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BeenVerified

A background checksite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.

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What BeenVerified collects

  • Full name and aliases
  • Current and prior addresses going back decades
  • Phone numbers (cell and landline)
  • Approximate age and date of birth
  • Relatives, household members, neighbors
  • Email addresses and social media accounts
  • Court records, traffic violations, and criminal history
  • Property and assets data

How to opt out yourself

Direct opt-out: https://www.beenverified.com/app/optout/search

  1. Open https://www.beenverified.com/app/optout/search in a private window.
  2. Search your first name, last name, and state. Don't include a city — narrower searches sometimes hide your record.
  3. Click 'That's the one' on the listing that matches you. If multiple records show your name, you'll need to claim each one.
  4. Enter an email address. BeenVerified sends a verification link, not a code.
  5. Click the link in the email within 24 hours. The opt-out only completes after the click.
  6. Repeat for any other listings that came back under your name.

What BeenVerified knows about you

BeenVerified runs deeper than the typical people-search site. The free preview shows your name, age, address, and a few relatives. The paid report adds court records, traffic citations, criminal history, property holdings, business filings, social media accounts, and an aggregated email list. They cross-reference against commercial data brokers and pad the file with anything they can attach to your name.

They market themselves as a background-check tool for landlords and online daters. The reality is anyone with a credit card can pull the report, and the report includes information no public-records search would compile in one place.

Why it matters if you're on the job

For a sworn officer, BeenVerified is the consolidated dossier. One report ties your home address to your traffic stops, your past addresses, your spouse's name, and your social media handles. That's everything someone with a grudge needs in a single PDF.

The criminal-history aggregation is the part most cops don't expect. Old citations from a different state, dropped charges that should never have surfaced — BeenVerified pulls from court aggregators that don't always honor expungements. A DUI you got dismissed at 22 can still show up on someone's report at 48.

Past addresses on BeenVerified are particularly long-tailed. We've seen records going back 25 years on a single profile. That can include the apartment you lived in during academy.

How to opt out

The BeenVerified opt-out is one of the more reliable ones to actually file. The flow is search → claim → email verification. The catch is the email link expires fast and the related-brand sites (PeopleLooker, NeighborWho, others) need separate requests.

Steps are in the optOutSteps field above. Plan on filing 3-4 related requests if you want full coverage of their network.

How long until you're back

Four months is the typical re-list window. BeenVerified rebuilds aggressively from new data feeds. If you move, file a marriage or divorce, sell or buy property, or get a new phone number, expect to be back on the site within 60 days.

What we do that's faster

We file the BeenVerified opt-out and the related-brand opt-outs together, click the verification email, and re-check every two weeks. When you re-list, we file again before you'd see it. Same drill across 200+ broker sites in parallel. Members get continuous coverage across BeenVerified and its sister brands on the individual member plan.

Who owns it

The Lifetime Value Co. (LTVCo)

Founded 2007 by Josh Levy and Ross Cohen in New York. Bootstrapped for 13 years, then took a $150M growth investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital in December 2020 — the company's first external funding. LTVCo's portfolio: BeenVerified, PeopleLooker, Instant Checkmate, NumberGuru, NeighborWho. One of the largest consumer people-search portfolios in the US.

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Where the data comes from

  • Court recordsCounty and state court aggregators — the source of the criminal-history aggregation that appears in BeenVerified reports.
  • Property records
  • Social media
  • Commercial data aggregators
  • Criminal records

Named in incidents

Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.

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