Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user lost a Claude Pro account after Grok Bot's cloud PC exit IP switched to Shenzhen when used without a VPN, causing Claude Code 403 errors and a risk-control ban after retries.

A user says their previous Claude account lasted a year and a half before a May ban, while the longest-lived account since then lasted only a month and a half.

A user whose half-year-old account was banned says Claude now rejects new signups even with a ten-year-old Google account or a freshly created one, and asks how others keep registering.

A user describes kill-switch network setups using TUN mode, proxy environment variables and pf routing, arguing that proxy use alone likely does not trigger Anthropic bans.

A user asks others whether their Claude accounts have also avoided bans so far and how they manage it.

One user argues a Claude membership is only worth it for high volume, and that official or large-site APIs are a safer choice since API access doesn't get banned.

A user posts that their Claude account has been banned and asks what they can do to avoid it.

A user says their free Claude accounts were banned and asks another user whether they use a VPS or a regular proxy service.

A user jokes that the ban song was written with Claude and wonders whether its author got banned too.

Anthropic says it has significantly reduced the effectiveness of distillation attacks on Claude, blocking 90% to 99% of harvested reasoning data and banning tens of thousands of accounts.

A user who resubscribed to Claude's $20 plan with a Malaysian card and no identity verification says it has already paid for itself after two days, but still fears being banned.

A user on their seventh Claude signup attempt says their previous account was banned after switching from a fingerprint browser to their local browser, and plans to wait two days before registering again.