Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A short comment arguing Claude is the strongest tool as long as it doesn't ban your account, reflecting how the wave of bans has hurt user experience.

The post claims that commercial VPNs, frequent node switching, buying accounts, or third-party top-ups can each land you in the next round of Claude bans.

Someone received a ban email right after claiming the credit and linking GitHub, prompting suspicions of entrapment; the author advises exporting data first and granting access to specific repos only.

A user says their Claude account has never been banned in a year, including after claiming a $250 reward, and attributes bans to a mix of registration, IP and payment-card factors.

The author lists Claude's recent perks — free credits, a free reset, limited-time discounts, a Chinese interface, looser rate limits — and suspects they are bait to catch users on foreign IPs and permanently ban them.

A user who just paid for Claude opens the desktop app and finds the language automatically routed to Simplified Chinese, and fears being flagged as a Chinese user and banned.

The author, previously banned by Claude, resubscribed to Pro today and found that a newly registered account also gets reset credits, calling the company fair despite the ban.

An image post about how to avoid getting a Claude account banned, with the specific methods shown in the attached image.

Claude's web and desktop apps now offer Simplified Chinese among 30-plus languages, but mainland account and IP policies are unchanged, leading the author to suspect the localization is a setup before region checks.

The user says they moved to Codex before their Claude account was banned, abandoning Claude Code before it could ban them.

The author noticed Claude's interface now supports Simplified Chinese and asks whether this means mainland users face much less risk of being banned, and whether it counts as an important signal.

The poster warns users to be cautious about switching Claude to Simplified Chinese, saying a fellow user was banned two hours after trying it.