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31 Jan 18
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Had £2,588.00 'stolen' from my account, held with 'Blockchain'.
My IP address, when searching for it, is showing it to be near Birmingham (I'm in North Yorkshire)!
Do any of you guys know how this can be please?
My IP address, when searching for it, is showing it to be near Birmingham (I'm in North Yorkshire)!
Do any of you guys know how this can be please?
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IP addresses aren't accurately located. The source that is telling you "Birmingham" is just guessing.
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some of them guess your location based on internet searches
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That is interesting advice, but it's a bloody long way from Birmingham to North Yorks"!
The question is, whether I accept this as kosher, and authourise login to my account, with the risk of my money being wiped out. For some reason my 2FA login has been requested to be cancelled! Now I didn't do it so that's a worry! I've requested it to be reinstated and they say "success, check your e-mail" but, when I do, I still get "accept or decline 2 stage deletion"! Obviously I decline, but I'm then back to the start! Blockchain responded, to my first complaint, after two whole weeks, so I'll just have to sit it out till they, hopefully get back again. |
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Well I know everyone will have been worried sick, for the past six weeks, but yesterday I found my money!!!
After many attempts to get "Blockchain" to help, I finally got someone to give positive information! Very annoying, as this person was presented with information, being no different to anyone else. She discovered that, somehow, I have three wallets. I don't know how come as it's nothing I knowingly have done! The money was split between the two "rogue" wallets with just a £0.92 difference! All very strange, and still worrying, so will have to move it all into the original wallet, with maximum security. |
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If I were you I would be getting my money out now.
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Your Ladyship- please rearrange these words into a well known phrase or saying-"Out it get"! I hope you are able to solve this very helpful puzzle.
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Can't do much about getting it out, as it's all in Bitcoin and Ethereum, and the market has nose dived over the last several weeks!
Bitcoin was knocking on the door of £17k, at the start of the year, and is now £6,100 and down £535 today alone...... |
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Actually I'mm thinking I will ditch a few quid, just to see if there are any buyers, as last time I offered there were no takers!
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Sounds like you haven't a clue what you're doing, you'd be better off putting it in an Isa where it is safe
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Thanks mega,
I have all that stuff, plus three rental properties, and a hairdressing and tanning studio. Also have the £23k in Premium Bonds, which many will deride but, since buying in April 2016 I have only three months with no win! Total wins x 38 (not bad for a bit of fun eh (just over +4%)? Have to have some fun, and crypto currencies were where to be, and have created some very wealthy people, including an ex work colleague of my son's, who left two years ago, and is a millionaire! Also two current work colleagues who have done very nicely, thank you! Many have warned that it's a bubble that will burst, and that would appear to be happening! I bought in too late it would seem, but c'est la vie....nothing ventured, and all that stuff! |
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your internet address is often more related to your ISP.
Go to google now on the same computer and type where am i where does it say you are? |
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Thanks JC, I know that, hence my opening comment!
For the last few days it says I'm in Coventry! I did get closer to home, in two nearby villages last week! I have previously been asking "What is my IP address and it shows me all over the place! As it happens, just now, it says I'm in a village three miles away! However, using your good advice, there I am outside, washing the cars!!!  |
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Actually that doesn't show my IP/ISP address, but it does bring up some searches which show which city!
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Chain letter confidence trick.
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There will be no hard and fast "where is this IP" info given out .. you'd hope? That imho is a privacy violation. I don't like the idea.
But if you've a dynamic IP from your ISP it'll be allocating it from a block or blockS. afaik the way this works is the ips will be in some database as a location, and that might well be an office of the ISP that it registered relevant to your IP range. Is your ISP located (or has offices) where it says you are? If the ISP was giving out a static IP and then registering a hard precise location that's very creepy? It's ok knowing the country you are in but everyone on the internet knowing where you are ... it's wrong. It could lead to security or fraud issues? I know myself when I was surfing from the (previously) secret island base I share with Dr Evil, he was well annoyed that he was then linked to my browsing history   |
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i suspect that companies are "moving" some people's crypto winnings and then seeing if they notice and then reinstating it, if not they'd have kept it
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A very interesting and worrying post JC...
betting_masta.....it's a very risky business, when entrusting your funds to such as "Blockchain" and "Coinbase" (where I also have some funds)! I was talking with a neighbour, who is a Senior Partner, in a business controlling £87 billion, at the last look, and he was saying he was hanging on with "a few bob" in "Ripple"...and expecting to lose it, but not that bothered! He said "nobody has got "burnt" yet, but it will happen! Looking at how things are, I think that many high rollers have in fact already got hit! |
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Is your IP static though, or dynamic (changes periodically or when your router reconnects)?
If its dynamic that'll explaing why your location jumps around. I've a relative who was asking me about this a while ago, his location was somewhere odd and would change. (The geolcation via IP is a different thing to things like phones or internet browsers providing detailed and accurate information. I thought I'd disabled that on my phone but noticed the other day that I was broadcasting my whereabouts, which is worrying in case Putin has it in for me!). |
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I know it's changed at least once and, at the time, I was nervous of authorising a log in until I set up 2FA!
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people have lost sh*t loads of money on bitcoin. those who got on at 15000 expecting it to get up to 20000 and saw it plunge and just cut their losses. it's all being manipulated by somebody to get money from thick people. the money has to come from people, it doesn't come from thin air. so it's clever people exploiting the less fortunate in that regard.
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