Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The user disputes the claim that Claude only bans Chinese users, saying bans apply to everyone and that their own long-term account has never been banned.

A post with screenshots says Claude added a Chinese interface and UnionPay payments, after which several paying users were banned, and warns others not to pay.

A user says that right after Anthropic added a Chinese interface and UnionPay payments, several people in their group chat were banned soon after paying, and warns others not to pay yet.

A user complains that after their Claude account was banned, only a tiny amount of data remained, so all their accumulated usage history was lost.

The post argues that Anthropic's terms of service already prohibit use in China, so Chinese users whose Claude accounts are banned have no grounds to complain.

A user replies that they successfully registered two Oracle accounts and that their Claude account has not been banned so far.

The user says several Simplified Chinese Claude accounts have gone unbanned, crediting clean environments (IP, payment, timezone, browser fingerprint) and avoiding relay-station API calls.

A reply jokes that Claude has memorized a certain excuse and will ban any account that repeats it.

The poster says grok bot's environment is cleaner than their own setup, which lowers the chance of a Claude account ban and saves Claude quota.

The poster jokes that Anthropic keeps banning Chinese-related accounts, proposing to bar its founder from China and rename him Oreo, among other gags.

The post lists six behaviors to avoid in a new Claude account's first 72 hours: heavy use, switching IP countries, binding a card the same day, editing profile info, logging in on multiple devices, and asking sensitive questions first.

A user says a Claude ban wave has hit over the past two days, with appeal guides widely shared and saved in Chinese-speaking circles, and advises doing homework before subscribing.