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I just got an email & there's a website called spokeo.com & I went there & I thought it was pretty creepy. It had info on me that I don't want online. So thought I'd share with you bees. It won't let you see everything unless you have a subscription (pay) so I'm not sure what else it would've said about me if I paid for it. Just search for your name & it'll have your info in there. Creepy.
The email:
FYI EVERYONE- There's a site called spokeo.com and it's an online phone book that has a picture of your house, credit score, profession, age, how many people live in the house, etc. First copy the URL address from your browser once you find your listing. Remove yourself by clicking the Privacy link on the bottom right, and inserting the URL you copied and your e mail addy. Follow the further instructions in the e mail that will be sent to you to remove yourself. I personally checked it out and it is really there!! PLEASE FORWARD to your freinds.
EDIT: DON'T SIGN UP FOR THIS, IT IS A SCAM! If you pay for the membership they charge your credit card a TON of $$$.
I just found myself... creepy!!
Is anyone having issues with the code... it keeps bouncing back and I'm not sure that it is being deleted
DO not sign up for this site... it is a SCAM. http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/spokeo-onlne-service-c165406.html
They get you to sign up for it and they will start charging your credit card.
Wow. That is incredibly creepy. Just took myself off, but the funny thing is that half of the info listed for me was wrong!
So creepy! I found my maiden name. It said that I'm in a relationship. How would they know if I was or not??
other then a partial address for me, none of the info or pictures are even correct! same for my hubby!
Even creepier, apparently, they have a limit to the number of privacy requests they will process each day. I received the following error message when trying to remove my information "In order to prevent abuse, we must limit the frequency of privacy requests. Please try again tomorrow."
@labbit - Most of the info for me is wrong as well, but I still don't like that it's there, and I definitely don't like that it won't let me remove it!
Also make sure you search for your email address as well on Spokeo. There may be a second profile which is linked to your email alone.
I asked to be removed for the page which referenced my name only, but when i searched under my email address a whole new page came up.
Man, I am really pissed now.
I looked at this too and it does look sort of like a scam. It had my address but none of the other information on the search is correct. I checked a bunch of names and none of them were.
I had to put in my email address to get them to take it off. I'll let you know if I get spammed by that.
I also edited my original posting thanks @MsCaniche letting people know not to sign up cause its a scam.
Too weird. My name wasn't on there, but FI's was. It said he was mid 50's. LOL. He's 24.
It's actually funny!
Apparently, my home (I don't own one) is worth 400-600K, but I don't make that much income (I'm a clerical worker, apparently), I am in my late 20s (wrong), Caucasian (nope) and have lived in my "home" for 34yrs! Oh, and I have kids.
I looked up my mom and it had TONS of information on her. It gave her name, age occupation and street name among other things. She is the only person that lives on that street in the entire town (they own a farm and the whole street is their home and property)
She works at a prison as a Nurse and a lot of the inmates do not like her. Doesn't this put her in danger???
How is this legal???
Check out snopes.com to verify this... I bet lots more search websites will turn up like this one :(.
Thanks for posting this!
I realize that part of the purpose of the internet is to share (not protect) info. But stuff like this just gets so creepy and stalkerish. Thanks again for sharing!
Ahhhh if you put in your email address, it will put up your IP address :(. I really hope this is illegal & someone sues them!!
I just looked on there and a lot of my info was wrong. Im 24 and it says im a 50 yr old MALE? hahaha i was laughing when i read it lol
My Pandora stuff was on there, so maybe Pandora (among tons of other websites, i'm sure) is selling them info. Some info form FI's Facebook was on there too. Just a good reminder to be careful for what we sign up and put out there. 
apparently all of my family's homes are worth $1M+ hahaha
This is cuckoo.
it gets all you info from facebook/myspace I have a special character on my facebook name and it came up on the page as my name ....it makes sense since myspace/facebook log ins are your e-mail
For those who didn't go through to read the Snopes article, here are their main conclusions:
I would just stay far away from this site. It seems very suspicious.
