Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A self-funded F1 student lists their anxieties, including a Claude account banned instantly after returning to China without turning on a VPN.

The author, who says they have plenty of ban experience, shares refund guides for Claude subscriptions paid via iOS in-app purchase and the web.

The poster created a cloud agent on instacloud and plans to register a secondary Claude account to see whether it gets banned.

A user wonders whether subscribing to a new Claude account with the same Apple ID after a ban would get it instantly banned, and says they haven't dared to test it.

A user lists what Claude accounts that survive have in common: timezone matters more than language, node quality comes first, avoid DNS/WebRTC leaks, and wait at least 3.5 days before registering after a ban.

A user says their three-year-old Claude account was banned today and shares a screenshot.

A developer says their Claude account was banned and card payments keep being declined, after spending about $300 last night, so they are pausing the project until next week.

A user lists three criteria for top talent in China in 2026, the first being long-term Claude Code use without a ban, reflecting how common account bans have become.

A user says the deletion request for their previously banned Claude account finally went through, letting them reuse the email to open a Pro subscription.

A user notes that Grok bot's egress IP keeps changing, so signing up for Claude through it leads to an immediate ban.

Darkwoods says Anthropic suspended accounts across Hong Kong, Russia, China and elsewhere on October 1 without warning or, in many cases, appeal, and uses the statement to promote its own open-model service.

The author says Claude is far ahead on workflow integration and aesthetic taste, but their account of more than three years was just banned.