Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user reports their Claude account was banned and suspects either a nearly two-day Claude Code task or an SDK-linked task that reported Beijing time triggered it.

User says their previous account was banned after claiming a Claude promotion and warns others to avoid cheap Claude deals.

A joke that Claude's account bans have boomeranged to the US, with both Chinese and American users relocating to Singapore, where AI users supposedly outnumber the population.

A short video expressing the mood of someone whose Claude account was banned, with no details on cause or appeal.

A user says this is their seventh Claude account, expects it to be banned soon, but keeps using it because Sonnet/Opus 5.5 is strong at coding.

An ad pitches pre-made, exclusive Claude accounts with the original email, citing registration hurdles and ban fears.

A reply says even a high-profile user like Damon was banned by Claude without a refund, calling domestic Claude use a gamble and switching to local or portable alternatives.

A post recounts Damon Chen being banned two days after renewing Claude Team annually while in China and seeking an explanation and refund, asking whether to pay yearly or monthly.

The author argues Anthropic bans accounts mainly for use from unauthorized regions, with chat logs serving as review evidence, so anti-ban measures only delay the next suspension.

A user jokes that Claude's theoretical 3B tokens become zero once the account is banned, while DeepSeek's 2.2B remain usable.

A user shares that logging into Claude with a newly created Gmail is usually an instant ban, with four accounts lost including two Pro, and that KYC passport plus face checks may not save it.

The author says two years of Claude Code brought over ten bans: proxy IPs got accounts banned while ISP home broadband never did, and resold top-ups were banned within a day.