I would have thought so. Anyway, I emailed the info about VPN etc. and got this reply. " Cleared cache, disconnected VPN and still get the same message. And login button not working. "
So he's moved from vpn provider cdn77 to vpn provider m247. Who are also banned. To be honest, you will be hard pressed not to find a vpn provider who isn't banned, as the automated tools that the spammers use get regular updates with new vpn providers...
Ah yes, as I understand it VPN’s are being used by scammers to show they are living in say the USA, whilst actually being based in somewhere like Nigeria. In the case of dating web sites, they pretend to be someone like a senior USA military man, pursue a poor woman to “lend” them money in the thousands of pounds, but really are a call centre barstard in Nigeria working in a scamming syndicate.
One wonders why anyone, apart from the scammers, would use VPN’s. Is there a legit reason why they should? 
Originally, VPN - Virtual Private Network - allows you to create a "private" network over a larger public network. So, for example, a company with 2 branches could use a VPN to link their 2 offices' internal networks via the Internet without paying for an expensive leased line. Also, it allowed remote employees to connect to distant remote networks, something many of us have only just started doing since the pandemic.
However, a later development was an Internet to Internet VPN, designed to hide your real IP and mask it with something else. These should be used with care, and you have to implicitly trust the VPN company, not only ethically, but also technically. For example, a popular one, NordVPN, famously hit the headlines a few years back as they lacked the competence to run servers and left all their baseboard management controllers Internet accessible with default credentials (which means anyone could see and do anything running through those servers). There are far better and far more secure ways of trying to achieve this kind of IP masking, such as Onion Routing (aka, Dark Web). Generally, this type of VPN isn't needed, and is a case of marketing by scaring people into it.
There are use cases, such as that described above, where you need to "change" your IP for geolocation purposes, and VPNs fit the bill for that, better than Onion Routing because the later can have an indeterministic endpoint.
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