How to Remove Yourself from Spokeo (2026 Guide)

Quick answer: Go to https://www.spokeo.com/optout, paste the profile URL and your email into the form, then click the confirmation link Spokeo sends to that inbox. Free, about 5 to 10 minutes. Listings usually come down within 24 to 48 hours.

What is Spokeo?

Spokeo is a people search site that pulls together billions of public records into one profile per person. A listing can include your name, age, home address, past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and the names of family members. The company says it aggregates more than 13 billion records from thousands of sources. For older adults, that is a real risk: when a stranger can see someone’s age, phone number, and street address on one page, they have everything needed to run a convincing scam call or letter.

Before you start

This is one of the easier opt outs. Plan on 5 to 10 minutes. It is free, and any broker asking for money to remove you is a red flag.

You will need the URL of the Spokeo listing and an email address that can receive a confirmation link. Use a secondary or throwaway email if you have one, since you must click a link that arrives there. One thing to know before you start: a person can have several Spokeo listings, and each one has its own URL. Every listing must be opted out separately.

Doing this for a parent? Spokeo does not verify identity, and the confirmation link lands in whatever inbox you enter, so you can handle the request end to end with your own email. Each listing you clear means the phone rings less, the mailbox holds less junk, and fewer scam texts reach them. Fair warning: Spokeo is one of more than twenty brokers a family typically has to clear by hand, and every site checks you in a slightly different way.

How to opt out of Spokeo

1. Go to www.spokeo.com and search the name plus city and state. Open the listing that matches and copy the full URL from your browser’s address bar. It looks like this: https://www.spokeo.com/Firstname-Lastname/City/ST/p12345678.
2. Go to https://www.spokeo.com/optout.
3. Paste the profile URL into the box, enter your email address, and complete the CAPTCHA.
4. Submit the request by clicking the “Opt Out” button.
5. Check your inbox for an email from Spokeo titled “Spokeo Directory Removal Confirmation”. Click the confirmation link inside. Your request is not active until you click it.
6. The link opens Spokeo’s opt-out page again with a message confirming the removal request was received.

If the form gives you trouble, Spokeo’s privacy team can be reached at privacy@spokeo.com. Include the listing URL in your message.

How long it takes

Spokeo states on its opt-out page that requests are processed within 24 to 48 hours after you click the confirmation link. In practice it is often faster than that, sometimes within the hour. If a listing is still visible after two full days, submit the request again and make sure you clicked the email link the first time.

Check back in a few months

Spokeo is upfront about this: opting out removes a listing, not the underlying records, and new records flow in all the time. When they do, a brand new listing can appear at a new URL, and your earlier opt out does not cover it. Search the name again every 90 days and remove anything new. Keeping a do-it-yourself list current means repeating that quarterly cycle across every broker you have ever cleared, not just this one. KinKeeper’s Data Removal runs those removals for you and re-checks each site every 90 days, so a returning listing gets caught without anyone lifting a finger.