![]() It took me some time to figure out what was going on, especially this one: However, I still followed the instructions in the email and reset the password. ![]() I used very strong and unique password and I enabled 2FA. I got logged out on all devices / browsers when I tried to log in on a VM (virtualbox guest). install the mobile app, login in, delete it, and repeat the process, you will eventually trigger the abuse system. If you use Windscribe "normally", you will never see these emails. Most people don't own 20 phones or 50 laptops. Login on your devices and stay logged in. You may think "but I only gave it to my brother", but do you know who he also have it to? Have a strong password, and don't share it with anyone. To avoid these emails, it's pretty simple: There is totally a chance of a false positive, but this is a delicate balance. These systems are in place to identify potentially compromised accounts, and allow the owner to change their password and secure the account. Trust me on this, I personally spent many dozen hours on the abuse system. These people use residential proxies and seem to have hundreds of thousands/millions of IPs, so traditional blocks are not feasible. We're seeing ~2 millions fraudulent login attempts, per hour. We're not happy with this either, but you can thank the shit brains who think it's cool to brute force people's logins.
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