Interpals: Penpals & Languages

I have met several great people through this app. I am really enjoying it- and it’s free! It’s a tad glitchy, but I just swipe out of the app to refresh and that usually does the trick. There are a lot of people who use it as a dating app- which is fine. But if you are not interested in romance, you can easily change your setting preferences for who can talk to you. You can choose options like Friendship/ Pen Pals/ Language Exchange/ etc. Then, anyone who has settings set to Romance or Flirting won’t be able to contact you. I’m enjoying it much more now. 😁

If you are a scammer then this is the app for you. If you’re a genuine user then stay away. The vast majority of users on this site are scammers. These scammers employ various strategies including phishing, identity theft, money draining schemes etc. Not only does the app take no action to provide better security they actually encourage scammers. I guess having a large number of users boosts their stats, even if these users are fake. I reported on scammers to the site moderators and received a warning message saying that I need to stop reporting and soon after my account was deleted. Yes, you read it correct, my genuine account was deleted for reporting scammers. Going through other reviews of the site here I see this is a common occurrence and others have faced it too. The site actively encourages scammers by deleting accounts of genuine user who report on them. Stay away

The site is rampant with scammers and fake profiles. I guess that’s what happens when a chat site doesn’t charge for its services, and it performs no identity checks or verifications when a person joins. I read a review in here by literalkev who said his account was flagged for suspicious activity two weeks ago. That’s exactly what happened to me, and at about the same time. I asked them for clarification, like what the suspicious activity was, but they didn’t reply. Actually, they never reply to specific requests or questions. They even have the nerve to caution someone against reporting too many scammers and fake profiles. Can you believe it? They provide a flagging tool, but they actually tell people not to report other profiles so much. I’ve had a few good conversations with legitimate people, but I would wager that about half of the profiles are either of fake people or scammers. There’s a public forum (the wall) where anyone can post a comment, but it feels creepy and cringy. Scrolling through those comments is like walking through a desolate, dirty zombie town. But again, it’s free, so what do you expect?