FlyProxy Review

FlyProxy: A Cautionary Tale

After a deep dive into FlyProxy, we’re left with some serious concerns. This review illustrates why we take our time with due diligence at PickAProxy.com—it’s so our readers can steer clear of potential pitfalls, and FlyProxy gave us plenty of reasons to do just that. We’re sharing these findings to highlight why caution is warranted with this provider.

This FlyProxy review does not claim to have knowledge of the internal workings of the company and we assert only our experience and research, understanding there may be some mitigating factors that would render our position invalid. However, we arrived at our decision to not partner with or promote this company as a duty to protect our readers.

Is FlyProxy a Scam? Initial Concerns about Policies

We started with the basics: Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: the standard legal assurances most proxy services provide. FlyProxy? Nothing. We scoured their site, documentation, and even ran advanced site searches on Google — no sign of these essential policies.

We only encountered their first “policy” while attempting to purchase proxies: a “Refund Policy” that boiled down to “no refunds” for any reason. There’s also an AML policy linked during signup—one small positive—but still no Terms of Use or Privacy Policy. For us, this alone was a red flag, as our Review Score algorithm factors in each companies legal policies, which FlyProxy was clearly lacking.

The refund policy has this language: “Refunds will not be provided for paid services that do not align with the product’s features. All payments are considered final. FlyProxy is committed to assisting clients experiencing issues with the proxy or software.” But, oddly, it appeared under the “Refundable Situations” section, despite essentially saying there are no such situations.

FlyProxy Review Sites: False Advertising

In our initial FlyProxy review of their web site, on July 9, 2024, we found a Trust Pilot review badge that showed a 4.9 out of 5 rating.

At PickAProxy, we trust, but verify whatever we can. So we went to Trust Pilot and looked FlyProxy up. They had no reviews so it’s unclear how they could possibly have a score of 4.9 out of 5.

We took another look in October of 2024 and suddenly they had 22 reviews and guess what: they were all a perfect 5 stars. This was good enough for a score of 4.6 on Trust Score, still below the 4.9 FlyProxy continues to advertise on their site. Nanjing Siyanrui Network Technology Co., Ltd, which is what they told us their company name is (see more on this below) has existed since 2017. They went from zero reviews from 2017 until July of 2024, then from August through October they suddenly had 22 perfect score reviews.

This rapid review accumulation and potentially inflated rating made us question their authenticity and quite frankly made us question Trust Pilot as well, especially given FlyProxy’s long, quiet existence since 2017.

Trust Pilot notes in their listing that they have not verified any of the company data, but are still giving them a 4.6 under these circumstances. Not to pat ourselves on the back, but this is why we do verifications before listing anyone. And we’re glad we did with FlyProxy as you are about to learn.

Who is FlyProxy?

It’s not always easy, but typically, with some digging, we can validate the legitimacy of businesses through sources like local business registries and confidently say they are who they say they are. This was not the case with the FlyProxy review.

• This was not a company we had heard about until they reached out to us from an email address @big*****inc.com in the summer of 2024.
• They said their company web site was flyproxy.com – a different domain than they were emailing from. Ok, sometimes larger corporations have subsidiaries and use different domains or DBAs. Not a big deal.
• Then, when they filled out our initial review intake form they provided the company name Nanjing Siyanrui Network Technology Co., Ltd., a company based in Nanjing, China.
• And on their web site, they list the name as Bohuan Network Technology Co., Limited, with an address in Hong Kong.

So, we have possibly four entities we’re dealing with here. We dug further.

We always verify company registrations with local authorities before doing our reviews for proxy companies. When we were struggling to find them, we reached out to ask for their officially registered corporate name in Chinese so we could complete our search. They gave us some Chinese characters (not knowing we could read them) that were not their company name. They did not provide the name in Chinese, but instead offered us money and said they would cooperate as long as we give them an advertising position.

With all of the proxy companies we have worked with, no one has ever made us such an offer. (We did not accept).

With nowhere left to turn, we finally found them, given the information they provided us, on the Registration China web site, which we believe is a private company that packages and resells this information.

We got a report that verified the company information they gave us that also listed a slew of court cases FlyProxy was involved in. They were the plaintiff in a dispute over infringement of trade secrets. This is not a big deal and we’ve seen this with other proxy companies as well. Companies should work hard to protect their IP. However, we also found a large number of labor disputes between 2021 and 2024, some of which listed them as the plaintiff and some as the defendant.

Conclusion

Without digging deeper, it was enough for us to see that they are now advertising a different business name, located in a different (though obviously incorporated) jurisdiction in Hong Kong.

There were just too many red flags in our FlyProxy review: their unwillingness to cooperate with verifying their business (something their own AML Policy lists a potential reason for rejecting services); pushiness around just putting them up on our site; the seemingly false advertising of their Trust Score from Trust Pilot; and a complete lack of a Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. These red flags were enough to make our decision to not partner with or promote them an easy one.

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