Proxy KYC: What a Check Involves and When ProxyField Asks

We may ask for verification in the cases our policy names: signs of abuse, a breach of the acceptable use policy, and an application to the reseller program.

Providers ask for KYC to tie traffic to an accountable person or company, screen out fraud and keep attacks and spam off IPs that every customer shares. A residential or mobile proxy sends your requests out from IPs of home internet providers and mobile carriers. When a target complains about fraud, an attack or spam, the provider has to know who sent it. KYC is how some providers answer that in advance: they tie each account to a person or a company, screen for fraud, and check that the stated use is lawful.

It is a mildly good sign when it is proportionate, explained and run through a secure process. It is not proof on its own: a company can collect IDs and still be careless with them. And its absence is not a red flag: a provider can control abuse in other ways, with a written acceptable use policy, abuse reports traced to accounts, and restricted site categories.

ProxyField works without asking ordinary buyers for ID. Flagged accounts may be asked to verify, resellers always are, and every abuse report is traced to the account behind it.

A form that takes a few minutes, then a review of up to 48 hours where a provider publishes a review time; documents, a video call or unclear answers make it days. A typical check at providers that verify customers (what the published policies we read ask for):

The market rows summarize the KYC pages that providers publish in their trust or help centers; to check a provider you are considering, search its help center for "KYC" and read its own page.

After the check. Providers that publish their process say they keep the KYC information for later reviews, and they may ask again: when you change your use case, ask for a new product or target, or when a report reaches them. Ask how long the record is kept and how to have it deleted (the GDPR questions below).

Some providers keep their other products usable while the check is pending.

Before you submit (these are what keep the review near its shortest time):

1. Start the check only from the provider's own site, never from a link in an unexpected message.
2. Use a company email rather than a personal one.
3. Describe the use case specifically ("daily price checks on 200 public product pages in Germany", not "scraping").
4. Make sure the names on the account, the documents and the payment match.
5. Ask what is kept from the check, for how long, and who runs it.

Providers lock high-risk categories (banks, payments, government, streaming, ticketing) because abuse there harms IPs every customer shares and brings complaints to the provider; a check lets them approve a stated, lawful use instead of blocking a category for everyone.

The left two columns describe market practice; only the right column is ProxyField's policy.

Before you buy from any provider, ask in writing:

1. Which categories are locked, as a list, and whether the list can change.
2. What unlocks them: a KYC check, a stated use case, a business account, or nothing at all.
3. Who runs the check and what is kept from it.

Policies differ from provider to provider, so keep the answers with your order.

A provider restriction is not a site's block. A provider rule is applied by the proxy network itself. A CAPTCHA, a 403 page or a "Verify you are human" challenge comes from the target site. Those are covered in why Cloudflare thinks you are a bot and Cloudflare 403 Forbidden.

Pay in USDT, BTC, ETH or 10 other coins without a card or a bank account; ordinary crypto purchases need no ID. Prices are in US dollars, the smallest payment is $2.95 (the price of the Easy Trial), and the blockchain network fee is paid by the sender. Email at checkout is optional; an account is opened with an email address. Send the exact amount on the network shown at checkout.

As with any blockchain payment, the transaction and wallet addresses are public on the chain. We never ask for private keys or seed phrases. More on paying: crypto payments at ProxyField.

We don't record the content of your traffic or the pages you visit. We keep only the service data we need to count your traffic, keep the network running and handle abuse reports. Connection metadata is kept for up to 30 days. Crypto purchases need no card, bank details or ID; an email address is all an account needs.

A reseller's customers send their traffic through our network, and the reseller answers for that use. So every reseller is verified before it gets wholesale rates, and stays responsible for its customers' use under the acceptable use policy. The reseller terms are on the reseller program page.

When an abuse report reaches us, we trace it to the account that used the IP and ask the account owner to explain. They have 48 hours to reply, and we decide and act, usually within 3 business days. Every report is acknowledged within 1 business day.

Confirmed abuse leads to a warning, limits on traffic or targets, suspension or closure of the account. Accounts closed for abuse lose their remaining traffic, and all purchases are final. How reports are handled step by step: reporting abuse.

Send an ID document only when a provider tells you why it needs it, what it collects and who runs the check. Data protection law asks for the same restraint: under the GDPR, personal data must be "adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary" for its purpose (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Article 5(1)(c)).

Before you upload, ask:

1. What exactly is collected, and why?
2. Where is it processed, and how long is it kept?
3. Does a third-party verification service receive it, and which one?
4. How is it protected, and how do you ask for it to be deleted?

The warning signs of a fake KYC request are in the good sign / warning sign table above: an unexpected message, a lookalike domain, a request for a Social Security number, a banking password or a one-time code, or more than the provider can explain.

Never share a full document over chat or email, and never send wallet keys to anyone. If you think a copy of your ID was misused, the US Federal Trade Commission explains what to do (FTC: what to know about identity theft).

At ProxyField, ordinary purchases need no ID at all; we may ask flagged accounts to verify, and every reseller is verified. This page describes our policy; it is not legal advice.