Proxy Detection Service
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There are 11 packages of proxy detection web services available. Each package returns a different set of IP address information with different amounts of credits deducted for each query.
Package
Information Returned
Credit
PX1
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy
1 credit
PX2
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type
2 credits
PX3
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City
3 credits
PX4
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City, ISP
4 credits
PX5
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City, ISP, Domain
5 credits
PX6
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City, ISP, Domain, Usage Type
6 credits
PX7
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City, ISP, Domain, Usage Type, ASN
7 credits
PX8
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City, ISP, Domain, Usage Type, ASN, Last Seen
8 credits
PX9
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City, ISP, Domain, Usage Type, ASN, Last Seen, Threat
9 credits
PX10
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City, ISP, Domain, Usage Type, ASN, Last Seen, Threat, Residential
10 credits
PX11
Country Code, Country Name, Is Proxy, Proxy Type, Region, City, ISP, Domain, Usage Type, ASN, Last Seen, Threat, Residential, Provider
11 credits
Free Proxy Detection API | Block Proxies, VPNs, Bots, & Tor …
Free Proxy Detection API | Block Proxies, VPNs, Bots, & Tor Connections
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Block Proxies & VPNs with the Most Accurate Proxy Detection Tools
Score IP Addresses With Confidence & Without False-Positives
Online fraudsters hide their IP addresses through Proxies, Tor nodes, & VPN connections to conceal their location and true identity. IPQS free Proxy Detection service can prevent fraudsters with anonymized or spoofed IP addresses from accessing critical pages of your site, creating headaches such as credit card fraud & chargebacks, fraudulent accounts, advertising click fraud, evading country specific filters, or scraping sensitive content. Users that register or login with anonymized connections, such as with a proxy or VPN, are likely to create duplicate or fake accounts, post spammy comments, messages, & listings, use stolen credit cards, or perform similar types of high risk behavior.
IPQS Proxy Detection API is the most comprehensive tool online to identify IP address connections with a high probability of malicious intent. Assign IP reputation scores to any click or user. This includes IP addresses that are open proxies, anonymous proxies, Tor nodes, VPNs, hosting providers, spammers, malware & spyware, botnets, residential proxies, and other undesirable shared connections that are highly inclined to engage in malicious activity.
Tap into the most advanced data set for Proxy Detection & IP Address Reputation Scoring. Unrivaled detection rates for residential proxies, compromised devices, and connections favorited by the worst cybercriminals & abusers online.
IPQS Proxy Detection service can be queried via an API lookup, through our user dashboard, or by uploading a CSV file. Instantly reduce fraud by tapping into our real-time threat detection. For each lookup, an IP address and other forensic factors of the connection are analyzed to determine if the user is hiding behind a spoofed or anonymized IP, tunneled connection, botnet, or attempting to frequently change their device.
IP reputation scoring is automatically expanded to include VPN detection and all other types of anonymous IP detection. Accurately view risk analysis for all high risk tunnels.
Over 25 data points are returned for each Proxy Detection API lookup to provide a detailed risk assessment of the click, user, or transaction. IPQS threat blacklists are actively maintained and updated in real-time to include the latest emerging threats from hijacked computers, open proxies, residential proxies, botnets, data centers, private VPNs, & other sources of high risk connections.
Older data and IP addresses that are no longer threats are frequently purged from our blacklists to reduce the chance of a false-positive result. We understand how crucial it is to never impact your legitimate traffic and this is one of the many ways IPQS excels against other proxy detection service providers.
Duplicate & Fake Users – Identify fraudulent and high risk users including fake accounts and duplicate users. Automate user quality with less manual reviews.
Click Fraud & Ad Fraud – Detect fake clicks from bots and high risk proxies & VPNs in real-time before they can impact your advertisers or eat up precious ad budgets.
Payment & Transaction Fraud – Prevent chargebacks before they can negatively impact your business. Identify high risk transactions without losing money to fraudsters.
Account Takeover – Keep your users safe and prevent cybercriminals from hijacking accounts on your platform.
Geo Enforcement – Only allow users from certain geographic regions, such as for OTT/VOD streaming services, gaming and casino services, or access to products only available in specific regions. Accurate geo blocking prevents users from bypassing restrictions.
Bots, Proxies, VPN, & TOR Connections – Easily identify high risk connections likely to engage in fraud with the greatest accuracy in the industry.
Lead Generation & User Data Verification – Ensure data that you are collecting or purchasing is valid and accurate. In addition to the IP address, other data such as phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, and other user info can be scored for accuracy and assigned a risk profile.
IPQS is the Internet’s leading source for IP Reputation scoring and data. Identify abusive IP addresses with over 40% greater detection rates and less false-positives than similar services.
