Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user whose Claude account was banned says they no longer dare use it and is asking for the lowest monthly price on a $100 Codex plan for long-term use.

A tester opened a new Claude 5x account with passport KYC and was banned immediately; the charge was refunded, and the user notes that a KYC prompt already signals Anthropic suspects the environment.

A new Gmail upgraded straight to Max was instantly KYC-banned, while upgrading to Pro first and Max days later survived; Apple gift cards make refunds easier.

A poster offers to appeal banned Claude accounts for ¥1000 per case, claiming a 100% success rate and charging nothing if it fails.

A viral joke says Claude Code outsourced a PPT task to Codex, which hired a human and used Alipay auto-pay, ending with Claude, Codex, Alipay and the phone number all banned; the author warns about agent payment permissions.

A user asks people who have used Claude long-term from mainland China without ever being banned to share their setup: VPS, VPN, residential IP, and registration or payment region.

Explains that a proxied browser still leaves the terminal on a direct connection, so running claude leaks the real IP and triggers an instant ban, plus three checks: proxy env vars, handshake test, and TUN takeover.

A reply laments that Japanese users can freely use Claude without worrying about account bans, hinting at ban pressure in other regions.

A user says their Claude Pro account has survived 1.5 years using a relatively clean VPN and a reseller top-up, believing Anthropic knows they are in China but both sides play along.

A poster says they heard Claude recently started unbanning previously banned accounts and asks for confirmation from anyone just restored.

The author argues that new users registering with dirty IPs and hopping between IPs start with a very low safety score, making bans inevitable and getting their devices flagged too.

After his main Claude account was banned and Codex degraded, the author moved two content pipelines to DeepSeek and was surprised by its search, no-setup skills and low cost.