Broker profile

PeopleWhiz

A background-report site operated by Peoplewhiz, Inc. of Huntington Beach, California, on a $1 one-week trial whose renewal price the terms never print. Its reports run to mugshots, DUIs, driving records and court filings, and its privacy policy counts a Social Security number among the financial data it collects. Its California filing reports 2.5 million deletion requests in one year, a figure eighty times the biggest family in the category. A near-identical sibling, PeopleWhizr, works from the same address without either site naming the other.

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PeopleWhiz overview

At a glance

Quick facts
Privacy Risk
LimitedModerateSubstantialExtensive
Data published
Extensive
Re-listing frequency
Recurring
Complaint record
Pattern of complaints
Opt-out friction
High
Operator opacity
Mostly disclosed
Prior data incidents
None documented

Each broker is scored 1 to 4 across the six dimensions above; higher means more exposure, and the overall gauge is their average.

What each dimension means
  • Data published: how much and how sensitive the personal data they put out.
  • Re-listing frequency: how quickly you reappear after opting out.
  • Complaint record: the volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber. No listing, or a listing with no reviews, counts against the broker.
  • Opt-out friction: how hard the removal process is to complete.
  • Operator opacity: how hidden the operating company and its principals are.
  • Prior data incidents: history of breaches or leaks of the data they hold.
Category

People search · background reports

Operating entity

Peoplewhiz, Inc. · Huntington Beach, CA

California corporation

#3987085 · incorporated January 25, 2017

Self-claimed scale

Over 67 billion searchable records

Pricing

$1 for one week · renewal price not in the terms

BBB rating

A- on one file, F on another · both live

Opt-out

On-site form · proof of ID required

Sibling site

peoplewhizr.com · separate corporation

Background

Background

Who is behind it

The corporate record here is unusually tidy for a people-search site. There's a named California corporation, a data-broker registration, and a street address. What's murky is the layer above it, and what one number on its own regulatory filing is supposed to mean.

Operating entity

Peoplewhiz, Inc.

Address

9692 Melinda Cir Huntington Beach, CA 92646

California corporation

#3987085 · incorporated January 25, 2017

Registered contact

cyrus@peoplewhiz.com · (833) 276-9449

Contracting party in the terms

"Andrew Wilder, inc" · same address

Named sales agent

"Andrew Wilder, limited" · UK company 09706602

Peoplewhiz, Inc. is an active California corporation, entity #3987085, formed on January 25, 2017 at 9692 Melinda Cir. Its data-broker filing names one website, peoplewhiz.com, with cyrus@peoplewhiz.com and (833) 276-9449 as the contact. Corporate detail came through a Secretary of State mirror, since the state's own lookup turns away automated visitors.

The terms then introduce a company the corporate record doesn't. The party you contract with there isn't Peoplewhiz, Inc. but "Andrew Wilder, inc", at the same Huntington Beach address, with "Andrew Wilder, limited", a UK company numbered 09706602, named as its sales agent. A marketing firm called Innovative Metrics separately lists Peoplewhiz among its own brands, and both this site and its sibling send crash reports to Sentry endpoints on the innovativemetrics.com domain. Nothing citable explains how those entities relate, so they are set out here rather than joined into a chain.

The renewal price isn't published. The terms describe $1.00 for one week and then hand the recurring amount off to a fee schedule the company can change. Third-party write-ups quote $27.99, $29.99 and a $19.99 add-on and don't agree with each other, so none of them is printed here as fact. Read the figure on the checkout page before a card goes in, and screenshot it.

Its privacy policy says it collects Social Security numbers. The policy files an SSN under financial data, names TargusInfo as its identity-verification supplier, and says it buys marketing data to extend its own database. Most people-search sites publish what they scraped. Collecting an SSN directly puts this one in a different bracket for what a breach would cost you.

Data Published

Data types

14 categories

Sensitive: elevated identity-theft, doxxing, or safety riskStandard public-record field

What the reports cover, taken from the company's own product and privacy pages.

  • Vital statistics and contact details
  • Address historySensitive
  • Relatives and known associates
  • Marriage and divorce recordsSensitive
  • Criminal recordsSensitive
  • MugshotsSensitive
  • DUI recordsSensitive
  • Driving recordsSensitive
  • Sex-offender registry statusSensitive
  • Legal filingsSensitive
  • Property recordsSensitive
  • Business licenses
  • Employment history
  • Social and "hidden profile" searchSensitive

Mugshots and DUIs are the entries that follow people longest. A booking photo printed beside a name outlives the case that produced it, and a DUI sitting next to a current address is what turns up in a landlord's or an employer's search years later. If either is why you're reading this, do the opt-out here and then do the sibling site.

Contact

Contacts & links

Filed and published
Operating entity

Peoplewhiz, Inc.

Mailing address

9692 Melinda Cir Huntington Beach, CA 92646

Registered contact

cyrus@peoplewhiz.com

Support email

support@peoplewhiz.com

Support phone

(833) 276-9449 · 24/7 per the site

Opt-out

peoplewhiz.com/remove-my-info

Website

https://www.peoplewhiz.com/

That phone number answers for both brands. (833) 276-9449 is printed on peoplewhiz.com, on peoplewhizr.com and on both BBB files. If you ring it about a listing, say which domain you found yourself on, because nothing in how the sites present themselves tells whoever picks up.

Network

The sibling site

Two corporations, one address

PeopleWhiz and PeopleWhizr are separate California corporations, formed three years apart, filing from the same Huntington Beach address. Neither site links to or mentions the other. What joins them is plumbing and paperwork rather than anything you could find by clicking around.

