Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The poster is fairly sure they got banned for trying to make a satirical photo with Claude and is asking anyone at Anthropic for help.

The author halted a five-minute Opus 5.5 run through DiagSafe, worried the flood of warnings and refusals would get their Claude account banned.

The poster, living in Canada for nearly five years but using a Hong Kong data plan and number, says opening Claude on his phone with a Hong Kong IP gets his account banned even though other signals point to Canada.

The author moves a Claude account that has been stable for four months from Windows to a new Mac without changing timezone or language, and asks whether it will get banned.

The author argues Claude's risk team doesn't score accounts from chat content, but bans via payment info, dual Cloudflare/Google IP checks, browser and device fingerprints, plus clustering and Cartesian-product feature combos.

A user replies that they no longer dare to open Claude, feeling their account could be banned at any moment.

A user suggests DeepSeek 4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 for reverse-engineering and cybersecurity work for those worried about OpenAI or Anthropic account bans.

An Australia-based user says they were banned despite paying for Claude Max 20x for a full year, and the data export contained only 240 bytes: a UUID and email.

A user says they were banned despite living overseas and paying for Claude 20x for a year, and the export held only a UUID and email, prompting an angry complaint to Anthropic.

A user shares a ban-avoidance tip: running Nord VPN under 3X UI so all Claude traffic exits through Nord, and staying unbanned for a long time.

The moshi author, a US permanent resident running a US company while temporarily in China, had his Claude Team account banned two days after paying for an annual renewal, with no refund.

A user says five of their Anthropic accounts were banned this week and calls for others to team up against the ban wave.