They have me, my parents, and FI's parents (but not FI). Some info is just wrong, but some is correct and not the sort of thing I want a stranger to have. I requested to have my profile removed and it took two seconds. Now when you search my name I don't show up on the site.
Lolz. It had an address that I lived at in high school and my parents address. One place said I was mid 20's and one place said late 50's, both said I was a black woman....probably type casting me since my name is Chantel.
I did like how it said at my parent's address "likes retail shopping" for what I guess is my mother. So true.
According to this site I am a man and my parent's house (which it says I own) is worth over a million dollars. Nope and nope!
Creepy.
Apparently, my mother is only 30 and she is my child... even though I'm 22. I definitely took myself out of their database. They have FI listed as in his 60s, he is also FFIL's dad. Apparently the house that FMIL just passed away in is worth $1M+, although in reality it's worth >$100k.
yikes, creepy is right. Most of the info is wrong, but still!!!!!
There is no listing for me - guess I don't exist. There are two for my FI. In one he is single and in one he is married! He also lives in both PA and CA and has children...clearly we need to talk! I kid, I kid...who knows where they get this stuff from!
i actually created a fake hotmail account to request getting removed from teh site - there wasnt a whole lot of information on me on there - and all of it was wrong, but either way *shrugs*
they did remove the listing that was up under my name - so the removal works. i created the fake account to request it just in case it was a scam and all they were trying to do was get my email account linked to my name :)
oh and if you search your email all it does is pull your computer location from your IP addresss and puts that as the location of the email. fyi.
They didn't know sh*t about me. In fact, my new name didn't even come up as me, it was someone else. And my old name had barely anything on it - just my city and street, which anyone could get from an online phone book. Keep your facebook profiles private at all times and search engines like these could never pull that info!
Holy cow.. I looked up my FI's info and our picture showed up. Facebook is the culprit! His default picture is what's on that website.
A lot of the info on mine is semi correct in that it's old info... BUT --- it's got my fam's names, etc etc...CREEPY!!!! I think they get a lot of info from the social network sites.. FYI. I can't delete it either!
Very weird. It's definitely not very accurate. Why waste the time developing a site like this when the information isn't even reliable? Definitely a giant scam.
The pictures aren't of me. It says my hobbies are: Outdoors, Travel, Reading, Gardening. The only one of those that I really enjoy is traveling. I like to read, but I don't consider it a hobby. I'm not outdoorsy unless I'm at the beach, and gardening scares me.
It also says I have kids (wrong) and that I play sports. HA.
Going back to what a previous post said about the Snopes article...
As far as I can tell, nothing this site is doing is actually illegal. The images and information it pulls from is either of public record OR voluntarily offered via a Facebook or Myspace acocunt - which if you read the fine print, both of those sites can give out anything you post on them. Also, if you own a home it is public record. Some counties are removing the financial details from their websites, but most post the details of your mortgage as well.
Right now, if you really wanted to find me, a little bit of Internet research would not only give you my address, legal name and phone number - but a photo of the front of my home with both my and my fiancees vehicles (showing license plate numbers) in our driveway. None of this is pulled from my Facebook account either... it's just my public records.
I know that when you see everything pulled together at once, it sounds and seems scary, but so much information is legally public that almost anyone can track people down these days.
Online info that it pulled for me? Facebook, Twitter (you can read my tweets right there on the screen) photos on Picasa, anything from Google (thank you, Buzz), LinkedIn, Pandora, Target, Photobucket, Blogger, Yelp!, Youtube, and Amazon.
I don't think there is any real way to protect yourself from being outed online - which is a big part of why I don't worry about leaving my face in blog photos, etc on Wedding Bee.
I'm not on it, but my dad is. He has no children, btw.
The site looks like a really clumsy aggregator. I wouldn't freak out too much about it.
A lot of my info is on there and is correct, including pictures that I had put on webshots more than 5 years ago, my twitter account and facebook updates! You can't even search for me on facebook itself....
Creepy! I am not on there, but Joe was, and it has all his info! Yikes!
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