Friends-With-Benefits.com review

I spent over $2000 at FWB before giving up realizing it to a scam. I chose a couple of “local” ladies with whom I struck up lengthy dialogues with only to find, after doing reverse image search, finding quite amazing amateur pornographic backgrounds. This site is totally fraudulent and should be shut down somehow. You will lose your money here!

Yes the site is a complete fake. I have done my research and found that out of about 30 chats min 25 of them can be tracked to porn star photos. First starting my search I thought that only big cities are fake. Started because two diff girls been saying exactly the same lines word for word. But later on I realised that the scale of this thing is massive. I’m not sure if there are any normal profiles. Cause the ones I couldn’t identify could have been just stolen photos. No dating there, only rip-off. Too bad that I have started my research too late. I don’t think I can get them back as the company is Bulgarian.

I joined & got a few messages & some of them were quite hot. Then after a few days of getting more & more messages I stupidly put $50 in.
I responded to a few of the messages from about 1am on a weeknight. Every one of them responded. I chatted with two in particular and pretty quickly the credit ran out
After 2am the messages were still coming & I thought it was strange that every girl on the site was awake.
Then it hit me. I’ve been scammed. I’m an idiot.

Complete swindle, 95%+ of the profiles are fake with pictures of Porn stars (some stolen models’ photos). I personally did reverse image lookups of all the alleged “women” who liked me and reached out to me, nearly all of them returned a positive porn-star listing (there were a couple of pictures that were not identified). Some of the pics, are of porn-stars from 15 years ago. It’s a ploy to keep you there to spend your money just like the Australian Personals Site. Their Terms and Conditions do not state this is their Modis operandi (whereas Australian Personals state this blatantly in their T&C’s) so there is a definite case to be run against the owners of this site for misrepresentation & fraudulent behaviour, as their T&C’s categorically state that there will be interaction between the parties. Not so. this site is exactly the same as the Australian Personals site. I suspect they will have a room full of people responding to your messages, one person looking after several profiles. I started to suspect this with some of the replies I received where the writing style was similar. DO NOT TOUCH WITH A TWENTY FOOT BARGE POLE! All the other comments provided above I concur and support, regarding trying to get the ladies off the site. The other trigger for my suspicions, some of the “ladies” stated they were from towns that I knew, and my local knowledge instantly triggered concerns that I knew were not true, as I let them dig themselves into a deeper hole! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED – STAY AWAY FROM FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS.COM

Friends with benefits is a total scam. Fake profiles everywhere. DONT JOIN GUYS!!!

Convinced it’s a SCAM. Women post very explicit pics which if you research (try TinEye website) are mostly on porn sites. Profile girls keep you chatting & never want to meet – “let’s get to know one another more here first” – next breath they want to do every position in the Karma Sutra with you!!!! Then “let’s take it easy” … then when you say let’s start with a coffee in a safe place they won’t do that … every chat ends with a question so you feel you have to answer… using credit after credit. Nobody wants to chat offline. SCAM ALERT

When you see a dating website that does not even allow to send a short text for free, it’s a scam. This website is a complete scam and it should be denounced as it. Muuuch younger women starting to “chat” and when you yandex up the images, they are all taken from porn sites. It’s a scam and the dominion should be denounced and their owners prosecuted.

Reading one of the review comments asking to send them pictures etc One of these profiles was getting very hot with her questions and said if I would send her a photo of my member and she would send in return a full photo of herself as well as a quick video I agreed well sort of She sent a topless shot of herself and a 2 second video so I sent her a photo of not my member but from a screen shot from the internet editing i to look real enough to think it was me she then showed herself again on video flaunting it I took a Screen shot! and to thank me Really for complying !! and then she wrote me a message that if I did not pay her $3300 in the next hour via a link she would post my Dick Picture as she described all over the internet facebook instagram twitter et etc I sent her a screenshot of herself that matched her profile and said go ahead I can post these along with your threats to the Police TOO and I never did hear from her again I had the Money ready too honest!

