Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says they have given up on Claude Duet because Claude keeps banning accounts, and they now mainly use muse.

A user says their Claude Max account was suddenly banned after more than a year of stable use with usage under 50%, suspecting it was because they cursed at Claude a few days earlier.

A friend's Claude accounts were banned one after another; after clearing leftover local keys on Mac and masking DNS with Cloudflare WARP, a new account survived four days, though he worries Max subscriptions face stricter checks.

The user wonders why Anthropic keeps banning ordinary users who just want to work more efficiently, given its anti-distillation efforts already show results.

A user jokes that stably using Claude has become a rare skill, citing commenters whose accounts survived three months to over ten months without bans.

The poster says they heard someone got their Claude or OpenAI account suspended for "hacking" their TV, half-jokingly.

A user says among their many Claude accounts only the free unpaid one was banned, while the rest bought Pro immediately, and advises IP isolation and payment management.

A Hong Kong user reports several local Claude accounts were banned recently, and tools like Grok and Muse now also say Hong Kong is unsupported.

After five consecutive Claude bans, a user shares a warming routine: use free tier first, then Pro, then Max once Claude Code runs smoothly, instead of paying $100 upfront.

A user reports that after their Claude account subscribed via the US App Store was banned, their first refund request succeeded but the second was rejected.

Claiming zero bans, the author lists tips: residential IP with trust score above 80, device-level proxy, matching timezone, official subscription, and one fixed IP with few devices.

The user says they paid via a U-card linked to Google Pay from February to May, then got banned in early June just after opening Claude Code, with the $20 subscription not refunded.