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Woke up to find that multiple GPT accounts had been banned!
OpenAI suddenly switched on massacre mode, without any email notification, simply deleting the accounts outright.
On the screen, there was only one error message: "Your account has been deleted or deactivated (You do not have an account because it has been deleted or deactivated)."
The hardest-hit were the Philippines and Türkiye regions, low-cost Team accounts, and accounts using reverse-proxy relay services; even many legitimate long-standing accounts that had renewed for four or five months were caught in the sweep.
Cat Wu had just jumped from Anthropic to OpenAI, and moments later ChatGPT launched a massive wave of account bans.
Netizens' reaction: Please, please, spare us!
Years-old accounts—all gone!
Unlike Anthropic, this OpenAI purge included free API accounts, team-plan sharing accounts, and Pro accounts costing $200 per month.
A large number of programmers caught midway through writing code immediately erupted in outrage, rushing to the comments section on the X account of Tibo, the former lead of OpenAI Codex, and flooding it with posts demanding redress.
One developer complained helplessly that years of painstakingly accumulated chat history and personal memories had all been locked in the cloud and could no longer be retrieved.
A Pro account that had been active for a full five years was deactivated, without warning, without an email, and for no reason whatsoever.
And the appeal was unsuccessful.
So far, Pro 20x, Pro, and some Team and Plus accounts, including student-verified accounts, have been banned,
Even overseas, accounts being used normally may also be banned.
Some speculate that OpenAI is preventing users from gaming the system and has begun imposing a cap on the number of accounts allowed on a single device.
Some suspect it is a payment issue—
OpenAI'sstatus page shows elevated error rates for some U.S. commercial Mastercard cards.
During the investigation, the first six digits of affected card numbers were 544015, 546400, 543502, 543799, and 512998; some cards beginning with 513989 were also affected.
However, OpenAI characterized the incident as a payment-channel issue and did not mention any account bans.
Some netizens suggested that an appeal could be filed: it was not necessary to send an email from the registered email address; one could simply use OpenAI's official appeal form.
You need to clearly state the information about the banned account, along with the Request ID (see the red box in Figure 1).
Previously, he had already won back his student-verified Plus account through an appeal!
The same story is happening all over again
OpenAI's behavior was not sudden at all.
Previously, they enabled reverse proxying and merged ChatGPT and Codex into a single Token pool.
Five days ago, they quietly set a hard cap on the number of paid accounts allowed per device.
Opening low-cost accounts to exploit promotions and get free service is becoming increasingly difficult. Today, the ban hammer has finally come down!
Specifically, on November 2, OpenAI
shut down "account stacking" at the hardware-device and bank-card level.An official document titled “Understanding ChatGPT’s Payment Card and Device Limits,” which went live five days ago, brought the Go, Plus, Pro 100, Pro 200, and Pro 500 tiers all under hard quota controls.
As long as the same payment card or device is associated with too many paid subscriptions, the message “Too many subscriptions associated with this card or device” will appear at checkout, making the purchase impossible.Too many subscriptions associated with this card or device，making the purchase impossible.
Moreover, a cap has also been set on the number of paid accounts that can be used on a single device.
Once “Device limit reached” is triggered, even immediately logging out of old accounts—or spending extra money on Credits—will not free up a slot on the device.Device limit reached, even immediately logging out of old accounts—or spending extra money on Credits—will not free up a slot on the device.
This combination of measures prevents users from opening multiple low-cost accounts to stack Codex quotas.
The second step is a large-scale purge of shared accounts, starting today.
Users who tried to consolidate multiple accounts through the API were swept up in today’s crackdown.
The most critical third move is to block the flow of computing resources, scheduled for late November and early December.late November and early December.
Starting November 20, OpenAI’s new “Usage Policy” will take effect, mandating that all third-party API gateways and model-routing intermediaries obtain official written authorization, banning unofficial relay services at both the legal and interface levels.
In addition, starting in December, ChatGPT and Codex on the Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share the same usage quota, and all usage will be calculated based on token consumption!
Once the token pool runs out, you will not be able to keep going by creating secondary accounts; you will have to upgrade your plan or purchase official credits.
What users can do is regularly export cloud sessions and sync Codex projects locally. Third-party top-ups, shared account pools, and unofficial proxy services have all been shut down.
What we went through with Anthropic is about to happen all over again.
The era of freeloading on AI computing power at all costs is over.
References:
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limitshttps://x.com/gudabing/status/2118960197800513858
https://x.com/AoxClaw/status/2118943001540174090
https://x.com/divid_lu49394/status/2118130977553969289
Editor: Editorial Team
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