Aktually the automatic reply says ist already:
"Trainer,
We have received your appeal. Our goal is to provide a fair, fun and legitimate game experience for everyone. Use of any other third-party software or app, including but not limited to scripts/apps, applications used to falsify your location, using emulators, modified or unofficial software and/or accessing Pokémon GO clients or backends in an unauthorized manner is considered cheating.
Please consider your account permanently terminated unless we reply back to your appeal.
-NianticOps"
Has anyone actually had a bot account banned that was strictly local (within 50 miles of home), didn't snipe, didn't mass transfer/evolve, always moved below 10 km/h, used realistic timeframes when jumping, and never got softbanned?
Trainer,
We have received your appeal. Our goal is to provide a fair, fun and legitimate game experience for everyone. Use of any other third-party software or app, including but not limited to scripts/apps, applications used to falsify your location, using emulators, modified or unofficial software and/or accessing Pokémon GO clients or backends in an unauthorized manner is considered cheating.
Please consider your account permanently terminated unless we reply back to your appeal.
-NianticOps
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That's what i ve received by mail after i did the appeal form.
1 more account got banned..heavily botted...thats 2 since this morning
my level 24 account is in times square, mass transfer&evolve, snipe accross the world, moved above 300kmph, unrealistic timeframes. and i live in another continent (+12h). and guess what? its still alive. i stopped botting since the first day of this banwave.
but nvm it didnt fit to your question....
So the Hammer got all my account, even my kids accounts that have not been botted on. Incl. My nerver botted man account, Had 4 botted accounts only local botted, living 20km outside a small city. Only botted in that city at low speed, no namechange, no sniping. Only my path where i walked when playing with my kids. The bot was on for max 2-4 hours every second day or so..
So, for me i got new experiences today.
My Main Account, Level 32 I think, gets the "Failed to ..." Message since last Friday noon. I botted this Account from Level 8 to 32. In the morning everything was fine, at noon i got the message...
Until today its still like that. Until today i even couldnt log out of the game on my Mobile because there was no "Log out" Button on the screen, just the Failed-Message and "Try again".
Yesterday i made a new Acc using PTC. I started immediately with "botting" this Account. I sniped 32 rare Pokemons like Dragonair, Snorlax and so on usind PokeSniper2.
Then sometime i got banned with "There are no Pokestops" . I stopped botting immediately. Few Minutes ago i started PoGo on my Mobile just to see if something has happened. This Time i saw a "Log out" Button AND the Failed-Message(first thing that has changed for me). So, i logged out from my Google-Account, and logged in with the new PTC Account - everything fine with this. All sniped Pokemons from yesterday are there.....Then i had to edit my Profile and give a Nickname, i have chosen my old Nick from Google-Account and it says "....not available!" So, my old Nickname seems to be still active. I Dont wnat to say this Account is NOT permabanned because of thie thing with the Nickname, but maybe(?) it could really be a ban just for a specific time, as i could read in some threads here. I Dont know, time will show..... Sorry for my bad english....
So.... I have now back the LogOut-Button AND i know that my old Nickname is still active. But i dont know what it means....
I did try it on a new account. Used necrobot (safe settings). Local IP and farming location not more that 15kms from my place. Botted with a lvl 1 account for five straight hours yesterday - was getting about 9k - 15k xp per hour. Today this bot got the failed message. Definitely bots are not safe right now irrespective of settings. Will start experimenting with poke go ++. Lets see. Btw did not snipe or mass evolve.. Heck the bot did not even even cross level 20.
Yes. The bot did not trip any soft ban (flee/stop etc) during that 5 yrs span. Read the whole log.
I think after Niantic threatened BOT devs and forced them to quit it, they probably gave devs some bucks and got the data the devs had like username and email and sh*t