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PeopleWhiz

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PeopleWhiz has a rating of 3.1 stars from 50,689 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
    697
  • Value
    45
  • Shipping
    6
  • Returns
    14
  • Quality
    293

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 30.8%
Positive
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Business's Favorite Review

“Customer Service”

Mary G.
10/1/21

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

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Top Positive Review

“Good Site for Vetting”

Lissa L.
9/12/24

This website was easy to use. Putting in information and vetting was easy. Good to know about this website in this day and age!

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premium report (329) credit card (292) phone number (300) media accounts (107) divorce records (144) time user (53) web site (54)
Thumbnail of user joel1325
Ohio
3 reviews
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March 9th, 2022
Verified purchase

Misleading you charge one price that basically does nothing then you want additional price to continue and reports are not correct I used 3 sites yours said. No criminal background there was 6 listed on this check your just taking money and leading people to think they did due diligence I want a refund

Reason I chose this business:

Google rated you high clearly that was wrong

Thumbnail of user alexisi41
California
1 review
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March 2nd, 2022
Verified purchase

I ran a report on myself. I'm highly upset over the fact that I paid almost $30. For complete crap. Luckily, I called and they should be refunding me within 3-4 days. We'll see if that actually happens.

Thumbnail of user kylee172
Texas
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April 4th, 2022
Verified purchase
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This has went pretty well so far. Just waiting to see if the rest is as good. Next I got only address and date of birth. I didn't get a full report on my request. Glad I didn't spend any more money on it.

Reason I chose this business:

It popped up on Facebook while I was looking at some other things. Seemed to be worth a try.

This has went pretty well so far
March 5th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review

This has went pretty well so far. Just waiting to see if the rest is as good.

Reason I chose this business:

It popped up on Facebook while I was looking at some other things. Seemed to be worth a try.

Thumbnail of user christophera699
Michigan
1 review
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March 27th, 2022
Verified purchase

Really feel duped! I paid $27 for an address & phone number which I already have! Easy to get without paying!
THEN you want $19.99 to UPGRADE?
I'd just as soon have a refund! Plus marriage records you provided were not even accurate! Scam!

Reason I chose this business:

To get info that I was not given! You said, there are criminal records we have uncovered…. THEN claim I need to pay more to get the info? Yeah RIGHT!

Thumbnail of user raymondb578
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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April 22nd, 2022
Verified purchase

Info is outdated by 4 years. Address, criminal, social media nothin is current. We have been married 7 yrs no record we have lived in same town on point in getting upgrade. Our address is on everything we apply for it is not private. Give 1 day of ur best service free and lets see how close u get. I will buy a year if it is even 75% correct this is bull$#*! charging people anything when i googled more info than u supplied.

Thumbnail of user abin65
California
1 review
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May 26th, 2022
Verified purchase

I'm finding little accuracy and false leads and lack of licenses I've known subject to have possessed. Will see if ANY of this results in any help at all, or simply annoying a lot of innocent people with unnecessary inquiries. Final judgement currently reserved.

Reason I chose this business:

Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Will see.

Thumbnail of user donaldt988
Massachusetts
1 review
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October 24th, 2022
Verified purchase

You charge for report and then you give bare minimum facts which could be found at any less expensive site, and want 20 bucks per person per 'premium' report. What a rip off. Am cancelling subscription. There are other sites much better than yours

Thumbnail of user kylee290
Tennessee
1 review
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May 7th, 2023
Verified purchase

Your basic reports are laughable. I can find more information than that using free search engines from various sources. AND your "upgrade" charges are way too expensive for the very basic service you provide. This customer will not be repeating any business with you.

Reason I chose this business:

To close out this worthless account.xisbum

Thumbnail of user jeanettew171
Florida
1 review
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July 2nd, 2022
Verified purchase

Use my first report for someone I knew well. It did not show their three marriages and three divorces, the business that they owned, Or bankruptcy they had completed 10 years ago. I would not recommend this site to search people you don't know.

I don’t think I got a refund and I asked for that.

Reason I chose this business:

The advertisement said it could deliver a lot of information. It did not.

