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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 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 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.

Products used:
Interpals friend services

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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 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 karens2491
3 reviews
20 helpful votes
November 4th, 2021
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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 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 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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Thumbnail of user ayc
1 review
36 helpful votes
December 8th, 2019

Today my account which I have had for years and contains the entire chat I first had with my girlfriend (we met on interpals) has been suspended completely without warning. I was just chatting to people and boom logged out then cant log in because it is suspended.

As other people said, the site is full of scammers and perverts. I had no idea mods even existed because they do nothing about it until I randomly got suspended.

Thumbnail of user yokol1
1 review
40 helpful votes
March 15th, 2020

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.

Thumbnail of user andreap283
1 review
28 helpful votes
September 22nd, 2019

Interpals is a total waste of your time. If you hope to correspond with halfway intelligent people, or even practice a foreign language, this is not the right site for you. You will get hit up for money and/or sex again and again. Moreover, the moderators that are currently employed are nasty, unprofessional people. They respond to valid concerns with abuse and threats. Interpals could be a good site with better management and control.

Thumbnail of user apanr
3 reviews
41 helpful votes
February 19th, 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.

Thumbnail of user egors10
1 review
10 helpful votes
March 25th, 2022

I was banned for 'spamming' a few days ago and have been trying to contact the support and find out exactly what part of the only message that I'd sent there in the last two weeks of my account's existence was classified as 'spam' (it was a short message in which I asked whether the person X wants to practice the language Y1 with me in exchange for the language Y2). Unfortunately, the only reply I could get from support is:

'Your account was deleted for sending spam messages. That is against our terms of service.' - no further details.

I have decided to let it be, let this mark the end of my more than 10 years long Interpals journey. The website has changed a lot in the last years anyway - it is quite hard to find anyone for the language exchange, and I've got a feeling that half of the profiles there are fake (and most of the rest use it as a dating website).

Good bye, Interpals.

Thumbnail of user lilyt53
3 reviews
22 helpful votes
February 1st, 2021

Like almost everyone else I'm bored and stuck in lockdown, so I thought I'd supplement my social activity by signing up to IP. This isn't my first rodeo, I've been here before but in the early 2000's-2010's it was far more active then. I'm surprised that there aren't more users given the pandemic! As per usual though, there are tons of fake users to drown any real people out. That's always been a problem here. They've made some small changes, you're now unable to view profiles and search members without logging in and being a member of the site. I prefer the old way because it at least let me see beforehand if anyone was even online! It has a fresh looking log in/sign up page, but that's it, they haven't modernized any other part of the site and it's not mobile friendly which is ridiculous in this day and age. I am a woman, so I locked in my restrictions for women only, of any age. For some reason my account is still visible/searchable by men? Likewise, I can view accounts of women who have restricted me from contacting them due to my age or my being female. Why not filter these out? If I can't contact the person I shouldn't be able to see their profile, it's a complete waste of time sifting through all of them, and sift you will, because if you're not 17 or the "smoking hot foreign man" of their dreams, you're unlikely to find another female to correspond with. And no, I'm not from some kind of questionable country, I live in Canada, so that's not throwing people off of my account. I've visited several real accounts (at least I think they're real), none of them visited my account in return. I'm an average, inoffensive looking woman, the only way you'd know if we socially click is by actually viewing my profile, and yet after being online for 48 hours straight on a weekend, only one woman viewed my page. I wrote her an intro and an ice breaker but she's not been on for a day, and judging by the complete lack of activity on the site, I tend to wonder if she'll even bother coming back. I'm sad because I really wanted to connect, if only on a casual basis with someone but there's no one really actively looking on this site. At peak hours there are 6000 users online, 3000 of which are female, off peak (which tends to be night in North America) there are maybe 3000 online users, only 1000 of which are female. Filter out restricted and spam accounts and that's probably 500-1500 women, world wide, buried underneath it all, that you could maybe converse with if you're lucky enough to find them and they're not totally lazy. Ironically, many of the women online actually describe themselves as being lazy, misanthropic, or don't like to talk much(?!) avoid these like the plague, or better yet, just skip the site entirely!

Tip for consumers:
Be patient or don't bother! Make sure you fill out your entire profile and look at other people's profiles, don't expect them to come to you!

Thumbnail of user zacharyr114
1 review
12 helpful votes
February 21st, 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!

Tip for consumers:
Don't put any personal information on this site

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