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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful waste of time and money. You will sign up as a free member to check out the site, get lots of attention, messages and annoying virtual gifts. But once you pay and become a full member just wat... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Was planning to revisit dating after partner died but usual sites tinder etc didn’t appeal - and some sites are over the top! IE provides a very happy medium and the assistance on offer to construc... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

All the 'women' I spoke with at length eventually asked me for money. The platform is full of scammers. What's more, the platform doesn't make the auto-renew obvious and you won't know it's there unti... See more

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Very expensive for what it is. The main gripe about auto-renewal is easily fixed though. There are lots of real people but as with any dating site, the top 5% of men get almost 100% of the female att... See more

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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.

July 29, 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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July 1, 2024
Unprompted review
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.

June 29, 2024
Unprompted review
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

June 23, 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!!!!

June 10, 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!!

May 15, 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.

May 15, 2024
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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.

May 14, 2024
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

One of the better married dating sites

One of the better married dating sites. Yes there are a few bots from the company to keep the unsuccessful interested. I set up two accounts for fun to test this and got exactly the same messages from the same supposed users on both, but you soon get to spot them. Yes it's pricey, but you know that in advance so don't like it - don't pay. It does auto-renew but then so does my breakdown cover, if you have half a brain cell you will work out how to turn that off. In amongst the rubbish I have met several very genuine people, some I ended up meeting others I didn't but they were real I assure you! If you aren't having any luck it's probably your approach / messages/ profile etc. don't blame the site if you're no good!

April 24, 2024
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Patience is the key

I have used this site for several years. Lots of ups and downs but generally it works but you do have to be patient to find those rough diamonds in the mountains of coal. If you take your time and are as honest as you can be in your intentions you can find someone.

February 1, 2024
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Hi, Thank you for your review, it's great to hear you enjoy IE and return on a regular basis. :)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

😂😂😂 where do I start.

😂😂😂 where do I start.

Don’t bother with the site it manipulates you.

I think I first joined around 5 years ago. Was great met a wonderful woman. Affairs are never long term, but everyone I have met through IE has been super.

Anyway 5 yrs ago it seemed a legitimate site. To be clear, women only get membership through messaging men… so you’ll get very vague messages for that sake. And the amount of men will far outweigh the genuine ladies.

My alarm bells wrang again this time around. Because of consistent wording on messages that had no relevance to the conversation. So it made me feel that manipulation was underway again.

Chaps don’t bother with your subscription. £200 is a lot to lose for nothing… and they’ve done bugger all to make the site any better.

Ladies hold your head high and remember there are real people on the other end. Decent guys are quick to understand this so won’t sympathise with your woeful experience

April 13, 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi
Thank you for your review and it was great to hear you were successful 5 years ago. Sorry to hear you weren't as successful this time around. As with all online dating it can take time to meet someone and sometimes it can take more than one subscription. We are also on hand should members need free message/profile consultations. We do not manipulate anything, our profiles are genuine and anyone who we feel isn't is removed immediately.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

AVOID AVOID AVOID

AVOID AVOID AVOID. Full of scammers and escorts. If you do sign up make you you cancel straight away so they don't keep taking your money. And you have to message them to cancel, they don't make it easy

April 2, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid this site, no matter how tempting it might sound!

I initially posted my profile on ‘Illicit Encounters’ without paying to read/send messages. For eight weeks, i received around four ‘Alerts’ (new contacts) per day. Unfortunately, the senders were either in the wrong location for me, or the wrong age group.That wasn’t helped by the fact that women don’t have to pay to use the site and that attracts all sorts of nutters. Eventually, I amassed a handful of contacts and finally paid to read/send messages. As if by magic, my ‘Alerts’ instantly stopped and my existing contacts didn’t engage in any meaningful dialogue with me. Conclusion: An elaborate and well-conceived rip-off! Don’t get suckered into this site.

