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Old 05-29-2024, 07:05 PM
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The Treasury Dept just indicted several Chinese nationals for running a scam VPN service in the US. The criminal enterprise, the Treasury Department said Tuesday, was a residential VPN proxy service known as 911 S5. Such services provide a bank of IP addresses belonging to everyday home users for customers to route Internet connections through. When accessing a website or other Internet service, the connection appears to originate with the home user.

Basically, you think you're getting a VPN service but you're actually just providing computer resources for their illegal networking operation.

US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs | Ars Technica
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Old 05-30-2024, 02:27 AM
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The Treasury Dept just indicted several Chinese nationals for running a scam VPN service in the US. The criminal enterprise, the Treasury Department said Tuesday, was a residential VPN proxy service known as 911 S5. Such services provide a bank of IP addresses belonging to everyday home users for customers to route Internet connections through. When accessing a website or other Internet service, the connection appears to originate with the home user.

Basically, you think you're getting a VPN service but you're actually just providing computer resources for their illegal networking operation.

US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs | Ars Technica
Using a Free service, you get what you pay for.
Lots of recommended companies with a history of competence and secure service available for reasonable fees.

JMO.
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Old 05-30-2024, 06:04 AM
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That's the whole problem with VPN. Yes, you're anonymous to everyone on on the internet -- EXCEPT YOUR VPN PROVIDER, who sees it all. How do you know you can trust that company?
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Old 05-30-2024, 08:02 AM
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Better anonymous to all bar one.
At least you know who will/would/has/could screw you.
Same as any other product, do your homework before purchase.
I have been with my VPN provider for years without an issue. They are one of the best out there.
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