Tofer

Thanks for all your advice and recommendations. I finally plumped for Surfshark, as it had your good reviews and an incredible offer for black Friday, 26 months at 1.69stg/m plus a further offer on sign up of 12 additional months at 1.72stg/m. I've now got a subscription of 38 months for 65stg, and I got 25stg refund from my cancelled 6 months remaining on my old OpenVPN account. It was extremely easy to sign up, download install and set up, and I've viewed BBC news live the last 2 days with a good fast connection.

Is it not possible to simply use a US correspondence address and not tell them you're overseas? My UK First Direct Bank (HSBC) have no problem with that arrangement, and also have my Thai phone number registered.

I don't know about US accounts, but I never had a problem with my UK bank when I was using OpenVPN, but they are well aware I reside overseas, and maintain my UK account through a UK correspondence address.

If they're all as devious as the presenter / expert portray, then why would anyone trust ANY VPN provider.

Sounds like the best option, and they've got a fairly good black Friday offer on at the moment.

Does anybody use Surf Shark VPN, and is it good service and value? Alternatively, would you recommend another one.