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Spokeo opt out: how to remove yourself

Spokeo aggregates public records, social profiles, and marketing data into a single people-search profile that wholesalers and cold callers buy access to.

AT A GLANCE

Type
People-search site
Removal cost
Free
How you opt out
Online opt-out form
Steps to complete
4 steps

What Spokeo exposes about you

Your name, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and relatives. It is one of the first places a wholesaler or skip-tracer looks to attach your cell number to your name and address.

How to opt out of Spokeo

  1. 1.Search Spokeo for your profile and copy its URL.
  2. 2.Go to the Spokeo opt-out page, paste the URL, and enter an email for the confirmation.
  3. 3.Click the confirmation link Spokeo emails you to complete the removal.
  4. 4.Recheck periodically, since profiles can be rebuilt from fresh data.
Open the Spokeo opt-out page ↗

Updated Sep 2026.

THE DURABLE FIX

Spokeo is one site. You’re on dozens.

The same records that put you on Spokeo 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 Spokeo 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, free

See 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:

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Questions

Is Spokeo legitimate?

Yes. Spokeo 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: Spokeo publishes its own removal process, and you do not have to give a reason.

Why is Spokeo showing my information?

You never gave Spokeo 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 Spokeo stop the "we buy your house or land" texts?

It helps, but Spokeo 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.

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