Fake WHOIS records, you can typically populate anything there. Some geolocation providers blindly trust the values that you put in there (for example, Maxmind);

Fake WHOIS records, you can typically populate anything there. Some geolocation providers blindly trust the values that you put in there (for example, Maxmind); others do triangulation based on trace routes and ping times to deduce if the advertised location is actually correct (ipinfo, DB-IP).