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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Biggest load of expensive Bullshit ever. Paid a fee, then was charged again on automatic renewal. Be very careful that is switched off immediately. I don't believe I spoke to one genuine person. Loads... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Met a real scammer - Iris Fischer - who kept me going for ages then the small request for amazon cards which I did not pay, then apple gift cards, then a chunk of 15k to pay a debt - reported to Ill... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Paid the exuberant price to sign up, actually matched with few women and got chatting to one. We met up for a coffee (I'm recently out of a long marriage), she was still in a stagnant marriage, I was... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Although this site is more for people who are in a relationship already I’m a single man and found the most wonderful single woman here and I’m so grateful for that opportunity. Isn’t it funny that... See more

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2.3

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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Well guys if you are serious on meeting…

Well guys if you are serious on meeting a woman you will on here , it’s a lot of patience that’s all , Good luck.

25 October 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi Robert, thank you for your review! As you say it takes patience and it's great you've taken the time and the results speak for themselves :)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Works If You Look Good And Are Realistic

I am making this review to counter the false claims by myriads of men that this a scam site and that all the profiles are fake.
I previously used this site 6 years ago and communicated with real women and met two. One of those I met in a hotel. I would have met more had my wife at that time not kept me on a lead.
Now divorced! A few days ago I signed up to the £60 deal (5 days) and am currently in touch with 3 women which look promising.
However - some qualifications to my recommendation. There are relatively few women using this service and the bulk of profiles are inactive. You will probably never find more than a dozen maximum online who live within 50 miles of you. The majority of messages you send will never be read. I sent 20 messages on my first two days and got back 6 replies. 12 messages still unread.
I thought I struck gold on the first day and had a car date arranged but she cancelled the next day. It happens.
But I have one special lady I am communicating with off the site and think it will go somewhere.
You will not get any women first contact messages unless you are super good looking. The only messages I get on this basis are from scammers. The messages you get prior to signing up will be from scammers. I think IE do nothing about this as they realise many men will sign up because they think there is interest.
OK - that is not good - but there are enough genuine profiles out there to make it worthwhile.
I am above average looks - tall, slim with dark hair and 60 years old. I suspect those men on here saying they never get any replies or interest so it's a scam are basically just not attractive to any women. To those men I would suggest an escort service. Sorry guys.
I would recommend you just go for the £60 deal as you can soon approach all of the local women in that time and get responses. There is no need for the 6 week deal at £140. Then maybe try the £60 deal again in 2 months. I had no issue contacting IE and cancelling auto-renew.
Expect to put in a lot of time and effort but I do believe it will be worth it.

20 October 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi :) Thank you for your review. It's great to hear you have been enjoying IE over the years. I would like to assure you we do not allow scammers on the site. If we feel someone isn't genuine they are removed immediately.
I hope everything goes well with the ladies you have met :)

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

COMPLETE SCAM AND WASTE OF YOUR MONEY

COMPLETE SCAM AND WASTE OF YOUR MONEY! I tried and sent almost 50 messages to not a single reply ! There are bots Installed on profiles which will send you virtual kiss and try to attract you to stay online dreaming of finding your true love LOL. Wasted my money.

20 October 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Gigantic rip off.

Avoid
The majority of the female profiles seem to be written by one person. This person will respond to some messages, string you along for a few exchanges, then for no apparent reason, suddenly you’re not their type. Even when you’re exactly what they say they want.
I’ve even sent photos of handsome guys (not me) as a test. They’re all not their type (which is a recurring expression) either.
It’s mostly written by one person, quite possibly a bloke, and designed to take your money.
Avoid.

1 October 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Designed to drain you wallet!

This site is just so frustrating. The basic idea is good as there is obviously a market for this, but not charging women inevitably leads to many fake profiles, scammers and time wasters.
The site is extremely expensive for guys and most genuine women seem to be looking for younger men. If your over 55, forget it!

5 September 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi, thank you for your review, I would like to assure you that we do not allow fake profiles or scammers on IE. If we feel someone is not genuine they are removed immediately. We have members of many ages who are successful, the eldest up to 82 so I really wouldn't say ladies or men age discriminate.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!

I can only parrot the 48% of reviewers that gave this awful site a bad review. "Do NOT waste your money!"
Yes, it is possible to meet a very few genuine women here but the site's operation is phoney and more than just mildly dishonest. The site itself is antediluvian and clunky; it's a shame, because obviously there is a market here. But because women are not charged, there seems to exist a high proportion of scammers and time-wasters, with men as the target (this is particularly true of the 55+ age bracket). IE could improve their act immeasurably by taking the simple step of imposing a small fee for women as well as men; this could be, perhaps, half that of their male counterparts. The problem for them is that then the ratio of women to men members would then drop dramatically. Currently it's purportedly around 300 (women) to 400 (men).
In reality it appears to be more like 50 to 400. And if you're male and over 55, forget it, because the ratio of women to men then drops far, far lower. And at that age, it would seem, you really are targeted by the unscrupulous.
I'm sure IE's response to this review will be a bland and disingenuous denial, which is their prerogative, of course.
Honestly? You'd be better off joining a local book club. Cheaper, more fun and with better odds of finding someone to have an extramarital fling with.