Unrivalled IP Intelligence Built For Your Audience
Most Accurate Protection, Optimized For All Countries
IPQS Proxy Detection is powered with the experience of over 10 years of anti-fraud technology. As new patterns of fraud emerge, IPQS is quick to adapt, to ensure our edge on fraudsters and cybercriminals is never diminished.
We Only Use the Freshest Data
Our secret to avoiding false-positives is using fresh data that was recently collected within the past few hours or days. This provides the best experience for your users, so legitimate IP addresses are never penalized.
Less Costs With Greater Accuracy
Access the most accurate proxy detection service without feeling like you are paying for it. Our prices are 10x less than similar services that offer inferior detection and less flexible settings. Cancel anytime without a penalty.
Detect Residential Proxies & Private VPNs
Even stealthy residential proxies can’t escape IPQS detection methods. Our team has developed very intuitive solutions for isolating risky users that other services cannot detect. Easily identify residential proxies, botnets, and other types of infected computers that allow tunneled connections.
Flexible Settings & Pattern Recognition
Adjust a wealth of settings and manage custom rules to personalize scoring for your audience. This ensures that our scoring is the perfect fit for your user base. Additionally, custom machine learning algorithms continuously learn from your lookup history.
Support When You Need It
IPQS is always here for you. From integration assistance to optimizing your settings, our team is always available to support you, even on weekends. Once your account is active, you can submit a support ticket or contact our tech support hotline at any time.
IPQS provides the most accurate proxy detection service in the industry. Through the use of proprietary honeypots & traps, blacklists, forensic analysis, and client feedback loops, we are able to detect compromised connections and risky users to a significantly higher degree than any other anti-fraud service. Score users beyond just the IP address for the best accuracy by passing additional data points such as device info, transaction info, and personal information (email address, physical address, phone number). IPQS also allows for the most flexible and customizable scoring settings to tailor the service to your audience. Never worry about false-positives again, IPQS detection will adapt perfectly to any site or app.
We welcome you to test our service as every user is awarded 5, 000 free lookups per month and additional lookup queries are the most affordable in the industry. Our goal is to help you prevent fraud, increase ROI, & save you money at the same time! Coding examples and plugins make it easy to integrate our service in less than 5 minutes.
Detect Proxies with the Highest Degree of Accuracy and Precision
Real-Time Scoring
Easy Integration
Detect Proxies & VPNs
Prevent & Block Bots
Take advantage of the internet’s best IP reputation data to make intelligent decisions about your users, clicks, purchases, and similar user behavior. Receive accurate results worldwide in any region of the world. With full support for detecting bot traffic and malicious behavior, you can feel confident that IP addresses processed by IPQS proxy detection are reliable and accurate. Smart scoring avoids false-positives that can occur for IP ranges shared by multiple users and frequently recycled.
The anti-fraud industry has different approaches for dealing with fraud. IPQS believes the best way to manage fraud is to completely prevent it from happening in the first place as this saves time and has a higher success rate in reducing fraud overall. Rather than review post-analysis reports or receive notifications after fraud has been committed, IPQualityScore can prevent fraud and high risk behavior in real-time. This approach allows you to block proxy and VPN connections and adjust scoring settings in real-time. Easy integration can offer complete ecommerce fraud protection or any other type of abuse by bad users.
All of our anti-fraud tools also return a real-time “fraud score” so that users with a fraud score in a high risk threshold are detected and blocked, flagged for review, or redirected away from critical parts of a site like a registration or payment page, comments section, click funnel, etc. This approach successfully results in fewer problems with managing users, clients, & advertisers. Let IPQS automate your quality control and greatly reduce time spent on cleaning up abuse such as manually detecting duplicate users, clearing user generated SPAM, and blocking high risk users. Enjoy less headaches so you can focus on more productive tasks like growing your business.
IPQS Proxy Detection API can accept additional information to enhance the “fraud score” accuracy. We recommend passing the user agent (browser), user language, and additional details found on the user dashboard into each API request. Full transaction info including billing, shipping, and credit card data can optionally be scored as well. This gives us greater insight than just examining an IP address so we can give you the most accurate prediction of fraudulent behavior for each lookup. IPQS fraud scoring combined with the status of the lookup as a proxy connection, VPN connection, or Tor connection is a proven solution to preventing fraud and abuse.
Feed IP reputation data directly into your preferred security platform featuring our API and on-premise threat intelligence feeds.
Stay on top of the latest threats by also detecting VPNs in every corner of the world. Fresh data ensures you can detect new IPs for popular VPN providers while also identifying private VPN networks used exclusively by certain fraud rings. Data centers and hosted/server IPs are also detected in the “connection type” parameter. View the full IP reputation API documentation for more details on specific data points included with each lookup.
Confidently detect proxies, VPNs, and bad actors with the best IP intelligence service. Detect high risk IP addresses faster than any other service with greater insight and data quality.
1-click plugins are available for popular ecommerce, CMS, SOAR, and firewall products to ensure a smooth integration process. Contact our support team if you need any assistance integrating our service with your platform.
