Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Practitioners discuss how long Claude Max accounts survive, bans linked to repeated KYC on the same passport, the legitimacy of discounted awsb relays, and a job posting for a Claude account pool engineer.

A user had Codex analyze the Claude Desktop install directory and found 84 direct connections that bypassed the proxy, explaining the recurring "region unavailable" errors; the account is not banned yet.

Saying Claude accounts are hard to register, one user bought an email-based account on Taobao for 20 yuan and reports it has worked for three days without being banned.

One user says that if Claude credits could be paid for with BEM, it would meet a real need for the many users whose accounts have been banned.

A user says their Claude account of over a year was never banned until they used the gifted $100 API credit, suspects entrapment, and has filed an appeal.

A user says Claude subscription usage stopped being a problem after Opus 5.5 launched, but their Max account was suspended and they had to switch to Pro.

A relay operator discusses how long Claude Max accounts last: five or more KYC checks on the same passport trigger linked bans, cheap AWSB supply is mostly grey market, and one firm is hiring pool engineers at 80k a month.

After their second Claude account was banned, the author shares the setup for their third: a self-built US VPS, a US-region Apple email, a Bybit U card, passport verification, and warming the account for two or three days before buying Max.

A joke post imagines Claude asking "Are you Chinese?" and, after the reply "yes," immediately sending a notice that the account is permanently banned.

A video discusses Anthropic's new terms that make treating Claude badly a bannable offense, which the author argues makes no sense.

The author asks @grok to calculate what the banned Claude accounts would be worth at subscription prices and how much Anthropic earned from the bans.

The author says their Claude account was banned and the appeal did not get it restored, so they plan to request a refund from Anthropic.