Letspal

Having been on this penpal site I can say from experience it is one of the very poor and pathetic penpal sites that I have ever been on and I will be highlighting several issues that I came across:

1. Poor scammer filtering: This site does not deal with scammers properly who can disguise themselves on the site and pretend to be in search of friends.
2. Catfishing can occur: There is a real likely chance that people can steal pictures from others and other places and pretend to be the person that you are seeing in the photo.
3. Inactive profiles. There are some people who have penpal profiles on the site that have not been there for months even longer and let us say you may end up contacting these people just for fun thinking that they will get the notification in their personal E-mail regarding you contacting them and then come back on to the site and begin to communicate with you but in reality though you reach out to these individuals you may never ever get a reply from these individuals that you contact. The site therefore does not remove these inactive profiles so that more current profiles can exist on the site.
4. Fakes Profiles: From my observation it appeared as though the site had profiles that seemed to be taken from elsewhere and deliberately put on the site to give it the appearance that there were many users who were using the site for example these profiles had just one photo and very little detail in them. There were so many of these Fake profiles that I came across that I lost count.
5. Hackers: The site indicates that "hackers" can come on the site who may have stolen your private or personal information and post that information about you even in an obscene or rude way and the site says this can happen in its own terms of service:

"Terms of use:

WARNING - PLEASE READ: It is possible that other Letspal.com members or users (including unauthorized users, or "hackers") may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials on the Letspal.com Service and that you may be involuntarily exposed to such offensive or obscene materials. It also is possible for others to obtain personal information about you due to your use of the Service, and that the recipient may use such information to harass or injure you."

6. Contradiction: This penpal site contradicts itself by saying in its terms of service that it does not want certain offensive material posted on the penpal site itself but then this penpal site then turns around and says it reserves the right and is not obligated to do anything about this. This is called a contradiction or in other words the site is going against its own words in its terms of service:

"Terms of use:

You will not include in your profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URL's, E-mail addresses, offensive anatomical or sexual references, or offensive sexually suggestive or connotative language, and you will not post any photos containing nudity or personal information. Letspal.com, Inc. reserves the right, but has no obligation, to reject any profile or photo that does not comply with these prohibitions."

Conclusion: You can find someone real to communicate with as a penpal on the site but it will take you a lot of work to go through a lot of Fakes and Fake profiles in order to get to meet that one person or several people who are in fact real.