Broker profile
PhoneBooks.com
Another of the ten sites Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC files for, and the one with the most unusual angle — alongside the usual name, phone and address lookups it sells itself on employee lookup, offering to "find out everyone who's ever worked at a business". Everything is free and needs no account. It's the same record set as FastPeopleSearch and its siblings, presented as a workplace directory instead of a phone book.
PhoneBooks.com overview
At a glance
- Data published
- Extensive
- Re-listing frequency
- Recurring
- Complaint record
- No public record
- Opt-out friction
- High
- Operator opacity
- Obscured
- 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: volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber; no findable review presence 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
Phone lookup · people search · employee and business lookup
- Operating entity
Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC · Sacramento, CA
- Distinctive feature
Free employee lookup — people tied to employers
- Price
Free · no signup
- 2024 opt-out requests
1,204,017 across the ten sites · 207,021 denied
- Sister brands
Nine, including FastPeopleSearch
- Opt-out
- FCRA covered?
No · disclaimed in its own footer
Background
Background
PhoneBooks.com looks like a directory site and largely is one, but its pitch goes somewhere the rest of the family doesn't. Under "Who Works Here?" it offers to "find out everyone who's ever worked at a business, get employment information, phone numbers of current employment" — a free lookup that runs from an employer to the named people attached to it. Everything else is the familiar set, run in both directions, so it covers who lives at an address, and whose number this is.
- Registrant
Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC
- Registered address
1915 21st St Sacramento, CA 95811
- Registered contact
- Search modes
Name · phone · business · address
- Browsable indexes
Business directory by state and territory · phone directory by leading digit
- Domains on the filing
Ten
The employment layer is what makes this site worth its own page rather than a line on a sister's. A people-search listing that carries an employer turns a privacy problem into a workplace one — it's the difference between someone finding your address and someone finding out where to turn up during the day. The site describes the use case itself, offering real-estate investors an owner's phone number and framing the phone lookup around verifying an online date.
The rest is standard for the family. The record set is the same one FastPeopleSearch and CyberBackgroundChecks publish, the data comes from public records, and there's no paywall anywhere.
The employer link is the part to check after you opt out. If a listing ties your name to a current workplace, confirm that specific view is gone, not just the name search. Employment data ages slowly and gets re-imported, and it's the field most likely to survive a partial suppression.
Data Published
Data types
These are the categories the site describes across its four search modes. All of them are free and none needs an account.
Sensitive: elevated identity-theft, doxxing, or safety riskStandard public-record field
From a name or a phone number:
- Full name
- Current addressSensitive
- Phone numbersSensitive
- Address historySensitive
- RelativesSensitive
From a business or an address:
- Current and former employees of a businessSensitive
- Employment information and workplace phone numbersSensitive
- Property owner name and phone numberSensitive
- Email addressesSensitive
Contact
Contacts & links
- Operating entity
Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC
- Registered address
1915 21st St Sacramento, CA 95811
- Privacy contact
- Registered phone
- Rights page (filed)
- Opt-out
- Privacy metrics
Network
Sister brands
PhoneBooks.com is one of ten domains on Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC's California filing, all publishing from the same record set.
The operator states the reach of one request. Its registry filing says an opt-out submitted "on any of these sites … will apply across all sites" for the sale of personal information, while opting out of "the sale or sharing of personal information that occurs through the online collection" has to be done separately on each website. Plan for both.
FAQ
Q & A
Who owns PhoneBooks.com?
Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC, of Sacramento, California. California's data-broker registry lists phonebooks.com among the ten domains on that company's filing, alongside FastPeopleSearch, USPhoneBook and seven others. The registry goes further than the BBB records here: several of those brands' BBB filings name a different or undisclosed operator, so escalate a denied request using the contact published by the brand you actually used.
How do I remove my information from PhoneBooks.com?
Use the Do Not Sell My Personal Information link in the footer, at phonebooks.com/opt-out. Per the operator's own registry filing, that request applies across all ten of its sites for the sale of your record, while each site's own collection needs a separate opt-out. Our removal guide covers both.
Can PhoneBooks.com really list where I work?
That's its own claim. The site advertises free employee lookups — "find out everyone who's ever worked at a business, get employment information, phone numbers of current employment". If your listing carries an employer, check that view specifically after opting out rather than only re-running a name search.
Is this the same data as FastPeopleSearch?
Same operator and the same filing, so treat it as one record set behind ten front doors. That's also why the opt-out is described as travelling across all of them.
Is PhoneBooks.com a consumer reporting agency?
No. Its footer states it isn't a CRA under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and can't be used for employment, credit or tenant screening — which is worth holding next to the employee-lookup feature. Its operator's California filing answers no to FCRA regulation.
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August 5, 2026 · Drafted from the California data-broker registry CSV (downloaded and read directly) and the site's own homepage and footer, read through a headless browser because it blocks plain automated fetching.