Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user asks whether a Google account used to sign up for Claude becomes unusable for future Claude registrations once the Claude account is banned.

A user says their first Claude purchase, a Max 20x plan, ended in a ban with no refund, and regrets not testing with a shared account first.

A user says four Claude accounts were banned while they were out over the weekend, and their appeals have gone unanswered while others report successful reinstatements.

After Opus 5.5, Anthropic's 7-day average call volume on OpenRouter rose to 3.6x, but commenters say unpredictable subscription bans push users toward APIs and backup providers.

The author checks screenshots showing UnionPay checkout, China as a billing country, and appeals for permanently banned accounts, concluding none prove mainland access, since the supported-regions list is unchanged and Hong Kong VPN accounts are still being suspended.

Shares two self-check tools, one for IP quality and one aimed at Chinese users, to reduce the risk of a Claude Code ban.

A user posts an image and jokes that Anthropic would have them banned over the content.

An open-source Skill distills three years and 80+ Claude account bans into risk checks for device, account history, network and payment, usable with Claude Code or Codex.

The poster argues that mass-registering new accounts does not help; Claude's risk control favors Google accounts aged 5–10 years, pure residential IPs, and matching timezone and language.

The poster says several bloggers have recently shown Claude reinstatement emails, with the Chinese signature machine-translated as 'Humane Society protection team', and asks whether anyone's appeal succeeded.

The author plans to upgrade an old Google-linked account to Claude Max 20x with US payment and Oracle US IP, recording whether KYC appears or the account gets banned.

A joking post ranks using Claude Opus for three days straight without getting banned—and reverse-engineering its prompts—alongside running TikTok on a China-market phone as true expert skills.