Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says Claude banned their account without refunding the $200, and their X business ads account, holding over $10,000 in ad credit, now rejects every ad after one review, with no response from support.

A roundup of 14 English-language posts about Claude account bans, including users banned right after paying $200, rejected appeals, and Anthropic's transparency report figures.

A user lists nine configuration choices covering network, payment, account, timezone and CLI usage, saying their Claude account has not been banned since October 1.

A user says several of their Claude accounts have been banned but they still keep registering and paying because they consider Claude the best large model.

A user says their Claude account was banned in August but in September they received an ad email from the Claude team, sent from a different address.

A user asks whether a rejected Claude ban appeal receives a reply and how long it usually takes, and complains that their account was banned in the morning but charged the monthly fee that afternoon.

A user says a friend's three Claude Max 20x accounts survived frequent node switching and all-Chinese chats, while their own two accounts on a fixed Singapore IP were both lost, suggesting bans are random.

The author details three Claude account bans: an old account after its subscription lapsed, a free account after hitting its quota, and a paid account after terminal use, and is now trying a fourth setup.

A short post with a screenshot says the author's Claude account was suddenly banned while in use, without giving a reason or any appeal update.

The author says many Claude accounts in Hong Kong, including two-year-old and paid Pro accounts, were banned without warning overnight from October 1, suspects commercial VPNs, non-local payments and frequent region switching, and advises having a backup.

The author says a Claude account registered in 2023 and long unused was logged in through the browser in an OpenAI Dots VM and was not banned even on a data-center IP, concluding older accounts are more stable.

The author says Anthropic can see user behavior clearly and ban-avoidance guides are self-deception, so they will stop hiding timezone and language, use an overseas eSIM for network access and subscribe via App Store gift cards to keep a refund and appeal channel.