Philanderers International

Here's another site that makes you wonder if it's real or fake: Philanderers.com. It's a service to help people who are married have extramarital affairs. My first thought was that it was a joke. But upon looking around it for a while, it appears legitimate. I wonder if any single people use this who want to have an affair with someone who's married? And here's an evil thought: if you ever try to cancel your membership, they could threaten to tell your spouse.

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Posted on Tue Jan 06, 2004



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Ashley Madison is a brilliant scam. I've been a member for a couple of years (only because I've not used up all my credits). There are a FEW real ads from real women looking for real affairs. But that is the exception. If I were to guess, I would say that 5-10% of the ads from females are real; 90-95% are fakes. I did actually meet a real person through the site once, but I can assure you that these numbers are about right. Also, most of the real ads are not exactly people you would want to have an affair with...but that's another story. The thing about Ashley Madison is that the company has absolutely no scruples when it comes to placing fake ads, giving free memberships to women just to get them to place ads, or having their employees "pose" as women in fake chats, etc. Because they know that no one is going to come forward publically to sue them! Hopefully, the news will get out or maybe the press will expose them. But for now, they continue to scam people, mostly guys thinking that they're using a legitimate service.
Posted by James  in  Charlotte NC  on  Fri May 04, 2007  at  03:19 PM
There are definitely some scam profiles on Ashley Madison (AM) and likely some built in response ads to keep men on the system. In fact, most of the dating sites have used that method one time or another. That being said, I can tell you that it absolutely works. You do need to have a great profile of your own and doesn't hurt if you are good looking (and know how to write a good email). The trick is to carefully select the female profiles you like and send a priority email (with a nice hello) with no picture access, but offering picture access with a response. Stay away from women who sound to good to be true, are too young (early 20
Posted by Jim  in  Toronto, ON  on  Sun May 13, 2007  at  11:11 AM
Does anybody have info on Wildmatch.com?
Posted by Ron  on  Mon May 14, 2007  at  01:21 AM
Check out http://www.outsidelove.com and trash the rest.
Posted by Janet  in  NYC  on  Mon May 14, 2007  at  01:42 AM
Wild match is hooked up with another site. Lots of women, lots of contacts. Just most of them far away.
AM has some real women.
Someone needs to start a simple cheap service for this.
Philanders is real but doesn't have many members.
AFF has way too many people.
Posted by Bubba Smith  in  Houston  on  Thu May 31, 2007  at  12:37 PM
AMs responses are so canned they are hilarious. Pics dont match the physical profiles, messages dont match the profile. Got messages from "women" I contacted that were'nt close to my questions. How do they get anyone to sign up for more than month? Interesting that they made me active before check cleared. Maybe I'll go stop it (just kidding).
By the way E harmony and Great Expectations get thier share of complaints. E Harm considers matches with people you cant contact (non payers) as contacts so they dont have to refund for no matches.
Posted by Scruffy  in  northeasr  on  Tue Jun 26, 2007  at  06:38 PM
This website claims to set people up for romance. However, the people and photos are false. Messages are transmitted by those who run the site. They collect money but do not deliver the service they claim to provide. They even promise you a month's free if you invite your friends, but do not give it to you. This site is totally fraudulent. Stay away from it!!
Posted by Joe Hayley  on  Mon Jul 16, 2007  at  02:19 PM
Check out http://www.outsidelove.com and forget those others.
Posted by Sandy  in  FL  on  Mon Jul 16, 2007  at  02:30 PM
Affairmatch.com claims to set people up for romance. However, the people and photos are false. Messages are transmitted by those who run the site. They collect money but do not deliver the service they claim to provide. They even promise you a month's free if you invite your friends, but do not give it to you. This site is totally fraudulent. Stay away from it!!
Posted by Joe Hayley  on  Mon Jul 16, 2007  at  03:56 PM
Just in case you haven't realized it, AFFAIRMATCH.COM is a major HOAX!!! The photos, especially of the women, are downloaded from the Internet!! The messages you receive are fake and are written by the crooks that own this site!! Beware, they'll steal your money!! They stole mine!!!

Mike
Posted by Mike  in  DC  on  Tue Jul 24, 2007  at  12:23 PM
Yep the site affairmatch.com is a sham. Where's the class action lawyers for this stuff? Must be worth a few mil to take these guys down! Hell, I don't care if my wife finds out I was looking around, I just want to hang these guys.
Posted by Bryce  on  Fri Aug 03, 2007  at  12:05 AM
Philanderers is probably the only honest site for married people. The site is real, the people are real and the affair I am currently enjoying is real. The only problem is some areas don't have many women profiles. Of course, men outnumber the women because that is generally the way it is.

