FastBackgroundCheck is a free people-search site run by Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC, a Sacramento company that operates nine other sites under other names, and it is the one broker in our library whose own emails tell some people their state doesn't entitle them to an opt-out. The site itself says almost nothing about any of that. This page covers what fastbackgroundcheck.com shows, who is behind it, what its 370 BBB complaints and F rating are about, the lawsuit filed against its sister site in 2025, and how to remove your listing.
What is FastBackgroundCheck?
The name suggests a background-check service. What the site actually offers is a free people search: type a name and a state and it returns a card with the person's age, current and previous addresses, phone numbers, relatives, and sometimes email addresses and a date of birth. The domain was registered in August 2004, though the site as it exists now is younger; the Better Business Bureau records the business as started in December 2019.
It is not a search engine with its own crawl. Like every people-search site it buys and merges public records, directory data and commercial files into name-keyed profiles, and it earns from the ads and the paid "sponsored results" around them.
Who owns FastBackgroundCheck?
The site's pages don't say. California's data broker registry does. The 2026 registration for Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC, filed from 1915 21st Street, Sacramento, lists 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. Its own comment on the filing reads: "We operate the following websites," followed by the same list.
That one filing explains a pattern we had noticed from the outside without being able to prove. FastBackgroundCheck, CyberBackgroundChecks, SmartBackgroundChecks and Information.com all publish records at the same URL shape, /people/{first}-{last}/{state}. The opt-out wording on FastBackgroundCheck, FastPeopleSearch, SearchPeopleFree and CyberBackgroundChecks is near-identical. And when we checked the domain records ourselves, fastbackgroundcheck.com, cyberbackgroundchecks.com, fastpeoplesearch.com and searchpeoplefree.com all sit on the same pair of Cloudflare name servers, which is what you'd expect from one company's account.
The BBB profile for FastBackgroundCheck lists a Boulder, Colorado address and names Julian Burgess as owner/manager. The BBB's two profiles for CyberBackgroundChecks list the same person as compliance manager. The registry, the name servers and the BBB records all point at one operation with many storefronts.
One name that isn't on the registry entry is Enformion. FastPeopleSearch's footer promotes the EnformionGO data API, and EnformionGO sells an API it calls "FastPS." Enformion, LLC files its own, separate California registration under the trade names Tracers and EnformionGO. On the evidence we have, Enformion supplies data to this family of sites; it is not the operator. We say this because other guides state flatly that Enformion "owns" FastBackgroundCheck, and the registry doesn't support that.
What a FastBackgroundCheck search shows
The record page is fuller than most free sites. The BBB complaints describe it well. One complainant: "They show all of my current and past addresses, my DOB, phone numbers, even my zodiac." Another described "my address, a snapshot of my home, family information, phone number, and email."
We don't show a results page here. FastBackgroundCheck returns an access-denied error to every request that doesn't come from a real browser, on every path, and the capture above of its removal form is the one page our tooling could bring back cleanly. That block is also why the accuracy of its records is hard for anyone outside the company to audit at scale.
Why FastBackgroundCheck denies opt-outs
This is the thing to understand before you file. The site's removal page is headed "Do Not Sell/Right to Opt-out," the language of state privacy statutes, and the company treats it that way: as a right that only some states grant.
The BBB complaints quote the company's own email. One, from July 2026: "We have reviewed your submission and, based on the information provided, it appears that the person identified in your request lives in a state that does not have a comprehensive consumer privacy law that applies to our data." Another complainant, the same week, said the company "refused because they are not required by Michigan law." A third, in August 2026: "my request is automatically denied each time because they say the state I reside in does not have comprehensive privacy laws in place. I have a stalker who is able to see where I live."
Trustpilot reviews from 2026 describe the mechanics. "Every request was automatically denied within approximately 2–3 minutes, indicating there was no meaningful manual review," wrote one. "The listed phone number redirects callers back to the same website that automatically denies the request."
Two things follow. First, the company is not wrong about the law: roughly twenty states have comprehensive privacy statutes, and in the rest, no law compels a people-search site to honour a removal. Most sites honour them anyway. This one, on the evidence, often doesn't unless pushed. Second, pushing works. In complaint after complaint the pattern is the same: automatic denial, a BBB complaint or an appeal citing a safety concern, and then "We have submitted your listing for removal, per your request. Please allow 3-5 business days." The company's own responses direct people to "submit an appeal using the process described in the Your Privacy Rights section of our Privacy Notice" and to "detail that you have a legitimate safety concern."
