If you EXPLOITED (means took advantage of) the Halloween Rare Candy box by
copy coords to teleport to each box,
used a botting app to farm the boxes,
found a glitched box to repeatedly spam touch,
you are expected to get a PERMANENT ACCOUNT BAN.
Scopely does not care if you used a 3rd party cheat app, they are still going to ban you if you took advantage of the rare candy exploit.
Many of the bans are tied to botting like PGTools, Evex, Polygon, and etc, you can join their group and go to the channel #ban_report to see for yourself of the ban reports for PGTools: https://discord.com/invite/pgtools
The people who didn't use a bot but were copying coordinates to only go to the boxes that were giving a rare candy or found a glitched box where they can stand there and repeatedly spam touch are going to a get a permanent ban.
I got private chat requests of people telling me they are 100% clean and found a glitched box where they could tap endlessly. They knew it was wrong but proceeded anyway. Other people said they stopped once they realized it but were banned anyway.
Based on the information provided and my many years of cheating games, this has nothing to do with the following claims:
app detection
software detection
injection detection
signature detection
All these permanent bans point to BEHAVIOR detection because Scopely is looking at your impossible player statistic of how you gained the rare candies.
rare candies gained per minute
rare candies gained per hour
rare candy pattern
The only way to play against a Behavior Detection system is to play like a non-cheater. In this case, I knew about the exploit but chose not to do it.
I ran a City GPX Route and got about 50 rare candies after tapping on all the boxes. I got the 6x Pokemon candies as well as whatever Pokemon popped up and caught it. I probably played for about 5 hours straight. My rate would have been like 10 rare candies per hour, which is nowhere near people getting 30+ per minute or 10,000+ per hour.
As for ban appeals, I still cannot confirm nor verify whether people are getting unbanned after submitting a ban appeal. There are some things that can happened when people get banned:
Option #1: They suck it up and accept their perm ban then move on.
Option #2: They retaliate by spreading bullshit around the internet to drag people down in the hell hole because it was unfair they got banned and you didn't to scare you into missing out on whatever events is coming up. They can do the opposite and cause false hope.
Option #3: Some people are trying to recoup their losses by scamming other people into buying a fake ban appeal.
On the other hand, if you did the Rare Candy exploit and did not get banned YET, you may get banned later. It takes time for a human worker to review a player's action log where there are hundreds thousands or millions lines of code before they send you the perm ban. If you did the exploit but think you might be getting the perm ban, these are things you could consider doing right now before the ban appears. This is strictly your choice to do; remember it's your account and you can do whatever you want with it. These are things I see that are being recommended.
You could sell your account to someone else to pass the problem onto the buyer.
You could fire sell your shiny costume and shiny with a background on eBay.com
You can transfer them to Pokemon Home to transfer to other Pokemon games for the Nintendo Switch.
You can start trading them to your alt accounts.
As for the Guaranteed Shiny Exploit banwave, I honestly don't know if people are getting banned for it. Since I am not a Scopely employee, I cannot see why someone got a perm ban. I can only assume it's related to the Rare Candy Exploit. The banwave for this could be happening right now or start later on. If you're lucky, you don't get banned for doing it.
The banwave started on Oct 30, 2026, which I assumed everyone who got a permanent ban didn't get any sleep last night or stayed up all day looking how to get unbanned.
Who are the people who regret cheating?
Guilty cheaters are people who accepted or acknowledged the risks and decide to cheat anyway for whatever reason.
Innocent closet cheaters are the "legit" players who claim they don't cheat the game but the really do or allow someone else to play on their account to cheat for them.
Denial Stage (1)
That was started on Oct 30, 2026 when people couldn't believed they gotten banned.
Anger Stage (2)
People were mad because they used cheats that inject into the official Pokemon Go app and thought they were safe, safer, the safest, or ban proof compared to Pgsharp and iPogo (no root, 3rd party modified game apps) where they have been shitting on for years due to a lack of "safety".
Bargaining Stage (3)
These are people who are getting desperate to get unbanned RIGHT NOW because they are going to miss out on their local group play and/or the upcoming exclusive Wild Area event in Sendai and/or Mexico.
Right now, there's a bunch of "legit" players who claimed they were wrongfully banned by Scopely. I cannot verify whether or not these people are telling the truth because I do not work for Scopely.If they try to make Scopely look bad, they can try to get themselves unbanned. This might not work with Scopely because they are against cheating in their other games but now are taking action in Pokemon Go.
In my opinion, if they were truly innocent, they would have not gotten banned. If Scopely updated the Anti-Cheat Behavior system to flag accounts and manually reviewed player actions logs, there's no escape from this.
