Someone signed-in to your account.

[Jax49]

I am getting TXT messages and emails from sites like Amazon saying some one logged on to my account from Glasgow, Birmingham, Hackney and London.

Why is my IP address showing these sites an address hundreds of miles away from where I actually am?

Constantly getting these TXTs and emails every time I logon is getting annoying.

But I will not turn off notifications on these sites for security reasons.

[BrendonH]

Your IP address changes. It can be hundred miles away.

Currently mine states 6 miles don from where I live.

But I've had London etc before as well

[XRaySpeX]

Are you on EE fixed Home BB or mobile?

[Jax49]

I'm using a 4GEE mini.

Do you know if EE can fix this problem as it is getting annoying.

[XRaySpeX]

Do these msgs coincide with times you yourself logged into these sites? It's likely that they do. Don't the sites ask whether it was really you & to ignore it if it was?

Geo-location of IP addys are notoriously inaccurate. Mine shows I'm 100 miles away in Wales when I'm nearer London. There's not much you can do about it. It's probably worse with mobile than with fixed BB as your public IP changes much more frequently.

[Jax49]

Currious. What if a site needs to know my exact address for emergency reasons?

[James_B]

Hi @Jax49,

Most apps that require your location are mobile based and would use your phone's GPS, rather than your IP address.

James

[Jax49]

Yes, APPs on my device can use GPS. But sites like Amazon use IP addresses.

Have you read my original post?

[James_B]

Yes, I've read your original post @Jax49

In my experience, sites like Amazon would only alert you if you are accessing your account from a device you haven't used before, rather than because the location of your IP address has changed.

James

[Jax49]

I use the same tablet each time I access Amazon. And Amazon tells me in an email and txt the make and model of my tablet and that the tablet logged in a hundred miles away. I get a similar email from eBay and other sites.