26 August 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi Jay, I must say you sound exactly like Spacehopper above (right down to the age bracket). As a site operating for over 20 years we pride ourselves in having genuine members and members being successful, otherwise we wouldn't still have a business. Granted the site may need an update however it also is user friendly for the vast majority of our users.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

There are some genuine ladies on this…

There are some genuine ladies on this website and I managed to meet some of them with a little degree of success......... BUT!!

The number of fake profiles trying to lure you into signing in is very off-putting. The administrator is, for obvious reasons, not whiling to change that and this says a lot about the people running this website.

The website itself is very basic and they don't have a phone app. And "For God Sake !" it doesn't even have a chat room....What a joke!

Another thing, there is an ridiculously big number of inactive profiles that the administrator doesn't even bother to delete.

Finally, it is so frustrating to see that this website could work much better for the benefit of the users (both men and women), but the administrator just don't care.

Two stars!!...and I'm being generous

4 September 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

DO NOT GIVE THIS SITE YOUR MONEY.

DO NOT GIVE THIS SITE YOUR MONEY.
As others note, this site is exploitative and dishonest. The typical scenario is one of the many (obvious) fake profiles generated and run by the sites administrators will message you to try to lure you in to buying a subscription. These subscriptions are then sneakily auto-renewed (“oh but we clearly state it in our terms and conditions”) and then you’re stuck for another month.
The numbers on the site are minuscule and despite what people say, the chances of finding someone real and in your area are slim.
Don’t waste your money here.

24 August 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

An obvious scam

An obvious scam. Put a search in for my home county and became clear respondents didn't know the county they lived in! I responded to dozens of likely fits and not a single response, not even a sorry but no. Only response I did get appears AI generated. Don't touch with proverbial bargepole.

23 August 2024
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I found a lover

I found a lover ! After investing some time myself in a decent prpfile and reviewing some profiles, its clear who is serious on this site. This really helped me find my lover. Thank you IE

24 July 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The site is a scam

The site is a scam. Please stay away as most ladies' profiles up to 90% are fake with someone's hand, legs and other body parts being displayed. Today this is very easy to manipulate and pose as lady profiles using AI bots. It's a good business ripping off lewd men. I paid some price when I was young not anymore. If you want illicit then it's still best hunt outside not online.

29 July 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

WARNING STAY AWAY FROM IE CHEATING SITE

WARNING - STAY AWAY FROM THIS IEWEBSITE.
This site targets mostly married men & women who are looking to commit adultery . i.e. having random multiple sex encounters , affairs with random people. You have paying registered members - married man as the site is free to women . have up to 6 to 10 lovers weekly/monthly partners , they go on a sex rampage as to how many people they can sleep with .Worst are those who work from home or work a few days a week between their office and at home or retired sofa sxx scammers.
Married men are the worst SCAMMERS they pitch a fake story line to a woman or women "telling you there are unhappy in their current relationship / marriage etc and here's where they expose their LIES "I love my wife and l dont want to change anything at all " = which translate to "l am happy married but if l can LIE, CHEAT and SCAM another woman or multiple women who fall prey to my LIES then yeah, l pay what £200 for 10 weeks, and to get the value of my money, they sleep with as many women as they can , they dont even have to know anything about them, nor their names , a few emails
3 or 4 emails should get them SEX" and this is their bottom line . Married men/women who use sites like this are committing ALDULTERY , "WHAT EVER HAPPEN TO THEIR MARRIAGE VOWS" website like illicit encounters are profiting on the weakness of married men & women who set out to have casual sex and use other men and women as door mats, sex preys, sex toys for "casual sex " and nothing else.
Most dont give a damn about you but prefer a drive in - walk in sex session & they leave, move onto the next "victim "- there are key words for anti social behaviour like this online & offline in the legal context ?
This shameful sordid set up ,this FAKE and SCAM business model "its websites like this encouraging married men and women to break their "marriage vows" by having disruptive casual sex with random people online without any REMORSE what so ever
until they are caught out and the lying rap song they repeat back to their partner/s is this "it honestly did not mean anything at all ? really "how does any one sane or crazy invest £200 every 10 weeks over a period of renewing their site membership of say over a year or several years and in some cases over decades. "
I came across one married man who had slept with 9 women in 1 week " - omg ?such a tragic married life , unknown to his wife, whom he is still married to , she has no idea what so ever. Married men using IE website dont really want to chat online , they expect at the most to exchange 3 to 4 emails and its a case of "can we meet up for sex " really ? isn't that not class as modern day "rape" one hardly know each other -the men ask coz they paying for their site membership and women do not pay and the management of IE kinda of view registered women using the site as "some kind of their property" used as a metaphor i.e. so if a woman is using the site over time and has not yet taken an off or bait to sleep with one of their registered men , they view this as a penalty against a woman who has not yet agreed to met up with any random men on IE site - delete their account. In the reality of the world we live into "not all registered women using IE site are prostitutes - at all, with the assumption by IE management to assume technically if a woman does not agree to meet up or have sex with any of the horny random married men then their account is fake " this is BS. Against the back drop that there are well behaved un married women using IE site to find an affair with say an umarried. divorce, seprated , widowed man as an example. - IE management seem to have lost the plot with their old fashion business model - and are out of touch with reality . But profiting from encouraging married men & women to commit full blow adultery whilst dismissing the impact of how and what infidelity , cheating, lying has on married life worst where are children is involved is just a scam - why? they dont care who is hurting who, which families get destroyed as a result of the impact of their careless and selfish registered married men ad women who go all out to pay money to have random sex with a random person or multiple people without any limit - "this is the anti behaviour of sex addicts, sex perverts" - a severe abuse of married life, their partners are not part of this selfish gig, close families friends and children on both sides of the fence whilst this is going on - are unaware and in fact are the worst victims of these insane, cruel act of web of deceits when they expose themselves or are found out - and or for most carrying on cheating on their partners for years or for several decades.

