CyberBackgroundChecks is a free people-search site operated by Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC, the Sacramento company behind FastBackgroundCheck, FastPeopleSearch and seven other sites, and it carries an F from the Better Business Bureau for leaving 19 of 23 complaints unanswered. The name promises a background check; what it delivers is a name, an age, an address history, phone numbers and relatives, free, to anyone. This page covers what cyberbackgroundchecks.com shows, who runs it, what the complaints say, and how to get your record off it.
What is CyberBackgroundChecks?
A people-search site with a background-check name. It offers people search, reverse phone lookup and reverse address lookup, all free to view, with ads and "sponsored" links to paid partners paying for the page. The domain was registered in November 2018 and the BBB records the business as started at the start of that year. It is one of the younger sites in our library, which is partly why people searching "cyber background checks" or "cyber people search" are often surprised to find their own record on a site they had never heard of.
The records are the same public records, directory and commercial data every aggregator buys, merged by machine into profiles keyed on a name. Profile URLs follow the pattern cyberbackgroundchecks.com/detail/[name]/[id], and that URL is the thing to copy before you file a removal, because the form works more reliably from it than from a typed name.
Who owns CyberBackgroundChecks?
The site says only "CyberBackgroundChecks, Inc." in its footer. The fuller answer is in California's data broker registry, where Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC, of 1915 21st Street, Sacramento, registers ten trade names: CyberBackgroundChecks.com, AdvancedBackgroundChecks.com, FastBackgroundCheck.com, PeopleSearchNow.com, Phonebooks.com, SearchPeopleFree.com, SmartBackgroundChecks.com, USA-People-Search.com, USPhoneBook.com and FastPeopleSearch.com. The company's comment on its own filing: "We operate the following websites," then the same ten.
The BBB has two profiles for this one site. One, in Sacramento, gives it an F and names Julian Burgess as compliance manager. The other, at a Chicago post-office box, gives it a B on a larger set of 43 complaints and lists the same person in the same role. He is also the owner/manager named on the BBB profile for FastBackgroundCheck. One operator, several storefronts, several mailboxes.
A small detail we noticed while reading those records. The Chicago address is "PO Box 803338 PMB 29296." TruePeopleSearch, which registers separately in California under a company called Free Data Services, LLC, gives the BBB a San Francisco address of "PO Box 7775 PMB 29296." The same private mailbox number at two different mail-forwarding services is the kind of thing a shared back office produces. We can't say more than that from public records, and we don't.
What we can say from our own work is that the family behaves as one platform. CyberBackgroundChecks, FastBackgroundCheck, SmartBackgroundChecks and Information.com publish records at the same URL shape, /people/{first}-{last}/{state}. The opt-out wording on CyberBackgroundChecks, FastPeopleSearch, SearchPeopleFree and FastBackgroundCheck is near-identical. And cyberbackgroundchecks.com, fastbackgroundcheck.com, fastpeoplesearch.com and searchpeoplefree.com sit on the same pair of Cloudflare name servers, which is what a single account produces.
What a CyberBackgroundChecks search shows
The list page shows each match with a name, age, current city and state, and a set of past cities. The record page adds the address history, landline and mobile numbers, relatives, and, for many people, an email address.
We don't show a results page here because we couldn't get one back cleanly. The site sits behind Cloudflare's full-page "Just a moment" check, which renders its checkbox inside a closed browser shadow root that automation cannot reach. Our capture tooling cleared it only with a real-fingerprint browser and a click aimed at a pixel coordinate. For a reader the practical point is that the site is aggressively bot-walled, which is also why many third-party removal tools struggle with it, and why its records are hard for anyone outside the company to audit.
What people complain about
The Sacramento BBB profile lists 23 complaints in three years, 19 of them unanswered; the Chicago profile lists 43. Nearly all are about one thing, and a striking number come from people in danger.
"I have a stalker and they found me through this website," one wrote. "They allowed him to find us." Another described "targeted digital phone-bombing harassment from a disgruntled suspended employee" and asked for the listing down. Another: "The website has my personal information which has been used by strangers to contact and harass me." The word "stalking" appears in complaint after complaint.
