Spokeo Opt-Out: The Complete Walkthrough

Spokeo is one of the largest people-search sites. Type in a name and it builds a profile out of publicly available records it pulls from third-party sources — and anyone can pull that profile up. You did not create it, and you were not asked.

The removal process itself is short. The part that takes time is finding every listing Spokeo has for you, because — in Spokeo's own warning on its opt-out page — one person can have several listings, and each one has to be removed separately. Here is the whole job, start to finish.

What a Spokeo profile can show

Based on the categories Spokeo itself lists on its official privacy and homepage pages, a profile or report can include:

• Contact information — phone numbers and email addresses
• Location history — current and past addresses
• Property information — property records and related details from deeds and assessor records
• Personal details and demographics — including age, drawn from consumer and marketing indexes
• Social media profiles — public profiles Spokeo links to the person
• Court records — public records, including the kinds of records Spokeo groups under its court-record sources
• Vital and directory information — birth, marriage, and death records, and business-directory details where they apply

Not every profile shows all of that, and Spokeo notes its data comes from outside sources, so details can be wrong or out of date. Wrong does not mean harmless — an old address, a phone number, and a list of linked profiles is still a lot to hand to a stranger.

Before you start

• You need the exact listing address first. Spokeo's opt-out form does not search for you. It asks for the web address (URL) of the specific listing you want removed, so find and copy that first.
• You need an email inbox you can open right away. Spokeo sends a confirmation email, and the request is not complete until you click the link in it.
• No account, and no payment step. The official form asks only for the listing URL, an email address, and a robot check — no login, no payment, no payment card, no ID. One honest note: Spokeo doesn't actually use the word "free" on that page. What the form itself shows is that it never asks you to pay — and that's the version worth trusting.
• Plan on repeating this. One submission covers one listing URL. See "More than one listing?" below.

The steps

1. Find your listing. Go to spokeo.com and search for yourself. When you find the profile that matches you, open it and check the details — address history, age, locations — to make sure it is actually you and not someone with the same name.
2. Copy the listing's web address. With the profile open, copy the full URL from your browser's address bar. Keep the tab open so you do not lose it.
3. Open the opt-out page. Go to spokeo.com/optout. This is Spokeo's official listing opt-out page. A "Do Not Sell My Info" link in the footer of Spokeo's homepage points to this same page.
4. Paste the listing URL. Enter the profile address you copied into the field labelled URL.
5. Enter your email address. Type an email you can open immediately into the field labelled EMAIL ADDRESS.
6. Complete the robot check and submit. Check the "I'm not a robot" box, then click OPT OUT.
7. Click the link in the confirmation email. Spokeo explains on the opt-out page that a confirmation email will be sent and the link in it must be clicked to complete the process. If it does not arrive, check your spam folder before resubmitting.
8. Check back. Spokeo states that opt-out requests are processed in 24–48 hours, depending on the nature of the request and the amount of data involved. After that window, revisit your saved listing URL and search for yourself again to confirm the listing is gone.

If you get stuck: the opt-out page points readers to Spokeo's customer-care contact page and lists [email protected] for privacy help. Include the listing URL you are trying to remove.

More than one listing? That's normal

Spokeo warns on its own opt-out page that a person may have multiple listings, each with its own unique URL, and each one must be opted out individually. Duplicates happen under old addresses, name variations, and older contact details.

So don't stop at a name search. Spokeo's Help Center says its search supports five kinds of searches — by name, by phone number, by email address, by social media username, and by address — and its search bar works out which kind you've typed. Run your phone number, your email address, and your current and past addresses through it as well. Any listing that surfaces has its own URL and needs its own run through steps 1–8 above.

Leaving one listing behind leaves that version of your information public.

Canceling a subscription is not the same thing

If you have ever paid Spokeo for reports, keep these two actions separate: canceling a subscription stops billing, and the opt-out above removes a listing. One does not do the job of the other.

To cancel, Spokeo's Help Center gives these steps: log in, open your Account page, scroll down to the "Manage Account" section, and click "Cancel." Once canceled, the membership will not renew, and Spokeo sends a confirmation email to the address on file.

Will it come back?

Yes, it can — and Spokeo says so itself. The opt-out page warns that:

• Opting out removes the listing from Spokeo; it does not remove your information from the original source Spokeo pulled it from, and your information can still appear on other sites.
• Because Spokeo continually receives new and updated public records, information may reappear in the future without notice.
• For that reason, Spokeo advises checking regularly for new listings.

That is the honest pattern across people-search sites: removal is maintenance, not a one-time fix. A new record — a move, a new filing, a fresh data feed — can rebuild a profile you already removed.

One site down, 53 to go

Spokeo is 1 of the 54 people-search sites we check at GoodFence. If finding every duplicate listing, confirming each removal, and re-checking a few months from now sounds like a chore you would rather hand off, that is exactly what GoodFence does every month.

Start by seeing the full picture: run your free exposure scan at getgoodfence.com. It shows you which sites are listing you, with no obligation — and if you want us to handle the removals, we'll take it from there.