Identity Proofing Testing
Gmail Extra Emails Trick
Currently an account can only be verified once. When testing in lower environments, we encourage creating new accounts to re-test the proofing flow using this Gmail trick.
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and some extra bits after your username to create a new email address that routes to your
same inbox. For example, if your GSA email is:
first.last@gsa.gov
You can make extra accounts like:
first.last+1@gsa.gov
first.last+2@gsa.gov
first.last+abcdef@gsa.gov
And as an easy way to keep track of the emails, consider date-stamping them:
first.last+20210704@gsa.gov
Pass a YML for images
Instead of uploading images of IDs (since we aren’t supposed to have PII in sandbox environments), you can upload a specially-formatted YML file.
Sample SSN
Our developer docs have sample SSNs to get desired behavior.
Sample Phone Numbers
We also have sample phone numbers to generate various proofing responses.