effort, so I can believe a new user who understood the rules could plan a trip in a city to gain many, many points.

As for the name of the individual, you can change your name in this game, so you might not be able to find him again as Jason F. Additionally, the owners/operators/mods of foursquare could have deleted the suspicious account on whatever grounds they saw fit, or simply removed his bogus travel history.

Either way, I'm personally not concerned too much with people on the top of the leaderboard, rather getting out and meeting people, so I would lose too much sleep over phantom players with suspicious scores.

Dozen and dozens of points are not 300+. Jason F was this persons name last week and this week.

In my opinion - I don't like to be tricked. But thanks for your thoughts.

Jason F. can be from a different city visiting and it is very easy to score 300 points in one day if you are new to the city since all the venue checkins will be first time checkins which grant a bonus 5pts and each checkin for a day is worth the number of checkins that day (ex. 12th checkin is worth 12pts) so if he just checked in 20 times. that would be worth 320 points.

I did this when I went to Las Vegas a couple months ago. everywhere I went I checked in; I even added a bunch of places which got me even more points.

Richard - I can find you on foursquare. But Jason F didn't appear from any city with any points that could possibly be this person. I am just saying [grin]

i just did a search for jason f and found just one in Chicago who has 111 checkins in 8 days. he's listed as Jason instead of Jason F but I still found him searching for jason f

this is a very fun game, don't let one incident ruin it for you. The game continues to improve and has been getting a lot more fun. plus the leaderboard is just for the week and then it resets. I don't even pay attention to it.

Hey Richard - thanks for taking an interest in my "Jason F" fictitious person.
I'm not convinced. But keep having fun on foursquare. And cupcakes on me if you make it to Chicago: www.swirlzcupcakes.com