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InterPals.net has a rating of 1.6 stars from 141 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about InterPals.net most frequently mention fake profiles, language exchange, and genuine people problems. InterPals.net ranks 247th among Forum sites.

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  • I found a lot of people who were bored, and not interested in a language exchange.
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Top Positive Review

“Helpful to find like-minded persons”

Sarah B.
1/23/21

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

Top Critical Review

“Scam City Terrorists”

Jerry I.
2/8/24

This site is supposed to be a place to meet people for the purpose of becoming pen pals with others. In fact, it's a platform for global terrorists to raise money to fund their terrorist cowardly actions of purchasing missiles and rockets to attack unarmed defenseless cargo ships in order to disrupt world trade. Try treat this site like a pseudo-hook up site. They want to raid people's bank accounts, including credit cards. And the site owners and administrators do nothing about it. I'm fact, they're the ones that created this ugly mess in the first place.

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Thumbnail of user economyelectricservice
1 review
3 helpful votes
February 8th, 2024

This site is supposed to be a place to meet people for the purpose of becoming pen pals with others. In fact, it's a platform for global terrorists to raise money to fund their terrorist cowardly actions of purchasing missiles and rockets to attack unarmed defenseless cargo ships in order to disrupt world trade. Try treat this site like a pseudo-hook up site. They want to raid people's bank accounts, including credit cards. And the site owners and administrators do nothing about it. I'm fact, they're the ones that created this ugly mess in the first place.

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They have no product. You won't meet other "members".

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Thumbnail of user iant195
3 reviews
10 helpful votes
January 5th, 2024

This is possibley the most weird site ever. Firstly, nobody is looking for a Penpal or someone to have a conversation with or improve their language skills. The profile will say, improve their language and not looking for flirting or romance and that they are married or in a relationship. Then you look at the photos and believe me they are looking for far more than an Penpal! Oh, and thie friends appear to be young men from countries where English isn't the first language. You might get a few single words reply, again odd because they complain of people just saying Hi or Hello. If you are really lucky a whole sentence in very good English. If you comment on the good English it's back to Borat very quickly. And if you make no comment about the photos, why would you need to? You are dead in the water.
Now, be especially careful with the ones who claim to be deep thinkers or intellectual s and free spirits. These are usually very nasty and rude and way up themselves. They think they can insult because you are not on the level and don't understand the joke. Believe me, they usually get smoked out quickly and that's why they go running off. Lots of young men on the site trying to get their hands on anything they can.
I understand that people like to feel desirable and wanted, even escape the tedious little lives they have but this is not the site they should be on. If you want to connect try looking for local groups and talking to people on the bus etc, you will get more. Please be careful using this creepy site.

Thumbnail of user robr609
1 review
5 helpful votes
July 21st, 2023

As for mid 2023 reality:
Interpals heavily rely on "automated system" which have an extensive authority: suspend accounts, send template messages, autodetect keywords, etc...
Their system is poorly made and very low quality.
Also bad by base (not fit for purpose) because very similar for the ones which operates on low quality dating sites.

But have close to 0 human presence/ oversight.
Some reviews do talk about moderators - I did seen only bots with human names, who send template messages, and autodetect files/ data, like: is the user attached/ uploaded picture?

To ask for ID vertification via automatic template messages after auto suspension is more than ridiculous also insecure. Also they "forget" to consider that people may NOT wanna use their platform for dating.

Update:
After checking most of the reviews (here and other places as well) and also the people who done multiple reviews seems to have a contributing pattern here above the poor quality automated system:
Certain (usually former) users* who "make their business" to:
- mass search/ report profiles for whatever
* Most have female names.
When such combined with auto-systems which do suspend profiles after like 2 reports = sabotaged unusable platform.

Thumbnail of user beths845
1 review
15 helpful votes
January 2nd, 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.

Thumbnail of user tonyf64
31 reviews
79 helpful votes
April 17th, 2018

I have not been on this site in a while but its not because its not a good site, but instead because I am not much for social sites. I tend to keep to myself a lot more these days so hanging out on dating sites or sites where you need to be active a lot just isn't my thing.

