I'm posting this actually as this mystery unfolds. I use the Grindr app in the New England area. Today I received a message from a blank profile that was about 12 miles away from my location. The username was "20 looking" and the profile had no images or information. The message that I received simply said, "107.119.65.59". I immediately recognized this as an IP address and felt chills go down my spine because my... Source: about 2 years ago

What does something like http://geoiplookup.net say? Source: almost 3 years ago

Switched to Maspik Anti-Spam, with a manually curated list of keywords, and integration with abuseipdb.com and proxycheck.io. But both of those were also causing false positives, especially from my co-worker who uses a virtual machine, so upped the tolerance to 70 on both. Source: about 1 year ago

Just use phone thetering instead using your home connection, and I recommend to you using proxycheck.io for checking if connection is a vpn. Source: about 1 year ago

Idk I just started the free trial. Maybe it detects your VPN and it blocks you off. Go to https://proxycheck.io/ while using your VPN, if it detects your IP as a proxy or as a non-residential IP address then it might be that. Source: over 1 year ago

But trying to figure out why it's flagging you as a VPN, head over to https://proxycheck.io and see what it says about your provider. Source: almost 2 years ago

There are companies out that that specialize in this sort of thing, marketing themselves to the corporate and banking sectors, and maybe even VPS providers and streaming services as well. One example would be https://proxycheck.io. Source: almost 2 years ago