Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

After their Claude account was suspended, the author switched to Codex, filed an appeal that has only been confirmed as under review, and used a private Git repo plus a script to sync skills and MCP config between Windows and Mac.

The poster says a free account was banned the day after signup and two paid membership accounts were banned within half a month to a few months, arguing Anthropic's bans are unrelated to payment.

A user asks whether using a Claude subscription through Pi really avoids bans, saying they want to try it but fear their old account being banned.

The poster lists the benefits of switching to an overseas setup, including that Claude accounts don't get banned, and urges people to go all in on AI and English.

The author compiles China-region Claude ban cases and lists over a dozen high-risk behaviors, from IP country hopping and shared datacenter IPs to DNS leaks, timezone mismatches, payment inconsistencies, Max plans routed through relays, and multi-account farming.

The post mocks Anthropic reportedly preparing a Thanksgiving IPO at a two-trillion valuation while Claude users' accounts keep getting banned and support tickets go unanswered.

The user says several of their Claude accounts were banned and that they paid a channel to get identity verification done, but still considers Claude the tool that best understands developers.

The post says Claude no longer refunds banned accounts because early users mass-registered subscriptions and deliberately broke rules to get banned and refunded.

A user says Claude does not yet know where they are from, so they will use broken English to lower the risk of being banned.

The poster says their Claude account was banned almost three months ago, misses how it gets straight to the point, and is asking for help.

An English-speaking user says their Claude account was banned, so they are trying Cursor and will have Opus 5.5 handle design work.

The user says two Claude accounts have been banned and plans to pretend to be American to open a new one, but doesn't know how to do it.