[kwlug-disc] Problems in Paradise

[Mikalai Birukou]

Should we then say "public vpn", or "vpn for general public"?

I had an occasion of long travel to the far land. I set up my own vpn in my office
space to access banks. It worked very good. Your own vpn's are a way to go.

You give vendor an address. May be vpn should have ip closer to this address, and
not be "general public vpn" service?

On 2025-05-12 07:20, crankyoldbugger wrote:

> A valid point, but my VPN pops out in Toronto, which isn't a very foreign country.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: John Sellens [<jsellens at syonex.com>](mailto:jsellens at syonex.com)
> Date: 2025-05-11 10:50 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: KWLUG discussion [<kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>](mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org)
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Problems in Paradise
>
> I don't think it's overly unreasonable for voip.ms to want to be confident
> what country their customers are in.
>
> I suspect it may help avoid credit card fraud (which is likely a challenge
> in the VOIP provider world), and may help reduce the possibility that
> voip.ms services get used by telephone fraudsters.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> John
>
> On Mon, 2025/05/12 01:29:07AM +0000, CrankyOldBugger [<crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>](mailto:crankyoldbugger at gmail.com) wrote:
> | But the website wouldn't let me add funds. Why? Because I was using a
> | VPN. Outrageous, says I. So I opened a ticket with Support, and they
> | confirmed that you can't use a VPN on parts of their site.
>
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