• PeopleWhiz

PeopleWhiz

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1.6 / 5
Better Business Bureau
1.7 / 5
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Overview

PeopleWhiz has a rating of 3.1 stars from 50,672 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with PeopleWhiz most frequently mention long time, credit card, and much info. PeopleWhiz ranks 1st among Background Check sites.

  • Service
    691
  • Value
    44
  • Shipping
    6
  • Returns
    13
  • Quality
    292

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 22.3%
Positive
130
Neutral
106
Negative
346
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • First time user, haven't read the reports yet but so so good.
  • It's great caught my baby mamma stepping out on me with this web site.

Critical highlights

  • There is a lot of missing information The Premium report is far from being premium.
  • When I entered my name as requested in the credit card payment, the program rejected it.
How would you rate PeopleWhiz?
Business's Favorite Review

“Customer Service”

Mary I.
10/1/21

Your customer Service staff is great and do their job very well!

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Top Positive Review

“My bank declined the charge as suspected fraud”

Lawrence J.
11/4/22

My bank declined the charge as suspected fraud. I told them to put it through. Hope that isn't the case!'

Reviews (50,672)

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premium report (329) credit card (292) phone number (299) media accounts (107) divorce records (144) time user (53) web site (54)
Thumbnail of user candicea120
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 14th, 2024
Verified purchase

First, I wanted to pay the 14.99 and was charged 27.99. Not happy at all about that. Secondly, I received an email from you stating that there were changes in a particular report and that name was inside the email. To my dismay upon opening the report, I couldn't view everything because I had to upgrade which cost more money. Your information is not up-to-date. I could not find any information that was different from when I did the report the first time all the information is at least eight years old. Finally, I would like my money back.

Reason I chose this business:

I chose people with because of an email that was sent to me stating there were changes on a particular person’s report. That turned out to be a big negative and your report is eight years out of date.

Thumbnail of user charlesm3500
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 27th, 2023
Verified purchase

As a check, I requested a search on myself and my wife. My wife and I have been together for over 20 years. The only thing PW found was that we had the same address. PW did not find any marriage or divorce records for anyone. They did not find my handgun carry permit or any of my gun purchases. They did not find my stepson's criminal records. Basically they did not find anything in the last twenty years.
They did keep asking for more money for twice as much data. Twice nothing is still nothing!

Reason I chose this business:

Big mistake!

Thumbnail of user stephenr1166
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 26th, 2022
Verified purchase

This was a complete waste of money. Several emails over the last few days expressed what new information was available. None of that was true.The report I got for 19 bucks was the exact report that I had gotten for 1 dollar a few weeks before. Total scam…but I guess I'll live and learn

Reason I chose this business:

Lured in by your false claims

Thumbnail of user daven330
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
February 25th, 2023
Verified purchase

Some correct information, some incorrect information. Come on by saying you had lots of criminal records when you actually have none. Can't back get back into site without being taken to the sign up and pay page, So can't even finish looking at your report.

Reason I chose this business:

Curious, bad mistake

Thumbnail of user janetd1043
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 1st, 2022
Verified purchase

Not accurate information. Even the easy information to obtain is wrong. My husband has been married twice before me and has a criminal record. This search pulled back nothing in these two areas. Further more, it did find multiple emails but then why only 2 social media sites? ITS CRAP!

Thumbnail of user reneeb686
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
August 6th, 2022
Verified purchase

I know the subject was married and divorced but no info. They did not restrict this info in any way.

Thumbnail of user rogery128
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 10th, 2022
Verified purchase

Don't like payments for each category! One payment should take care of multiple records/categories. This looks to be a rip-off!

Reason I chose this business:

You kept bugging me with emails!

Thumbnail of user shannonc600
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
October 25th, 2021
Verified purchase

Gave only basic information while promising much more. "Should you want to know more pay $19.99 more…. "I'm not a fan of Deceit. Reviews on their site seem fake and I couldn't even leave one on peoplewhiz.com while still under my $27.99 paid monthly membership.

Tip for consumers:
Use another service. And I was not offered a refund or the other reports they say they have that cost more in addition to what I had paid for already.

Products used:
FULL background check with “unlimited “ reports but after paying the reports are very limited unless you pay more and the “unlimited “ reports Is very basic reports for different people. Deception and very expensive.

