How to Remove Yourself from BeenVerified (2026 Guide)

Quick answer: Go to https://www.beenverified.com/app/optout/search, find your listing and click “Proceed to Opt Out,” then open the email from BeenVerified and click “Verify Opt-Out” within 48 hours. Free, about 15 minutes. Listings usually come down within 24 to 48 hours.

What is BeenVerified?

BeenVerified is a people search site. It gathers public records into a profile and sells access to anyone with a subscription. A typical listing shows your full name, age, current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and the names of relatives. Older adults have the most to lose here. A scammer who sees a phone number next to an age and a home address can build a convincing story before ever placing the call.

Before you start

Give yourself 15 minutes or so. The opt-out is free, and paying anyone to do it is money wasted. Keep some patience in reserve, too: BeenVerified is only one of the twenty-plus brokers a family typically scrubs by hand, and no two of them handle the paperwork the same way.

You will need:

• A web browser on a computer, tablet, or phone.
• An email address for the verification step. We recommend a secondary email rather than your main one, since brokers have been known to add contact addresses to their own lists.

Doing this for a parent? BeenVerified never asks for proof of identity, so just find their listing and use an email you can check within a couple of days. What they gain is peace: a quieter phone, a thinner mailbox, and fewer scam texts slipping through.

How to opt out of BeenVerified

1. Go to https://www.beenverified.com/app/optout/search. If that link does not load, go to beenverified.com, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.”
2. Enter the first name, last name, and state, then click Search.
3. Look through the results for the listing that matches. Check the age, cities, and relatives shown before you pick one.
4. Click “Proceed to Opt Out” next to the correct listing.
5. Enter your email address, complete the CAPTCHA, and click “Send Verification Email.”
6. Open the email from BeenVerified. It usually arrives within a few minutes. Click the “Verify Opt-Out” button inside it. The link expires after 48 hours, so do this step right away.
7. If more than one listing matches you (a maiden name, a middle initial, an old address), repeat the process for each one. Every profile needs its own request.

One more thing worth knowing. BeenVerified’s parent company, The Lifetime Value Co., also runs sister sites such as PeopleLooker, NeighborWho, and Ownerly. Some recent testers found that a single BeenVerified opt-out carried over to those sites. Other guides say each site needs its own request. To be safe, search your name on each sister site a few days later and submit a separate opt-out if you still appear.

How long it takes

Recent independent tests report most verified requests process within about 24 to 48 hours, though a listing can take up to seven business days to fully disappear. Google may keep showing an old cached result for a week or two after that, which clears on its own.

Check back in a few months

Opting out removes your current profile, but it does not stop BeenVerified from building a new one as fresh public records flow in, and new listings often appear within a few months. If you are tracking brokers on your own list, that means redoing the entire round every quarter. KinKeeper’s Data Removal takes the repetition off your plate, handling removals automatically with re-checks every 90 days.