Like many of the other commenters, I realized rather quickly that there was something wrong with the site. I created a profile because I was recently divorced, lonely and thought, why not give this a try. I am a 60 year old man and I was quite up front about who I was (age wise) and didn’t upload a pic. Well, I never knew there were that many young women looking for my attention. I purchased credits and started chatting with two “women”; one 45 married and one 35, single. I spent about $50 for credits and chatted with each, one or two times a day for a wwekend. Right from the beginning, there were “signs” The language they used seemed “off” The strange times they would reply to my messages. Both would reply within minutes of each other. Their responses to my messages were over the top, “you’re the man of my dreams”, “I can tell how wonderful you are”, “your words are making me wet” “send me pictures of your c*&k” So, I called them both out and asked them to take a selfie holding a sign that said “Hi Eddy this is (pick a name)” Both replied that they didn’t know how to do that. Oh, and they were insulted, hurt and angry that I dare ask such a thing. I used the last of my credits thanking “them” for being so terrible at their job; if they had been better actresses they might have scanned me out of more money. A lesson learned…

Judging from the replies I received from many gorgeous young women, you’d swear I was a young film star. But I’m not. Far from it. I’m a 58 year old man of average looks. Suffice it to say, I received heaps of attractive offers, extremely sexual wishes expressed by all of the women I spoke with, but NO meetings.

I maintained contact with about 6 women from the site – all frankly too young to be likely matches for me, all gorgeous and all totally uninhibited. I maintained 6 conversations in the likelihood that most if not all of them were fake profiles, whose sole job it was, to encourage mugs like me to spend money chatting to them. And spend I sure did. How many thousands I do not know as yet. When I’ve tallied it up, I’ll make a note on this site.

I explained to all of these women that even though Covid is rampant, we could meet in 100% safety by observing all Covid protocols – and that we would not get closer than 2.5metres, when we met while Covid Lockdown was in operation.

That I explained, would instantly confirm that neither of us was a fake. I further explained that we could then swap contact details, then continue communicating freely and easily with each other, absent of this site’s gouging. I also explained that then, we could of course put the site in the bin, where it belongs. This simple strategy gained NOT ONE meeting. although all the omen agreed to. Go figure.

So wish I had bothered to do a bit of research and read these reviews before buying credits on Friends with Benefits. Total scam, big rip-off. Avoid at all costs.
On the strength of Clive’s comment, I quickly checked my bank account. So far all seems to be OK. What my check did highlight is how ‘amateur’ I’ve been. Don’t get duped folks.

Signs of bad business:
First sign, not an app only a website. Second sign, cheap site design and layout. Third sign, too many very attractive women throwing themselves at you non stop.
Everything that everyone has mentioned above is 100% accurate. I decided to check reviews before spending a dime, thank you for your words gentleman much appreciated. Confirmed what i suspected.

Thanks for the heads up. I signed up, and before I could turn around, I’d received half a dozen likes. Finding this strange,I didn’t do anything for a couple of days. Thanks to your site I came to the same conclusion, IT’S A SCAM !!! Fortunately, I didn’t spend a dime. Thanks for your service, it’s greatly appreciated.

Hey, yes what s scam. I’d like to chat with Edward about joining a petition or doing something to get these axxxx a hard time.

This is a total scamming sight and stay away people !! Pathetic xxxx in Bulgaria or elsewhere just robbing peopleZ Some well versed in English paid employee is sitting in Bulgaria or somewhere else sucking decent people into spending money on non existent people.

I wish I had of found this page prior to signing up to them. It seems that the company has been listening to these sham complaints. There is no credits anymore. They have monthly subscriptions and the operators behind the fake accounts actually give you a contact email or their code for Hangouts app. for correspondence. Hangouts app doesnt allow you to call them, record their mobile number, nor send voice messages, but does allow video messages. I have lost count how many times I have gotten to the point of meeting up with someone, only for them in the last minute, lead me to a site requesting a criminal record check, as they have been attacked before. One even sent me photos of them (without showing their face) depicting bruises on their body. Don’t believe it was their photos. I researched this and this is another scam in itself. Its a multi-billion dollar industry. https://blog.dateid.com/hookup-id/ I tell them that I already have a National Police Check for employment and they can’t reply. I actually followed through with one of them and they charged me about $40 odd dollars on my account. When I got back to them, stating I had fulfilled what they wanted, they ghosted me. By the way, Im registered from Australia. There are too many inconsistencies in their communication. Another good one is the last minute to meet up, they will inform you that they reside in another state from what is registered/depicted on their profile, so it is virtually impossible to see them. They will give some excuse for why that is the case. Best way to prove they’re fake is to tell them to send your mobile a video recording stating exactly what you want them to say such as, “Hello Michael, just sending you this video recording to prove that I am the person in the photos I have sent you and that Im not a fake etc”. They won’t be able to fulfill this request of course. So it seems that all these quick sex sites are fake. I’d be surprised if even 2 percent of the women registered are real accounts. What I cannot fathom is these findings need to make the news so that everyone is conscious of them. That way nobody will be deceived into signing up with them. It needs to be a headline in the 6 o’clock news and even more thorough coverage with say a show like “60 minutes” etc. Another matter I cannot fathom is, why is there a need for these scam sites? Surely there must be thousands and millions of individuals from both sexes looking for quick sex. How could there not be even one legitimate site to cater this in 2021 is beyond me?

