Niantic Bans Pokemon Go Cheaters - Permanently

Niantic bans Pokemon Go cheaters according to the company's blog pokemongolive.com reiterating its commitment to make Pokémon Go a fair and fun game to fans across the globe.

Niantic Blog Post

Addressing Pokemon trainers all over the world, the posts says that Niantic bans Pokemon Go cheaters who "take unfair advantage of Pokémon Go abusing it with third party apps and bots. They will terminate accounts that show clear signs of cheating."

Niantic states that if a player has been detected by the system to be cheating, an email will immediately be sent stating that the users account has been terminated permanently.

Possible Errors

The company is acknowledging that errors might take place in terminating accounts. Niantic advices trainers to report their status to Pokémon Go Help Center to resolve the confusion.

A Runaway Success

Pokemon Go has been a smashing runaway success that has taken the world by storm drawing crowds by the thousands across all ages out of their couches and beds to hunt and collect Pokemon in their neighborhoods, parks and churches.

The unprecedented success of Pokemon Go has created both opportunities and hazards for users with some building communities to hunt Pokemon as a group while others taking advantage of the situation to rob and steal players.

A link of the Pokémon Go Help Center is posted to below.

https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/requests/new?ticket_form_id=233187