Steve W.

I don't understand a lot of the poor reviews here... I have signed-up and canceled several subscriptions with Spokeo over the last few years from 2013 to 2015. Spokeo never charged me anything beyond my initial subscription fee.

If you sign up for a free trial, you must CANCEL your free trail before the trial ends to avoid charges to your credit card.

If you get overcharged or Spokeo keeps charging each month, you can either google the Internet or read Spokeo's responses to poor reviews on this site to get Spokeo's help contact number and call them. Alternatively, you can call your credit card company to dispute and cancel charges by Spokeo.

Each time I subscribed to Spokeo, they had relevant information for the email addresses and name, age and city searches. Of course, for any name, city and age search, Spokeo returns many records for many people. Spokeo may NOT return information for the specific person that you are looking for.

Also, since the Spokeo returns information from public records, the information that Spokeo dislays is only as accurate and current as the information that Spokeo finds in public records. For example, the square footage for my house is incorrect, and my parents who passed years ago are shown as still living.

If someone searches for an email address that you have used for either Facebook or Google Plus, Spokeo will show some information from your accounts. With respect to Google Plus, if you have an active gmail email address with a Google Plus profile page, Spokeo may display photos that you deleted a long time ago from your Google Plus page. When you post an image to your Google Plus page, Google also posts a copy of the image to picasa web albums. However, when you delete an image from your Google page or a community, the copy of the image is retained in Google's picasa web albums. You must logon to to picasa web albums with your gmail email address and also delete the coresponding image from picasa web albums to make sure that the image won't be displayed by Spokeo... Keep in mind that your picasa web albums also store photos that you only shared with yourself. Also, if you delete your gmail email address without first purging the corresponding picasa web album, the images in the picasa web albums will remain intact.

My biggest complaint about Spokeo is that everything is a la carte. Every possible search has a separate price. So, unless you only want one specific search, you are likely to end up paying more than your initial fee.