Amazon Payments plus VPN = account closed

Re:Amazon Payments plus VPN = account closed by atmosx on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:03AM (#10469878)

What you're describing is rather alarming. They should at least call, send a notification of sorts, before hitting the big red button. I don't use amazon pay, so I'm not familiar with it. Do you the the VPN had something to do with it?

I know PayPal has an automated system which is rather pedantic about IP addresses. I think that it's safer to setup a proxy and use it every time you log into a service like PayPal because from I realized by reading user experiences it's either their way or the highway, even when their autmated alarm systems are 100% wrong.

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Re:Amazon Payments plus VPN = account closed by ksdev on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:25AM (#10469927)

There was no notification before closing my account. I've just received an email: "Your Amazon Payments account has been closed" and thats it. It happened a good few hours after receiving "Payment initiated" email (about my Humble Bundle payment).

I'm using NordVPN. It's the first time I've used Amazon Payments through VPN. As Amazon writes: "our records indicate that an unauthorized person has logged into your account" - I don't think it can be connected to anything other than using the payments through the vpn from another country.

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Re:Amazon Payments plus VPN = account closed by pki on Thursday October 29, 2015 @02:27PM (#10473190)

I'd say NordVPN's shared IPs are almost all definitely completely rampant with histories of abuse, fraud, carding, theft, and history of use with spammers on AWS, history of use with stolen credit cards on Amazon, etc.

The response would likely be slightly different if you were using a VPN on your own self hosted VM or something.

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