How to Remove Yourself From TruePeopleSearch

TruePeopleSearch removal is free and runs through the site’s own page at truepeoplesearch.com/removal: agree to the terms, complete the captcha and begin the removal. Then search for your record, open its details, click “Remove This Record” at the bottom, and confirm through the email TruePeopleSearch sends you. Each record needs its own request, and you should check again every few months because new data can bring a record back.

TruePeopleSearch matters more than many people-search sites because it shows a lot for free: current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and relatives, with no paywall. This guide covers the removal itself, what it does and doesn’t cover, and the related sites to check next. For a plan that covers many sites at once, see our guide to removing yourself from people-search sites. If you’re trying to get off FastPeopleSearch, that’s a separate site with its own removal page: see our guide on how to remove yourself from FastPeopleSearch.

What TruePeopleSearch shows

A TruePeopleSearch record typically includes your name and age, current address, past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and possible relatives and associates. It’s built from public records and other data sources, and anyone can see it by searching your name, phone number or address.

Because there’s no paywall, a TruePeopleSearch record is often the first place a stranger, an ex, or a curious neighbor finds someone’s home address. That makes it one of the first sites to deal with if you’re worried about privacy or safety.

Before you start

• Use a separate email address for privacy requests, so your main inbox isn’t added to another database.
• Know which details to search. Your current city and state usually work best. Have old addresses and name variations ready in case the first search misses a record.
• Go to the real site. Type truepeoplesearch.com yourself. Several sites use similar names, and some charge for “removal” they can’t actually do.

How to remove your info from TruePeopleSearch, step by step

1. Open the removal page. Go to truepeoplesearch.com/removal. It’s also linked from the site footer through the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link.
2. Agree to the terms. Tick the box confirming you’re the person in the record, and enter an email address if the page asks for one at this stage. The confirmation email comes later either way.
3. Complete the captcha and begin removal. Solve the captcha, then click the button to begin the removal.
4. Search for your record. Enter your name and city or state. Adding a location narrows the results and makes the right record easier to spot.
5. Open the matching record and check it. Click the details button, then confirm the age, addresses and relatives match you before going further.
6. Click “Remove This Record.” The button sits at the bottom of the record detail page. If you don’t see it, your removal session may have expired; go back to truepeoplesearch.com/removal and start again.
7. Confirm by email. Open the email from TruePeopleSearch and click the confirmation link. Check spam if it doesn’t arrive, and don’t leave it for days, because these links can expire.
8. Repeat for any other records. Search your name variations and old locations, and remove each matching record separately.

We couldn’t confirm a current processing time, so search your name and address again a few days after you click the confirmation link to make sure the record no longer appears. If it’s still there, repeat the removal. The button labels have changed slightly over time, but the order of steps (agree, captcha, find record, remove, confirm by email) has stayed recognizable.

Is this the official TruePeopleSearch opt out?

The official TruePeopleSearch opt out is the removal page on truepeoplesearch.com itself, reached from the site footer. It doesn’t ask for an account or a payment. You may also come across paid removal services and look-alike sites. Some are legitimate services acting on your behalf, but none of them is the site’s own page, and you don’t need one to remove a single record.

If the site blocks you, as it did during our checks, try again from a normal home connection without a VPN. If it still won’t load, look for the contact or privacy option in the footer and send your request that way.

What the removal covers and what it doesn’t

Item	Removed?
The record you removed and confirmed	Yes, once processed.
Other TruePeopleSearch records for you	No. Each one needs its own removal.
FastPeopleSearch and similar free sites	No. Each has its own removal page (see our FastPeopleSearch removal guide).
Google’s result pointing to your old record	Not straight away. Google updates it after recrawling.
Data already copied by someone else	No. Anything already seen or saved can’t be recalled.

TruePeopleSearch and FastPeopleSearch

TruePeopleSearch and FastPeopleSearch look and work in very similar ways. A 2024 investigation by security journalist Brian Krebs traced both, along with several other free people-search sites, to the same network of operators. Whatever the ownership, removing yourself from one doesn’t remove you from the other.

So once TruePeopleSearch is done, search yourself on FastPeopleSearch and use its own removal page, which follows a similar pattern. Our guide on how to remove yourself from FastPeopleSearch walks through it step by step. Then work through the other free sites that show the same kind of record. Our guide on how to remove yourself from Whitepages covers a site that uses phone verification instead of email, and our guide to removing yourself from BeenVerified covers one of the larger paid report sites.

Why your record can come back

TruePeopleSearch regularly takes in new public records. If you move, change your number or change your name, that new data can create a new record rather than attaching to the one you removed. The removal itself hasn’t failed; there’s simply a new record.

• Search yourself every three to four months.
• Search again soon after any move or number change.
• Check by phone number and address as well as name, since the site supports reverse lookups.
• Keep a short log of what you removed and when.

Clean up the Google result

TruePeopleSearch pages often rank on Google for people’s names, and the snippet can show your city or relatives even after the page has changed. Once the record is gone from TruePeopleSearch, use Google’s “Refresh outdated content” tool to ask Google to update the result.

Google’s “Results about you” tool can also alert you when your phone number, home address or email appears in search results and lets you request removal of those results from Google. Both steps matter: one removes the source, the other updates what people see in search.

A worked example

This is an illustrative scenario, not a real client.

Dana, a nurse, finds her home address, her mobile number and her teenage son’s name on TruePeopleSearch after a patient mentions seeing it online.

• She opens the removal page, enters a new email address she uses only for privacy requests, completes the captcha and begins the removal.
• She searches her name and city, opens her record, checks the details match and clicks “Remove This Record.” She confirms by email.
• She searches her previous city and finds a second record with an older address. She removes that too.
• She checks FastPeopleSearch, finds the same details, and removes them through that site’s own page.
• A week later a Google result still shows her city in the snippet, so she submits a refresh request, and sets up “Results about you” alerts.

Stopping at the first record would have left an older address, and her son’s name, visible on two sites.

Common mistakes

• Removing one record and stopping. Search old cities and name variations too.
• Skipping the confirmation email. The removal isn’t final until you click it.
• Assuming related sites are covered. FastPeopleSearch needs its own request.
• Paying a lookalike site. The real removal is free.
• Never checking again. New records are common after a move.

When to get help

You can do this yourself, and it’s worth doing today if your home address is showing. Help makes sense when your details appear on many sites, when you have an active safety concern, or when people-search listings are only part of what shows up for your name. Our personal reputation management service handles removals across sites, scheduled re-checks and the search results themselves. We’ll tell you plainly which listings can be removed and which will need monitoring.

Frequently asked questions

Is TruePeopleSearch removal free?

Yes. You need an email address to confirm the request. You don’t need an account or a payment.

Where is the official TruePeopleSearch opt out page?

It’s truepeoplesearch.com/removal, on the site’s own domain and linked from its footer. The site’s own removal is free; a page elsewhere that charges to remove your TruePeopleSearch record is a separate service, not TruePeopleSearch.

How long does TruePeopleSearch take to remove my record?

We couldn’t confirm a current timeline, so check again a few days after you confirm by email. Google can take longer to update its result, which you can speed up with a refresh request.

Does removing myself from TruePeopleSearch also remove me from FastPeopleSearch?

No. They’re separate sites with separate removal pages, even though they look similar. Search yourself on FastPeopleSearch and follow our FastPeopleSearch removal steps for any record there.