Why Does The Internet Say I Am In Dallas?

[ROFL BOX 6650]

Logged into my credit union app - had also logged in yesterday & the day before, etc. & suddenly it thinks I am on a new device + doing so from a Dallas location.

• Currently in Dripping Springs.

• I have not cleared cache.

• I have not reset or power cycled my phone.

• There has not been an update to my Android software / OS for probably +10 days & I have used the app multiple times since that last flash.

Why would the app think this is a new [everything related to my account]?

I did receive a text asking me to confirm it was me, so while I do appreciate the security🫡, I also am curious as to why that happened.

 

🤔❓️🤔

[UTPhil2006 3831]

I think the bottom image tells you what you need to know. Rethink your bank 

[shakahorn 1650]

It could quite literally be 'because you touch yourself.'

[Hate 20164]

“Near” Dallas is a relative term. If you don’t know Texas very well, Dripping Springs could be near Dallas. 

[South Austin 52746]

Give me the log in credentials to your bank account and I can troubleshoot this for you.

[Gene Parmesan 4024]

20 minutes ago, Hate said:

“Near” Dallas is a relative term. If you don’t know Texas very well, Dripping Springs could be near Dallas. 

This.  Your phone was likely made in China, so anything in Texas it just assumes you are rustling cattle near Dallas.

[ROFL BOX 6650]

44 minutes ago, shakahorn said:

It could quite literally be 'because you touch yourself.'

Better me than you.

 

*NTTAWWT

27 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Give me the log in credentials to your bank account and I can troubleshoot this for you.

PM sent.

[Jerry Callo 8836]

Are you sure that someone in Dallas did not log-in or attempt to log-in?  Isn't that the purpose of the alert?

[RDCanecutter 26561]

You wouldn't have this problem if you switched entirely to Dogecoin.

[immamac 43584]

The cell towers are connected to wired long haul networks that could originate in Dallas. 

[Dahobbs 17818]

Where does your Garmin say you are?

[Pato del Muerto 52900]

Probably has to do with truck registration. 

[TheStoicPaisano 9940]

[ROFL BOX 6650]

24 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

You wouldn't have this problem if you switched entirely to Dogecoin.

1.  Current bank.

2.  Ameros.

3.  Shiba Inu's.

20 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Where does your Garmin say you are?

Your Moms house.

[ROFL BOX 6650]

31 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

Are you sure that someone in Dallas did not log-in or attempt to log-in?  Isn't that the purpose of the alert?

I got the alert back to back after a log out maybe 4 minutes prior.

[Gil Bang 26101]

1 hour ago, immamac said:

The cell towers are connected to wired long haul networks that could originate in Dallas. 

which is why I cannot watch the Dodgers on MLB network.  My T-Mobile home internet thinks I'm in L.A., instead of San Diego.

[Your Mom 4881]

1 hour ago, ROFL BOX said:

1.  Current bank.

2.  Ameros.

3.Your Moms house.

If you’re here get off your damn phone and get to work on my roof.  

[immamac 43584]

1 hour ago, ROFL BOX said:

I got the alert back to back after a log out maybe 4 minutes prior.

I already told you fucking why. 

[RPM 26431]

You VPN sucks.

[52-80 19282]

havent you thought to ask... why ARENT you in Dallas?

[Francisco 2.0 32439]

On 7/2/2024 at 12:24 PM, ROFL BOX said:

Logged into my credit union app - had also logged in yesterday & the day before, etc. & suddenly it thinks I am on a new device + doing so from a Dallas location.

• Currently in Dripping Springs.

• I have not cleared cache.

• I have not reset or power cycled my phone.

• There has not been an update to my Android software / OS for probably +10 days & I have used the app multiple times since that last flash.

Why would the app think this is a new [everything related to my account]?

I did receive a text asking me to confirm it was me, so while I do appreciate the security🫡, I also am curious as to why that happened.

 

🤔❓️🤔

 

Let me guess.  You use AT&T for your service.

[markstanco 12672]

The cell towers are connected to wired long haul networks that could originate in Dallas. 

Yea I’m in TXK and I get on networks that I’m in dallas with Verizon. Been on Houston too. It’s an ip address assigned that originated in dallas or wherever at some time.

[ROFL BOX 6650]

5 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Let me guess.  You use AT&T for your service.

Correct.  All other providers have poor to nil reception put here.

[TwiceHorn 31699]

*backhaul

The weird thing is not so much Dallas, but that it called your login by a new device without having cleared cookies/cache.  I suppose at some point, garbage collection might have cleared part of your cache/cookies automagically and might have gotten the critical bit of spam.

For better or worse, I use CCleaner on my phone pretty routinely and it gets rid of 0.5 to 1GB of shit without affecting my logins, while clearing browsing data by itself will always affect my logins if I clear cookies.  Even though that 1/128 of garbage isn't all that much, it bugs me that it's there and I wonder how far it will accumulate.  I still haven't mentally adjusted to either the storage capacity or battery life of modern devices and remain semi-psychotic about charging, too.

Not sure what are the protocols for identifying logins, exactly, but would not have guessed that location was one of them.  That it "located" your device I would have thought to be more of a "convenience" to you (here's what type of device and here's it's approximate location) than a criteria for requiring confirmation of login.

Edited July 4 by TwiceHorn

[Francisco 2.0 32439]

8 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

Correct.  All other providers have poor to nil reception put here.

 

Reason I ask; I get the same thing from time to time.  Since the traffic is AT&T, and some websites equate AT&T traffic with their corporate headquarter address, you  are considered from "Dallas".    I've also had San Francisco and Atlanta considered as where my phone is since AT&T has a datacenters in those two cities as well.    Here's a list of all the known AT&T data centers

Other websites will do more accurate geolocation and don't rely fully on what datacenter is passing your traffic.

 

 

 

[ROFL BOX 6650]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I've also had Francisco 2.0  considered

Obligatory. 

[thunderlounge 8039]

On 7/4/2024 at 10:13 AM, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Reason I ask; I get the same thing from time to time.  Since the traffic is AT&T, and some websites equate AT&T traffic with their corporate headquarter address, you  are considered from "Dallas".    I've also had San Francisco and Atlanta considered as where my phone is since AT&T has a datacenters in those two cities as well.    Here's a list of all the known AT&T data centers

Other websites will do more accurate geolocation and don't rely fully on what datacenter is passing your traffic.

 

 

 

 

 

I get a mix of Chicago and Dallas.

[ROFL BOX 6650]

Today I am apparently in Utah.

[mdmost 43320]