Sal posted on: April 19, 2011 SPOKEO IS A SCAM! I signed up and everything listed was wrong. This site should be illegal, spokeo is such a scam
Peggy posted on: June 20, 2011 what gives you or anyone else the right to publish private info....I think legal actions should be taken....I'm PISSED!!!!
Rania posted on: June 20, 2011 That's the nature of the Internet unfortunately, Peggy.
Personally, I removed myself from the spokeo site- you can follow the steps above to do the same.
Sal- I found a lot of inaccurate data on the site as well!
Peggy posted on: June 20, 2011 Rania I tried removing myself with no luck...I'll keep trying as I want to be gone from this site....furthermore the info they have on me is incorrect.
Crickkett posted on: July 24, 2011 Spokeo is a horrible and intrusive website. Yes, one can remove themselves and no longer are they gone, they are right back on, if you can even remove yourself. The security code to finish the removal process is made so that one cannot tell if letters are numbers and vise versa, no matter how sure you are about what you put it. Also, I signed up with FB with a fake email/name and FB sent a confimation to my personal laptop and real email address due to them collecting our url's. I work in IT and I can't see any way out of this madness.
DaveG posted on: July 28, 2011 I'm pissed. This f*ing thing is no doubt full of bullshit. Spokeo is a SCAM. I could go on about these scum bags but others have said it for me.
FGV posted on: August 6, 2011 Spokeo is a SCAM, SCAM, SCAM!!!
amy posted on: August 18, 2011 Very creepy site.
I managed to remove my personal info, but when i google my name, spokeo is still the first site that comes up. as opposed to my personal website!
Spokeo lists all the other people in the US with my name. ANy tips as to how to rid this from a google search? I google other people are spokeo doesnt pop up.
very scary stuff.
Rania posted on: August 18, 2011 Thanks for sharing your thoughts everyone!
Peggy- Any luck with removing your info from spokeo yet? The instructions above should do the trick.
Crickett- You're absolutely right, i'm worried that the madness has just begun with all of our information on the Internet.
Amy- Sometimes it takes a few days for Google to remove sites from its index, check back in a few days to see if Google has removed your spokeo listing from its index.
Hope this helps!
Nae Ha posted on: September 3, 2011 I was able to remove my inaccurate information easily. And when I re-searched, I couldn't be found. So I guess, so far, it's worked out for me. I'll check back in a week and a month to see if I'm permanently removed.
DC posted on: September 3, 2011 I agree I also paid the small fee to find out what Spokeo was all about and my info had me listed as a 80yr old male and married. This site can cause problems if someone looked this info. up and believed the information that is listed on this site. I have cancelled my subscription and probably too late to remove info because I know longer have access to the info., but after reading how to remove your personal information even though it is inaccurate I will attempt again to do so.
Lys posted on: November 10, 2011 I hate Spokeo. I removed my info about a year ago and just yesterday discovered I was on Spokeo again and multiple times ... with photos of previous addresses in different cities. So infuriating and against the law. I removed all of this before! Spokeo is ripe for a lawsuit.
Jackie in Seattl posted on: November 23, 2011 Spokeo somehow charged my PayPal account $14.95. I assume this is a subscription/user fee? I don't even know who they are. How did they access my PayPal account? I do remember clicking on, 6 months ago, a profile...that I thought was free....when looking at realestate. Never was a fee listed. And 6 months ago. Geez....
Scam Forsure posted on: January 4, 2012 I discovered spokeo when searching for myself. It listed me and numerous others with the same name, 15. Only the locations and ages were correct, and in most cases they dated from more than 10 years ago. Anything else was complete BS.
I also checked on someone whom I knew, who is unique with that name in the USA. Spokeo delivered incorrect marital status, childen, and employment. Only the town of residence and age were correct. Now, that person is rarely mentioned in public records or the internet, so I was able to figure out what spokeo did. There were two others with the same name in her household (an older sister and herself with mis-spelled name), and those were assumed by spokeo to be husband and a child!
Spokeo was founded by Stanford univeristy grads. I have nothing but contempt for Stanford and its grads. Parasites, all. They got in by social contact rather than merit, I believe.
Believe posted on: January 8, 2012 So my question is...if I sign up for Spokeo can I see what my cheating boyfriend is doing on the internet?
Alan Frazier posted on: February 6, 2012 Scam? Not scam? Don't take their word for it, or from the commenters below. Search your own name. The info is incorrect and/or something anyone could find in a phonebook. But, most people have the wrong info about me. It's not a scam until they charge you $19.95 (or whatever) for it!
Bert posted on: March 4, 2012 Spokeo has all of my info wrong too, and charged me $14.95 for a FREE trial just to see my info. When I asked them about the charge, they said no refunds even though I am not able to access the site anymore.
Their own 'Spokeo is a not a scam' webpage is now at the top of Google's search for 'spokeo scam.' I hope this pages edges them out, as they ARE a SCAM.
Noah posted on: March 13, 2012 The crazy thing is that Spokeo is not the only website that lets literally anyone find your personal information, you still have all these guys to worry about:
ZabaSearch
US Search
Private Eye
Spoke
People Smart
People Finders
White Pages
Acxiom
Intelius
USA People Search
MyLife
Rapleaf
Radaris
People Lookup
Archives.com
Pipl
Public Records Now
Epsilon
BeenVerified
We created SafeShepherd.com because all of these sites had our personal information WITHOUT our permission, and they also all had a different policy on how to opt out. Even when you do opt out, your info can pop up again in a few months.
We decided to fight back and wrote software that automated the opt out process for all these sites and also scanned the web so that when we reappeared on the sites we would be removed again.
We have a free plan at SafeShepherd.com that removes you from Spokeo.com and a handful of other sites. Check it out and if you have any other questions ping me at noah@safeshepherd.com
Nae Ha posted on: March 13, 2012 I'm back 6 months later & I searched for my name again---couldn't be found. I think it's worth the time. It's free, so what is there to complain about? Just find your name page and in another tab open up: http://www.spokeo.com/privacy
Copy the url from your name page and fill out the form on the privacy page. If there are numerous pages with your name, you have to use different email addresses per one. Or if you want to use the same email address, come back every day and do one per day. It's free and easy. Worked for me even 6 months later, I'm not on there. Good luck!
By the way, create a fake email address. I don't think you want them to have your real email.
Tina Albrecht posted on: March 31, 2012 Spokeo is very much a scam with incorrect information. Would not recommend it...save your time and money.
Hannah posted on: April 25, 2012 SCAM SCAM SCAM.. and wait for it... SCAM!! DO not trust Spokeo. Ever.
umar posted on: May 16, 2012 I have an issue with an email address that I shut down. I was registered to webites with it. Now that I want to remove myself, it sends the confirmation link message to the email that I already got rid of. You cant enter a new or different email address.
So I cannot remove myself from Spokeo.
