Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says their free Claude account was banned after just ten minutes on hotel WiFi, despite using a Korean LG U+ 5G eSIM.

A user asks someone to share their Claude channel, saying the accounts they buy are frequently banned.

Warning: using a Claude subscription directly inside Hermes violates the terms of service, and many people have already been banned for it.

A user asks whether Claude's detection uses two separate checks, one on the app side for IP and environment and one on the CLI side for distillation abuse, and where most bans actually happen.

A joking remark that Claude will comfort you first and then ban your account.

Anthropic says anti-distillation cut stolen data by 90–99%, with side effects including tens of thousands of linked accounts banned, often within 2 hours of starting.

The author lists five businesses spawned by Claude account bans—residential IPs, fingerprint browsers, account sales, anti-ban guides and relay services—and recommends the relay service he uses.

A user says his Claude accounts were banned seconds after signup until he fixed a DNS leak, and he plans to watch for a few days before upgrading.

Someone bought a home broadband IP, an overseas VPS, an old router and a secondhand computer to get Claude Pro, only to find virtual card payment largely blocked.

A user jokes that a 90% Claude price cut makes him as happy as the foreigner who never gets banned, alluding to account anxiety amid the ban wave.

A post claims Anthropic's anti-distillation system misjudges ordinary users as distillation attackers, causing rapid Claude account bans, and lists pitfalls such as requesting chain-of-thought, dirty proxy IPs, and mixing Claude with domestic models in agent setups.

After severe Claude Code bans in China, some users asked friends abroad to host a Mac mini for remote access, but accounts were still banned after topping up, according to the author.