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Thumbnail of user dorisw288
Texas
1 review
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July 16th, 2022
Verified purchase

Well so far you have been wrong on how many times I've been married and to whom same with my husband profile wrong on criminal record because he's currently in jail for four years this is not the first time he has done time

Reason I chose this business:

Because the news said that you could find things out that others couldn't what a waste of my money

Thumbnail of user thomasn911
Texas
1 review
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November 24th, 2022
Verified purchase

Not a very accurate report. Addresses not right. No sex offenses but you have people with my same name listed. What's up with that!? Social media profiles not right. First seen record all over the place. Hopefully people who do back round checks for employment don't use this site.

Reason I chose this business:

Been trying to figure out why I am not being hired for jobs that are doing back round check. I gotta figure out how to expunge a lot of wrong information

Thumbnail of user beckr3
Texas
1 review
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August 14th, 2022
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It's pretty much just like every other site out there. Went with the 5 day trial for $1. Didn't really have anything unique that made it stand out from the rest. Some info was correct but there was a lot of incorrect info. Had my own report plus a few close friends done.

Reason I chose this business:

Never used them before. Felt like they presented as being something new and different

Thumbnail of user lauriey60
California
2 reviews
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September 4th, 2022
Verified purchase

I haven't been able to find anyone I'm looking for on this site. You need to add more boxes for narrowing down prospects. Like birthdate. Other places they lived. In the military? What colleague did they attend. Etc

Reason I chose this business:

Looking for a friend in tbe military. Hard to narrow down with your selections as they move a lot

Thumbnail of user vincentx17
Idaho
1 review
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February 8th, 2022
Verified purchase

Does not have complete or accurate info. Done of the pop up notifications were misleading. It inferred i had a criminal record encouraging me to pay for a subscription. It was completely false. Not impressed at all

Reason I chose this business:

To see how accurate it is.

Thumbnail of user jackc1075
Kentucky
1 review
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January 28th, 2022
Verified purchase

This is a joke, it gives addresses from 3 years ago thats old and done moved twice since then. Only tells what u can already find yourself for free on the web... Dont waste your time or money people... Its a Waste of money, nothing but a joke...

Reason I chose this business:

Cause I thought it would be much better then it is

Thumbnail of user marilynu39
California
1 review
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February 15th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Updated review

Amazingly fast data-gathering, but report covered only quite recent years. Absolutely incorrect marriage information given—totally different info than "this" Joan Murray Webster where much of your info was applicable. Also, knowing I have no criminal records, I was "taunted" at the onset to sign up for your 1-month rate. The opening info on your site indicated that "for my name," in RED, I had criminal records. I don't see how it is worthwhile to go any farther, with other inquiries, when I see incorrect info given in my own basic "report."

Reason I chose this business:

Just “happened upon your site” while looking for unrelated information. I had time to “check it out,” more “for fun,” than anything else. CURIOSITY!

Amazingly fast data-gathering!
January 16th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review
Reason I chose this business:

Just “happened upon your site” while looking for unrelated information. I had time to “check it out,” more “for fun,” than anything else. CURIOSITY!

Thumbnail of user anthonyw1319
Minnesota
1 review
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September 2nd, 2022
Verified purchase

Disappointed. Just wondering how someone who died in 2005 was last seen at the Main Street address in Pine City this past July 2022. I also expected to see his 3 divorce records for which I paid extra. I also would have liked to have found where he is buried. Truth Finder was more accurate and informative.

Reason I chose this business:

That’s a great question, considering I am disappointed. I wasn’t expecting to find nothing after having paid $19.95 extra for nothing. Please remove me from People Whiz. Suzanne Roach

Thumbnail of user randyt381
Minnesota
1 review
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November 1st, 2022
Verified purchase
• Updated review

I like the thoroughness of your findings; you often do better than some of the other search engines. It's sometimes difficult to determine which is the most recent and active address among those listed for an individual.

Reason I chose this business:

I wanted to pay my bill which the credit card company earlier denied, but I can't find how to do that online in spite of following directions from one of your agents and your text windows. Clicking on "reactivate" when that does not exist is very difficult (although I am not actually reactivating).

Selectivity Desired
October 28th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review

I know you dig through a lot of information, but I want to select which information I would like to access rather than get every last data bit.

Reason I chose this business:

To see if it could do a better job than two other sources (it did).

