Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author says they will update their guide on migrating after a Claude ban, hinting that another batch of accounts has been banned.

A user says Claude banned their account after more than a year of use, calling it a heavy day they won't forget.

A user who started with GPT-3.5 and Claude 2 in early 2023 says their main tool is now Claude Code, but the account they had used since the Claude 2 era was banned a few days ago.

A user whose previous Claude account was banned over an IP leak says they moved old Claude tasks to Codex, deleted everything, and worry their computer may be flagged.

Claude's payment flow now offers China and UnionPay card options, but some users report their accounts were banned immediately after paying with them.

Some read Simplified Chinese in Claude's language menu as a sign of opening up, but the poster notes there is no official announcement and China isn't a supported region, warning that paying now risks a ban.

After Claude Code added a Chinese interface and UnionPay payment support, several of the user's friends had their accounts banned soon after paying, which the user calls entrapment and urges others not to pay.

A user says Claude's new Chinese language option was read as a sign of opening to China, but many who switched to Chinese were banned, which the user calls a trap.

A user asks whether accessing Claude through a data center IP makes an account more likely to be flagged and banned.

A user says their $20 Claude subscription, which they rarely used, was banned three hours after they used it to migrate skills and MCP and then went back to GPT.

A user says their Claude account was not banned and that Oracle Singapore and US servers were both approved, joking that this must be a newbie grace period.

A user says they suggested optimizing Claude's reputation system to lower ban rates during an AI interview, and that another wave of bans followed, including their own account.