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InterPals.net has a rating of 1.3 stars from 142 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with InterPals.net most frequently mention fake profiles, language exchange and genuine people. InterPals.net ranks 371st among Forum sites.

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GB
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Scammers and perverts.
January 2, 2022

Mostly disgusting married men looking for dumb girls to have online affairs with. Men in their 40s and older flirting and talking sexually with girls as young as 13 (although to be fair the 13 year old "girls" are probably 40 year old perverts too) Scammers galore with men using women to get visas (especially to the UK) most try to get you off IP and straight onto whatsapp or email etc. Avoid.

Date of experience: January 2, 2022
Oregon
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I had 5 so called Ukrainian women send me a message right out of the blue by saying how they had true intentions and wanted a relationship There is just something wrong with this picture. Then they just give out their email address. They write a long letter describing themselves with their life story. They all do the same routine. Then their intentions are to come live with, but one problem, they want you to send them money so they can obtain a passport, visa and plane ticket. Yes then coming to live with you is possible, but not right away and a tourist visa will not grant you that. It can take up to 2 years to be granted a permanent visa in the US. It's total scam. So Africa, is not the only problem with this scam. And also if you never thought of this, they will chat with you on Video Chat, so even with that you still can get scammed. This is a horrible site as it appears a lot of send sudden messages for really no rhyme or reason other than they just want your money. I'd say never try to date someone on this site because they won't date you. You want someone out of the country go on legitimate dating site or just go there to meet them. It's not possible, maybe in some instances, but very rare.

Date of experience: November 23, 2021
Michigan
3 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Dating Site and Scammers
November 4, 2021

Its a dating site. Nigerian Princes congregate there. The site has options to choose whether your there to make friends or learn a different language or romantic. Nobody pays attention to that. Just people wanting you to send nudes or get naked on the webcam. Disgusting. I got free version. And you have to stay on there 7 days before they will let you delete the account.

Date of experience: November 4, 2021
India
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This site is absolutely worthless. Not only are there a lot of scammers, rude and even absolutely crazy people here, but these scammers and crazies use the 'report' button as a weapon.

My own experience. A girl asked me why I wanted to learn a particular language. I said, it's because I like the literature of that language. The girl then instantly began to abuse the said literature. When I stopped talking to her, she reported me to the moderators! I do not know what she said to them, but the moderators then sent me a warning, telling me that I had to behave or would get my profile deleted! So, the site is absolutely insane - scammers and crazies proliferate, while honest people are given warnings or banned by the moderators.

Date of experience: October 20, 2021
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Scammers paradise
October 3, 2021

This site is full of West African scammers and North African boys looking for dumb old women to get them visas. If you complain or tag warnings to their scam profiles it is you that gets warned and banned. AVOID THIS SITE!

Date of experience: October 3, 2021
Bulgaria
9 reviews
31 helpful votes
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I've tried many times to connect with people. Most of the ones on there are scammers, fake profiles, weirdos, creepy gay guys stalking my profile (I'm straight and there just to practice languages), racist Western and Northern Europeans that are fetishistic about Japan and Korea to unhealthy levels. Apparently everyone wants to learn just Japanese or Korean as it's a weeaboos and koreaboos galore. Good luck finding anyone interested in your native language if you're not Korean or Japanese! A total waste of time just like PenPalWorld aka PomPomGirls.

Date of experience: March 16, 2021
Oklahoma
1 review
12 helpful votes
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LEAKS INFORMATION
February 21, 2021

I used this site to find new friends but what I found was my information like name, address etc. being leaked on the dark web. I know this because I have Norton360 with Lifelock. Do not trust this website with anything!