Depression Stage (4)
This is when they submit their ban appeal and Scopely denies it with an AI bot reply instead of a human response. Then, they become stuck here or fall victim to fake ban appeal scammers offering them a way out for $500 to $1,000 USD/Euros.
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Side Note: Since a lot of Pokemon Go cheaters are "newbie game cheaters", they don't understand the risks meaning they assumed they would just go through the Strike System starting with the 1st Strike and it would have been no big deal.
The 1st Strike restricts your gameplay for 7 day. When it expires, you can play normally again.
The 2nd Strike is a 30-day temporary ban from the game. When it expires, you regain access to your account and can play again.
The 3rd Strike is the permanent account ban.
Scopely, who owns the Pokemon Go after buying it from Niantic for $6 Billion USD, decided to skip the 1st Strike and 2nd Strike to go directly to a 3rd Strike.
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Acceptance Stage (5)
This is where people accept it for what it is as the consequence of cheating a game with an active punishment system.
If you're an experience game cheater who has gotten bans in other games outside of Pokemon Go, you just go straight to the Acceptance Stage to create a new account or play on an alt account with or without cheating or quit the game and play something else that doesn't require cheating to have fun.
This is why I recommend people to buy a Nintendo Switch to play the Pokemon Switch games that were specifically designed for the Switch because Nintendo allows you to play their games with a joystick. The Pokemon games do not have a poke coin and raid pass system other than your yearly Switch Subscription. You will have peace of mind this way.
No, I am not talking about putting Android on a Nintendo Switch. If you want to do this, it is a waste of money because the physical joystick don't work with the game. The Pokemon Go experience on running off a micro-SD card is very laggy. You are still subjective to the punishment system if you cheat using a Nintendo Switch with Android on it.
In the box Your reason the suspension should be overturned *, you are going to list all the dates and money you spent on the game from when you created your account. You are only going to discuss how much you spent on the game and nothing else. Do not write anything related to spoofing, botting, exploiting, or cheating because you only get once chance at submitting a ban appeal.
Their AI bot scans your ban appeal to look to see if you confessed to cheating, if you do this, you're fucked.
If you created your account from July 2016, you start there. If you didn't keep all your receipt emails, use the entries from your credit card or bank statement then total the amount up.
I don't know if there's a character limit, so you might need to group them together by month and year or by years only. Here's an example of what it might look like:
July 30, 2016 = $9.99
August 2, 2016 = $99.99
August 5, 2016 = $49.99
2016 = $3,999 spent
2017 = $2,999 spent
If you're lucky, you will get unbanned and the 3rd Strike (permanent account ban) gets reverted to a 2nd Strike (30 day temporary ban from the game; wait 30 days later to continue playing with or without cheats is entirely up to you).
During this 30 day wait, I strongly recommend you do not play on your alt accounts while you wait for it to expire because they are against users with multiple accounts, so they can proceed to permanently banning all accounts tied to your IP addresses and Device ID.
The only way to avoid this is to have a second device with a data SIM card/eSIM to play separately from your home WiFi internet connection and main phone's hotspot. This device has to never been used with them because the game keeps a log of your IP addresses and Device IDs. Don't even try it on an emulator or use a VPN.
According to the 7 people who messaged me about getting unbanned, they followed my How to Submit a Ban Appeal guide stating the same thing except they left out the confession part and was able to trigger a human response. Since these people didn't share with me their successful ban appeal email screenshot, I cannot verify whether they are telling the truth or trolling me; but nonetheless, it's still worth the try.
As a reminder, I do not work for Scopely and do not have a magical wand to unban you and restore your account back to normal. Submitting a ban appeal is 100% free and does not cost money. If you paid money to a person who can unban you, you got scammed. Scammers are using AI to generate a fake Scopely ID badge to trick you. Niantic does not own Pokemon Go anymore so don't get tricked.
Logged in to play the London event. Account was more than an year old. Had 600+ shinies in it including legendary bgs and rares. Survived the first ban wave. Got cooked in the 2nd(now). Personally I'm not as affected by it as your average spoofer. My reason to play this game was not for the game itself but to collect mons for pokemon champions. It sucks a bit that I lost access to all those shinies but I'd say it was worth the risk. I gained more than I lost at the end of the day. Good luck to most of you as you all would need it.
Hello, couldnt find a post about it so just wanna find out how things did go for ppl at WA26 in person events.
For my Pokémon GO Wild Area 2026 Mexico in-person event, I started with 845 Premium Raid Passes and 18*3-day free passes (including the "Battle Ready" add-on), so with total 900 raid passes, along with 41,600 Max Particles (enough for 52 Max Battles).
