How to Delete Account Please

#1

I found one old post on here that says hit your icon and option is at bottom of the page…I don’t see it there. I have enjoyed this community, but apparently my account is being accessed from Detroit, MI and I am nowhere near there…

#2

Are you on a public computer? Depending on where their servers are, that can account for it.

#3

I’m not…it’s kind of creeping me out lol.

#4

Well it still wouldn’t have anything to do with the site, it’s pulling from your IP which is based on your server. So I’d be talking to your Internet provider.

(John) #5

Reverse public IP lookup is extremely inaccurate. Especially for wireless. I have seen ATT users show up all over the place, even though I knew where the user is, and the IP subnet was in the same big class B.

Nothing to delete your account over.

#6

Maybe a blessing in disguise then that I couldn’t figure out how to delete my account yet, thank you for your help, I will check with my internet provider tomorrow :blush:

#7

Thank you, I thought maybe my account was hacked…it was listing my correct location, but also the weird one too!

(John) #8

In your profile, go check your devices. There is a little wrench icon by them. It has an option for “not me?” which will log it out, or you can log out all of them.

Then change your password (it will send you an e-mail, which will almost certainly get flagged as spam, so check your spam box and make sure your e-mail provider passes blocked spam on through.

Then with your new password, log back in, and the evildoers can’t hurt you.

I checked mine just now and it said my cell phone was logged in from a city 300 miles away, last seen on May 8. Which is nuts, I was logged in earlier today from my cell phone. I just re-logged in with the same cell phone (or refreshed the session) and it updated the time stamp and location to my home town. If it were a different device, it would have added a new device.

The settings are under Preferences (gear icon on your avatar) - Accounts.

ISPs can route your traffic through their internal network to their least busy Internet egress point, which may be in a completely different area.

I promise - this is part of my profession - you can’t reliably count on an IP address for an exact location. The right country, sometimes, but you’d be surprised.

#9

Graci, what do you see that makes you think the account was access from Detroit?

I don’t see anything on my side.

Never mind. I’m going to send you a private message.

#10

When I am in my account info, down at the bottom it lists two locations as places the site was logged into/accessed with a date/time next to each and a little wrench symbol.

#11

Thanks for your help, John.

That was great advice! :+1:

(Ellen) #12

Ah, so that’s why my work computer thinks I’m in Germany!

(Jane- Old Inky Crone) #13

I have that problem with online shopping. Every time I try to order something to be shipped to a local store, I get sent to a store that is hundreds of miles from my house. It is so annoying, and certain stores refuse to allow me to permanently change my local store based on my word, they always revert back to what the IP address tells them.