The ban prevents players from accessing their accounts for seven days to permanently. Niantic is working to reverse a number of false account bans in Pokémon GO. As reported by Eurogamer, an anti-cheating system in-game has incorrectly identified several users as using "third-party applications" to 'cheat' in the game.

Does Niantic ban for spoofing?

Niantic currently has a very clear policy against cheating. They operate on a three-strike system. The first strike will get a player a seven-day ban, while a second offense will be punished with a ban for as long as a month. ... A majority of the players who received their suspensions were for spoofing Pokemon GO.

Can Niantic detect spoofers?

Some people argued () that there must be some payoffs from leaving spoofers unbanned from Niantic's perspective. ... It's not that they cannot detect them, but they choose not to ban them(or hasn't decided how to).