Claude accounts hit with instant bans after purchase

Anthropic's aggressive anti-fraud posture has crossed the line from security to a customer experience disaster, effectively locking paid users out of their accounts immediately after processing payments. Automated sweeps appear to be over-triggering on VPNs, data center IPs, and international credit cards, flagging legitimate developers as high-risk actors. The absence of a responsive human support layer or transparent appeals process is forcing users to resort to credit card chargebacks as their only recourse. This friction is actively driving power users away from the official web interface and toward the Anthropic API or aggregators like OpenRouter to avoid brittle account-level restrictions. For a company marketing itself on trust and safety, the failure to distinguish between fraudulent bots and paying customers is a significant blow to brand reliability.