Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Anthropic opened a Singapore office and signed a cooperation agreement with the government on October 14, as the country ranks second globally in per-capita Claude usage at 5.81 times the expected level.

A user says Anthropic's account bans have started again and that one of their accounts has now been suspended.

A user says their Claude account has run for months without a ban, even though Claude's memory knows they are Chinese and in China, and credits a clean proxy with an unchanged US node.

One user says they have used Codex as their main work tool for a full year, while their Claude account was banned after only 23 days.

A user speculates that all Claude users in Singapore will eventually have to register locally to keep access, with accounts banned for staying unregistered too long.

A user says Claude bans come down to IP, recommends Clash with a purchased US node plus a static US IP, and reports no issues in eight or nine months.

A user calls the US-China AI race question meaningless, asks what counts as winning, and says China can't lose, citing Google's exit and Chinese users' furtive, ban-prone Claude use.

A user asks how others obtain new Claude accounts after bans, saying their Google and Apple accounts have all been banned as well.

A user open-sourced a Windows PowerShell audit script that checks time zone, proxy/VPN, DNS leaks, public IP, WebRTC and browser exit, flagging mismatches with the target country in an HTML report.

A user lists what changed before their year-old Claude account was banned: a new Singapore card, a Singapore VPN during top-up, KYC with a Chinese passport, and an upgrade from 5x to 20x.

A user says their freshly registered Claude account was banned, even though the same node has worked for Codex for three to four months.

A user recalls that the only anomaly before their Claude ban was a reboot where the VPN started after Claude, briefly showing an unsupported-region message.