Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user posts an image saying Claude's recent wave of account bans has become too much to handle.

The poster argues Anthropic bans Korean and European users too, so whether a Chinese user gets banned depends only on Dario's mood and internal detection, and Google Play, Apple in-app purchases and web payment make no difference.

DogeSMS says a large-scale Claude ban wave has triggered a rush to re-register, and it has urgently added new US number routes with a claimed 93% verification success rate over the past seven days.

The author says that whenever they check their account after seeing others report bans, they have never been banned.

A girlfriend used Claude abroad for over a year without issue but was banned two weeks after returning to China, even on the most expensive proxy tier, so the author set up Tailscale to route her through a home residential IP abroad, which has held for over a month but still feels risky.

A user says they subscribed to Claude Pro via Google Play using a self-built proxy without changing timezone or language, and the account is still active on day four, though they remain anxious about a ban.

The author reports that Gmail, Apple ID and Claude sign-ups now trigger verification, with Claude registration failing outright and the account banned, requiring phone and email verification as IP quality declines.

A reply says a banned Claude account stays strongly bound to the active subscription on the Apple ID, so users must cancel and wait for it to expire, then uninstall and reinstall before subscribing again.

The author simulates Claude Code risk scoring, where IP, bank card, timezone and Simplified Chinese prompts all lose points, and suggests switching to English interaction and adjusting timezone to blend in.

A roundup of ban-avoidance tips from dozens of developers: WebRTC/DNS fingerprint leaks, virtual cards on the web, and maxing out quotas are the biggest ban triggers; subscribing via US Apple in-app purchase and keeping code local are advised.

A poster claims to help fix Claude network environments to reduce ban risk, accepts only cryptocurrency or Hong Kong remittance, and says top-up issues are the buyer's own responsibility.

The author suspects switching between Japan and US VPN nodes caused inconsistent IPs and got their Claude account frozen, and advises against frequent region changes and shared proxy nodes.