Nov 24, 2018, 02:06 AM
I've gotten a bunch of obviously-hacked Pokémon through Wonder Trades. They're mostly level 100, in those red Event balls, often shiny, and often holding a rare item of some kind. The OTs are sometimes obvious advertisements, but sometimes using normal-seeming names; often taken from the NPCs in the games.
For Shiny Mew, it looks like a legit one is most likely from Japan (2 events there), or the UK (1 event there); so you can rule out any other sources.
You could take this a step further I think, and research the OT names for those events. Those should be publicly available somewhere, I would think. If not, I'm not sure how you could find out without contacting TPC themselves to obtain that information.
Bottom line: it's probably hacked or cloned. It's safest to proceed from that assumption, until proven otherwise.
For Shiny Mew, it looks like a legit one is most likely from Japan (2 events there), or the UK (1 event there); so you can rule out any other sources.
You could take this a step further I think, and research the OT names for those events. Those should be publicly available somewhere, I would think. If not, I'm not sure how you could find out without contacting TPC themselves to obtain that information.
Bottom line: it's probably hacked or cloned. It's safest to proceed from that assumption, until proven otherwise.