The second theme is the denial by state. One complainant: "Their automated system immediately sent a rejection email stating they cannot process my request because I live in [state]." The company's sister site FastBackgroundCheck sends the same email, worded as "lives in a state that does not have a comprehensive consumer privacy law that applies to our data," and its responses to BBB complaints direct people to an appeal process for "a legitimate safety concern." CyberBackgroundChecks, on the Sacramento profile, mostly doesn't respond at all.
If your request is denied, appeal through the privacy notice, state the safety reason plainly, and if that fails file with the BBB. The FastBackgroundCheck complaints show the appeal route working; the CyberBackgroundChecks ones show why you shouldn't wait for a reply.
Is CyberBackgroundChecks legit?
It is a real site with real data, run by a registered California data broker, and there is nothing to buy on it, so it isn't a payment scam. "Is cyberbackgroundchecks legit" is really three questions.
Is the data accurate? Treat it as a sketch. Automated merges produce stale addresses, misattributed relatives and split profiles here as everywhere.
Is the company straight with you? Not especially. The site names a corporation that appears in no registry we can find, the BBB shows two addresses, the true operator is disclosed only in a state filing, and the complaint record is mostly silence.
Is there litigation? Not against this domain that we can find. But in August 2025 a class action was filed in federal court in Denver against Mississippi Tornado Alley LLC over its sister site FastPeopleSearch, alleging it "compiles and commercially disseminates the phone numbers of Colorado residents without their explicit, affirm consent" in breach of Colorado's telemarketing-fraud statute, which bars the "commercial listing of a mobile phone number in a directory without the owner's permission." Elliott v. Mississippi Tornado Alley LLC, No. 1:25-cv-02384. Same company, same data, same practice.
Is it legal for CyberBackgroundChecks to publish this?
Publishing public-record data is legal in the United States. The site disclaims being a consumer reporting agency and says its data can't be used for hiring, tenant, credit or insurance decisions under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. That is what keeps it outside the one federal law that would give you dispute rights, and it is why the company can treat a removal as a state-law courtesy rather than an obligation.
The company's registry comment says consumers "may exercise their right to opt out of the sale of certain personal information by submitting a request on any of these sites." We have never seen a removal on one of its sites clear a listing on another, and each runs its own form, so file on each.
What being listed on CyberBackgroundChecks means for you
The complaints are the answer. Your address, phone numbers, age and relatives on one free page is the starting kit for doxxing, for the phone scams that need a relative's real name, and for the person you moved to get away from. The site's youth cuts both ways: fewer people know to check it, and fewer people know to remove themselves from it.
How to remove yourself from CyberBackgroundChecks
The opt-out is free and runs in two parts:
- Find your record and copy its URL from the address bar.
- At cyberbackgroundchecks.com/removal, enter your email, agree to the terms, pass the CAPTCHA and submit.
- Click the link in the email the site sends. Its sister sites give that link 24 hours; treat it the same here.
- The link opens a second form. Enter your date of birth and address, or paste the profile URL, and submit.
- The site asks for three days. Search your name again after a week, in a private window.
If you receive an automated denial citing your state, appeal and say why the listing is a safety concern. Our CyberBackgroundChecks opt-out guide walks each screen. Then file on the siblings, since none of them shares a queue: FastBackgroundCheck, FastPeopleSearch and the rest of the ten. Our full removal guide maps everything else you're on.
Common questions
Who owns cyberbackgroundchecks.com? Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC of Sacramento, California, according to its California data broker registration. The footer says "CyberBackgroundChecks, Inc."
Is it free? Searching and removal are both free. Sponsored links go to paid partner sites.
Is CyberBackgroundChecks a real background check? No. It disclaims FCRA use, so it can't lawfully be used for hiring or tenant screening.
Why did my opt-out get rejected? Most likely an automated denial because your state has no comprehensive privacy law. Appeal, cite safety, and file with the BBB if needed.
How long does removal take? The site says three days. Allow a week, then check.
Will my listing come back? It can, when a new record reaches the company's sources. That re-listing cycle is why we recommend a recheck every few months.
Set a reminder for three months out, or let us hold it. Delist My Data is built to re-run the check on this site and its nine siblings and to re-file, and appeal, without you noticing. We're in pre-launch, with a waitlist for founding-member access.