Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user reports losing two Claude accounts immediately after paying for Max with Apple gift cards, with the money gone too.

A reply claims the user has kept using Claude from mainland China without a ban despite widespread ban-wave reports, and doesn't know why.

A reply notes that Google Play subscriptions route payment and refunds through Google, so a banned user appeals to a different party, and asks whether the friend paid Anthropic by card directly.

To dodge Claude account bans, providers rent remote access to real Mac minis in US and Korean data centers for sign-ups and Claude Code, with at least five vendors reportedly doing it.

The author runs eight Pro subscriptions and routes sub-agents across them so the main session never burns its quota, avoiding Max ban risk and KYC.

The author wonders whether people using Claude Code for reverse engineering worry about their Claude accounts getting banned.

The author says magpie sends genuine Claude Code requests, that ban risk depends on Anthropic's rules, and that sharing an account among multiple people violates the terms.

Replying to another user, the author says their Claude account was banned today and they are weighing a ChatGPT subscription, asking whether Astra still holds up.

A user whose Claude account was banned says they built a small game as a way to vent their frustration, sharing it as a video.

A joking post says the toddler already uses ChatGPT, and when asked why not Claude, the answer is that her account was banned.

A user reports their old Claude account was banned despite casual use, saying they had assumed it would be spared.

A joke listing why people still on Claude are worth befriending: search skills, patience through repeated bans, SOTA usage, and willingness to burn $200 subscriptions.