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commerce">Electronic commerce</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">January 2003</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Naveen_Jain" title="Naveen Jain">Naveen Jain</a> and others</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Seattle,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle, Washington">Seattle, Washington</a>,<br />United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent">Abani Heller, <a href="/wiki/CEO" class="mw-redirect" title="CEO">CEO</a> & President</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Services</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/w/index.php?title=People_Search&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="People Search (page does not exist)">People Search</a>, <a href="/wiki/Background_checks" class="mw-redirect" title="Background checks">Background checks</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Approximately 150</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">PeopleConnect, Inc.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.intelius.com/">Intelius.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Intelius</b>, Inc. is an American <a href="/wiki/Public_records" title="Public records">public records</a> business headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Seattle,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle, Washington">Seattle, Washington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SeattleWeekly07_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SeattleWeekly07-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It provides information services, including people and property search, <a href="/wiki/Background_checks" class="mw-redirect" title="Background checks">background checks</a> and reverse phone lookup. Users also have the ability to perform reverse address lookups to find people using Intelius’ services and an address.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Intelius, founded by former <a href="/wiki/InfoSpace" title="InfoSpace">InfoSpace</a> executives, was started in 2003. It is owned and operated by PeopleConnect, Inc.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Intelius&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Intelius was founded in 2003<sup id="cite_ref-Duryee_2007_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duryee_2007-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by six former Infospace executives: <a href="/wiki/Naveen_Jain" title="Naveen Jain">Naveen Jain</a>, Kevin Marcus, Niraj Shah, Ed Petersen, Chandan Chauhan and John Arnold.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Intelius submitted plans for an <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a> on January 10, 2008,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but withdrew in October 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 5, 2006, Intelius acquired <a href="/wiki/Bothell,_Washington" title="Bothell, Washington">Bothell, Washington</a>-based IntelliSense Corporation, a <a href="/wiki/Background_check" title="Background check">background check</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fingerprinting" class="mw-redirect" title="Fingerprinting">fingerprinting</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drug_screening" class="mw-redirect" title="Drug screening">drug screening</a> company. The acquisition of Intellisense eventually became TalentWise. TalentWise was then spun off to Intelius stockholders in May 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On April 30, 2009, Intelius acquired <a href="/wiki/Spock_(website)" title="Spock (website)">Spock</a>, a people-oriented search engine.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2011, Intelius purchased the Facebook genealogy app Family Builder.<sup id="cite_ref-FBApp_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FBApp-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, Intelius was renamed "inome" to serve as the corporate umbrella, and the Intelius name was given to the division focusing on background checks.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 2015, inome was doing business once again as Intelius. On July 1, 2015, Intelius was acquired by private equity firm <a href="/wiki/H.I.G._Capital" title="H.I.G. Capital">H.I.G. Capital</a>. As part of the transaction, Abani Heller replaced Jain as the company's CEO. On August 12, 2015, PeopleConnect Holdings Inc., bought the social media business Classmates.com for $30 million. The early social media site Classmates.com was created in 1995 to connect school, work and military colleagues.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Information_services">Information services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Intelius&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Information services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Intelius has created an app available for both Android and iOS that allows users to perform people searches, reverse phone lookups and background check services directly from their mobile device.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>PeopleConnect operates four <a href="/wiki/People_search_website" class="mw-redirect" title="People search website">people search websites</a> including Intelius.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Class_action_lawsuits">Class action lawsuits</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Intelius&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Class action lawsuits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On September 30, 2009, before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, a class action lawsuit was filed alleging that Intelius automatically enrolled California consumers into programs of its partner, <a href="/wiki/Adaptive_Marketing" class="mw-redirect" title="Adaptive Marketing">Adaptive Marketing</a>, without permission.<sup id="cite_ref-scam_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scam-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The complaint showed evidence as to how the defendants allegedly automatically charged California consumers' credit cards for "memberships" and intentionally frustrated the victims' abilities to dispute the charges.<sup id="cite_ref-Nina_Shapiro_2009_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nina_Shapiro_2009-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 19, 2009, in the Federal Court in Seattle, Intelius was accused of violating Washington's Consumer Protection Act.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the class action lawsuit <i><b>Lee v. Intelius Inc.</b></i>, filed by Ohio resident Donovon Lee and Washington resident Bruce Keithly, it was alleged that after purchasing background reports through Intelius, the plaintiffs were each charged recurring $19.95 monthly fees for multiple subscription services which were not requested from both Intelius and its partner, Adaptive Marketing. Plaintiffs sought damages for the Class alleging deceptive practices against Intelius. On March 7, 2013, the United States District Court ruled in favor of the Plaintiff Class. Intelius appealed to the US Court of Appeals (9th Cir.), which on December 16, 2013, also ruled in Lee's [et al.] favor for the Class as follows: "We hold that Lee did not enter into a contract with Adaptive to purchase the Family Safety Report, and did not enter into a contract with Adaptive to arbitrate. We therefore affirm the district court."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After losing this appeal, Intelius sought arbitration with the Plaintiffs and subsequently agreed to two settlements of this lawsuit in favor of the class (one for Mr. Lee and one for Mr. Keithly on different case merits) resulting in a combined $10.5 million settlement for Class Plaintiffs.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Consumer_complaints">Consumer complaints</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Intelius&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Consumer complaints"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2008 the company discontinued its phone directory services after legal threats and negative press attention focused on allegations that the opt-out process was unreasonably difficult.<sup id="cite_ref-MSNBC020108_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSNBC020108-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-usatoday_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usatoday-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among other things, it was also criticized for providing private cell phone numbers.<sup id="cite_ref-MSNBC013908_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSNBC013908-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 30, 2009, before the U.S. District Court for the <a href="/wiki/Central_District_of_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Central District of California">Central District of California</a>, a class action lawsuit was filed alleging that Intelius automatically enrolled California consumers into programs of its partner, <a href="/wiki/Adaptive_Marketing" class="mw-redirect" title="Adaptive Marketing">Adaptive Marketing</a>, without permission.<sup id="cite_ref-scam_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scam-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The complaint showed evidence as to how the defendants allegedly automatically charged California consumers' credit cards for "memberships" and intentionally frustrated the victims' abilities to dispute the charges.<sup id="cite_ref-Nina_Shapiro_2009_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nina_Shapiro_2009-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On October 19, 2009, in the Federal Court in Seattle, Intelius was accused of violating <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington's</a> Consumer Protection Act.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Intelius received thousands of consumer complaints regarding <a href="/wiki/Post-transaction_marketing" title="Post-transaction marketing">post-transaction marketing</a> practices and allegedly deceptive credit card charges. The Washington Attorney General sued Intelius, and a $1.3 million settlement was reached in August 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-SeattlePI10_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SeattlePI10-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2011 the company announced the inclusion of TrueRep to its services. 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