I correctly entered a credit card number 3 times and...
October 21st, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review

I correctly entered a credit card number 3 times and you rejected it. I want address, phone and email information and have to wait forever for all the incidental information you generate. Their ought to be a way to specify what I want instead of assuming I want everything.

Reason I chose this business:

To try you out and see whether you are better than another search system I have used.

Thumbnail of user terryl710
Georgia
1 review
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May 20th, 2022
Verified purchase

So far, I'm getting accurate information about myself and a few "so called" relatives who are NOT related so we need to get those errors cleared up quickly. Otherwise, we will have inaccurate information attached to my personal "profile". The searches went pretty well, seemed to be very thorough & detailed. I'm holding back my final review until I have read the complete report. I may have someone close to me check the report to see if they disagree with it or noticed some info missing. We will get it all straightened out & return to give you our final review of your service & resulting report. Until then...

Reason I chose this business:

Association thru college fraternities & sororities, work colleagues, religious communities, political parties, neighborhood friends, bowling buddies, and bar buds eventually wedge their way into our lives & become "known associates" whether or not we have truly accepted their influence into our way of thinking & changing our lives. How many people are trying to change our way of thinking?

We have advertising out the wazoo from EVERYWHERE! Radio, television, telephone, internet, billboards, business signage all around! It's a wonder any of us can make up our minds about ANYTHING! So many opposing opinions tugging us in all directions.

(I may add to this later.)

Thumbnail of user ryant782
Missouri
1 review
2 helpful votes
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August 8th, 2022
Verified purchase

One hour into your company's service: 1) name & address page correct, 2) Next, That I died at age 58,3) That I never married. Was married for 40+ years, My husband was listed under relatives--states correct date of death-but list age as 82, which he would be if still living. 4) First of home address listed starting before we bought the property and did not include the one we lived in for over 25 years. How can I believe any information I need to gather on others if I can see mistakes on my own file? Yes, I am upset!

Reason I chose this business:

Trying to find information for a reunion in January 2023. Saw ad and investigated. Too many errors found in my information.

Thumbnail of user oliviaa197
Texas
1 review
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March 3rd, 2022
Verified purchase

It is not allowing me to see the more important info like supposedly "criminal" records. I am better with FBI fingerprinting for my job...
I have never been to Kentucky nor reside there. I don't know any of those partners or associated on the list. I need to see my " criminal records", Seemed not only these neighbors or whoever has been stealing my personal documents have already stolen my identity and as I saw in another website, made a house loan in my name in Kentucky...
Also, I enrolled in your website and paid $27+ 19 so I should be able to full detailed report but I can't go beyond voting. I have never voted as I am not yet a US citizen; permanent residents can't vote. I have to check on this. DMV personnel required me to fill up voting form when I changed my driver's license upon moving to Dallas to teach there.

Reason I chose this business:

I had been to truth finder and other sites like you and I have discovered false info on me that may be preventing me from getting housing, apt rental and jobs where private employers use sites like you instead of legit FBI or police records.

Thumbnail of user ruthz394
Kentucky
1 review
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November 27th, 2021
Verified purchase

About 50% was or could be correct. Your site suggested the women I'm with got married twice within 3 months during the time we first started dating. We were inseparable at that time and it is impossible for to have gotten married twice in those days. Why would I trust your information

Reason I chose this business:

Relationships eb and flow. After many years I was just curious. Info given I can get myself but thought this site might provide something I couldn't do. NOPE

Thumbnail of user jimp921
California
1 review
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November 30th, 2021
Verified purchase

Your search provided me with incorrect and I hate to say it, but useless information about the person I searched. This was a waste of $27. I know more correct, accurate info on my own, and would like a refund. He's had the same # for 15 years and your site didn't even get that right.

Thumbnail of user michaelo1838
Texas
1 review
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October 6th, 2022
Verified purchase

You made it seem as though you would provide information on the persons criminal and social background by signing up, but then upped the cost after only showing information that I had already obtained. Scam worthy.

Thumbnail of user susanj1565
New Jersey
1 review
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January 9th, 2022
Verified purchase

All you get is addresses and phone numbers and maybe 1 or 2 relatives... if you are looking for what they say the report will give you. You need to pay more money. Its a sham, scam, b. S. don't use it

Reason I chose this business:

I thought it would give me what l was looking for... but alas. Wanted MORE money to give complete report

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