How to remove yourself from Spokeo
Spokeo aggregates your name, age, address history, phone numbers, relatives, and social profiles into a paid report — with enough shown free to identify you. The opt-out is free, but unlike most brokers it requires the URL of your specific listing, so the process has one extra step.
Step-by-step removal
- First, find your listing: search your name at spokeo.com and open the profile that’s you. Copy the full URL from the address bar — it looks like
spokeo.com/Your-Name/…. - Go to the opt-out page: spokeo.com/optout.
- Paste your listing URL, enter an email address for the confirmation, and submit.
- Check that inbox — Spokeo sends a confirmation email, and the removal doesn’t process until you click the link in it.
- Processing typically takes a few days. If it stalls, their privacy contact is privacy@spokeo.com.
What to watch out for
- The confirmation email is the removal. Filing the form without clicking the email does nothing. Check spam.
- Multiple profiles: variants of your name or old addresses can each carry a separate listing — repeat the URL-plus-form loop for each one.
- Spokeo removes the listing you point at, not “you” — which is exactly why the URL matters.
It usually comes back
Spokeo rebuilds profiles from fresh data feeds, and a removed listing often reappears under a new URL months later — which means the old confirmation doesn’t cover it and the process starts over. Re-search yourself periodically, or hand the re-checking to a service built for it.
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