Removal guide · PeopleSearch123
Expect to be asked to prove you're human more than once, and don't read it as a fault. This site puts up several CAPTCHAs back to back during a single opt-out, which is exactly the point at which most people assume something has gone wrong and close the tab. Keep answering and they run out. The removal itself costs nothing, takes about five minutes, and then rests on an emailed link you have to open.
Want the background first? The PeopleSearch123 profile covers Private Records LLC, the shared backend, and the 2024 MC2 Data leak.
Quick facts
Free
Around five minutes, most of it CAPTCHAs
No
Several CAPTCHAs in a row, which is normal here
An email inside 48 hours, and opening it completes the removal
Don't give up at the second CAPTCHA. A run of them is how this platform behaves during an opt-out, and abandoning halfway leaves the record exactly where it was.
Prereqs
Patience for the CAPTCHA run, which is the only genuinely annoying part of this one.
An inbox you'll check within a couple of days, because the emailed link is what does the removing.
The state your listing shows, and any other names you might be filed under.
The steps
Open peoplesearch123.com/api/helper/optOutLight/search, headed "Remove My Information". It wants a first name, last name, city and state, with zip, phone and email optional. Press SEARCH.
Here come the CAPTCHAs. Several, one after another, in a single pass. Nothing is broken and you haven't failed one, that's just how the platform gates this form. Work through them.
Results land under "Select the person you would like to remove", each carrying an age and a list of past cities. On a common name those entries look nearly identical, so use the age and the locations rather than the name.
Each entry that describes you is its own record and needs its own pass, CAPTCHAs and all.
A last form collects your email, full name, address and phone so the site can match you to the record. A masked or secondary address is worth using. SUBMIT files it.
Then it goes quiet, which is expected. PeopleSearch123 says a message arrives within 48 hours and that opening it is what removes the record. Until you do, nothing has happened.
Confirm
Search yourself again a day or two later, and try site:peoplesearch123.com with your name in a search engine too, because a listing page can linger in a cache after the record is gone.
Keep the confirmation email. It's the only proof the request was made.
Then the rest of the filing. Private Records LLC files this with Person Searchers, Background Checkers and privaterecords.net. Person Searchers works like this one. Background Checkers refuses everybody and needs a written request instead.
If it fails
The CAPTCHAs never seem to end. They do, and they're not a sign of a problem. If one genuinely won't accept an answer, reload and start the search again.
No email after two days. Look in spam, then repeat the form with a different address.
Record still there a week later. Write to support@peoplesearch123.com with the date you submitted, or use support@privaterecords.net, the contact on the operator's California registration.
It comes back. The site rebuilds from public records and upstream brokers, so a cleared record can return without anyone relisting you deliberately. File it again.
Stay off
One pass clears what's published now. What arrives next month comes from public sources this site pulls on its own schedule, so the record can rebuild itself without anybody's involvement. Check again every few months, and check the others on the same filing while you're at it, since a record returning on one usually means it has returned on several. Redact's data-broker scan watches the family and refiles when your details show up again.
Redact scans 120+ data broker sites from your device, finds where your details are listed, and submits the removal requests for you. If a broker relists you, it files again.
August 12, 2026 · CAPTCHA guidance corrected. The drafted CAPTCHA claim was right after all - the platform serves several CAPTCHAs back to back - and its earlier removal is retracted. Steps rebuilt August 10 from a real walkthrough of the working flow - entry moved to the direct optOutLight form URL, and three step screenshots wired in.