How to remove yourself from FastPeopleSearch

FastPeopleSearch shows a lot for free: current and past addresses, phone numbers, an age, relatives and associates, with no paywall in front of the basics. Free sites like this are the ones a scammer or a stalker actually uses, so they deserve your first hour of opt-out time, ahead of sites that hide everything behind a report.

The site footer advertises an API from its partner EnformionGO for contact enrichment and skip tracing, a reminder that the same records feed other businesses too. Removing the public listing is still worth doing: it is the version anyone can find by typing your name.

Search your name and state on FastPeopleSearch and open the result that is you. Note exactly how it lists your name, your current city and your age. The removal form works best when what you type matches the record. If there are several records (an old city, a married name), make a note of each one.

Try your phone number in the reverse phone search and your address in the address search too. A record can surface by phone or address even when a name search misses it.

As of October 2026 the process on FastPeopleSearch’s own page is:

1. Open fastpeoplesearch.com/optout. Links to the older fastpeoplesearch.com/removal address land on the same page.
2. Choose whether you are the subject of the request or an authorized agent.
3. Enter your first and last name (middle name optional) and an email address, then complete the captcha.
4. Open the email and click the link. The site says it can take a while to arrive, and that a link older than 24 hours stops working, so you would have to request a new one.
5. On the form behind the link, enter information that matches the record you want removed, and submit.
6. You see a confirmation page and get a confirmation email. FastPeopleSearch says to allow 3 days for the record to be fully removed.

The site warns that leaving fields out or entering inaccurate details only slows the process down. If you have more than one record, repeat the form for each.

When we read the opt-out pages in October 2026, the same step-by-step wording (name and email, a 24-hour link, a matching form, allow 3 days) appeared on several free people-search sites. Each one is a separate site with a separate request, so doing one does not clear the others:

• TruePeopleSearch
• SearchPeopleFree
• USPhonebook
• SmartBackgroundChecks
• FamilyTreeNow

Because the forms are the same, it is quick to do them back to back in one sitting. Our data broker opt-out list has every link in one table.

Check the record again after three or four days. Search engines may still show the old page title for a while; Google’s Remove outdated content tool handles a dead page, and Results about you can request removal of results showing your phone number or address.

New public records can create a new listing later. Put a reminder in your calendar to search again in three months. California residents can also file one free request with registered data brokers through the state’s DROP platform.

For the trade-offs between services, see data removal services compared, and for the whole free process, how to remove your info from data broker sites.