PROPERTY DATA BROKER · REMOVAL GUIDE
How to remove yourself from Dun & Bradstreet
D&B's consumer data arm (via Donnelley Marketing) feeds property owner records to insurance companies, mortgage servicers, and home services companies. Widely used for new-mover list compilation post-closing.
What Dun & Bradstreet exposes about you
Contact and household records tied to your name and address, often including property and ownership details, packaged and sold to marketers and skip-tracers. These are the records a wholesaler or investor buys to decide which owners are worth cold-texting and calling.
How to opt out of Dun & Bradstreet
- 1.Visit D&B's consumer privacy request form (hosted by TrustArc on D&B's behalf)
- 2.When the form asks what kind of request you're making, select "Opt out of the sale/sharing of my personal information" — this is the option you want. Do NOT select Delete, Correct, or Access (those have different effects).
FendLand last confirmed this opt-out link works in Aug 2026.
THE DURABLE FIX
Do it once, across all of them.
Dun & Bradstreet is one of many on our full data-broker opt-out list. FendLand finds you across the biggest data-broker and people-search sites, files the removals, and keeps re-checking, because they re-list you. The free check covers the top sites; the app scans and removes across all 83 and blocks the spam already reaching you.
Check your exposure, freeSee which of the biggest sites already list you, no account needed. Then get the app to remove you across all of them and block the spam:
Questions
Is Dun & Bradstreet legitimate?
Yes. Dun & Bradstreet is a real company, not a scam. It is a data broker: it buys and compiles property, ownership, and contact records, then licenses them to marketers, lenders, and the skip-trace tools wholesalers use to find owners to call. That is a legal business in the US, which is why your records can be in its database without you ever hearing of it. Opting out is your right and it is free: Dun & Bradstreet publishes its own request process, and you do not have to give a reason. Some property and mortgage data may be kept under regulatory exemptions, so a removal can be partial.
Why is Dun & Bradstreet showing my information?
Contact and household records tied to your name and address, often including property and ownership details, packaged and sold to marketers and skip-tracers. D&B's consumer data arm (via Donnelley Marketing) feeds property owner records to insurance companies, mortgage servicers, and home services companies. Widely used for new-mover list compilation post-closing.
Will removing myself from Dun & Bradstreet stop the "we buy your house or land" texts?
It helps, but Dun & Bradstreet is one of many data brokers feeding the same marketing and skip-trace lists, and the records return after each refresh, so the durable fix is removing yourself across the whole set and re-verifying on a schedule, not once. That is exactly what FendLand automates.