up until yesterday, i had a pokefarmer acc, stopped pokefarmer since last week, was lvl 24, then bought lucky eggs to do evolution and stuff, until lvl 26 all via phone,caught pokemons, looting, hatching etc..gym battles as well, put my highest CP on, joined other ppl's gym by pushing up prestige etc, a total of max 5gyms held at that time.. but i never click on the "Collect Now!" just to see how long a particular gym can hold, until 2days ago only got 2gym left on hold..then i was thinking "hell, better collect now or never!" and immediately i was banned this morning..
the lesson of the story i think it goes like this:
Well, you can bot the bot farm the farm nox the nox and emulate the emulation stuff, also you can battle at the gym to train etc and hold the gym for some bragging rights, catch our pokemons around, loot some pokestops for pokeballs to catch more pokemons etc, hatching eggs enjoy the game, "spend money" to buy incubators and lucky eggs and balls, but..NEVER EVER try to claim your rewards by clicking on "Collect Now!" because this means you are getting free stuff from them in terms of pokecoins! - don't worry about the stardust, it cost them nothing, but never ever try to get POKECOINS from those stupid bastard!!