What actually ties them together. A shared Google Tag Manager container (GTM-P862TR3), a shared Google OAuth client id, one support number, an identical compiled component hash, and crash reporting to the same parent domain. Both sets of terms name the same contracting party at the same address with the same UK sales agent, and PeopleWhizr's registered agent is this company's own chief executive. All of it observable, none of it acknowledged on either site.

Only this domain is on the data-broker registry. Peoplewhiz, Inc.'s California filing names peoplewhiz.com and nothing else, and no registry entry exists for Peoplewhizr, Inc. or its domain. That matters if you ever have to escalate, because the Delete Act's lever is aimed at registrants and only one of the two is one.

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Reputation

Trust signals

Two BBB files that disagree

The review footprint is large and it contradicts itself. Two live BBB profiles for one brand carry opposite grades, and one platform's score sits so far from the others that it's worth dating rather than quoting.

BBB (Huntington Beach)Not accredited · 1 unanswered complaint · file opened Sep 2018A-As of 2026-08
BBB (Astoria, OR)Same phone number · 10 complaints, all unanswered · file opened Aug 2023FAs of 2026-08
Trustpilot28 reviews1.5 / 5As of 2026-08View reviews ↗
PissedConsumer139 reviews1.5 / 5As of 2026-08
SmartCustomer (formerly Sitejabber)~50,800 reviews on a live counter · far out of line with every other platform3.1 / 5As of 2026-08View reviews ↗
ComplaintsBoardListing returns 410 GoneRemovedAs of 2026-08

  • A charge after the $1 trial at a price the customer says was never shown

  • Trouble canceling, and charges continuing afterwards

  • Complaints left unanswered on both BBB files

  • Reports thinner than the free search preview suggested

One brand, two BBB files, opposite grades. A Huntington Beach file opened in 2018 gives it A- on a single complaint. An Astoria, Oregon file opened in 2023 gives it F on ten, every one unanswered, and carries the same phone number. Nothing found reconciles the two. Read both, and be wary of any write-up quoting only the A-.

Litigation

Litigation history

Daniel's Law defendant

Peoplewhiz, Inc. was named in New Jersey's Daniel's Law wave. The case spent sixteen months on a jurisdictional fight and closed in May 2026.

Atlas Data Privacy Corp. v. Peoplewhiz, Inc.

Terminated May 5, 2026

D.N.J. 1:25-cv-00237 · Removed from state court January 10, 2025

Statute

New Jersey Daniel's Law

Judge

Harvey Bartle III (E.D. Pa., sitting by designation)

Main fight

Rule 12(b)(2) personal jurisdiction · depositions due Oct 30, 2025

Outcome

Terminated May 5, 2026 · reason not on the docket

Atlas sued as assignee for New Jersey judges, prosecutors and police officers, one of roughly 150 Daniel's Law actions filed together. Peoplewhiz moved the case to federal court and fought mostly on whether a New Jersey court had power over a California corporation at all, a question serious enough to draw jurisdictional depositions rather than a straight ruling. The docket records a termination on May 5, 2026 without saying why, so this isn't presented as a dismissal, a settlement or a win.

One wrinkle for anyone checking. The docket is indexed twice, under 1:25-cv-00237 and 2:25-cv-00237, and only the first carries a judge, a nature of suit and a termination date. It's one case.

No FTC action, no state attorney-general action and no documented breach naming PeopleWhiz turned up. Nothing was found naming Peoplewhizr, Inc. or peoplewhizr.com either.

FAQ

Q & A

Common questions
Who owns PeopleWhiz?

Peoplewhiz, Inc., a California corporation formed on January 25, 2017 at 9692 Melinda Cir in Huntington Beach, and the registrant on its California data-broker filing. Above that it gets layered. The site's own terms name a different contracting party, "Andrew Wilder, inc", at the same address with a UK company as sales agent, and a marketing firm called Innovative Metrics lists Peoplewhiz among its brands. Nothing citable explains how those fit together.

What does it cost?

$1.00 for one week. What that turns into isn't in the terms, which defer the recurring amount to a fee schedule the company can change. Read the price on the checkout page before entering a card, and screenshot it. An unexpected recurring charge is the most common complaint on both of this brand's BBB files.

Is PeopleWhizr the same company?

No, and the difference matters. PeopleWhizr is a separate California corporation formed in March 2020 with its own officer, running the same product from the same address on shared plumbing. Neither site mentions the other. Treat it as a second removal, and note that its own form is currently broken.

Does it really collect Social Security numbers?

Its privacy policy says so. An SSN appears there under financial data, beside a statement that the company uses TargusInfo to verify identity and buys marketing data to add to its database. That's the company's own document, and it's a good reason to be careful about what you hand over during the opt-out.

Why does its filing claim 2.5 million deletion requests?

Nobody knows, and guessing would be worse than saying so. Peoplewhiz, Inc. reported 2,569,965 deletion requests received in 2024, all granted in full, with a mean and median response time of zero days. For scale, the thirteen-domain BeenVerified family reported 31,905 in the same year. A number eighty times the largest family in the category is either enormous automation or a mistake in the filing, and the record doesn't say which.

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Last updated:

September 9, 2026 · Walked on August 7, 2026 with three step screenshots. The opt-out page, its stated timings and the flow's first two screens were rechecked live on September 9. Corporate detail comes from the California registry and a Secretary of State mirror.