This. I actually found a case of a person on reddit being able to access his old Binance account using a VPN just a month ago. You'll notice several people making conflicting statements of it working and not working, and that's likely because Binance has blacklisted specific IPs they know are owned by a VPN service. OP, if you can't get your VPN to work, just try switching servers. Ones from smaller countries are probably unlikelier to get blacklisted.