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Question about VPNs
 

OK I have a question about VPN use in general. I just bought my 2nd 24vc VPN for a second stealth account and I am happy with it, I can login from anywhere, I use each stealth and it's VPN on separate user account on my laptop, so all good.

So the other day I had to pay a traffic ticket I received travelling out of state and so I logged on to the website for the Commonwealth of Virginia and it said access denied. I realized I was on one of my VPNs, so I disconnected from that and then was able to pay the ticket no problem. And I've noticed this too with one other website, that I couldn't use their site when on a VPN. In fact, 24vc.com itself, when I initially signed up, said for security measures I couldn't sign up when connected by VPN.

I understand why websites take these measures, perhaps somebody fradulent is trying to hide their identity because they could be up to no good.

But my question is, if this is the case that websites can detect that someone is using a VPN, then why would eBay and PayPal just not allow people to use VPNs?

I get that getting an account linked to another account is only an issue at the point when one account goes down, because then any account linked can go down as well. But if just using any VPN (whether a free service that could have many people have used it and not recommended for stealth OR a fresh clean one by a provider such as 24vc.com that works and if recommended for stealth) -- just using any VPN, can be detected by website admins, then why does eBay/PayPal even allow their use at all?

It just seems like what seems like a perfect solution (24vc or IP Burger, etc. for eBay Stealth) could easily come crashing down if they wanted it to.

Sure there are legitimate non-stealth uses for VPNs, but they all involve people not wanting it known where they are connecting to the internet from. (Perhaps this is part of the reason why ---- China, maybe, and all the business they bring to eBay?!?)

Re: Question about VPNs
 

Well, its not prohibited by any law to use VPN, but..

You're RIGHT - they CAN detect that you use VPN!

IMO, its better to use mobile tethering if you can or SSH (google about it, its anonymous secure encrypted type of proxy) if you can not for some reasons, NOT VPN at all!

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Business people who travel alot uses VPN also. I'm one example of that.
It's convenient and secure for me.

VPN is a good solution for a lot of things and it makes your work on eBay much more efficient when you have multiple accounts especially.

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@JJ373

Just a guess, but if your VPN is hosted at Colocrossing, that's your problem.

If you've never visited a website before from a different IP, or were to clear all cookies, there are a lot of websites that block Colocrossing IP's where other data center IP's have no issues.

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Well I had two accounts on the same Dedicated IP (Cable modem) and one went down quite a while ago and the other just keeps ticking along, One sold non vero and keeps ticking the other was selling 15% vero and got toasted.

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Okay, we all know that US citizens are super-secret double forbidden from trading on certain crypto exchanges. It's against the law, morally wrong, cripples orphans, yada, yada, yada.
But let's say you were an American citizen on US soil who wanted to access these exchanges. What steps would you need to take to do so in a reasonably secure and reliable manner? I'm assuming first and foremost use an offshore VPN for Bitmex Bitfinex, never access from US IP address.
How about in terms of deposits/withdrawals? Is it sufficient to just deposit Bitcoin from your normal wallet? Or should you move your coins to a dark net wallet, tumble/shapeshift the coins prior to deposit?
Same question from the withdrawal side. If an American withdrawals coins from Bitfiniex, will a KYC-compliant USD converter (like Coinbase) refuse the transaction? Should one conceal coins originating from Bitfinex/Bitmex?

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Hey, could you please explain about the SSH tunneling option? I did never understand if i tunnel an existing proxy over ssh or just have a vm with linux and tunnel from windows to there and thats it.

Is this good enough for amazon/ebay stealth?

thanks!

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I've heard about so called residental IPs which is not belong to datacenters and it looks like home user IP.

Re: Question about VPNs
 

Welcome to the forum - all the best as you master stealth :thumb:




Correct :)

Re: Question about VPNs
 

I personally would prefer to connect to these sites using residential IPs, as they are much natural as possible.
However, there are many inconvenient using such IPs, mostly they are for instance not stable which could be an other big issue.
You need to experiment different solutions and find out what's the best for you.

Re: Question about VPNs
 

The problem with those providers right now is exactly that, they are not stable and quality is not very good.

So I'm sticking with my traditional method especially for my Amazon accounts with a dedicated computer + IPburger VPN .

I'm just the type to "not fix it if it's not broken" .