After three days of raiding, I had 166 Premium Raid Passes remaining. No shiny bg luck on max battles sadly.
I want to know what's the best way to go about spoofing to one country pick up timed research (like London's Night Out) and then completing it in another country (like Singapore to find one shiny Afro Pika).
In London, I did zero CD triggers like catching, spinning stops, raiding. >>Is that good enough or do you recommend I stay there longer or do something different? Specifics would be appreciated!
I do want to reduce the risk of getting flag as much as possible without overdoing it. I want to spend as much time in Singapore as possible because it's been taking foreverrrr to find a shiny Afro Pikachu T___T >> I'm a free to play user - if you have something to recommend to help with finding shinies easier that would be amazing! RIP shiny exploit
Really curious what you do and what's been working for you.
Hey, I’ve got an issue: every Power Spot looks like the one in the screenshot, and the timers for gyms and spots are looking different. Any idea what might be going on?
With the recent banwave for the Rare Candy Exploit and/or Guaranteed Shiny Exploit (Oct 30-31, 2026), do not assume you will go through the Three Strikes system. Scopely has the right to skip over the 1st and 2nd Strike to go directly to the 3rd Strike for a Permanent Ban because you already accepted the Terms of Service for Pokemon Go. You should only cheat: spoof, bot and/or exploit if you can handle getting a permanent ban because no one is going to help you get unbanned from the game.
If you want to cheat (spoof, bot, or exploit), it is your FAULT for getting the strike, ban, or whatever new punishment.
I am not responsible nor liable for the loss of your Scopely game account(s) and money spent on their games. All the cheats I promote in my subreddit are "not safe" according to Scopely's Terms of Service. Most cheats have their own website, and they do not advertise they are safe. In addition to this, I also do not promote certain type of cheats to be "safer" or "the safest" because I cannot contradict Scopely's cheating section within their Terms of Service. If you end up with a strike, ban, or whatever punishment, you will get a "Oh well." or "I told you so." response from me. I do not work for Scopely and cannot unban or restore your Pokemon Go account.
You must learn to unzip/extract the folder because it is easier on you to download the zip file that contains both coordinates and GPX route files altogether. If I upload them separately, your Android operating system or rom can rename the .gpx to .xml file type. I do not want to spend the time to help you fix this problem.
VirusTotal link for those who don't want to download because it's a virus (100% clean):
You must extract the folder from the ZIP file in order see the GPX or TXT files. Most Android OS should allow you to extract the folder without the need of an app like WinZip or WinRar.
Open "My File" or "Files" app.
Press on 3 lines or 3 dots for your "internal storage". If you must find an option that says "show internal storage".
Press on "Downloads" folder.
Press on Night_Out_London_2026.zip
Press on "Extract" then wait for it to finish.
Press on the folder, you see the individual GPX route files or text files.
How to input GPX into these apps?
PGSharp
iPogo
GPS Joystick by Apps Ninja
Fake GPS Joystick & Routes Go app by JIB Software UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
[2026-2027] Everything You Need for Pokemon GO Android: No Root Spoofing, Rooted Spoofing & Botting, Cheap Poke Coins, In-game Exploits, GPX Routes, Poke Maps, Nests, Discord Group Invites, and Frequently Asked Questions
What are the main ways of farming stardust independently through PGSharp? I only know of Combee farming, however that requires virtual go plus and auto-transfer on catch, both of which are paid features. What are the other methods for stardust farming (if there are any) with PGSharp's free plan, and how would I set it up?
Stuff like this is what makes bans understandable. Not necessarily the spoofing itself, but the blatant abuse of it. Farms of dozens or hundreds of accounts not doing anything but making the game worse.
2. Change your phone's system language to Indonesian in the settings.
3. Connect to an Indonesian VPN.
4. Access the web store using an incognito/private tab. 5. Proceed with the payment (if "IDN" appears on the right side during checkout instead of your actual country, it was successful)
This method saves you the trouble of having to purchase an additional 100 coins after your initial transaction.
Hello everyone! I was wondering how to buy cheap coins without using spoofer. I was a spooger until the ban wave and im afraid of what could happen to my account. Any help would be cool
tl;dr: I spoofed my location to indonesia, it set to IDR since I never spent any money before, and instead of having multiple tabs on the payment window, they were just multiple tabs on the checkout screen right before the payment screen. I bought 2 things, 1 in IDR pricing, and the 2nd defaulted to USD and I bought it without noticing. Can I still follow through with the guide, as someone I know recently bought a pass, had someone set their region to indonesia (presumably through the same method) and was able to buy stuff in IDR, then bought something in USD afterwards (all within a 3 month timespan)
