PEOPLE-SEARCH SITE · REMOVAL GUIDE
Instant Checkmate opt out: how to remove yourself
Background check platform widely used by wholesalers to look up landowner contact details before cold outreach.
AT A GLANCE
- Type
- People-search site
- Removal cost
- Free
- How you opt out
- Online opt-out form
- What removal does
- Your listing is suppressed
- Steps to complete
- 7 steps
- Suggested recheck
- Every 14 days
- Opt-out link verified
- Sep 2026
How to opt out of Instant Checkmate
- 1.PeopleConnect's Suppression Center covers Intelius, TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate, ZabaSearch, and US Search. One request removes you from all.
- 2.Enter your email address, agree to the Terms, and click Continue. A verification link is emailed to you -- it expires in 15 minutes.
- 3.Click the link in that email to verify your address
- 4.Enter your date of birth and click Continue
- 5.Enter your first and last name and click Continue
- 6.Browse the matched records, locate your listing, and click Continue to select it
- 7.Open the Desired Behavior dropdown, select Suppressed, and click Save. Allow up to 10 business days for suppression to propagate across all sites.
FendLand last confirmed this opt-out link works in Sep 2026.
THE DURABLE FIX
Instant Checkmate is one site. You’re on dozens.
The same records that put you on Instant Checkmate are spread across our full data-broker opt-out list, and that spread is how wholesalers and spammers got your number in the first place. Opting out of one site helps for a while, then Instant Checkmate re-lists you after its next data refresh. FendLand finds you across all 102, files every removal, keeps re-checking because they come back, and blocks the spam already hitting your phone.
See who else is listing you, freeSee which of the biggest sites list you right now, no account needed. Then the app removes you across all of them and blocks the spam:
Questions
Is Instant Checkmate legitimate?
Yes. Instant Checkmate is a real company, not a scam. It is a people-search data broker: it compiles public records, marketing data, and social profiles into a page on you and shows or sells it to anyone who searches your name, including wholesalers and skip-tracers. Compiling public-record data is a legal business in the US, which is why it can list you without asking first. Opting out is your right and it is free: Instant Checkmate publishes its own removal process, and you do not have to give a reason.
Why is Instant Checkmate showing my information?
You never gave Instant Checkmate anything. It scrapes and buys public records (county property and voter files, court and marriage records), marketing databases, and social profiles, then links them into one page under your name and publishes it automatically. You show up the moment those records mention you, which is why it can appear without warning. Compiling public-record data this way is legal in the US, and that same law is why you have the right to opt out for free.
Will removing myself from Instant Checkmate stop the "we buy your house or land" texts?
It helps, but Instant Checkmate is one of many people-search sites, and it re-lists you after each data refresh, so the durable fix is opting out everywhere and re-checking on a schedule, not once. That is exactly what FendLand automates.