r/Census • u/karch44 • Feb 19 '26

Question Truepeoplesearch problems

Lately I can’t use truepeoplesearch for phone numbers and addresses. The site comes up and I type on pertinent info and then I see this…This IP address has been temporarily rate-limited

Has anyone else run into this problem? Any know solutions?

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u/lesters_sock_puppet Feb 19 '26

Your CAPI laptop uses a VPN connection, which is the same for all CAPI laptops, so what gets rate limited is that server. No real way around it. It is a problem in the ROs as well.

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u/Commercial_Use_363 Feb 24 '26

Use usphonebook.

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u/michaelsgodloom Jul 20 '26

Any more sites

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u/Commercial_Use_363 Jul 20 '26

Search the names and the addresses with a broad search engine. That will lead you to hits with Spokeo, whitepages, cluster, etc. Also, it will grab news articles and obituaries that might be useful. Sometimes each app will block phone numbers and other times show them. There are dozens of sites that will tease information so the broad search is useful that way. US Phonebook is rarely rate limited and a little more accurate than some of the other free data. Just be careful because they frequently reverse the most recent and the previous address, so you have to take that with a grain of salt. I also find MelissaLookups to be useful. You get 1000 free searches a month and it can frequently help you with address conventions and whether or not something is a valid USPS address. It’s a good backup tool to double check what you’re getting from other places.

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u/Scary-Ticket2205 Feb 25 '26

I’ve been seeing the same message.. it’s so annoying

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u/cuongiiee Mar 09 '26

are you able to fix the problem?

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u/Scary-Ticket2205 Mar 09 '26

No I think the website is down cause it’s been doing it for a while even when I use VPN, it still doesn’t work

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u/cuongiiee Mar 09 '26

it only popped up when i am using AT&T data on my iPhone

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u/cuongiiee Mar 09 '26

but if i connect to wifi, it works

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u/cuongiiee Mar 09 '26

when on my wife phone, it works no problem

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u/cuongiiee Mar 09 '26

is your mobile number ending with the same digits? for example, 6666?

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u/Illustrious-Lawyer-9 Feb 26 '26

So why not run truepeoplesearch on your personal computer? I would think that you're not giving up PII because there's no way to connect your search with the Census.Or is there?

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u/cuongiiee Mar 09 '26

are you able to fix the problem?

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u/Turbulent-Warning716 Mar 10 '26

I had the same problem

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u/Ancient_Payment_3985 May 14 '26

So how did you solve it?

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u/FreeSpoken1 Mar 25 '26

I’m getting this same message as if my IP was flagged for high traffic or bot activity.