Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The user says repeated Claude Max account bans pushed them to try DeepSeek with a jailbreak project, which found their router password, and they plan to switch workflows.

The author outlines steps to avoid Claude bans from China: start with the $20 Pro plan on web and mobile only, skip desktop and Claude Code, build a normal-user profile through multi-turn chats, and upgrade only after hitting the 5-hour limit often.

After their old Claude account was banned, the user registered a new one on a new IP, but the iOS app auto-logged into the banned account, raising fears the new account will be linked and banned too.

The author says their Claude account was banned twice in two months, both shortly after hitting full usage, and advises stopping at 90% even with a US card subscription.

After their Claude account was banned but the subscription charge remained, the user had OpenAI's dot gather payment records and ban emails and appeal to Google; after an initial rejection, an SGD29.98 refund was approved.

Russian Telegram channels claim Claude Code detects users' real location and reports it to Anthropic Trust & Safety, leading to immediate account bans, with English translations of the Russian screenshots.

A post jokes that only two kinds of people use Claude reliably in China: those who pay for a full setup and those who are simply lucky, while everyone else checks for a ban first.

A reply warns that doing this is how you get your Anthropic account banned, without elaborating on the specifics.

A joking list says true elites can run Claude Opus 5.5 and fable 5 for three days without being banned and even reverse-engineer prompts to extract key Claude data.

A reply warns that shared Claude accounts breach Anthropic's terms and can be banned anytime; seller warranties only mean replacement or refund, and chat history may be visible to others.

The author observes that Claude ban appeals are passing noticeably more often recently and advises filing an appeal promptly instead of panicking.

The user says Claude repeatedly detected a China IP and showed region-unavailable warnings while they had it manage VPS configs, yet the account was never banned.