How to Block Seychelles Traffic on Your Shopify Store

The Seychelles is a common source of VPN and proxy traffic that merchants see in their analytics. Despite being a small island nation of around 100,000 people, Seychelles IP addresses appear frequently in Shopify store logs because multiple VPN providers and privacy-focused hosting companies are registered there. The traffic is almost entirely non-human.

Why Shopify Merchants Block Seychelles

• Multiple major VPN providers (including NordVPN and ExpressVPN) operate exit nodes registered to Seychelles IP addresses
• Privacy-focused hosting providers incorporated in the Seychelles host bot infrastructure and scraping services
• The ratio of automated-to-human traffic from Seychelles IPs is extremely high — almost no legitimate shopping traffic comes from the Seychelles
• Domain privacy and registration services based in the Seychelles are used to register clone store domains anonymously
• Blocking Seychelles is essentially blocking a VPN exit node cluster with virtually no impact on real customers

Common Attack Types from Seychelles IPs

How to Block Seychelles with SecurEcommerce

Follow these steps to block Seychelles traffic on your Shopify store:

1. Open SecurEcommerce and navigate to Blocking > Country Blocking
2. Search for "Seychelles" and select the SC country code
3. Choose Block as your action — there is virtually no legitimate shopping traffic to preserve
4. This is a good "starter" country block if you are testing the feature for the first time
5. Combine with VPN blocking for maximum effectiveness, since Seychelles traffic is predominantly VPN-based
6. Check your analytics after enabling — you may see a noticeable drop in sessions with zero effect on revenue

What About Legitimate Seychelles Customers?

SecurEcommerce Features for Country Blocking

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do I see so much traffic from the Seychelles?

You are not actually getting visitors from the Seychelles. Multiple VPN and proxy providers register their servers using Seychelles IP addresses because the country has favorable privacy laws and minimal data retention requirements. What you see as "Seychelles traffic" is VPN users and bots from other countries routing through Seychelles-registered servers.

Is blocking the Seychelles enough to stop VPN traffic?

No. The Seychelles is just one of many countries where VPN providers register exit nodes. For comprehensive VPN blocking, use SecurEcommerce's VPN Detection feature instead. It identifies VPN traffic regardless of which country the exit node is registered in. Blocking Seychelles helps, but VPN detection is the complete solution.

I blocked the Seychelles but still see VPN traffic. Why?

VPN providers operate exit nodes in dozens of countries. Blocking the Seychelles only stops traffic routed through Seychelles-registered servers. Enable VPN Detection in SecurEcommerce to catch VPN traffic from all exit node locations.

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IN

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SG

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