InterPals.netReviews 142

I got banned for literally no reason after I rejected a pushy hypersexual weirdo with a fake profile on account of me apparently 'sexually harassing' them... but they do NOTHING about THEM, but will also go out of their way to specifically give me warnings for 'abusing the report tool' when i flag scammer after scammer which seem to be of plenty on this site. How suspicious indeed 🙄 On top of that the few people who aren't obvious catfishes still just act perverted and the ones who don't are just racist. I really don't know what I was expecting but it certainly wasn't whatever the hell this was.

This website is led by sick feminist c*nts where toxic female profiles can do anything but they never get banned whereas if you are a male your account gets banned easily even if you don't do anything just being reported frivolously here i am adding the proof, what's more, this website is tracking you and your data heavily just use adblocker for your safety

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Have used IP for 13 years, but not at all for months. Disillusioned. I get a message saying I am on a warning for Harassment and Threats! I am a 64 yr old widow, who have I been threatening? Especially as I have only used the site about twice this year. It used to be good when it was voluntary, now it is some money making scheme run from Texas and it has just sunk. I used to report scammers, until I got told I was reporting too many! Err,, I was doing Your job? They might be a joke to you little nerds, but they have wrecked people's lives. I suppose it easier to bully older people.My crime was 'Offending 'someone (I made an innocent joke about something in someone's profile) so I wrote,'well You have Offended Me, now who do I report You to?' In the early days I made good online friends there, some of whom I still contact regularly, but not on Ipals! We rarely use it anymore. Once I would have given it a glowing review, but now it is just Sad. No decent moderation, no interest in standards and seems to be being used mostly by dull Americans and Arabs/Africans looking for a way into the West. Plus the ever present scammers and sex pests. If I was starting now, I would give it a miss.

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

Unexistent support, pro putin website. They delete genuine profiles for years WITHOUT REASON yet they let scammers to flourish on their site. Plenty of rude perverts, pedophiles, scammers, liars, narcisssists, psychopats, genuine people are very hard to find.
They also made some recently changes on their website that crashed the online status and they don't bother to fix it. On search list by last login filter. You see people that appear to be online days ago, yet when you click on their profile they appear to be online or an hour ago.
Also massive invasion on scammer profiles the last few days.
This site became a masive waste of time
Do not recommend it. Avoid at all costs. There are better sites out there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Russians on this site are very aggressive, showing open support for putin and his war. No one can say anything to them, because the interpals management deletes the accounts of anyone who resists the russians!

It's perfectly true - if you say anything against any russian supporting the war on Interpals, no matter how politely, your account is instantly deleted.

It is amazing that hundreds of scammers proliferate on interpals, trying to take advantage of users - these scammers' accounts are not deleted. But the accounts of anyone who speaks in favour of the ukrainian people are!

Interpals is full of Russian users who openly support Putin's war in Ukraine. They say things like, 'I support Putin, and I don't care what anyone thinks,' or, 'Europe and the US are foolish - we cannot understand why they are sanctioning us. They are only going to hurt themselves.' Or, much, MUCH worse, they simply post links to videos of Russian government propaganda about the 'Nazis' that the glorious Russian government is defending the world from.

HOWEVER, if you write anything in reply, you are INSTANTLY banned!

For example, I wrote a reply to one such post, POLITELY pointing out that little children were being killed in bombing and shelling, not to mention the fact that their childhoods' were being destroyed, and I was INSTANTLY banned.

It's alright to make pro-Putin statements, but not to write anything in reply. If you say ANYTHING against a Putin supporter, no matter how politely, you are banned.

It's not a good website.

There is no mobile version of the site. When I accessed it from my phone it would always be a desktop version, which could be annoying. The site isn't very user friendly. I met a few real people there worth conversing with. But mostly, I got messages from fake accounts in Asia and Africa. One word conversationalists who would try almost immediately to move the chat to WhatsApp. I'm not sure if they just wanted my phone number for some scam, or wanted to try to scam me more easily from a platform that wasn't on the site so I couldn't report them. Anyway, I deleted my account there after the site removed my picture of Vladimir Putin as a clown. I'm not sure if they're Russian war crime apologists or not, but I didn't wait to find out.

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