Illicitencounters Reviews 325

Joined IE for 3 months in 2021 because I didn't want to waste my time on the dumpster fire that is Tinder for the over 50s male.
I paid for the enhanced membership and remembered to cancel the auto renew on the membership fees, this is fairly standard Internet practise so I won't criticise them for that. I was also aware of the interest generated pre sign up and was prepared for the barrage at the end as my membership was coming up for renewal, sometimes being a cynical old sod can have its advantages!
I'm quite a creative person and so I was able to put together a profile which I thought might help me to stand out, which it did to a certain extent. Yes I got messages from people 200 miles away, yes I got some bots directing me to other sites, I got a couple of scammers and at least 1 from someone who sounded slightly unhinged! But I never got further than that. Most women chatted briefly and disappeared, some seemed initially very keen others were a little to good to be true. I went on the many forums on the site to try and drum up interest that way. I also contacted customer service for some help in case I was missing something and they really did do their best to help me out bless them. But in the end I got nowhere which was hard to take, especially for a guy whos own wife isnt interested but hey thats not IEs fault! Most of the women on there obviously wanted something different from what they already had at home (the tall, dark and handsome vibe was very much in evidence) which makes sense. I don't have that so I drew a blank (5'7" greying and pretty average looking if you must know).
In conclusion then:
1. We should all be aware of the standard Internet dating site tactics, remember to cancel auto renew first thing and be aware of unwarranted "interest"
2. They do try their best to help (I was starting to feel sorry for them in the end but it wasn't to be).
3. There are scammers as well as genuine profiles but that's the same everywhere.
4. It's Internet dating so it is what it is. If you throw everything at it long enough you will probably find someone. My therapist and my mum tell me I have many great qualities, maybe I didn't sell myself?
5. Yes ladies get it free, live with it.

Thanks for getting me together with a wonderful lady!

I tried out this site for the first time in 2019 and would have rated it with 5 stars then. Was not confronted with a lady who was not genuine and had a great time!
Fast forward to 2022! This site has now been infiltrated with so many women ( or men claiming to be women) that it’s become a complete and utter waste of time.

Keep away and do your bank balance a favour!

Great deal of computer generated profiles - How do I know? When my membership had come to an end, and I decided not to renew, all of a sudden I got a whole load of messages and 'gifts' - More in two days, than during three months of membership. Does IE think I'm stupid!?
Two women 'gifted' me a Whisky Tumbler within a few minutes of each other! - Really!? By comparison, in three months of membership only one gift from what seemed like a genuine lady on the other side of London.

In conclusion, it is a farce. Chances of finding a real person close to where you live, or someone who is not time wasting, in some sort of dreamland, are very low!

Please don't waste your money. Im a successful, attractive, tall, guy.... and yes, I had a little interest. However, it all came to nothing. Once I worked out what Illicit Encounters was dong with fake baited hooks, and I analysed the real profiles, I got wise to the fact that the the success rate is pitifully low - You have been warned!

Oh, and well over half the reviews here are 1 star, that speaks for itself.
- Look at the 5 star reviews, they are NOT genuine believe me!
UPDATE -
Interesting, shortly after I post a real review of IE, a review pops ups (with 4 stars this time) saying they met their fourth wife on the site! Really? If you met your wife on this site, why only four stars? Surely you would naturally give the site five stars? Regretting your Fourth marriage already?
The comment, people are bitter, really is not true, and a cheap dig - You try something, realised it is not what it seems, you move on... No big deal. If you want to pre-warn people, surely that is what makes TrustPilot, trustworthy? Wow, you have to be careful online!

This is my second time using illicit encounters 10 years apart. Then i met an amazing woman and we had a very long international affair. We spent a lot of memorable time together abroad mixing business with pleasure.

Sadly, we went out seperate ways years ago. I came back to encounters in the hope that I might strike lucky a second time round and I’ve already found a woman that’s gotten me excited. We’ve met up a bunch and it’s going well.

I wouldn’t hesitate to come back here if the need arouse again in the future. It’s the best site going, serves a purposes well.

I've found Illicitencounters to be an excellent site to find genuine women who are looking for an extramarital relationship or affair.

Watch out for the auto billing even when your profile is turned off. Total rip off

Ladies do not touch this site with a barge pole. The admin team have completely disregarded an issue I had with one of their members. Without going into too much detail, my private images including my face where screenshot by a member and then sent to various other people he was speaking to you arrange gang bangs etc. this was all done via another messaging platform.
Admin will not remove the member and have advised me to contact the police, absolutely shocking which shows they have no duty of care to the women that use that site,

Illicitencounters.com does have real women on the site, and it benefits women more than men for sure. My review is not aimed at the website directly, but rather at the poor experience that a man will have. Firstly it is a rip off in terms of price £140 is just too much. Not worth the experience. Secondly, with women is appalling. You battle to find women close by and the actual number of active women must be questioned. Then, there is the appalling lack of response from women, which does raise the question of website generated profiles. Since there are almost no profile pics, it is a hit and miss effort. You spend so much time trawling the website, trying to find someone pleasant. In terms of terms of the number of responses to the amount of time trawling the website, makes this an unpleasant website. I don't believe how they promote the website.

I joined IE to find a connection and after lots of messages and a few no shows and a lot of time wasters. I finally found someone. So anyone hoping to find someone on the site it does happen you just need patience.

Seems all reviews are from men
Well from a female point of view I love it!
The searching process can be tedious if you are fussy but I have had a couple of long lasting affairs with wonderful men from this site as well as made some great friends
I think it’s a case of you sometimes need to kiss a lot of frogs but the princes are there too

I set up a dummy account because I long suspected the emails received when I wasn’t subscribed weren’t real.

If I receive an email notification on one account without fail within an hour I receive a notification from the same fake profile on the other. Way to much of a coincidence to be anything other than fake.

