[michalpleban]

I have recently had a need to create an Instagram account. I logged in from my home IP and it was recognized as coming from Vietnam (my home IP has been the same since 2016, always with the same ISP). Everything was in Vietnamese and I had to spend half an hour figuring out how to switch it back to English. But in the home feed I still got only Vietnamese influencers, and there was nothing in the settings to change that. I got assigned to Vietnam for life.

Well, I did nothing with the account except setting up the profile and following some people. Then I logged in to the account on my phone, which of course is not from Vietnam. Bam, account suspended for violating the TOS. I appealed, after one day got a message that the ban was upheld because I did violate the TOS.

I guess no Instagram for me. That's probably for the better.

[anal_reactor]

There's a mid-sized international bus company over here and once I bought a ticket for the wrong day, realized only after payment. I simply called the phone number, the lady spoke my language, reissued the ticket for a different day, that's it.

I was shocked that customer support can work like that.

[hnuser123456]

Is it possible your FB account has been compromised for a while? Is your ISP's RIR whois information correct?

[michalpleban]

No, the Instagram account was completely unrelated to my FB account (different email, different browser). Every other tool I have ever used over the last decade showed my IP location correctly, so I don't think there are any mistakes in my ISP's WHOIS.

As a bonus, Facebook Business Manager sometimes shows me messages in Russian.