# Claude Seems to Be Mass Banning Accounts

A friend of mine has already been banned three times. Every time it's the same process: set up a new Gmail, get an overseas phone number for verification, switch to a clean IP, spend half a day registering, use it carefully for a few days, then get banned again. Now he's starting his fourth registration.

But looking at social media, no one is saying "forget it, let me just use ChatGPT instead."