Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The banned user says the Claude team confirmed the ban stemmed from the supported-regions policy, and questions why DHH openly using Claude Code from China was not treated the same.

The author contrasts Xiaohongshu complaints about AI-generated code with the many Claude account ban posts on X, wondering if they are using AI from different eras.

The poster's Claude account was banned last week; Gmail re-registration required KYC, but signing in with Apple and subscribing via the App Store avoided KYC.

The poster says a $125 Claude Max subscription was banned within an hour with no refund, and a China Merchants Bank chargeback recovered the money.

The author questions Altman's claim that OpenAI's internal models far surpass all others, and complains about being beaten by Claude while also dealing with bans.

A blogger recommends an environment setup for using Claude over a VPN to avoid account bans, claiming tens of thousands have viewed it with positive feedback.

The author wonders why Douyin has so much content about Claude account bans, joking that using Claude has somehow become a status symbol.

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.