Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A post says that during the recent wave of Claude account bans, someone tried threatening suicide to force an unban but failed, and that using Claude is now too expensive.

A long post breaks down Anthropic's silent risk controls on datacenter IPs, covering how to check ASN type with ipinfo and three routes to avoid degraded output and bans: residential IP subscriptions, chained proxies, and self-hosted VPS.

The poster relays a friend's claim that using Claude in China now comes with the fear of being banned just for saying one sentence, and asks whether it has really come to this.

A user reports that Claude's payment page now shows a UnionPay option, and that someone who paid with it had their account banned immediately, prompting speculation about entrapment.

A user says Claude added a Chinese language option and that they were banned right after switching to Simplified Chinese, asking whether it was a trap.

Amid a new round of Claude bans, a user says someone with an account over two years old was banned and is unsure whether to renew their own three-year-old account.

A meme post with an image showing how it feels when a Claude account gets banned, with no substantive information.

A banned Claude account's export is a read-only archive that Anthropic doesn't support importing into a new personal account, and the ban-page download is often just an empty JSON, so using the desktop app with project folders is advised.

A user says a Gmail account registered with a Chinese phone number has logged into Claude without being banned, both in China and Japan.

A user says Claude was banned almost immediately on a local machine but now holds stable conversations via a US-based company cloud desktop, and asks whether Anthropic uses social engineering to decide bans.

A user who says they have never been banned on Claude lists practices including datacenter IPs, a U-card for payment, Chinese locale and timezone, and openly saying they are in China, and advises against proxying CLI traffic into the API or forcing chain-of-thought.

A user reports five days on the $20 Claude subscription without a ban using a self-built datacenter IP and full TUN with no timezone set, and shares how thinking levels and quota use played out in Unreal Engine and video work.