In many years on the Philanderer site, i have never come across a shill profile. Does that mean every woman I have ever written to responded? Yeah, in my dreams. Fortunately, quite a few have responded, exchanged emails with me and a resulted in face to face meeting. From those a few select turned into genuine affairs.
Posted by averageguy  in  united states  on  Sat Sep 01, 2007  at  06:16 PM
FYI- I have seen both sides of Ashley M. I have actually had drinks with 2 ladies and then a few that seem to just disappear right before a meeting. Hmmmm. I also think there are more ladies to be met from AM, but they get so much spam from men that it's hard to get through the shuffle.
Posted by David  in  Chicago  on  Thu Oct 11, 2007  at  11:08 AM
Here is something I received from philanderers.co which btw I DO NOT belong to!

You Won?
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You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafe
Sent: Fri 1/04/08 9:41 PM
To:

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Posted by A  in  Egypt  on  Sat Jan 12, 2008  at  05:57 PM
I have tried Ashley Madison (AshleyMadison) and have to say the site is all fake. The winks you send, never reach the other person, it is computr generated, so you then pay to contact the other person that maybe never wanted to chat with you. It is just a scam to suck up your money. I would stay away from the site. I will try to spread the word, I also contacted customer service via email, 3x and no reply, and then also called and never got a call back
Posted by Benjamin  in  California  on  Tue Mar 18, 2008  at  09:21 PM
Wow guys ease up! I met the most wonderful men on AM I actually had to take myself off cause I was bombarded with so much mail from great guys! All willing to travel and go that "extra mile" to meet me.
Posted by Pauline Vera  in  Cottonwood, AZ  on  Tue Apr 29, 2008  at  01:32 PM
So as we speak I am "chatting" with a fake person from AM now. She is talking to me in Yahoo IM which is surprising since when I "initiated contact" and paid the credits to speak to her, she didn't say anything until there was 3 minutes left of the 20. On her profile, it said we live in the same city and that she is middle eastern. In IM she says she lives in the UK (But is relocating here soon) and was born in Spain (Though first she said she was IN Spain but when I asked her to tell me something in Spanish she switched to say she is in the UK). On her profile she mentions something about using a web cam but now as luck would have it, her web cam is broken (amazing coincidence, no?) but she just agreed to send me more photos, though, surprise surprise, she never sent them. are we really surprised by this? Nnnnoooooooo. The poor thing couldn't remember one lie to the next. The entire conversation was her back pedaling about things she said before that contradicted her more recent statements. She would avoid answering questions that were available on her AM profile and is just now saying she has to go to work. In case any of you want to try and talk to this "person" as well, her AshleyMadison profile ID is 1934945 and her screen name is coulia231. Good times!
Posted by Sk0t  in  Sunny So Cal  on  Thu May 01, 2008  at  03:52 AM
Philanderers is for real, I met a lovely lady seeking the same in life I was and we are having a beautiful affair. We both fulfill each others needs and have much fun together. We cannot seem to get enough of one another. Ashley Madison baits their site heavily with fake ads, legit profiles are sparse. What married lady in their right mind would post pictures for the world to see freely like they do on AM?
Posted by Dave  in  Joliet,IL  on  Thu Jun 12, 2008  at  10:26 AM
I am surprised at all of the guys who think AM is a scam. I have met a number of really hot women there. Most met me at a hotel room and were naked with me within minutes of arrival. At the same time, Adult Friend Finder and Horney Match seemed to be full of phony women. I did not meet one woman from either of those sites. AFF sent some of my emails strait to "bulk mail." I was told by the woman receiving it that she couldn't read the letter, and that AFF said I was somehow abusing the system. THAT was a great waste of money. AM is great. You guys who think it is a hoax are doing someting wrong. Sorry. More fucking for me.
Posted by Rick  on  Wed Sep 17, 2008  at  08:59 PM
Wait,I think I need some clarification here guys... You can't make your marriage work(or wont try), you're too inept to figure out how to cheat on your own so you subscribe to a site that guarantees an affair for $250 and you can't get that to work for you either?? No wonder your marriage is sexless, what wife would want to touch the pathetic, disaffected blob of what used to be her husband?? You're all hopeless and probably gay, but good luck on your quest for more misery to distract you from how lonely it is in your closet... Enjoy paying for the herpes in the mean time! Idiots.
Posted by Maddy  in  Boston MA  on  Thu Oct 09, 2008  at  12:24 AM
awesome ^^
Posted by alexis  in  NY, NY  on  Wed Oct 22, 2008  at  08:31 PM
haven't any of you ever heard of craigslist? the worst that can happen there is spamming and propositions from whores just like on these other sites, but at least you're not paying for it!
Posted by john  in  los angeles  on  Tue Nov 25, 2008  at  02:15 AM
I agree with Rick. Ashley Madison appears to be legit. I've recently met an amazing women on there...met in the flesh, not on chat. Perhaps some of the profiles are fake but for the most part it's worked great. Perhaps the guys who repeatedly fail have difficulty expressing themselves and provide little for women to be attracted to. Good luck though. PS Maddy (above)...does Santa Clause still dwell in your dream world?
Posted by Charles  in  Columbia  on  Wed Dec 10, 2008  at  02:06 PM
I tried out AM and have concluded it is a scam. I was contacted by a few women who also gave a key to their photos, and they were hot...which was just what I needed to see to keep me excited about being on the site. I tried to contact these women repeatedly and got no response. When I first bought the minimum number of credits, it cost $49. When these credits were used up, and I wanted to again buy the minimum number of credits, the price had been upped to $79. They do offer an "affair guarantee," but you have to buy the max credits, something like a grand. Who are the women that become your guaranteed affair? Prostitutes posing as unfulfilled wives?
Posted by Fool  in  Motor City  on  Fri Jan 02, 2009  at  08:38 PM
AM is a fraud stay away from it.. They're having a superbawl add this year, with your suckers money.
Posted by Da man  in  NJ  on  Fri Jan 23, 2009  at  07:46 AM
I never got the paid membership on AM because of all the bogus responses I received with my free membership. I was contacted by women who's limits were "cyber affair/cyber dating." They would also never be living in my area. It just made me suspicious about the whole thing. The last contact that I received notified me of a "secret admirer." When someone ads you as a favorite, then you receive a message that you have a "secret admirer." I replied with a "wink" that I had an unpaid membership and to initiate contact with me. I was then blocked by this user. It just seems like all of the responses have been geared towards getting me to buy credits. I actually met women on Adult Friend Finder. I don't recommend Fling. I paid for that, and didn't get anything out of it.
Posted by Rob  in  CA  on  Sun Jan 25, 2009  at  11:06 AM
I'm just responding to the ONE woman who's posted on here. Of course these sites work for you. The ratio of men to women is vastly in your favor. Men are the ones being scammed, not women. They don't have to scam the women because there are an excessive number of men on the site(s).


