Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A heavy Claude Code user describes the aftermath of an account ban: rereading old conversations, writing an appeal letter, and being recognized again after switching accounts.

The author says Anthropic still treats them as Chinese despite using an Australian ID, IP and bank card, while a two-to-three-week stay in China caused no issues, and considers using KVM to keep the account alive remotely.

The poster says X is full of noise and that searching through posts about Claude account bans turned up no workable solution.

A user says their Claude account displayed a login restriction today, and jokes that if Tibo were at Claude, their account probably wouldn't be banned.

The user says Claude suspended their account, so they are testing GLM themselves after seeing many people hype it.

The poster says two Claude accounts were banned without any action on their part, so they lost trust in Anthropic and are paying for GPT instead.

The user says Claude plan quotas are now too generous to use up and suspects money from unbanned, unrefunded accounts is being used to subsidize users who were not banned.

The post says Chinese users are playing mind games with Claude to avoid bans and warns against selecting Simplified Chinese, claiming it is a trap.

A Max 5X user describes paying via Google Play, the KYC prompt that appears when opening Max, passing verification with a Chinese passport, and still not being banned while using a Beijing timezone and Chinese system language.

The poster says a Claude account registered through a residential-IP VPN using a Taiwan node has not been banned, with the link posted in the comments.

A newly registered Claude alt account subscribed to Pro via iOS and was banned immediately, then got unbanned after an appeal letter written with ChatGPT that focused on stating the facts and appealing emotionally.

The poster says their Claude account was banned last night, possibly from heavy usage, and after a day of trying a new account that hit KYC verification, they went back to Cursor.