Get your name, address, and family off the people-search sites.
Dozens of “people-search” websites publish your address, phone, age, and relatives to anyone who looks. That is how a scam caller knows your grandchild’s name, and how a stranger knows who lives in your house. Every listing can be removed — free, yourself, with the guides below.
Why this matters in Indiana
The scams working across Indiana right now — the grandparent call, the fake bank text, the “sheriff” demanding payment — all start with research, and these sites do the research for the scammer. A caller who knows your relatives’ names, your street, and your age is just reading a people-search page back to you. Clearing those pages does not stop every scam, but it takes away the script.
Start with Google itself
Google has a free, little-known tool that removes search results exposing your address, phone, or email — and keeps watching for new ones. It hides the results rather than deleting the sources, so do it alongside the list below, not instead of it. Remove your information from Google Search →
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The list — work top to bottom
Ordered so the biggest, easiest wins come first. Doing everything takes most people two to four hours, spread over a few evenings.
- TruePeopleSearch — 3–5 minutes. Easy — one of the fastest.
- FastPeopleSearch — 3–5 minutes. Easy.
- Whitepages — 5–10 minutes. Moderate — ends with an automated phone call.
- Spokeo — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- BeenVerified — 5–10 minutes. Easy.
- Intelius, TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate & US Search — about 10 minutes. Easy — one process covers four sites.
- Radaris — 10–15 minutes. Stubborn — may need a follow-up.
- MyLife — 15+ minutes. Hard — no self-serve form.
- PeopleFinders — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- PeekYou — 5–10 minutes. Easy.
- Nuwber — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- ThatsThem — about 5 minutes. Easy, but slow to take effect.
- ClustrMaps — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- USPhoneBook — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- SearchPeopleFree — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- FamilyTreeNow — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- CyberBackgroundChecks — 5–10 minutes. Easy.
- SmartBackgroundChecks — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- InfoTracer — 5–10 minutes. Easy.
- CheckPeople — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- CocoFinder — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- Dataveria — 5–10 minutes. Moderate.
- IdTrue — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- PeopleWhiz — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- PeopleSearchNow — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- PublicDataUSA — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- SearchQuarry — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- SpyFly — 5–10 minutes. Moderate.
- VeriPages — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- Neighbor.Report — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- OfficialUSA — 5–10 minutes. Moderate — email request.
- Advanced Background Checks — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- GoLookup — 5–10 minutes. Moderate.
- Social Catfish — about 10 minutes. Moderate — reverse image and profile search.
- BackgroundAlert — about 5 minutes. Easy.
- USA People Search — about 5 minutes. Easy.
Every guide is free. Human casework is optional.
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Scope, timing, and limits
- Sites change. These companies redesign their forms, add checks, or ask you to click a link in an email. If a step looks different when you visit, the free AI guide can explain the published process.
- A request you send is not yet a removal. Do not count a listing as gone until the site confirms it, or you check again and it is missing.
- Your security steps stay yours. We never ask for passwords, one-time codes, remote access, or control of an account. You handle password changes, two-step sign-in, freezes, confirmation emails, and device cleanup.
- No outcome guarantee. The guides and plan describe each site’s published process. No tool or service can guarantee a site count, a removal, or a particular security outcome.
The wider map — free resources we trust
Our own removal work is checked against the open directories the privacy community maintains. They are free, they are excellent, and they are worth knowing about:
- The Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List — the volunteer-run master list of data brokers and their opt-out steps, maintained by journalist Yael Grauer since 2017. If a site is not in our guides above, it is almost certainly here.
- Optery’s open data-broker directory — a public directory of more than 950 data brokers with direct opt-out links, published free for anyone to use.
- Phishing.Database — an open, constantly updated list of hundreds of thousands of active scam sites. Our free scam-check tool tests every link you paste against it.
California has one online tool that lets its residents ask many registered data brokers to delete their information. Indiana does not have a similar one-request tool. Here, each site has its own steps. These free guides show you how to do them yourself, one site at a time.
Common questions
Is removal permanent?
Not always. These companies keep buying new information. A listing can come back after you move, change your phone number, or appear in a new public record. Check again every three months. If you want a company to keep checking forever, a subscription service may fit you better. Our free guides work whenever you re-run them — set a reminder for every three months.
Why is my information on these sites at all?
They compile public records, marketing databases, and data-broker feeds. It is legal in most cases — but many sites also publish a way to request removal. Our guides link to the process that was available when each guide was checked.
Do I have to pay anyone to be removed?
No. You can follow every guide on this page yourself for free, and you should not pay a people-search site merely to use its opt-out process. Kelsie’s services charge for research, organization, monitoring, and hands-on work—not for access to these guides.
Does this stop scam calls?
It can make it harder for a scammer to learn about you, but it cannot stop every scam call. If a call or text feels wrong, call our free 24/7 AI guide at 1-888-985-6187. It can be wrong.
Steps checked August 2026. These sites change their processes. The free phone line is an AI guide and can be wrong; it does not replace a bank, law-enforcement agency, attorney, or emergency service: 1-888-985-6187.