Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user in China warns against clicking Anthropic subscription benefit links, calling them phishing sites, and says their year-old account was banned soon after.

A user tested Claude Pro subscriptions and KYC with three Gmail accounts and found Chinese passports carried no risk, while reusing old payment methods was the main trigger for bans.

A user whose Claude account was banned suspects the cause was frequent MCP calls in Claude Code to run simulation programs.

A joking post uses the ability to independently pay for GPT and Claude subscriptions, and to pay for Claude without being banned, as mock measures of intelligence.

A reply argues that Claude users often keep several accounts and register a new one each time an account is banned, which inflates the ban statistics.

A user posts an image offering to cover someone's Claude subscription fee, joking that the only condition is the account not getting banned.

A user shares that a friend's banned Claude account exported only a small amount of data, calling the bans harsh and saying it puts them off using Claude.

A user compiles a Claude ban appeal guide with the appeal form, email and Chinese-English reference templates, advising users to describe their actual usage and request a manual review.

A user complains that Claude Code account bans are widespread on X and that a banned $200 subscription is not refunded, calling it robbery.

A user says they bought Claude Pro, were asked to verify their government ID, and had the account suspended within a day without ever using it, with a refund denied.

A user whose Claude account was banned is looking for a cheap relay service to keep using Opus 5.5, saying they would rather pay extra than use Codex and that Astra Sol is too slow.

A user says their Claude account was charged by auto-renewal a couple of days ago and was banned today, and is asking for advice.