Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says their Pro account was banned earlier and their new free account was restricted after they tried UnionPay payment, and asks whether an appeal would help.

A video claims you can subscribe to Claude with an Apple ID, get a refund from Apple support after a ban, then resubscribe with a new account and repeat.

A user shares the appeal email a friend used to get their Claude account unbanned, with two generic paragraphs and four bracketed fields to fill in.

A user says a nearly year-old Claude account was banned after switching to a DMIT Los Angeles VPS and a new account died the next day, and that switching back and setting the timezone to Taiwan has kept it alive for 7 days.

A user says Anthropic suspended their account because it believed a 10-year-old was using it to build their own GTA 6.

A user says they were forced onto Codex after two Claude accounts were banned, and complains that GPT-6 Astra and Sol feel no better than Opus 4.5.

A user notes Claude's mobile app is now in Chinese and, afraid of bans, plans to use only the free tier to build up an account for a while.

In a reply, someone asks in disbelief how the other person managed to get banned from Claude, amid a wave of account bans.

A reply says the wave of Claude account bans in China has not eased, recommending official subscriptions with a stable network, since shared and cheap accounts are most likely to be banned along with others.

A user attributes Claude bans mainly to too many Claude clients running on one IP with large data volumes, and says an entire IP can be banned if that data involves distillation, so a dedicated home broadband IP lowers the risk.

A user whose Claude account was banned asks whether anyone has successfully appealed a ban, or whether to just request a refund and switch to Codex.

A user says their old account had been fine until the day before the ban, when they used Claude to handle risk-control and security-related tasks, suspecting the use case was the cause.