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8:57 pm EST

Illicit Encounters Recurring Billing

I initially signed up for a 3 month period.

I have not used the service for over a month now and only logged back in today when I saw that payment of £99 had been taken for a gold plus membership.

I am not happy at all that this had happened and I have not been emailed or notified to remind me that payment would be taken.

There is no easy way online to cancel and the whole thing is set up for someone to forget or not realise this is going to happen.

If there is any notification when you first provide card details, I don’t remember it and it is not clear or prominent and in fact to give extra confidence their payment details page states they do not store any payment details and a third party provider processes payments.

This makes you think they cannot take any further payments. It is totally misleading and unethical.

Desired outcome: Full refund of the £99 and cancellation of future payments authority and cancellation of my account with this disgraceful company.

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Illicit Encounters Married dating service

This company sells the impression that they have over 1.5 million subscribers and it’s around 50/50 men to women. Women being free to join but men having to pay I think £145. Before I payed I was getting all sorts of inquiries from beautiful young women obviously miles away so I couldn’t meet them. I paid and joined as advised sent messages to local ladies

( over a hundred) my age group and within traveling distance. But got little or no reply and their site indicates when your messages have or not been read. Very quickly realized these so called members had obviously moved on and were no longer looking. I asked IE for my money to be refunded as it was so obvious it was a slight of hand! IE have continually implied it was my fault.

But I feel and asked them to only show ladies who were active, not passed members. Now they are not answering my messages

Desired outcome: Refund

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Illicit Encounters Auto renewal not made clear - helping themselves to £99 per month!

I took out a 3 month subscription with this dating agency

It expired some time ago but, on inspecting my bank records, I see they have been helping themselves to £99 per month for the last 4 months without my knowledge.

I have written to them. This was the response:

Hi, Thank you for getting in touch with us. When you purchased your membership with IE, at the bottom of the payment page there are details of our auto renewal process and the steps you need to take to cancel this service. Proceeding with payment is considered an agreement of this. I'm afraid we are unable to issue a refund as the membership had not been cancelled prior to the renewal date as specified when you took out your subscription. What I have done is cancelled the continuous payment authority as per your request, and no further payments will be taken from your account. Your membership will now expire naturally on the 16th of February and return to non gold status. Kind Regards, Emelia (Admin) X

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Illicit Encounters earns a trustworthiness rating of 92%

Highly recommended, but caution will not hurt.

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Illicit Encounters membership

I joined this company in Ieither march or april 2019, paying what i thought was a months membership. I have subsequently discovered they have been taking £99 per month from me, i am certain i only signed up for a months membership.

I stopped using the site after a couple of weeks and have not used the site since.

It was not made clear in any way that they would continue to bill me.

I have opend a fraud case with my credit card provider who have advised me to log a complaint, i can find no way of doing so as i dont have any log in details for the site as i left after a couple of weeks, please can you log this complaint with them?

I am seeking full reinbursment for monies taken after my initial payment as i only signed up for a month.

I can be emailed on [protected]@gmail.com

the refrence on the last transaction is 11 Oct 19
MC ONLINE TECH INTSERV
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Thank you

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Illicit Encounters online dating - unauthorised automatic online payments

Buyer beware. This site will take automatic payments without explicit authorisation. They claim that when you sign-up initially this is approval for future payment. However, the details are buried in the small print on the sign-up page and they do not provide a way to switch-off recurring payments via their site and you must instead call them directly. This is a total scam. You have been warned!

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Illicit Encounters Online scam

This website gives the impression that they charge a big membership fee (£119 for one months membership for men) because they have a large number of married women on their website who are looking for illicit affairs outside of their marriage. Unfortunately, once you have joined, you discover that it's just like any other dating website. Full of hoaxers and rip-off merchants. The problem is, the website awards gold membership to female members free of charge. This leaves their whole system open to massive abuse. They claim to have a lot of traffic on their website, but most of this comes from the guys who have paid their £119 and a much smaller amount from the hoaxers and cheats who have got onto the website free of charge and are pretending to be the the married women seeking an illicit affair. My advice to any guy thinking of joining is DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!

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Scotty2019
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Feb 19, 2019 5:19 am EST

I've tried all the sites and can safely say IE is the only one with any genuine women on it. There's bait, a lot of it, all looking for men in the age range 21 to 99 and all with unfeasibly large breasts. They're very obvious fakes so ignore them. But don't give up just yet. There are genuine women on this site, I know, I've been to bed with four of them. The genuine ones rarely have a public profile photo. But there are also a lot of scammers. They'll be quick to arrange a date but then they'll want money for something, train fare or whatever. Forget it, the genuine ones NEVER ask for money. Once you've got past these obstacles remember, the real ones may not be that great once you meet them. In my case, one of them, quite frankly, was a mistake. I should never have met her. Of the other three, two were very lovely, very sexy ladies, one of whom is now my best friend. Signing up for this web-site is a long shot, but when it pays off it pays off big time.

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PPete
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Aug 22, 2017 12:28 am EDT
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IT REALLY IS A SCAM AND A FRAUD. There are a few genuine women on the site...the ones who look normal and not like your average supermodel (shopped photos of Naomi Campbell/Gisele Budchen etc but not Kate !Moss!) or porno star with huge pneumatic breasts! Funnily enough when payment is due you suddenly get a whole load of messages from Miss Supermodel/Pornostar hinting they would like to date you hooooooo! The promoters of this site are sufficiently clued up to bank on no-one wanting to call out their SCAM due to embarassment factor. Don't be. Stick it to em!