April 3, 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi
Thank you for your review, firstly I would like to assure you that IE is not a rip-off, we are a genuine website running now for over 20 years with genuine male and female users. When a profile is non paying it is promoted more as you are unable to promote yourself with personalised messages, once upgraded you can send and read as many messages as you wish and interact with anyone you feel is a suitable match. Our pricing structure ensures there is an even balance of both sexes so everyone has the opportunity to be successful. IE Admin

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

It takes lots of work but there are real people.... which makes a change.

It is probably the only site that where I have found real people. OK there are lots of fake profiles and a few scammers but lots of real profiles.
The chat platform is a little old and sometimes goes on the blink but it works.
Always best to chat there for a while before going to a dedicated chat platform.
The one thing that I realised is that dating is really hard and people are real choosy but I spoke to lots of real people and met a few but chemistry is not guaranteed and you do get stood up just like you might using any site.

March 1, 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi thank you for your review :) we work very hard to remove fake profiles and scammers to ensure all our users are genuine.
I'm glad you enjoyed your time on the site x

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Only way to cancel subscription is by a…

Only way to cancel subscription is by a convoluted opaque route. Contact IE when payment taken asap but they refuse to refund payment Site relies on subscriber inertia and imho is a scam. Do not touch with a bargepole

March 22, 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi Steve
Thank you for your review. We provide all auto renewal details on the payment page upon upgrading including how to cancel. They are also provided in our FAQs and your account would have also shown as next renewal date. Unfortunately, it is out of our control if you did not review the autorenewal information before proceeding.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Im not sure why there are any negative…

Im not sure why there are any negative reviews, the auto renewal is so easy to cancel, theres tons of members in the same situation as me, this site is great does exactly what it says it will do.

March 14, 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

HI
Thank you for your review, it's great to hear how much you enjoy IE

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Third time's a charm

As a balding man in his fifties, dating sites aren’t exactly my forte. I’ve tried a couple before and after giving IE a go, it definitely felt like one of the better, and less risky, sites around. That said, it was a hard slog. The first time I upgraded, it was a total waste of time and money but that was probably down to me and the desperation I oozed in the messages I was sending. (I’d like to apologise to those women now who received any of my messages). Second time paying for a membership was slightly better and I did at least get to the coffee date stage a couple of times. Finally the third time I paid up, I met a fantastic lady and in the six months since we started to get to know eachother, I’ve come to realise just how unhappy I was in my homelife. So for that reason, I felt I needed to give IE some credit for the service they do provide. Meeting thiw woman on IE has been one of the best things to ever happen to me in the last 25 years. That said, I hope to never have to use them again 😂

October 1, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I really like this site

I really like this site. OK, it's a bit pricey (for men, anyway), but then again, you get what you pay for. Once signed up, put some effort in and you'll get results. It takes time and patience, but it works.

Gripes here about fake profiles and shady business practises are unfounded. I've only some across one so far, and that was, if you like, 'ethical spam'. I reported it just now and they've already given me a support ticket. I imagine they'll get back to me tomorrow, it's late here.

As for the auto-renew business, that's all laid out in their FAQ. A simple Google search will find it, and do bear in mind that this practise is common in the industry (yep, I've been around).

So, in summary, an excellent, well run, and well targeted site, full of quality people (and a few lemons). Once you've found your feet, you won't want to go anywhere else. As for me, I have a hot weekend lined up, can't wait.

And just to be clear: I'm not affiliated in any way. Just a happy customer.

February 25, 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi, it's great to hear you are enjoying your time on IE and you've had results. I hope you have a great weekend!😉

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

All good with this site

All good with this site. It is what it says and you will need to work at it but with endeavour and trust you can get results. As with all things it takes time. I had a lot of fun and would come back again just don't tell my wife!

February 23, 2024
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Reply from Illicitencounters

Hi Jacob, thank you for your lovely review, it's great to hear you had results and we won't tell if you don't🤐

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