The Ghost Delete Academy
Learn how your information got out there. Then take it back.
Free lessons, in plain language, on data brokers, breaches, and the scams built on your personal information. Read them here. No account, no email address, no cost.
Or check yourself first: run the free scan.
Lessons teach steps. Steps have limits.
A data broker is a company that collects your personal information and sells it or lists it where anyone can find it. These lessons show you how that system works and how to remove yourself from it, one broker at a time.
What a lesson cannot do: it cannot make a broker obey, stop a spoofed phone call, or get money back from a bank. Anyone who promises you that is selling something. What the steps here do is shrink what strangers can find out about you, and teach you the two or three habits that stop most scams cold. That is the whole offer.
The lessons
Six modules. Twenty-two lessons. All of them free. Start at the top, or start where your problem is. Lessons marked Free are published here now. The rest are in preparation and will be published on this page as they are finished.
Module 1: How your information got out there
- 1How data brokers get your information, and why scammers already know your nameFree
- 2What a breach is, and how to read one
- 3Check yourself: the free scan, done properly
Module 2: Remove yourself, broker by broker
- 4Find your listings
- 5The networks first: PeopleConnect, BeenVerified, Whitepages
- 6The top people-search sites, one by one
- 7The long tail, and the brokers that say no
- 8Keep a removal log that proves something
Module 3: When the phone rings
- 9Anatomy of a scam call: what they already know about you, and where they got itFree
- 10The bank scam, step by step
- 11The two rules: hang up and call back, and no courier is coming for your card
- 12Report it: the Anti-Fraud Centre, the FTC, and both Do Not Call lists
- 13The family drill
Module 4: Lock the accounts behind the data
- 14Passwords that were in breaches
- 15Two-factor authentication, set up once
- 16Your phone and your apps
Module 5: Credit protection, the rights you already have
- 17Freezes at the bureaus
- 18Stop the prescreen offers: OptOutPrescreen
- 19Read your free credit reports
- 20When a report is wrong: disputes
Module 6: Stay gone
- 21Relisting: why listings come back
- 22Know when to hand it over
Lesson list as of November 2026. Lessons are published as they are finished. No release date is published, because we do not publish dates we are not certain of. The reporting routes the lessons point to are kept on one page: Report fraud and stop the calls.
Before the next lesson, check yourself
Three free checks, each under a minute. See whether your email has appeared in a breach. See whether a password you use has been exposed. See what breaches name your domain.
Check whether your email address has appeared in a known breach.
Run the free scan →Check whether a password you use has been exposed in a breach.
Check a password →See what breaches name your domain.
Check a domain →The checks show what is in the breach records we can search. A clean result means not found in those records, not never exposed anywhere.
Or hand the work over
Everything the lessons teach you to do by hand, the subscription does for you. Ghost Delete removes your personal information from 30 to 50 Tier 1 data brokers in the United States and Canada, and every confirmed removal is backed by proof captured by the platform. One plan: Canada $9.99 a month or $79 a year, United States $6.99 a month or $55 a year, plus tax where it applies, with a 60-day money-back guarantee.
Or start with the free scan.
Small print and sources
- Coverage: 30 to 50 Tier 1 brokers, in the United States and Canada.
- Proof: every confirmed removal is backed by proof captured by the platform.
- Prices: as shown above, plus tax where it applies.
- Lessons about the bank scam and app tracking summarize reporting by CBC Marketplace and link to the originals. All other lessons are written by Ghost Delete from the sources named on each lesson page.
- Nothing on this page is legal or financial advice.
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