InterPals.net is a great please to meet new people, make new friends, and even to learn a new language. There are tons of people on this site & the only negative opinion I have about it is the script that makes them look like the have more users online then they do by making multiple copies of the same profile appear often in searches, and its done so badly you can easily notice it when you see the same face like 20 times on 3 different pages of searching. But this is not a good reason to avoid them because they actually have a lot of members who are real people with real profiles & their own pictures & content.

Would I recommend this site to others?
Yes, and I have for many years now.

Tip for consumers:
When you make suggestions or have problems they are pretty good about replying back in a reasonable amount of time.

There are a lot of women on the site who will try to tell you that they love you without ever having had talked to or met you which really makes me mad, but that's what the block option is for.

All sites with membership have many types of people on them, and you really can not judge a site for that when they go out of their way to cut down on such members.

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Thumbnail of user gwenq10
1 review
4 helpful votes
January 24th, 2023

I was a member of interpals for years until recently when my profile was removed as "suspicious activity" was detected on my account. I can only think this is because I reported numerous scammers, mostly the same one who was creating multiple profiles daily. I have tried re-registering, but keep getting booted. However, many of the fake profiles are allowed to operate freely! This site has deteriorated and it's now near impossible to meet anyone genuine. You are constantly bombarded by scammers from Nigeria/Ghana or boys in North Africa looking for vulnerable older women to get them a visa to a western country. Don't waste your time registering. Just give the whole $#*!show a miss!

Tip for consumers:
Don’t bother.

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Thumbnail of user francescog24
10 reviews
80 helpful votes
June 19th, 2020

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.

Thumbnail of user dianea474
1 review
31 helpful votes
January 18th, 2021

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.

Tip for consumers:
Like any other app, there are trolls and perverts.

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Thumbnail of user rustym53
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
August 17th, 2022

Site appears ok except useless moderation team. Must be women having change of life, depends on the day. Query is " Sorry, this user's privacy settings do not allow you to contact them. " Age in range as is status. Explain to me please how this works, warning - frivolous requests to moderator. Send email so leaves time, another warning, even if months later. But still no answer.
Some scammers here but been on many free sites so easy to identify. Found a few friends & chat often with them. Trying language exchange.

Tip for consumers:
Don't ask question of moderators as will dump you, as do not have answers so abuse patrons. Keep wits about you, if gorgeous & shapely, reverse search her image

Thumbnail of user tomh1809
1 review
7 helpful votes
August 15th, 2022

I have used interpals on and off for 5 years. Becoming savvy at blocking the scammers, money demanders the outright abusive. Generally found the site lacking the qualities it states it has, there are almost no people genuinely seeking long term friendship, it is more like a revolving door of people constantly coming and going.

The worst part is the lack of moderation when needed with abusive, threatening and other wise nasty people, then my own account after 5 years of good correspondence was shut down for "suspicious activity"? Are you kidding, what a totally bad site.

Tip for consumers:
Steer clear of interpals.net. Moderators act on whim's and delete accounts at random and do not target the actual abusive, scammers and others using the site.

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Interpals friend services

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Rosy A.
1 review
19 helpful votes
February 28th, 2018

Interpals was ok as founded a good penpal. Stopped writing as she was too busy for me

Now its full on scammers, fake profiles and want people to learn English etc.....Also want more details e.g. current and past city, material status, education and what type of pen pal.

Its on top of google as they paid google, money (pay by click on the advert banner)

Thumbnail of user nareec
6 reviews
38 helpful votes
May 25th, 2022

There are a lot of very malicious and rude people on here with no social skills and are inept, they will leave crass and rude comments to users, and once you report them you receive a warning that you are harassing and bullying and misusing the report tool. It is a cesspool of men wanting to sext and take you off the platform within minutes of exchanging messages. The majority of users are only using the app primarily for an ego boost or have some sort of sick personality disorder and will try to invade your privacy. A lot of fake photos and ill intentions and out of the users you may find some genuine people but it takes time. It is difficult to find people that want to learn a language and like all the previous reviews has turned into a scam and dating site for married men and those seeking a VISA.

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Thumbnail of user spikes1
1 review
25 helpful votes
November 17th, 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.

Thumbnail of user edwardm201
1 review
5 helpful votes
May 8th, 2018

This site is a language exchange program, nothing more, nothing less. Nowhere does it say"hookups" I give this site a 5 for language exchange.

