Companies operating two or more personal-information websites, each with a different marque, are not in competition with each other - they're increasing their chances of getting your business.
And when it's time to correct or delete information from these 'services,' you'll have twice the fun trying to get the job done.
And some of them even have further offerings – so-called ‘deletion services’ that will undertake to contact all the other companies on your behalf to remove incorrect or troublesome information about you and your family. Thing is, many of these deletion services demand even more info about you in order to ‘verify’ that you are who you say you are. And when you give them that further information (phone number, driver’s license number) who’s to say that they will not actually add that info to your file?
The process, even with a deletion service, is bound to be long and arduous. I spent a hour on the phone with a bright young lady who was as helpful as she could be, despite the silly rules of the game (seems that, when you hire a deletion service, they are not really acting as your agent; in other words, you can’t verify your identity once with them and be done with it – you have to then call each and every company to pass on even more of your information as a means of ‘verifying’ yourself).
And note that you may have to email or fax them even even more data - but if you are interested in cleaning your online slate, you're going to have to trust them to not use it!
So here is a list of the companies to help you take care of that monumental problem. Good luck!
Contact: Spokeo 6a-5p
PST 877-913-3088
Epsilon see below
Private Eye M-F 7a – 6p PST 800-610-2703
Acxiom 877-774-2094
Archives 888-896-4442
USA People Search 800-248-1544
* People Lookup see below
* US Search M-F 5a – 6p PST 800-877-3272
* Intelius
* Need
additional verification info (address, phone number, DL number).
4401 Regent Bl,
Irving, TX
75063 800.309.0505 972.582.9600 info@epsilon.com
Private Eye 800-610-2703 M-F
7a – 6p PST, S-S 7a-1130a , 1230-330p PST
US Search 800-877-3272 M-F 5a – 6p PST S-S
6a-4p
Acxiom 888-322
9466 501-342-7799 601
E 3rd St, Little Rock, AR 72201
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