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How to remove yourself from TruePeopleSearch

Updated August 2026 · About 5 minutes · Difficulty: Easy · Written from our own removal runs

TruePeopleSearch publishes your name, age, current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and relatives — free, to anyone, no account needed. It’s one of the most-visited people-search sites in the US, which makes it a priority removal. The opt-out is free and usually processes quickly.

Before you start

Make sure you’re on truepeoplesearch.com — the real site. There is a copycat at truepeoplesearch.net that is a different operation entirely; submitting your details there doesn’t remove anything and hands your information to a site you know nothing about.

Step-by-step removal

  1. Go to the removal page: truepeoplesearch.com/removal.
  2. Enter your name, city, and state, and work through the CAPTCHA. Expect multiple CAPTCHAs across the process — that’s normal here, not a sign something broke.
  3. Find your listing in the results and select it. If several records look like you, check the age and relatives shown — remove each one that’s actually you.
  4. Enter an email address to receive the removal confirmation, complete the final CAPTCHA, and submit.
  5. You’ll get a confirmation; the listing typically drops within a day or two. If nothing happens, their support contact is support@truepeoplesearch.com.

What to watch out for

  • The clone site. Again: .com, not .net. This is the single most common mistake with this broker.
  • Multiple records. Past addresses often generate separate listings — search your previous cities too.
  • Use an email you don’t mind exposing to a data broker for the confirmation loop; any working inbox will do.

It usually comes back

Removal here is real but not permanent: TruePeopleSearch rebuilds its database from fresh public-records scrapes, and removed listings commonly resurface within months. Put a reminder in your calendar to re-search yourself every couple of months — or let a service that re-checks on a 30-to-120-day cycle carry that job.

Or hand it over

Never fill out another opt-out form again

TruePeopleSearch is one site. Your information is probably on dozens of its siblings — and most listings quietly return within months. Noira removes you from 690 sites, proves every removal with before-and-after screenshots, and re-checks on a 30-to-120-day cycle, forever.

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