Scammers Already Know Your Family's Names, Address and Phone Numbers. Here's Where Anyone Can Get Them.

Picture your mom answering the phone. The caller knows her full name, the street she lives on, and even her sister's name. It sounds official, so she stays on the line.

That kind of detail is exactly what makes scam calls convincing, and it doesn't come out of nowhere.

Americans reported losing a record $15.9 billion to fraud in 2025, up from $12.5 billion in 2024, according to the FTC. Imposter scams, where the caller pretends to be someone you trust, were the most commonly reported type, and FTC data show text messages were the most common way scammers made contact.

Source: Federal Trade Commission, March 2026

Where Scammers Get Your Family's Details

Much of it sits in databases run by data brokers: companies that collect personal information from public records, apps, websites and purchase histories, then sell it to marketers, websites where anyone can type in your name and see your address, phone number and relatives, and other buyers.

A typical listing can include a name, age, home address, phone number, email address and a list of relatives.

A scammer doesn't need to be sophisticated to use that. A caller who can name your mother, her town and her brother already sounds far more believable than a stranger reading from a script.

It Isn't Only Your Parents

Older relatives get most of the attention in scam coverage, but the same brokers list spouses, siblings, adult children and whole households. And because listings often show relatives side by side, one person's page can point to everyone else.

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  Parents and grandparents. Often targeted with impersonation and "family emergency" calls that rely on knowing real names. Now with Ai, they can sound exactly like your family members they are trying impersonate. The combination of AI and the data these scammers get from brokers can be a very dangerous combination.
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  Your spouse or partner. Receives the same spam, phishing and fake-text attempts you do, and is listed with the same address.
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  Siblings and adult children. Listed as relatives, which links them to everyone else in the family.

Protecting only one person can leave the rest of the family easy to find.

Why Doing It Yourself Rarely Works

You can ask brokers to remove a listing. The catch is that every broker has its own process. Finding the right opt-out page for a single broker can take up to an hour, and figuring out how that broker's process works can take even longer.

With 70 to 100 brokers that may be holding one person's information, the total can run to dozens of hours, per person. For most families that isn't realistic.

How NetiFend's Proprietary Exposure Profile Analysis Works

NetiFend starts from a simple idea: no two people are exposed the same way. Where someone lives, their age, their name and the records on file about them all affect which brokers are most likely to be selling their information.

So instead of sending generic requests to a long list, NetiFend builds an Exposure Profile for each person and targets up to 70 to 100 of the brokers most applicable to them, focusing on brokers that only need a first and last name, email address and phone number. That's all NetiFend needs from you, too.

How Much Does It Cost?

Doing it yourself won't cost you a dime. It will cost you your evenings.

Every data broker has its own opt-out process. One wants a form, another wants an email, another hides its opt-out page three links deep. Finding a single broker's opt-out page can take up to an hour, and figuring out how that broker's process works can take even longer.

Now multiply that by the 70 to 100 brokers that may be holding one person's information. That can run to dozens of hours, close to two full work weeks, just for you.

Then do it again for your mom, but it has to be certain brokers that apply to your mom. You can't just opt out of any broker. And your dad. And your spouse. For a family of four, you could be looking at hundreds of hours of searching, filling out forms and chasing verification emails.

And while those listings sit there, anyone willing to pay can still buy your family's names, address and phone numbers.

That's the real cost of doing it yourself. Most people never finish.

NetiFend does all of it for you. The regular price for one person is $999.98, but right now it's 50% off at $499.99, as a one-time payment.

Covering more of your family lowers the price per person:

Every bundle is a one-time payment. It also comes with a free trial of tracker blocking for Safari on iPhone, which helps stop data companies from quietly adding new details to your profile while you browse online that they can then sell to the highest bidder. Data removal from brokers takes down what's already out there; tracker blocking while you browse online helps keep a new, more detailed profile from building up behind it.

Why Is It Discounted Right Now?

Most families don't just need one person covered. NetiFend noticed that most customers order for more than just 1 person.

That's why NetiFend prices its bundles so each extra person costs less. A one-person removal is 50% off right now, and the 5-person bundle works out to about $260 per person, up to 74% off the regular price.

The goal is simple: make it practical to protect the whole family at once, instead of leaving the rest of the family easy to find.

Bottom Line: Should I Order Now or Wait?

Once NetiFend gets to a certain amount of orders they are putting prices back to retail, because their team can only focus on so many people. Remember, they focus on quality selection of broker per individual and that means they can only focus on so many people at once.

Also, scammers don't need to hack anything to sound convincing. Often, the details they use are sitting on data broker sites for anyone to find, and every day those listings stay up is another day they can be bought.

Taking them down won't stop every call or text, but it removes one common source of the information scammers rely on. NetiFend onboards a limited number of new customers at a time, so if you want your family covered at the current price, now is the time to check availability.

Where Can I Get NetiFend Data Broker Removal?

Only order through the official buttons on this page, and be wary of lookalike sites. That way you know your information goes straight to NetiFend.