WARNING WOMEN STAY AWAY FROM THIS SITE
YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE MONITORED IF YOU HAVE NOT MET UP OR SLEPT WITH ANY MAN/MULTIPLE MEN YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELECTED WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE

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1 July 2024
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Starts well, then fades

This site has one advantage over the others I've tried. It doesn't bombard you with popups and try to send you to porn sites. The auto renew is easy to cancel if you contact support.
I joined for 10 weeks at ~£200 and so far have sent 30 messages to possible matches. Now I know the site better, I can tell most of these women haven't even logged on for months, let alone read the message. I have made 2 contacts, one of whom is happy to chat and tell me about her holidays. The other seems to want something, but I can't work out what.
I get a regular email of "matches", which IE claims are new to the site. After a couple of weeks, I realised they were rotating the same profiles over and over again, some I had already messaged without a reply.
The only matching that is done is to the contact's age and location. It doesn't even check that I am within their age range, so I have to waste time weeding those out.
Sorting matches by "last login" shows I have already seen the ones who have been on the site recently and there are very few new members, unless you are in London.
There is a "flirt forum" where in theory you can post public messages, but these are heavily moderated and most of the threads started 3-4 years ago. It is also very slow.
You may be lucky, depending on your age and where you live, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

29 June 2024
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

A site with genuine women

I think you'll be hard pressed to find a better site if you're looking to find genuine women for an extra marital relationship.

The number of fake profiles seem small and there are real people here, I certainly met a number and am now in a wonderful relationship because of this site

The customer support is very good, responsive and prompt.

Gents, it's not cheap but it is worth it

23 June 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

One of the conned

Just as others have said, as soon as you pay the alerts stop. It’s just a scam, don’t waste your money. And they auto enroll you so keep taking the money when it clearly states you buy for a defined period of time. Thieves. Avoid!!!!

10 June 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Third time lucky on IE?

Third time lucky on IE? Only if you enjoy playing poker against a marked deck!
Not one to give up easily, I joined IE again for a minimum, affordable, five days. Guess what? Same results. Swamped by alerts before paying and then …. silence. The few contacts that I had were from the same old profiles with sexy photos and slickly written text. How come they were still looking after five months??There were a few contacts from other ‘normal?’ ladies, but from too far away. The very strange thing was that the inhabitants of the sexy photo profiles, only managed to grunt a maximum of three words in their messages to me, no matter what I said. Bots? Reporting a whole bunch of similar profiles to customer support, I got the crass message that all profiles were genuine. It’s flying piggy time again!!

15 May 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It was fun chatting to people

It was fun chatting to people, I joined with no intention of meeting anyone, if I did then great, but if not then I would be equally happy. I have had a couple of requests that to me were quite weird and would describe them as over the top kinky but each to their own, I am not here to judge anyone. But the ones I have got on with have been very pleasant, even met one a couple of times for a coffee and it was also pleasant, so definitely a site I would recommend to friends if this is something they wanted and I may re-join again if my present situation does not work out. Thank you to your team for your co-operation and support.

15 May 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi, Thank you for your review :) It's great to hear you enjoy using IE and would recommend to friends x

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Don’t do it!

This site should carry a health warning. It preys on the vulnerable, milks them for all they’re worth in the vain hope of finding someone.
Having spent quite some time on the site, the vast majority of women are either just passing the time of day, wanting their ego’s suitably inflated or have their own issues and are looking for a shoulder to cry on.
IE has taken anything decent from me, suitably rinsed me and then just spat me out the other side like most other men.
Do yourself a favour and devote your energies to life at home - you’ll be suitably rewarded.

14 May 2024
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