How to Remove Yourself from ZabaSearch (2026 Guide)

Quick answer: Go to https://suppression.peopleconnect.us, complete the email verification and identity checks PeopleConnect requires, then mark your record “Suppressed” and save. Free, about 15 minutes. Listings usually come down within 72 hours, though the full network can take up to 10 business days.

What is ZabaSearch?

Type a first and last name into ZabaSearch and it hands back a home address, an age, phone numbers, and possible relatives without asking for a dime. The free access is the problem. Anyone assembling a list of older targets for robocalls, sweepstakes mailers, or grandparent scams can harvest a page like that in seconds. Behind the scenes the site runs on data from Intelius, which is owned by PeopleConnect, and that ownership is the key to getting delisted.

Before you start

Removal costs nothing, and paying would not even speed it up. Treat any removal invoice as a red flag.

You will want an email account you can check on the spot, the birth date of the person being removed, and their phone close at hand in case the verification code arrives by text.

Doing this for a parent? On paper, PeopleConnect wants an authorized agent to show signed permission or a power of attorney before acting on someone else’s behalf, and it verifies against the person’s own email or phone anyway. In practice the fastest route is the two of you at one screen for a quarter hour. The sit-down pays off: spam callers lose a favorite lookup source, and the junk mail and scam texts that feed on these listings start thinning out.

How to opt out of ZabaSearch

The same request suppresses your listing on Intelius, TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate, and USSearch, since PeopleConnect runs them all.

1. Go directly to the PeopleConnect Suppression Center at https://suppression.peopleconnect.us. There is also a privacy link at the bottom of zabasearch.com that winds up in the same place, but its wording changes from time to time, so going straight to the suppression address skips the hunt.
2. Enter an email address, tick the terms checkbox, and continue.
3. Open PeopleConnect’s message and hit “Verify Email” as soon as it lands. The link expires after around 15 minutes.
4. Provide the date of birth, check the statement box, and move on.
5. Fill in first, middle, and last name and confirm it as the legal name. “Add another name” handles maiden or former names.
6. Scan the list of matching records, compare ages and cities, select the right one, and continue.
7. Request a one-time code by email or phone. PeopleConnect sends it to a contact point already tied to the record, then asks you to type it in.
8. Find the setting on the record that controls whether it is shown, choose the suppressed option, and save.
9. Keep the confirmation email PeopleConnect sends afterward.

By the end you will have touched three different websites and two inboxes, which is a lot of ceremony just to stop strangers from reading your address.

How long it takes

PeopleConnect says suppression takes effect within 72 hours, and allows up to 10 business days for every site in its family, ZabaSearch included, to stop showing the report. Suppression hides the listing from name searches rather than erasing the records behind it.

Check back in a few months

Fresh public records keep arriving, and any one of them can turn into a brand new ZabaSearch listing with no memory of your earlier request. Search the name again about every 90 days and rerun the steps when something surfaces. KinKeeper’s Data Removal does this automatically across dozens of broker sites and re-checks every 90 days.