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whack-a-mole
May. 8th, 2010 03:37 amSpokeo.com may already list your your address, approximate credit score, home value, income, age, photos...
Before you delete your listing, be aware that Spokeo is a handy way for someone to collect valid email addresses. Don't use any important personal email or work-related accounts when you request to be removed. If you don't already have one, set up a separate email account (using "creative" personal information, if necessary) to handle sites like this. They're likely to keep popping up.
Search for yourself on the Spokeo site, copy the URL of your listing page, return to the Spokeo homepage, click the (tiny) Privacy link at the bottom, and follow the directions to remove your listing.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/spokeo.asp
http://www.spokeo.com/
Note: Inaccuracies in your listing may be there because the public record sources Spokeo harvests from can be outdated, or because blank fields are automatically populated with made-up values. The point of the site is to screw people, more or less. Either they scare/annoy you into giving them a valuable email address to sell, or they sucker you into buying a membership to access questionable data.
Before you delete your listing, be aware that Spokeo is a handy way for someone to collect valid email addresses. Don't use any important personal email or work-related accounts when you request to be removed. If you don't already have one, set up a separate email account (using "creative" personal information, if necessary) to handle sites like this. They're likely to keep popping up.
Search for yourself on the Spokeo site, copy the URL of your listing page, return to the Spokeo homepage, click the (tiny) Privacy link at the bottom, and follow the directions to remove your listing.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/spokeo.asp
http://www.spokeo.com/
Note: Inaccuracies in your listing may be there because the public record sources Spokeo harvests from can be outdated, or because blank fields are automatically populated with made-up values. The point of the site is to screw people, more or less. Either they scare/annoy you into giving them a valuable email address to sell, or they sucker you into buying a membership to access questionable data.
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