Date of experience: February 21, 2021
GB
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Disgusting
February 10, 2021

Joined when I was around 18 [23 now from the UK] and was almost scammed to the point of sextortion. Absolutely disgraceful. Honestly the amount of times I was asked to webcam and my computer (thank god I'm a tech nerd) told me they were recording my screen. I'm so glad that I was that scared to leave at the time; but it's taken this long to actually write something about this.
Seriously, don't sign up to this site.
It's full of sickos.
I'd rate it 0 but I don't have a choice

Date of experience: February 10, 2021
Germany
1 review
2 helpful votes
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You can find persons international and search for them based on filters, for example for those who have an interest in language exchange. Notifications are shown in a rather subtle way; i do not feel annoyed by them. Others can see that you clicked on their message and you are not able to remove sent messages from the account of other persons. Maybe 2 or 3 years ago, i received many scam writings over time, while it current is not the case anymore for me. For some strange reason you are not able to register without typing information like gender or location anymore. I have found some online long-term friends there

Date of experience: January 22, 2021
Philippines
1 review
31 helpful votes
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I've been rude lately to guys who often talks about sex and perverted stuff, as well as guys who talks as if they know it all. Well, now they won coz interpals suspended my account. Interpals doesn't seem to review the reports. They just base it on the number of reporters. That's how it seems to me or maybe they do review them but just side with the men.

Date of experience: January 18, 2021
Georgia
1 review
28 helpful votes
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Wierd scam site
November 17, 2020

I came on, thinking it was one of those kinda DIY communities.

It's not only weird but creepy, and the users are 1 liner conversationalists. They treat it like its some kind of dating site/hookup site/instagram/facebook. Very few if any are legit or real, it feels like they have workers who respond to your messages.

Stay away, don't get on here its a front for a scam site I can feel it.

Date of experience: November 17, 2020
Iraq
5 reviews
29 helpful votes
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Many scammers and racist site, many scammers and you can not report them because admin will threat you
Many scammers ask for money and your pics, you cant leave the site just after one week

Date of experience: September 15, 2020
Germany
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Two sides of a coin
September 3, 2020

I've been on Interpals from 02/2014 until 01/2017. I agree that there are too many scammers around, with stolen profile pictures, and every new request must be treated with utmust care. On the other hand, the first contact I made was an English fire guy, we were friends from day one, moved on to Skype after 2 weeks, visits followed and recently we had our first wedding anniversary. I left interpals then due to lack of time, but I am still in contact with 3 good friends from Sweden, Ukraine and the Netherlands. So it worked for us and there is no regret at all that we both signed up there.

Date of experience: September 3, 2020
India
1 review
25 helpful votes
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Wow good to see I am not alone and not surprised to see such low rating! There should be a -5 rating option!

That site was good but recently it has really gone downhill really due to incompetent Mods. Mods are so biased and they flag just anyone and delete accounts without any reason! If you report a girl profile for having nude pics and soliciting sex then nothing happens at all and in return you get warned/banned! Lot of men do spam a lot but some women clearly misuse "Report" button! When you ask the mods on which basis profile is flagged they say their mods are working hard and all that but no solid reason. When you say you would delete you account they say they don't care since their site is so famous and all would come. There is clear bias and one sided affair and sheer arrogance since their site became a bit famous!

I had actually made a list of women who are here for dubious reason but MOST profile are now inactive now but this profile is still there. This one deleted her nude pics, she was openly asking for men to visit her and long lasting friendship(asking for bf's) but now changed her profile description as well. This profile should be reported and taken down:- https://www.interpals.net/jonsuu

Just hope that at least here our voice is not taken down or censored :(

Date of experience: August 15, 2020
Sweden
1 review
22 helpful votes
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This site is not a Penpal site, it's a sex site and their moderation team does no moderation unless it suits them. Girls are flashing their body parts especially while covering their face with their phone too while saying "not interested in flirting", linking just their Instagram to try and leech followers, guys and old men hit on minors and inappropriate pictures are on this website and the moderation team does nothing about it even if they're reported.

This website should be reported to the police or some other law enforcement since it's tons of nudity, inappropriate photos, inappropriate flirting and this site welcomes minors of 13+, and even they are exposed to this flirting by 20-60 old men.