Total scam

As everyone has mentioned above, the site requires you to buy credit and it’s eaten away by chatting to these “women” Go do I feel like an @rse, first time ever I pay to chat on a dating site, now it’s too late what Ive just read is starting to sink in. DOH! Ok well does anyone know if these crooks use your card details to charge you for their “service” or would it be just advisable to contact my bank and hopefully they can stop any transaction through their end? Any advice truly appreciated.

Worst possible site. I decided to test it out and after having seemingly good chats I decided to move the chats to kik WhatsApp or messenger. 7 out of 7 all came back with excuses of wanting to give this a go, were not comfy with giving me personal details, (lol kik is very anonymous), so I said bye to everyone. Credits are extremely pricey and you’ll run out pretty quick. Oh and if only grinder or scruff had hotties that contact me like these ones on this site do, I’d never need to date again

Signed up but didn’t buy any credit, thankfully. Before my account was even live started receiving messages from women. Checked all the pics of the girls that messages using https://tineye.com/ and ask the pics were fake taken from vipergirls
Also checked out a lot of the profiles from search and the same all fake. 109% scan site. Deleted amount straight away

Completely fake. Avoid. Cost me £40 but quickly worked out the answers from two different ‘women’ were basically the same. Avoid at all costs

I totally agree with the previous comments Friends with benefits total scam fake profiles stay away ! !

Morning all, so wish I had read reviews!!! Just spent £200.00 and offered to take chats offline but it’s the same old crap everytime, ‘I prefer to chat on here as it’s safer’ etc etc, I offered a free totally anonymous messaging site (Kik) but none of the ‘girls’ had heard of it – yeah right! Also, when I looked back at replies to my messages some of the English was a ‘little off’ ie the meaning was clear but a person whose first language wouldn’t structure the sentence in the same way!

TOTAL SCAM – STAY CLEAR GUYS

Mike

Sadly I have been ripped off big time. I found out numerous so called profiles sending word for word the same messages. You get asked questions you have already answered. Standard con is that the person you are chatting with indicates a willingness to meet early in the conversation. Then when you try to set something up you get the same standard excuses. With one it was that I am constrained by school hours at a time during school holidays. The profiles are all fake. Don’t waste your money like I dif

I truly awful site that just takes you money and offers only fake profiles. They will never refund as they are all fakes and I have no proof but I would suspect there are no women on this site at all

Update: I tried to dispute the three £30 payments through my credit card provider but their conclusion was that I was given the services I paid for. Never mind getting our money back, I believe the best solution is to report it to Ofcom and fraud agencies that will prosecute it and land it with a huge fine. Let the money go to the government. At least it will have been taken off them. So guys, each of us should do this separately so as it looks likely to a prosecuting body that it will be worthwhile prosecuting them. If just one or two guys do it it might just come across as chance.

Thanks!! You have saved me from being ripped off!! I thought those photos looked different!!

Hi,

I have had the same experiences on the site as everyone else here. When you ask to move the conversation onto another platform (even just a temporary email address) they say they’re uncomfortable doing so. I have also just been contacted by a new “interested” user whose photos happen to be the same as a user who I had already been chatting to and had refused to take the convo elsewhere. So these are clearly fake profiles run in order to make members buy credits to keep chatting. I’ve taken screenshots of all my chats and of the profiles in question to put to whichever lawsuit firm or conduct authority might be interested in suing them. I suggest others here do that too. The previous commenter Weiberl’s findings are very interesting too. Well worth making a case if someone wants to do that.

THIS IS A TOTAL SCAM!!!!!!!

I read the review and the comment from Harvey, after becoming member. I was bored the day after and got credit £30 which is around 22 chats (just to try it out), it takes about 5 to 10 chats to find the person you like. When I found the person I said I read a review that this site is a scam and let’s take it offline, the person said they just needs to know the basics to be comfortable I thought fare enough, at some point through our chats I gave a number which was blocked by it’s system and converted the number into stars. I found a work around but won’t say how to do it. The person got the number, but other then that work around there is no way to contact people outside of the site. By the time I had 50 credits left (10 credits per chat) I had said let’s take it offline 3 times, the last time I said my credit is finished and got a chat back asking to continue the chat online. The person has my number but won’t use. The chats have a limit on how much text you can type, so you have to edit it down each time or spear it across 2 chats, since there is no contact outside the site how will one even meet someone, it makes no sense. Thanks to review sites like this otherwise I could have spend more then just £30, it’s Definitely a scam site.