Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user's Claude Max account was banned an hour after purchase and Anthropic refused a refund; a bank chargeback through China Merchants Bank recovered the money.

A veteran coder jokes that using Claude Code now means cycling through signup, ban, new email and node, and instant re-ban.

A joke post claims a friend's Claude account was instantly banned after uploading a 100-square-meter apartment listing that was really only 60-something square meters inside.

A rated rundown of overseas banking, U-cards, eSIMs and VPS options, ending with a claim that a self-hosted datacenter IP keeps Claude accounts unbanned.

A V2EX poster reports three Claude accounts still alive with no bans or KYC despite datacenter IPs, Chinese-language setup, region-hopping subscriptions and even arguing with Claude.

A reply asserts that anyone who can use TikTok can certainly access Claude via proxy without getting banned.

A user who got a GPT refund in August asks whether a Claude subscription can also be refunded after the account is banned.

The user says a free Claude account has lasted over three months, another was once banned, and the current one was briefly suspended on Oct 4 for suspected child use but reinstated in minutes.

A roundup of AI news from Oct 23-24 notes Claude adding MCP Tasks for long-running plugins, reports that some Max accounts had weekly quotas cut by 20%, and that one user was banned after subscribing without ever using the service.

A tongue-in-cheek appeal to Anthropic support explains away a Chinese phone number and disposable verification codes while begging not to be banned again.

A user says several of their Claude accounts were banned while ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini accounts were not, calling Claude's enforcement harsh.

A self-described former big-tech programmer says repeated Claude account bans led him to switch careers into testing whether static residential IPs are clean.