# Banks blocking VPNs
**URL:** https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/banks-blocking-vpns/18776
**Category:** Tech
**Created:** [June 14, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/banks-blocking-vpns/18776 "2021-06-14T19:15:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@hitest](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/hitest)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/banks-blocking-vpns/18776/1 "2021-06-14T19:15:00Z")
Banks are blocking VPNs. Why make banking less secure?! I guess they want to track our IP addresses. Meh.
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### Author:  [@MiG](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/MiG)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/banks-blocking-vpns/18776/2 "2021-06-14T20:13:16Z")
These days a lot of the fraud detection is based on a bunch of rules, or even machine-learning. One of those is your geolocation. When you login using a VPN, your IP is seen as being from another geographic location. So you get blocked until you prove it’s you, usually with a second factor authentication.
It’s annoying as heck, but I get why they do it.
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### Author:  [@hitest](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/hitest)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/banks-blocking-vpns/18776/3 "2021-06-14T21:35:11Z")
That makes sense. BMO has blocked VPNs for a while. CIBC just started blocking me a week ago. Agreed. It’s a bit annoying.
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### Author:  [@MiG](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/MiG)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/banks-blocking-vpns/18776/4 "2021-06-14T22:26:56Z")
Do you get a message? Are you using a well-known VPN?
I use my own hosted wireguard, and CIBC seems to work ok. My IP is in Toronto.
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### Author:  [@hitest](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/hitest)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/banks-blocking-vpns/18776/5 "2021-06-14T22:30:47Z")
I’m using NordVPn, quite well known. I get an error message #0001. My IP is in Vancouver usually. I’ll dig deeper into this and call CIBC and see what’s what.
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### Author:  [@hitest](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/hitest)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/banks-blocking-vpns/18776/6 "2021-06-15T19:24:54Z")
I had a nice chat with a CIBC representative this morning. I asked if CIBC is blocking VPNs. He confirmed that CIBC started blocking VPN access on June 9th. I can log-in just fine to my account if my VPN is not activated.