Can blackhat SEO really get you banned from google?

[badboi10492]

Okay, I need some of you who know what your talking about to tell me if Blackhat SEO can get your site banned from google, What I am speaking of is methods such as the Magic Traffic Bot that pings websites telling them that the referer is my site and the ones that list top referrers help my rankings...Now can that get my site banned from Google? ...I think it could BUT the thing I wonder is, Can't I just do the same thing with my competitor's site and get them banned from Google? Thats the reason I wonder how true the claims are... Please let me know , Thanks.