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Social Catfish is an online investigation company based in California. It has an estimated 1 million monthly visitors and access to over 200 billion records.
Launched in 2013, the site has been dedicated to helping people avoid being scammed by someone with a fake identity. Social Catfish can provide anyone’s basic information, social media profiles, photos, addresses, phone numbers, and more.
It is a useful site for those wanting to know more about their online dating matches. However, social media information can also be used for online harassment. 41% of Americans experienced online harassment, and 75% were bullied through social media.
If you’re concerned about your online privacy, you can remove your personal data from Social Catfish by following this guide.
Manually submitting an opt-out request through the Social Catfish website is simple. Here’s how:
Removing your data from Social Catfish may take 2-3 weeks, so keep checking your listing within this time frame.
You can also check out our FastPeopleSearch Opt-out Guide. |
Aside from submitting an opt-out request, using a data removal tool like Incogni or contacting Social Catfish are some options at your disposal.
Let’s take a close look at each method.
Incogni can help you in delisting from numerous people search sites in a single subscription. It will contact all the data brokers with your personal data and keep track of them to prevent you from being listed again.
The service covers 180+ people search sites. With a reasonable price of $6.49 monthly for a yearly plan, Incogni will save you 300+ hours of manually requesting to be opted out of data broker sites.
Here’s how to start using Incogni:
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Incogni will automatically start looking for people search sites with listings of your personal data. You can keep track of each site’s opt-out progress through your Incogni dashboard.
You can also contact Social Catfish directly to request the removal of your personal data.
Send your opt-out request via email to [email protected]. Include your name and listing URL. Specify your intention to be opted out of their database on your subject line and body of the message.
You can also call Social Catfish’s customer support at (844) 422-8347 and ask a live agent to remove your listing for you. This line is available 9 AM-5 PM Pacific Time.
Social Catfish may be a well-known site for fighting catfishing. However, the privacy and security risks of being listed on data broker sites like this can’t be ignored.
Since you can remove your personal data from these sites, use all the possible methods because your online safety comes first.
Also, check out our guide to know how to opt out of Radaris.
Social Catfish can provide data about names, usernames, social media profiles, email addresses, phone numbers, photos, home addresses, properties, criminal records, and all basic information.
There may be inaccuracies because the data-gathering process is automated. All information that Social Catfish provides is publicly sourced. It means you can get the same information if you want to get down to it.
Muninder Adavelli
Munni is also an ardent student of human-computer interfaces and user experience design. He makes the vital connections between technology and the end user. He always finds the ultimate way to tell the story of software, to highlight its strengths and weaknesses in an accessible way. He often contemplates the dynamic relationship between humanity and technology over a pint of lager, while enjoying some classy classical rock.
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