VPN issues “IP Spain Spam”

[Habanos22]

So my VPN was active when I clicked on the link to this forum and I received a message saying “Sorry Habanos22 you are banned from using this forum, IP Spain spam”…I turned off the VPN and I still can’t access this place directly from my web browser. I’m posting this thread through an PM email notification link. Any thoughts on how to sort this out?

[Diplomatico]

I've had the same issue here although my "banned" message said I had a Russian IP address (when my VPN was logged into Los Angeles, lol.)

Go to your browser settings, then "cookies", and delete all cookies from this website.  Close your browser, then log back in.  Should correct the issue....did for me.

[Habanos22]

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I've had the same issue here although my "banned" message said I had a Russian IP address (when my VPN was logged into Los Angeles, lol.)

Go to your browser settings, then "cookies", and delete all cookies from this website.  Close your browser, then log back in.  Should correct the issue....did for me.
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Thanks brother,  I’m using chrome on iPhone. deleting history and cookies didn’t work. Thankfully I was able to get a message to Wade and he took care of it.

[WadeFillingame]

Over the years this site has been hit by swarms of bots trying to register.  One of the things I do is to verify the IP address of any registration attempt.  Often I will get a dozen attempts from a block of IP addresses, when this happens I'll ban 1.2.*.* and be done with it. On rare occasion that block will capture an IP that is being used either by someone's VPN or someone who is traveling in Europe or Asia.