Don’t bother

This site doesn`t approve real women profile.
I tried to register myself and my profile was instantly removed because they are suspecting me for not using the site correctly before I could use the site.
I think they are fulfilled with fake women profiles

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 attention. Slim pickings if you don't look like Orlando Bloom. It's full of the usual dreamers, narcissists, kookoos and downright rude women who enjoy the power trip that online gives them. The biggest negative is that it has a small user base. 500 women seems like a lot until you whittle it down and realise you have better odds in Wetherspoons on a Friday night.

They automatically take a second months money off you which is in the small print but not made clear when you
sign up. This increases the advertised price by 50% which is a new thing as it never use to be the case. Absolute con!

I used IE back in 2010 for the first time. Had a laugh, met a few women.

Roll on 10 years and it's a different story. Extortionate charges for men only. Women get on for free. This results in multiple scam profiles, made up no doubt, to appease men who've just blown a couple of hundred quid. No real substance in any chats. Lots of ghosting.

But the real gem is their charging system. Unless you pay close attention to the payment page, they'll take £99 a month from you without asking. I spotted this by chance, after they'd helped themselves to another £300.

DO NOT USE. There are plenty of cheaper and more honest website out there.

It makes sense to find someone outside your social circle to have an affair with, but this site is beyond awful. I ignored all the warnings despite the poor review scores, as it is UK-based and supposedly the most popular in the UK.

The matchmaker is bad. It gives you people in your age range without checking to see if your age matches their age range (the other settings such as location and what the person is looking for work fine). Very confusing experience. Given how outdated the site looks it makes sense that it wouldn’t have a properly functioning matchmaker.

Men must spend at least £140 to have access to messaging for 4 weeks. Do we still believe that men are providers in 2022? What a fundamentally sexist view… I didn’t realise until after I had paid that only men must pay, and I laughed at my stupidity. You can guarantee no one is spending £140 to catfish a vulnerable woman, but a vulnerable man is getting catfished by a free profile. Would IE ever be willing to provide proof of what their process is? I can tell it’s terrible because there are plenty of profiles looking for a Sugar Daddy as well, so there are women who are fully aware that we must pay a large fee and only want to take advantage of us, and those profiles were approved by the profile reviewing team. I know I am going to get a response saying “report”, but please explain why you approved their profiles in the first place? Not doing your job for you…

My favourite indication that this website is shady is the profile photos. Not the pre-sets (which help to hide fake profiles), but the actual images people upload. I suspected a profile to be fake, and when I tried to reverse image search their private gallery, that’s when it settled in… The resolution is low (300x300), the picture has been cropped and forced into this tiny square, there is a bit of blur, and there is no way to obtain the source image. We can already make photos private; all this does is prevent Google reverse image searches exposing fake profiles.

This design flaw has a further knock-on effect. Every woman's inbox is being flooded as soon as she has an account made, because every guy is desperate to get the most value out of his account... In other words, if you want to make a connection you have to do what every guy is doing and message every single woman, hoping that your message stands out from the pile. I do not have that kind of time or desperation. Giving gifts helps, but are you really going to spend MORE money, to just MAYBE get someone’s attention?

Since women do not have to pay, they aren’t committed to having an affair because what did they waste besides time? It seems they are more interested in getting validation that they are still attractive and then they just move on to the next guy. The worst one was a woman who suggested we meet up when we are free, and then can decide where to go from there. I gave some suggestions of places we can go to; says she will think about it. Ghosts me, so I took it to mean she changed her mind. 4 days later I suddenly get a notification that she’s viewed my profile, and she still didn’t reply to me, so she’s still actively using her account… As soon as it gets to committing, they suddenly lose interest and get cold feet, and yet they still use the site and don’t delete their profile. It's extremely suspicious, to get along so well with someone and then they just suddenly disappear. Chatbots? Paid employees? I wish I knew.

I am going to sit out my remaining three weeks, but I am not hopeful, and even if I meet someone its not going to change my review. These flaws still exist irrespective of how many more “women” I speak to.

A platform to connect like minded people that has worked out very well for me.

Clearly alot of disgruntled guys writing reviews here. And it would appear not many women! There is some truth in all of what they write. But if you work at it you may indeed - as I have - end up with a great affair.

Negatives:
* Yes, before you pay, multiple messages from great sounding ladies, that then disappear.
* Yes, when you quit and before you delete your account, more messages from apparently keen ladies, presumably designed to get you back to paying.
* Beware scammers. IE are quite good at taking these down, but I would suggest doing a Google images search on any profile pics you get to see, you'll be amazed ...
* Women don't have to pay, and I think there are a number of ladies on IE who like the frisson that being there gives, but have no intention of actually meeting someone, or who get cold feet when it becomes all too real.
* I get why it's free for women and men pay, but some low fee level for the ladies might cut down on the number of scammers and dreamers?
* It is expensive, but let's face it, if you end up with a great affair, I suspect alot cheaper than a hooker!

Positives:
* There are real women on there, keen to have an affair. If you can't find one, maybe they just don't fancy you?!
* You remain in control of how much info you give away, and how you check the veracity of any potential date.

Each to their own. I think you do get what you pay for, and you can have some fun along the way. But if some online 22-year-old beauty says that your grey hair and beer belly turns her on, you might want to do a reality check!

This site has its ups and downs!
Until you’re a paid up member you will receive lots of virtual kisses, gifts and messages ( which you cannot read until you subscribe!). Once you subscribe then all of these unsolicited contacts stop!
But - that’s when the fun begins! There are a lot of genuine women on this site. I’ve been on and off it since 2019 / had about 20 meets in total ( only one complete flop) the rest very nice ladies, six of which developed briefly into something.
Hope this helps!