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Thumbnail of user gp200
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 16th, 2022
Verified purchase

Not very much information for the price I paid even with the upgrade
Would like to get my money refunded

Reason I chose this business:

Thought it would be great not so much

Thumbnail of user bend889
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 29th, 2023
Verified purchase

From my understanding, it was supposed to have social media accounts, and there was nothing didn't even give an option.

Service
Thumbnail of user josephp2150
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 2nd, 2023
Verified purchase
• Updated review

This is such a frustrating site. I have paid for premium services and because there are several Alia's profiles for each individual it will not refresh or update the accounts that I have already paid for more than once! This is very misleading and unethical to do.

This was very misleading on premium!
September 25th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review

This was very misleading on premium! It does NOT say $19.95 for 1 report! Ridiculous

Thumbnail of user lauras1247
1 review
9 helpful votes
April 7th, 2020

If I could give this site a minus rating I would. I searched my own name first and the only thing they managed to come up with was my address from 25 years ago. That's where the show me currently living. I tried to get my money back and was given a phoney website for customer service.

Thumbnail of user emmanuelz47
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 20th, 2022
Verified purchase

My personal results were very basic. I did however find information on a former girlfriend I've been wanting to locate.

Thumbnail of user sophiad350
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 8th, 2022
Verified purchase

I pay for search that promised content and it shows nothing when I know there is even an arrest record

Thumbnail of user samuelc450
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 11th, 2022
Verified purchase

I did a search on my ex husband and I know he has criminal records but his report said zero.

Thumbnail of user lawrencej274
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 4th, 2022
Verified purchase

My bank declined the charge as suspected fraud. I told them to put it through. Hope that isn't the case!'

Reason I chose this business:

Great recommendations

Thumbnail of user jamest2800
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 7th, 2022
Verified purchase

Truth finder is much better than this. It's not worth what your charging for a month. I want a refund.

Reason I chose this business:

To try it out. Bragging so highly of all the information you will see. False advertising not happy

Thumbnail of user amandaj1204
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 30th, 2023
Verified purchase

Well I'm not happy because I have never had any arrest or anything like that you are saying about me

Thumbnail of user sandraq554
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 27th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Updated review

Every time I look someone up including myself there is either no information it's not updated or it's very inaccurate.

This website originally showed the correct person but...
October 12th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review

This website originally showed the correct person but after taking my 20 dollars gave me a completely different person

Reason I chose this business:

Never again

Thumbnail of user randyv162
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 2nd, 2022
Verified purchase

Can Not tell A Lie, I think you changed your PLANS before I was finished filling
Out the complete question-air...

Reason I chose this business:

Looked like a good deal at the start, I am not so sure, now.

Thumbnail of user pauls4127
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 5th, 2022
Verified purchase

It won't let me see what I'm getting till after I give this review I'll fix it if it's better

Thumbnail of user georged679
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
May 28th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Updated review

Does not measure up to what is mentioned before you give them your credit card number. Also, you are offered a "Premium Report" for additional money. The part of the report (basic) that I read gave some incorrect information. Think that I wasted almost $30.

The man was very helpful. He guided me through what I could do and not do. If I had not talked with him, I would have clicked on Premium Report and would have had to pay another sum of money.

Reason I chose this business:

To learn about my estranged troubled and troublesome son.

Service
Seems to be useful if information is provided
April 26th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review
Reason I chose this business:

To learn about my estranged troubled and troublesome son.

Thumbnail of user susanm4116
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 24th, 2022
Verified purchase

I purchased a 5 day membership with Truthfinder 4 days ago and have searched the website multiple times in attempt to find a single individual. Today when attempting to access the same info on the same website I was, for some reason, redirected to your website, WHY? At the risk of being redundant and paying another website I will pay the dollar in hopes of gaining additional information that is not included in the Truthfinder program. If no additional info is listed, I will contact peopleWiz for a full refund,

Reason I chose this business:

I didn't. I was directed to this website when attempting to opnr my Truthfinder account

Thumbnail of user anthonyq315
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 26th, 2022
Verified purchase

There was no info on anything.and just inaccurate. Giving email and social media info that we all can already see.

Reason I chose this business:

Saw on Facebook

Thumbnail of user virginiah960
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 4th, 2022
Verified purchase

You are asking me to provide feedback before seeing the report, while scaring me with claims of what's in it

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PeopleWhiz.com is a robust data architecture and proprietary platform with over 67 billion searchable public records. You'll have access to the most comprehensive background check reports using public records on the web.

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