Advanced Proxy Detection Service – Also Detect TOR & VPNs
5, 000 FREE Proxy Detection API Lookups Per Month
Prevent Chargebacks, Reversals, Duplicate Accounts, Click Fraud, & Fraudulent Users
Batch Process CSV Files & Lists
Manage Whitelist & Blacklist Rules
Support for Postback Conversions and Web Callbacks
Block Proxies, VPNs, Tor, Bots, & Other Malicious IP Addresses
Smart Fraud Scoring & Threat Blocking
Adjustable Quality Strictness to Adapt to Your Needs
Easy API Lookup Service with Documentation & Example Code
Reduce Fraud for Your Sales, Leads, Conversions, Sign Ups, Ad Campaigns, etc.
Powerful Reporting – Detailed Audience Metrics
Advertisers, Ad Networks, Affiliate Marketers, & Affiliate Programs
Online Retailers – Online Sales, E-commerce, & Sign Ups
Payment Processors, Merchants, & Financial Institutions
Lead Generation & Transactional Processing
Dating Networks, Social Platforms, & User Driven Content
Travel, Booking, Rental, & Ticketing Services
SaaS Service Providers
Fraud Monitoring, Compliance, & Security Systems… and any site with users or transactions
Block Proxies & VPNs
API Access & Detailed Reports
Export Data & Process CSVs
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Automatic proxy detection is a process by which a Web proxy server is identified by the system and used to send requests on behalf of the client. This feature is also known as Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD). When automatic proxy detection is enabled, the system attempts to locate a proxy configuration script that is responsible for returning the set of proxies that can be used for the request. If the proxy configuration script is found, the script is downloaded, compiled, and run on the local computer when proxy information, the request stream, or the response is obtained for a request that uses a WebProxy instance.
Automatic proxy detection is performed by the WebProxy class and can employ request-level settings, settings in configuration files, and settings specified using the Internet Explorer Local Area Network (LAN) dialog box.
Note
You can display the Internet Explorer Local Area Network (LAN) Settings dialog box by selecting Tools from the Internet Explorer main menu and then selecting Internet Options. Next, select the Connections tab, and click LAN Settings.
When automatic proxy detection is enabled, the WebProxy class attempts to locate the proxy configuration script as follows:
The WinINet InternetQueryOption function is used to locate the proxy configuration script most recently detected by Internet Explorer.
If the script is not located, the WebProxy class uses the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to locate the script. The DHCP server can respond either with the location (host name) of the script or with the full URL for the script.
If DHCP does not identify the WPAD host, DNS is queried for a host with WPAD as its name or alias.
If the host is not identified and the location of a proxy configuration script is specified by the Internet Explorer LAN settings or a configuration file, this location is used.
Applications running as an NT Service or as part of use the Internet Explorer proxy server settings (if available) of the invoking user. These settings may not be available for all service applications.
Proxies are configured on a per-connectoid basis. A connectoid is an item in the network connection dialog, and can be a physical network device (a modem or Ethernet card) or a virtual interface (such as a VPN connection running over a network device). When a connectoid changes (for example, a wireless connection changes an access point, or a VPN is enabled), the proxy detection algorithm is run again.
By default, the Internet Explorer proxy settings are used to detect the proxy. If your application is running under a non-interactive account (without a convenient way to configure IE proxy settings), or if you want to use proxy settings different than the IE settings, you can configure your proxy by creating a configuration file with the
For requests that you create, you can disable automatic proxy detection at the request level by using a null Proxy with your request, as shown in the following code example.
public static void DisableForMyRequest (Uri resource)
{
WebRequest request = (resource);
= null;
WebResponse response = tResponse ();}
Public Shared Sub DisableForMyRequest(ByVal resource As Uri)
Dim request As WebRequest = (resource)
= Nothing
Dim response As WebResponse = tResponse()
End Sub
Requests that do not have a proxy use your application domain’s default proxy, which is available in the DefaultWebProxy property.
See also
WebProxy
WebRequest
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Frequently Asked Questions about proxy detection service
What is proxy detection?
Automatic proxy detection is a process by which a Web proxy server is identified by the system and used to send requests on behalf of the client. This feature is also known as Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD).Mar 30, 2017
How do I stop proxy detection?
A simple trick for evading detection is to switch ports. A few top VPNs offer the option of port forwarding and enable you to choose which port you use within the app settings. For example, forwarding VPN traffic to port 443 is a good idea because that’s the port used by most HTTPS traffic.Mar 4, 2020
Am I using a VPN or proxy?
To see if you’re using a proxy/VPN online, go to www.whatismyproxy.com. It will say if you’re connected to a proxy or not. PC: Check under your WiFi settings, to see if there is a VPN/proxy showing up. … You can also navigate to your settings application, click network, and then see if you’re running a VPN/proxy.
