Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

An author claims to have lost 80+ Claude accounts and packaged the lessons into a free Codex Skill that audits runtime environment, network egress, signup and subscription pacing, and proxy rules, with no guarantee against bans.

The author says Persona only verifies document authenticity while Anthropic bans direct mainland connections, but warns that passing verification does not protect against egress-node changes or risk-control flags.

A reply questions claims that Claude accounts get banned easily, saying a friend opened an official account behind a local proxy and remains active, suggesting the ban talk is exaggerated.

The author shares a Claude survival setup: a self-hosted US data-center node as primary, a static-IP provider as backup, US App Store gift cards for subscription, and no API abuse — never banned since Claude launched.

The poster has heard Claude recently relaxed its ban policy and restored several accounts, and asks whether it is true.

The author says their Claude account was banned, then restored after a successful appeal in which they only stated they had not distilled data.

The user says Claude banned them multiple times simply for living in China and kept their money without refunding, expressing strong anger at Anthropic.

A reply argues that paying members having to learn how to avoid bans shows the problem lies in Anthropic's own risk-control system rather than in users.

The author tried running several Claude Pro accounts on the same machine and network to replace Max, but expects Anthropic may soon link and ban accounts sharing network and device.

More Claude account bans are surfacing, including a blogger who wrote an anti-ban guide and says he has had 10–20 accounts banned, while the poster claims his own account survives with a Taipei timezone, Singapore IP and Chinese chats.

With no US GPUs available, a user spun up a UK machine and had their Claude account banned in under two hours, forcing a switch to Codex.

A rumor claims Claude now offers a China region, UnionPay payments and unbanning of suspended accounts; the poster is skeptical and asks users to confirm each claim.