Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The poster disputes claims that interacting in English lowers ban risk, saying their French leader's four Claude Max accounts were all used in French yet two were banned in the October 1 mass ban.

The author was banned three times over the National Day holiday and summarizes tested findings on IP, browser environment, KYC, payment cards, and session mixing in reverse proxies.

A user paid for a Claude Pro subscription but the account was disabled for verification; four or five submissions failed and support closed the ticket as resolved without fixing it.

A user says their two-year-old Claude account with a 20x plan was banned during the National Day holiday and they had no way to appeal.

A long post breaks down Anthropic's official terms and its September threat intelligence report, listing the high-risk triggers behind the holiday ban wave and a four-layer defense plan.

A user set up a locally isolated virtual environment just for Claude and says it has run stably for nearly a week without a ban, saving them from tinkering with their own machine or buying a VPS.

A Chinese software engineer living in Milan says their Pro and 5x Claude accounts have stayed fine without any ban-avoidance effort, and asks whether foreign users on Reddit and X are being banned too.

The user says Codex burned through $200 in a day and a half, and that their previously banned Claude account was ten times better to use.

The poster says their Claude account was banned immediately after subscribing with no refund, arguing that paying for a service should mean the work gets done.

A rumor says newly registered Claude accounts trigger KYC verification right away, and the National Day ban wave has taken down two-year-old accounts and paid Max accounts alike.

The author says they lost more than 20 Claude accounts and argues risk control looks at whether behavior resembles a real paying user, not the IP, with black cards, bulk alt accounts and frequent node switching as the main causes.

Replying to a discussion about Claude account bans, one user says they will remain a Claude believer until they are banned.