Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says a friend's Claude account was banned days after it auto-renewed, and appeal emails have gone unanswered for two months.

A reply says Claude account bans have become routine, and the workaround is to register several extra email addresses.

A user says their Claude account, on an email address used for 20 years and subscribed since 2024, was banned half a day after the latest update, and asks whether it is a phishing attempt.

A post jokes about the wave of Claude bans and wonders whether publicly showing off accounts and usage is what triggers them.

A user says that after a previous Claude ban they cleared no files, config or cache, logged into a new account on the same device and IP with Max 20x, and has run it heavily for over two months without another ban.

The poster jokes that only two kinds of people use Claude reliably in China: those with their own methods who won't share them, and those who muddle through without being banned, which they say is their own case.

Using a Wang Xiaobo anecdote about getting beaten either way, the author argues Claude bans follow no attributable pattern, and that using Chinese or changing IP are only blamed after the fact.

The poster jokes that given how strict Claude bans are, being able to use Claude without an instant ban is itself proof of ability.

The author argues bans stem from dirty exit IPs and DNS/WebRTC leaks, and describes an outer tunneling plus inner ProtonVPN physical-isolation setup to reduce risk-control flags.

A user posts that their Claude account was banned out of nowhere while they were using it normally, tagging the complaint #claude.

A user who paid for Claude Pro with Apple gift cards deleted their account after a ban and now finds the same Apple ID still linked to the old account, and asks how to unbind it.

A poster claims Claude's new Chinese interface is a trap used to identify Chinese users, saying their account was banned after switching to it.