Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says stacking payment methods with flagged cards gets Claude accounts banned instantly with no appeal, and recommends separating cards, IPs and accounts to spread the risk.

A user says Anthropic recently imposed a rule that being abusive to its models leads to a permanent account ban, and warns others not to cross that line.

A user asks whether continuing to use Claude during a stay in China via a VPN carries a high risk of being banned, and seeks others' experience.

The poster says a close friend urgently wants to use Claude, but they can't bring themselves to tell her directly that it will likely get her account banned.

Seeing many people on X appealing banned Claude accounts, this user has filed an appeal too and is waiting for Anthropic's response.

Someone spent hundreds of dollars getting five or more Claude accounts banned to test causes with controlled variables, finding payment method and sensitive agent conversations mattered most, while IP, timezone and language mattered less.

A user asks whether running Claude Code on their overseas VPS while back in China could get their Anthropic account banned due to timezone or region changes.

A user says two Claude accounts were banned after one day and two to three days respectively, even though both paid normally through Apple ID top-ups.

The poster offers two guesses: that Claude's recent unbans reflect a policy loosening rather than appeal letter content, and that someone distilling Claude promotes their own model by stirring outrage after each ban.

A short complaint that anyone who can keep using Claude steadily without getting banned amid the ban wave is one of the chosen ones.

After their Claude account was suddenly banned, the author tried proxy services, VPS and US residential proxies, and found that IP-checking sites use different standards and a perfect score still doesn't guarantee no ban.

A comparison of ChatGPT and Claude: using Claude means Oracle ARM servers, residential IPs, overseas cards, fingerprint browsers and a Mac mini for agents, plus a bonus course on how not to get banned.