Date of experience: July 26, 2020
Sweden
1 review
34 helpful votes
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Should be shut down
June 20, 2020

In a short story this website should be shut down.

I found a fake profile that looked familiar and after checking where I recognised it from, I was right and it was a famous girl Youtuber/streamer. Reported the profile and even linked to real person's Instagram including the pictures that were stolen. Nothing was done.

I found a profile of a girl that only has cleavage pictures, or pictures of herself in short skirts, and in one picture where she was showing her hair you could see her $#*! and thong. Reported her profile picture where you could only see 5% of her face (part of her eye, and lips and that's about it) and rest of the picture was of her boobs, and the picture was taken from above so it was straight down focused on her boobs. I reported this and Interpals moderation team said there's nothing wrong with the photo (5% face and rest boobs on a website with 13 year olds), and issued several warnings on my account for having flirted with someone which was happening both ways, so they just issued me warnings instead for something which both people consented to, was in the past, and was not reported.

Date of experience: June 20, 2020
Italy
10 reviews
81 helpful votes
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I used this site for a long time and I didn't get long term friendships (as someone claims). I found a lot of people who were bored, and not interested in a language exchange. I also received some messages from perverts and fake profiles, and I blocked them. Young people only want to get new followers on social networks (they reach you on Instagram or they give you their phone number, then they disappear after a few days). Others try to find new "friends", since they're bored. And many guys don't answer you if you write them (it seems to be a dating site, with a lot of nudes). It's difficult to keep friendships here, so don't trust in people which claims the opposite. I didn't get my profile suspended by moderators. Despite this, it's a free website, since you don't have to pay for it.

Date of experience: June 19, 2020
Brazil
1 review
37 helpful votes
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And It's because users not the Tool. Even if there is making it 100% CLEAR (Language-Exchange) a lot of (Stupid) people complain that they have to teach someone or if someone ask about their Language (Duh). A lot of Women 3/10 (80% off All Women there) who have Mediocre Lifes are looking for attention and validation. Is very common take a look in some female profiles: "If you start with a "hi?" or "how are you?" i will not reply." reveals a very high and pathetic level of narcissism coming from (many cases) depressed people who can barely get out of their houses. They use to say "this is not a Dating Site!" but if you are a Good Looking Man... it's Okay (Lol) they accept your Flirt and Flirt Back! Of course if you are a random person and do the same, will be a "Creepy Behaviour". Women use Interpals for Ego-Boost. This site made me believe in something never before thought: I discovered that inhabitants of First World Countries are totally dumb, idiots with IQ of 50 unable to maintain a basic conversation. Men there are most of them needy and desperate for female attention and sexual attention, many are sexual perverts who want virtual sex. Others are Scammers and want $$$ using Fake Photos and Fake Profiles. To be totally fair: I met a few nice (and Real) people there. In short it's (or should be) a website to Learn Languages/PenPals but unfortunately it was invaded by Losers.

Date of experience: May 3, 2020
Greece
1 review
40 helpful votes
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Where they find them? While I reported 2 cases of "white " Nigerian girls, which my experience tells me they are definitely scammers I got the following message from interpals board.

Your account has been flagged for abusing the "Report to Moderator" system with excessive, frivolous or unfounded reports.

This is a violation of the Terms of Service. Please note that this is a warning and any further misconduct could result in the deletion of your account.

Thank you,
InterPals Staff

So if my assumption is unfounded you tell the first rogue user created it's account minutes before while the second had it for 11 hours.
That takes me to the assumption that interpals favors or it's part of the scam. Hence the variety of pictures scammers possess.

Take a hike from here.

Date of experience: March 15, 2020
Sweden
3 reviews
43 helpful votes
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Stay away from here!
February 19, 2020

I tried finding some penpals here, but the site is mainly full of perverts, Nazi people, rude people or people with a general IQ of about 80 at its best. There are better penpal sites out there, don't waste your precious time on this virtual sewer.

Date of experience: February 19, 2020

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