How to Remove Yourself From TruePeopleSearch
Victoria, developer of Reputation Radar · Checked 8 September 2026 against archived pages and California's data broker register. We did not complete the live form ourselves: the site blocks automated checks and we do not work around blocks. Archived captures and recent independent walkthroughs show differing versions of the workflow, so treat the steps as orientation, not a script.
True people search results are among the easiest to find and the hardest to pin down. TruePeopleSearch publishes your name, age, past addresses, phone numbers and relatives, and it is free to ask them to take it down. This is the one broker guide on this site we could not check by opening the page ourselves, so it says where each fact comes from and how old it is.
Opt-out contact
- Opt-out page: truepeoplesearch.com/removal
- Email: No verified removal email in the sources we checked. The published removal route is the form above.
- Phone: (888) 838-4803: listed in California's data broker register for opt-out-of-sale requests, which is not the same as removing a public profile.
- Cost: Free.
- Evidence: an archived capture of the removal page and California's data broker register. The live form was not completed.
Why this guide is different
Our automated checks received HTTP 403 responses from both the removal page and the robots file, so we did not complete the form. We do not work around blocks like that.
What we could read is the archive. The last fully readable copy of the removal page is a capture from 28 March 2024. Independent walkthroughs published through 2026 describe a form that has changed since. Both are below, labelled.
Where the opt-out lives
The removal page is at truepeoplesearch.com/removal, also reachable through the site's footer privacy or opt-out link. Open it in a normal browser.
There may also be a phone route. In its California registry filing, Free Data Services, LLC, the company behind TruePeopleSearch, lists (888) 838-4803 for opt-out-of-sale requests. That is not the same thing as taking a public profile down. If the form is inaccessible, call and ask whether it can process a record-removal request.
Do not follow a saved walkthrough click by click, including this one. The form has been restructured more than once since 2024 and 2026 guides disagree about the current path. Follow what the page in front of you actually asks.
What the form asked when it was last readable
From the 28 March 2024 capture, in the site's own words: you agree to the terms, tick an "I'm not a robot" box, click begin, search for your record, open its detail page, and click remove this record. You then confirm by email. That page said your record would be removed "everywhere on the site within 72 hours", and it required you to attest that you are the subject of the record.
The current flow appears to run in two stages. Incogni's walkthrough describes a first step, then an emailed link that "takes you to the full opt-out form", which you complete and submit. We have not seen that second form ourselves, so we cannot tell you which fields it asks for.
Decide before you begin how much you are willing to give a data broker to get out of a data broker. That decision is worth making in advance, because the fuller form arrives after you have already started.
The confirmation link expires. The same walkthrough states that the emailed link "expires after 24 hours" and that you start again from the beginning if you miss it.
You should not need an account. In a copy of its help page archived on 5 June 2026, TruePeopleSearch says: "one of the best features of this site is the LACK of features, namely we don't have any user accounts." Read what else is asked before you submit it: the addresses the form now uses are named for identity verification, and we could not check what that involves.
If you are acting for someone else, the form has an authorized-agent option. That route needs real authorization from the person whose record it is.
Which sites one request covers
This is the part the listicles get wrong, in both directions.
TruePeopleSearch is registered separately. In California's 2026 data broker register, TruePeopleSearch.com is filed by Free Data Services, LLC. FastPeopleSearch.com and SearchPeopleFree.com are filed by a different company, Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC, along with eight more sites including CyberBackgroundChecks, SmartBackgroundChecks, USA-People-Search and USPhoneBook. We found no public record of common ownership. So submit a separate request to TruePeopleSearch.
For the Mississippi Tornado Alley sites, one request may cover the family. For opt-out-of-sale requests, its own registry filing says a request submitted through any of its listed sites "will apply across all sites". The filing does not expressly guarantee that every public listing will be removed across every domain, so verify the result where it matters. The same filing says that to opt out of collection happening through the website itself, such as cookies, you have to do that separately on each site.
If you live in California there is a further route. The state's DROP platform lets you send one deletion request that every registered data broker must process. Consumers could submit from 1 January 2026 and brokers had to begin processing on 1 August 2026. A status can take up to 90 days, and brokers must re-check their records against DROP submissions at least every 45 days.
What removal does and does not do
An ordinary site opt-out does not last. These sites rebuild listings from public-records feeds, so a new property record, a court filing or a change of address can put yours back. Plan to re-check.
DROP is different. It is built to keep working rather than to be repeated, because of that 45-day re-check. It is still not a guaranteed takedown of every public listing: data that is publicly available or otherwise exempt can remain.
Neither clears the rest of the internet. An opt-out removes this site's page, not the public records behind it and not other people-search sites. If a removed page still shows in search results, Google has retired its public cache, so the tool to use is Refresh Outdated Content.
One name to be careful with. In March 2024, Krebs on Security reported that truepeoplesearch.NET, a different site from the better known .com, was part of a US-focused people-search network run from China under what the reporting called fabricated owner identities. That describes the .net as it stood then, and no source we found says anything either way about whether it is connected to the .com. Check which domain you are on before typing your name into anything.
If you meet a line telling you that removing your record will make you look suspicious to dating-app matches, treat it as copy written to keep you listed. That line was on the page in March 2024, word for word. We cannot tell you whether it is still there.
Next
For the full map of which sites to hit and in what order, see the people-search removal guide. The walkthroughs for Spokeo, Whitepages and BeenVerified were each checked against their live pages.
If you would rather see where your name actually appears before doing the rounds, the Personal Exposure Snapshot checks people-search sites among 20+ surfaces for $49, and prints a coverage map of what it could not reach.
General information, not legal advice. Checked 8 September 2026 against the sources linked above. Individual facts carry their own dates because several are older than this guide.