Guide · By Ghost Delete · November 14, 2026

How to Remove Yourself from Spokeo

Spokeo aggregates your name, address, phone number, and social profiles into a public listing that anyone can buy. It pulls from social media, court records, and other data brokers, so it often knows more than a single public record would show. Here is how to opt out of Spokeo for free, step by step, and how to keep it gone.

What Spokeo shows about you

Spokeo builds a profile from social media, court records, public records, and data bought from other brokers. The free view shows your name, age, city, and relatives. The paid report adds phone numbers, email addresses, current and past addresses, and more. Because Spokeo aggregates from so many sources, it often has several listings for one person, especially if you have moved or changed your name. Each listing is a separate opt-out.

Step 1: Find your listings

Go to spokeo.com and search your full name and city. Open every profile that matches you and copy each profile URL. Spokeo may list you more than once, so check for old addresses and name variations. You will need the URL of each listing, because the opt-out form works one profile at a time.

Step 2: Submit the opt-out

Go to spokeo.com/optout. Paste the URL of your listing into the form, enter your email address, and solve the reCAPTCHA. Spokeo will send a confirmation email. You must click the link in that email, or the removal does not happen. Repeat the process for every listing you found. The confirmation emails look like spam, so check your spam folder if nothing arrives within a few minutes.

Step 3: Wait and verify

Spokeo usually clears a listing within 24 to 72 hours after you click the confirmation link. Search yourself again after a few days to confirm it is gone. If a listing is still there, check that you submitted the correct profile URL and that you clicked the confirmation email, then submit the request again.

Why your listing comes back

Spokeo re-creates profiles from new data imports, typically within 6 to 12 months of a removal. This is not a failure of the opt-out. It is how the business works. Set a calendar reminder to re-search yourself every few months and re-submit the opt-out whenever your profile is back. Each round is faster, because you already know the form.

What opting out does and does not do

Opting out removes your public profile from Spokeo. It does not delete the underlying public records, and it does not remove you from other brokers. Whitepages, BeenVerified, TruthFinder, and dozens of others hold the same data, and each one needs its own opt-out. The full list, with the exact link for each broker, is in our DIY guide to removing yourself from data brokers. Spokeo is one of the biggest, so it belongs near the top of your list, right after the PeopleConnect suppression request that covers TruthFinder, InstantCheckmate, Intelius, USSearch, and more in one submission.