Thumbnail of user jd964
1 review
9 helpful votes
February 25th, 2022

They delete any content that asks for stopping the war or for support for the Ukraine. Many Ukrainian profiles were banned.

Thumbnail of user lilid11
1 review
6 helpful votes
October 31st, 2022

I reported a lot of clearly scam profiles, which appear again and again and again, with the same stolen pictures and pathetic descriptions copied from the internet. And today I got a warning message that I use a reporting tool in manner which is frivolous or unfounded and my account can be deleted ‍‍‍. Well, just wanted to be helpful but looks that they prefer having scammers on their site rather than normal people who wanted to help in clearing the site of this fraudulent stuff. Really discouraging and irritating. Only the fact that I correspond with a very nice guy there prevented me from deleting my profile immediately because such an attitude of admins is simply offensive. I think I will exchange email addresses with him and leave this cesspit.

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Thumbnail of user rossea
1 review
20 helpful votes
December 25th, 2016

I joined interpals one month ago. I met friend there. His profile name Danilescott 45 yrs old from Switzerland. First sound like good person. But finaly he was not. I suspected the pictures of him on interpals are not him. This profile operated by someone who part of cyber crime. Because they will ask money and pretend to fall in love bla bla.
They connected to network crime as immigration officer etc. Please beware

Thumbnail of user karens2491
3 reviews
20 helpful votes
November 4th, 2021
Verified purchase

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.

Thumbnail of user didigoa
1 review
37 helpful votes
May 3rd, 2020

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.

Thumbnail of user azzahrag
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 2nd, 2023

Aplikasi yang sangat buruk yang saya temui, mereka menonaktifkan akun saya dan tidak ada peringatan.disana banyak akun fake yang bebas. Tapi interpals memilih orang salah untuk memblokir akun. Sangat bodoh

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Thumbnail of user guilhermem5
1 review
10 helpful votes
October 17th, 2017

I've used Interpals for over seven years and I can pretty much tell you this website used to be a good website to chat, talk and creat lifelong friendships and maybe meet a girlfriend, believe it or not.
Back in 2011, I met tons of people who I still talk to, few of them should I say, and back then it was nice and it seemed that people genuinely wanted to talk to you, get to know you and even learn your language, but here's when things kind of changed, from 2014 on I couldn't meet a single person, things got bored and it didn't have the sparkle anymore, you just would scroll up and down all day long and not a single soul would get back to you, which was very annoying, by the way.
All in all, it's worth trying and good to do some language exchance, but nothing more than that now, although you might be the lucky one and go past "hi, how are you?"

Thumbnail of user dawnv143
1 review
5 helpful votes
July 25th, 2022

Horrible looking website that looks like it is stuck in 1995 - and for the most part, full of scammers, children, wannabe nude models, and the rudest people I've ever met - one felt the need to write a terse one sentence message saying "b***h, we have nothing in common," all because I 'dared' to contact her.

Don't waste your time. You'll never find a penpal here. I tried, oh, how I tried. At most, you'll get someone to write you a two or three sentence message once or twice before they nope out on you. Weird thing though, is that you can see when you go to your 'home page' that those same people are repeatedly viewing your profile even though they ghosted you.

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Thumbnail of user non601
1 review
16 helpful votes
February 10th, 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

Tip for consumers:
Don't.

Thumbnail of user luisg68
1 review
3 helpful votes
May 12th, 2017

Well, I have used other similar websites and apps and I have experienced the same things on all of them.

People to whom you send a message and do not answer.

People that answer just one or two messages and then disappear.

People with whom you were having a good conversation and, all of a sudden, they stop messaging for no reason.

Among other things. It not only happens on Interpals, this happens everywhere else. I guess that knowing this beforehand will save you a lot of trouble. Still, I was able to make some friends like that. It may be luck, but it is possible. You may also not make any friends, but at least this site allows you to have some good conversations with people, even if you don't continue talking with them in the long run. Just like in real life, you don't continue talking with many people even if you considered them friends.

Overall, I think the site is good if you know how to use it, despite its flaws.

Thumbnail of user avent1
1 review
4 helpful votes
August 22nd, 2022

The website bans you for simply showing support for Ukraine. Very Pro Russian site. No idea why it still even exists.

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