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AliceM123
GB
Apr 01, 2017 4:56 pm EDT

As a genuine woman on IE I found the whole experience soul destroying. The men are complete #####s, they message then for no reason stop without a polite 'sorry lost interest'. If they do want to meet they do not confirm, deciding at the last minute to bail. The ones I have met have all said how much they fancy me then gone on to either not contact again or I actually found out one had assumed a colleagues identity. It seems a lot of men on this site like the idea of an affair but when faced with the real thing can't handle it. It is no wonder the genuine women have given way on this site to the working girls because from my experience the men on IE deserve what they get.

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Marcus_hants
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Mar 27, 2017 8:37 am EDT
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This site is a total scam, once you have joined they keep taking money from your account, there is nowhere on the site to stop the payments (£99/month) ... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

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Splendidpig
US
Sep 04, 2016 11:42 pm EDT

Trying it again this year after a long break. Its not much different than in previous years, just a lot more redundancies to work through. The usual smattering of vague messages either starting with or leading to suggestions of 'sexy and exciting thoughts or feelings'. These scuttle off if you call their bluff, by asking for a contact number. Surprising, if you consider it has all the credentials for a working girl trying to get customers. Managed to actually chat with a potential buddy, got to arranging a date but she bailed. She talked about not being ready, needing a real connection etc. The profile was a boast she couldn't not fulfill, well there you go. I have to say the women seem to have given up. They are tiring of trying to keep pace with it all and they just don't have the time, resources, stamina or passion for it. Will hang out till the membership ends, but I think its time to pack it in, as it now just seems a rather will silly situation altogether.

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Reviewer74384
Feb 29, 2016 1:18 am EST

Firstly I had never even heard of this site but last week I started to receive emails from 'Sarah hartley' using 'noreply@illicitencounters.com' it said at the end of the email to click 'unsubscribe', if I don't want to receive the emails, however clicking of this activated a whole 'sea' of emails... I receive on average 10 emails daily. This company or at least whoever is using this email address is fake and untrustworthy. I want the emails to stop.i would also like to find out how they got my email address and my name since I had not had any dealings with them.

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Liverpool, GB
Nov 09, 2013 3:39 pm EST
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I have been a member of IE off and on for a while. My experience is that about 80% of the ladies are windowshoppers/ timewasters/ online therapy seekers/flirts/the curious/ bored housewives/ girls looking for a sugardaddy/ escorts/ scammers/misandrists.

The site is not a scam and there are some very genuine ladies on there indeed seeking a relationship ranging from one off sex to a new partner and everything in between. I have met several with varying success.

Its expensive for men and free for women which is sexist and illegal.The site purports to have a policy that they charge both men and women depending on which sex has the preponderance of members at the time, and of course they make sure that its always men.

The fact that men pay a lot and women dont means that its not a level playing field. Women can and do take a long term casual approach, wheras men, understandably, wish to see some results. This leads to a mis match in attitudes and motivation as well as encouraging timewasting bored women who have no intention of meetong anyone.

I have also used Badoo which is free and far more effective, but it requires a profile picture so is obviously not discreet.

In summary, give it a go but be aware of the sites limitations and business ethos.

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Galahad
Cambridge, GB
Oct 15, 2013 9:09 am EDT
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I joined 3 years ago and had some success with a few women in my area agreeing to meet me. I met one nice chinese lady but we were never available at the same time so it went nowhere. There were one or two other I could have met but my schedule was tight. The next time I joined was less impressive - and I decided never to re-join - partly because I hardly ever have spare time but also I could see that unless you are a dish - you are unlikely to hear back from women. I do get emails from IE trying to get me to rejoin. As for the guys on here that don't have any luck at all and claim it's a scam - try to evaluate it from the lady point of view. Dozens of messages and photos a day - they're going to choose the best - and you're just not it - particularly as your are choosing th hottest babes..

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London, GB
Jul 28, 2013 6:29 pm EDT
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Hotcrossbun said "Like i said previously BBB61 what women with any intelligence would bother to answer a man with a bad attitude! look the word ignorant up in a dictionary, it sums you up perfectly!"

And your comment above demonstrates how ignorant and rude you are. If a man takes the time to write a decent message then pray tell me how they can tell if he has a bad attitude? It's not asking much for someone to send a quick reply back saying "thanks for your message but I don't think we would get on", yet you berate me because I question the lack of courtesy from those who can't be bothered to send a simple and polite reply. You need to take a reality check because accusing someone of having a "bad attitude" and of being "ignorant" because they complain about those who demonstrate a lack of basic courtesy clearly shows you to be the one with the attitude problem, not me. You are the one showing a complete lack of intelligence.

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Winkleigh, GB
Apr 25, 2013 8:51 am EDT

I found my partner on this site and eventually tracked down which woman he was dating. My partner said he was 56. But he is 66 and then says he is honest. Once I went onto the site as he had his photograph on display and pretended to be someone else and he fell for it . We were about to see each other when I sai I could not be dishonest to my partner and would have to leave the site. I nearly made a date with him that would be funny to see his face when I turned up. I have been depressed about this for two years but have decided to be strong and find life for myself but not on thos dating site. I feel very let down by someone I have been with for 23 years. I feel the site is just like the places I saw in Bangkok men paying money for sex disgusting

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Illicit Encounters reviews first appeared on Complaints Board on Aug 25, 2008. The latest review Recurring Billing was posted on Dec 13, 2022. The latest complaint membership was resolved on Oct 30, 2019. Illicit Encounters has an average consumer rating of 3 stars from 6 reviews. Illicit Encounters has resolved 3 complaints.
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