Note: Outsidelove.com isn't even a dating site. It just seems to be a link trade.
Posted by Rob  in  CA  on  Sun Jan 25, 2009  at  11:30 AM
Just be realistic in a self evaluation and don't go over your head, maybe even down a bit. It can be fun (has for me), and there are real women on AM, for sure. Forget the ones with model type photos and who are chatting a lot.
Posted by Joe  in  CA  on  Sun Feb 01, 2009  at  06:25 PM
Now I won't go as far as some to insult the entire male gender, but for crying out loud guys. You've somehow managed to grow a set big enough to cheat on your spouse. But when taken for real money by fake people are now complaining on a different website about being fleeced for that money and won't do anything about it. Thats just dumb. Why in the hell would you even bother with these sites, let alone agree to meet some one only to be told you have to pay out what amounts to black mail. For christ sakes grow a set and go to the cops. Black mail is illegal regarless of the situation. The same goes for their scamming you of money. Either do something about it or go and cry in a corner and never tell anyone. You reep what you soe.
Posted by guy in the bush  in  toronto On  on  Fri Feb 06, 2009  at  07:44 AM
Not to sound like an ass, and that is definitely not my intention... but am I the only one who decided to try "reversing" the game/odds? Try signing up as a female on any of these sites -> and VOILA! You have FREE access to everything! Hell, on Wildmatch and Bangmatch, they actually PAY MONEY to females for responding and initiating messages to male members. If a male that they contact actually signs up and joins (for a fee of course), the ladies get extra "pink points" which they can redeem for cash. Don't believe me...? Do some detective work guys, and you'll see that almost every site (aside from plentyoffish, myspace, and facebook perhaps) are only aimed at defrauding males and and making women feel "empowered," for lack of a better word. I've shared the reality with all of you; all I ask is that you go and investigate for yourself, and when you see the actual scam WITH YOUR OWN EYES make sure that you file a report to IC3 as well as send a message to the site admins. 'Nuff said... Sorry to be the buzzkill fellas.
Posted by Cor  in  Nashville, TN  on  Sun Feb 08, 2009  at  03:45 AM
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