Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

After losing many Claude accounts, the author hit Persona KYC when upgrading Pro to Max and reports that a Chinese passport plus face scan passed, noting Persona stores data separately from Anthropic.

A user says months of Chinese chats on a plain datacenter IP have not gotten him banned, arguing language and IP are not the key factors, and suspects upgrading from Pro to Max is the real trigger while asking others for evidence.

An API relay site posts that it will take in users whose Claude accounts have been banned, linking to its service.

A user asks whether rumors are true that Anthropic recently relaxed its ban policy and has even reinstated some users' Claude accounts.

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.