If you live in a state without a privacy law and your first request is denied, appeal, say why the listing is a risk to you, and if that fails, file with the BBB. Nearly every complaint we read was eventually marked resolved.
Is FastBackgroundCheck legit?
It is a real site showing real data, run by a registered California data broker, and there is nothing to buy on it, so it isn't a payment scam. The reasons people ask "is fastbackgroundcheck legit" are the ones above: it hides who runs it, it blocks anyone from checking its records programmatically, and it has an F from the BBB, with 370 complaints in three years and a note that it failed to respond to two of them.
There is also litigation in the family. In August 2025 a Colorado resident filed a class action against Mississippi Tornado Alley LLC over FastPeopleSearch, the sister site, alleging that it "compiles and commercially disseminates the phone numbers of Colorado residents without their explicit, affirm consent" in breach of Colorado's Prevention of Telemarketing Fraud Act, which since 2005 has barred "commercial listing of a mobile phone number in a directory without the owner's permission." The case is Elliott v. Mississippi Tornado Alley LLC, No. 1:25-cv-02384, in federal court in Denver. It concerns a different domain, but the same company, the same data and the same practice.
On accuracy, treat any record as a machine's best guess: stale addresses, a previous tenant listed as a relative, one person split across two profiles. "I put my name in and so inaccurate," reads one of the four Trustpilot reviews, all of them one star.
Is it legal for FastBackgroundCheck to publish this?
Publishing public-record data is legal in the United States. The site, like its siblings, disclaims being a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which keeps it outside the one federal law that would give you dispute rights. The Colorado suit is a reminder that state law can reach further than the FCRA does, and that a "directory" of mobile numbers is not automatically protected just because the numbers came from public sources.
Because the registry shows one operator behind ten sites, the state laws that do apply, California's above all, apply to the whole family at once. The company's own 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." Read literally, that would mean one request covers all ten. In practice each site runs its own form and its own queue, and we have never seen a removal on one clear a listing on another, so file on each until the company says otherwise in writing.
What being listed on FastBackgroundCheck means for you
The free card already carries your age, address history, phone numbers and relatives, and for many records a date of birth. That is the full starting kit for doxxing, for the family-emergency phone scams that need a relative's real name, and for identity fraud that starts with a birth date. The BBB complaints are not abstract: "I have a stalker who is able to see where I live." "Now Im seeing random cars parked outside, stuff being sent to my house, and my family being harassed."
For most people the practical effect is spam and unease. For anyone with a stalker, an abusive ex or a public-facing job, the fact that this site may deny your first request is a reason to start today, not a reason to skip it.
How to remove yourself from FastBackgroundCheck
The removal is free and runs through the page at /removal, which lists four steps. You enter your name and email and pass a CAPTCHA; the site emails you a link to the real opt-out form; you fill that form so it matches the record you want gone; and you land on a confirmation page. Nothing happens until you click the emailed link, and the page we captured says the link lapses after 24 hours and asks you to "allow 3 days" for the record to disappear.
Find your record before you start, so the second form matches it. If you get the "does not have a comprehensive consumer privacy law" email, appeal through the privacy notice and say plainly why the listing is a safety concern. Third-party guides list a support number, (888) 747-4094; Trustpilot reviewers say it points you back to the website.
Our FastBackgroundCheck opt-out guide walks each step against our own capture of the page. Then do the siblings, because a removal here does nothing for them: CyberBackgroundChecks, FastPeopleSearch and USPhonebook each have their own guide, and our full removal guide covers the rest.
Common questions
Who owns fastbackgroundcheck.com? Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC of Sacramento, California, per its California data broker registration. The BBB lists a Boulder, Colorado address and Julian Burgess as owner/manager.
Is fastbackgroundcheck free? Searching is free. Removal is free. The "sponsored results" link to partner sites that charge.
Why was my opt-out denied? Most likely because you live in a state without a comprehensive privacy law. Appeal, cite a safety concern, and file with the BBB if the appeal fails.
Is FastBackgroundCheck the same as FastPeopleSearch? Same operator, separate site, separate opt-out. The 2025 Colorado lawsuit names the operator over FastPeopleSearch.
How long does removal take? The page says three days. The company's BBB responses say "3-5 business days." Search yourself again after a week.
Will my listing come back? It can, when a new record under your name reaches the company's sources. That re-listing cycle is why removal is a recurring check.
Delist My Data exists for the second and third time you have to do this, and for the appeal you shouldn't have to write. It files the request, watches this site and its nine siblings for your name to come back, and files again when it does. The service is in pre-launch; the waitlist is open.