BeenVerified is a people-search site that aggregates public records, marketing databases, and broker feeds into detailed personal profiles. A typical listing includes your name, age, current and past addresses, phone numbers, relatives, and sometimes criminal or court records. Its pages rank well on Google. If someone searches your name, a BeenVerified result often appears on the first page.
BeenVerified offers a free opt-out. It requires creating an account and verifying your email. The process works. Re-listing is common.
How to opt out
Go to beenverified.com/faq/opt-out. You will need to create an account before you can submit a removal request. This is friction by design. Use an email address you can access. A dedicated address for opt-out requests keeps verification emails from getting buried.
Once your account exists, search for your listing. You may find multiple records if you have lived at more than one address. Select the record that matches your information and submit the removal request. BeenVerified sends a verification email. Click the confirmation link to finalize.
Processing takes 24 to 48 hours. Some removals take up to 7 days. After the window passes, search your name on BeenVerified to confirm the listing is gone.
The verification step is where most people fail
Missed verification emails are the single most common reason opt-out requests stall. Check your spam folder. If you do not verify within the window BeenVerified gives you, the request expires and you start over.
Re-listing is the real problem
BeenVerified does not store a static copy of your file. It re-ingests data from public records, data brokers, and other sources on a rolling schedule. A successful opt-out removes the current listing. It does not prevent a new listing from being created when fresh data arrives.
We see records reappear within 3 to 6 months of a confirmed removal. This is not unique to BeenVerified. Whitepages, TruePeopleSearch, and FastPeopleSearch all have the same re-ingestion cycle. The only reliable way to stay off these sites is periodic monitoring and re-submission.
What BeenVerified cannot remove
BeenVerified's opt-out covers their own platform. It does not touch their subsidiary properties PeopleLooker and NumberGuru. Those require separate opt-outs. It also does not remove your data from the upstream sources that feed BeenVerified: county property records, voter rolls, court filings, and commercial data brokers. Each source needs to be addressed independently.
If the underlying data is a public court record, removing it from BeenVerified does not remove it from the court's database or from legal research platforms. Our guide on removing personal information from Google covers the search-side piece of this.
When to bring in help
If you are dealing with listings across multiple data broker sites, the opt-out process becomes a recurring task. Each site has its own process, timeline, and verification requirements. We handle this as part of our content removal services. We submit and track opt-outs across every major people-search platform, monitor for re-listings, and keep your information clean over time.
If you are doing this yourself, work through the other data broker guides in our library next. If you would rather it be somebody else's standing job, that is what our content removal service is for. Let's get to work.