Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says a friend used Claude fine in Singapore with a Chinese KYC, but lost the account after three days back home, calling Anthropic's bans baffling.

A user disputes IP-based ban theories, saying their Claude account survived varied IPs, direct access from China and three-plus devices, and behavior matters most.

An image post asks whether it is true that a US citizen traveling to China had their Claude account banned.

A user on a five-month third-party Claude Pro subscription asks whether upgrading to 5x triggers KYC and gets the account banned.

A commenter asks how the poster kept multiple Claude accounts unbanned and logged each into Claude Code.

A user says their Claude account was banned because they are currently in China, so switching to Codex might be worth it.

A user says their Max account was banned within 12 hours before, and this one has lasted two weeks; tweaking IP, timezone or payment doesn't help.

A commenter says Claude will refuse or ban accounts for 'hacking' based on prompts, so security testing needs another route.

The author says they were banned from Claude several times and their top-up business stopped, finding that signup and verification is where many users get stuck.

Anthropic's Claude bans jumped from 690K to 11.4M, driven by its supported-regions policy that checks IP, ownership and control, with roughly a 10% appeal success rate.

A user agrees that when a Claude account gets banned, they simply open a new one because they can't live without it.

A user registered Claude via a heavily shared node, exposed mainland location and system time, still wasn't banned, and plans to keep provoking it daily to see how long it lasts.