Worldwide Women’s Association Reviews: Six Websites, Four Names, One Playbook

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance one of two things just happened. Either a warm, professional-sounding woman just told you over the phone that you’ve been selected for membership in an elite international women’s association — or a charge you don’t recognize just appeared on your bank statement.

I’ve been on both ends of that sentence. More than $1,000 was taken from my nonprofit’s bank account by this operation, and I spent [weeks/months] fighting to get it back. I’m a marketing agency founder with twenty years in this industry, and I’m publishing what I found when I stopped being a victim and started being an investigator — because the woman Googling this organization’s name mid-phone-call deserves to find something other than their own marketing.

Here is what my own experience, the public complaint record, and the operation’s own website code reveal.

First, the Short Version

The Worldwide Women’s Association is not accredited by the Better Business Bureau. It averages roughly 1.07 out of 5 stars across 84 BBB customer reviews. Complaints on the BBB, Trustpilot, Sitejabber, ScamPulse, and PissedConsumer describe the same pattern again and again: unsolicited “you’ve been selected” recruitment, relentless phone calls, payment demanded on the call, surprise upsells of $399–$499, auto-renewals with no cancellation option, and — most seriously — charges that continue after cancellation, sometimes under different business names.

I experienced that pattern personally. The money taken from She Thrives Enterprise, a women’s empowerment nonprofit, was recovered only through months of bank disputes and documentation.

And it is not one organization. They built several scam sites. Keep reading.

The Network: What the Website Code Shows

When the charges hit our account, I did what I do professionally: I traced the infrastructure. What I found is that this “association” operates across at least six domains under four brand names:

• Worldwide Women’s Association (WWA) — worldwidewomensassociation[.]com, plus signup portal jointhewwa[.]com
• International Society of Female Professionals (ISFP) — theisfp[.]com, plus joinisfp[.]com
• Worldwide Association of Female Professionals (WAOFP) — waofp[.]com
• Worldwide Women’s Organization — theworldwidewomensorg[.]com

This is not a guess based on similar names. The Worldwide Women’s Association website loads image assets in its own footer directly from theisfp[.]com — the two “separate organizations” share the same server infrastructure. Beyond that technical fingerprint, the marketing copy across all six sites is nearly word-for-word identical: the same “premier organization of women executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs” language, the same submit-your-application-for-review funnel, the same claims of hundreds of thousands of members, the same New York base.

Why would one operation need four names? The complaint record supplies the answer.

The Complaint Record: What Hundreds of Women Report

I want to be precise here, because precision is what this operation fears most. What follows is not my speculation — it is the publicly documented record, available to anyone, across the Better Business Bureau, Trustpilot, Sitejabber, ScamPulse, and PissedConsumer. The pattern, in the complainants’ own collective experience:

The recruitment. Women report receiving emails and LinkedIn messages stating they were “selected after a rigorous review” for membership — despite never applying. Others report call floods: as often as every 15 minutes, from constantly rotating local numbers, making blocking impossible. A widely shared LinkedIn warning post about this organization drew dozens of comments from women describing ten calls a day plus text messages.

The sales call. Reviewers consistently describe a scripted “interview” — warm, flattering, reactive (“amazing!”) — that ends in a demand for credit card payment on that call to secure a “discount.” One reviewer who asked to receive information by email before paying reported the representative would only send a payment link during the call. Another described the representative becoming aggressive when she hesitated, talking over her and insisting that “hundreds of thousands of women have paid with credit cards, because that’s what credit cards are for.”

The upsells. Members report follow-up calls offering “member spotlights” and press releases at $399–$499 — and at least one reviewer reported declining explicitly, then finding a $449.95 charge attempt on her card days afterward.

The billing. This is the most serious category, and the most consistent. Complainants report: auto-renewals charged with no advance notice and no cancellation option anywhere on the website; cancellation emails ignored for six months and counting; charges that survived cancelling the physical credit card, because the merchant obtained updated card numbers; one woman documenting more than $1,400 taken over two years despite repeated bank interventions; and charges reappearing months after cancellation under slightly different business names. Multiple complainants independently used nearly the same phrase: the company “keeps changing its name.”

The inside account. Perhaps the most damning public evidence comes from a former employee of one of these operations, who described sales scripts built around the phrase “connect, paint a beautiful picture, lean in, and get paid,” managers dialing into live calls to pressure reps to close immediately — including asking women to pull their cars over to read out card numbers — and representatives being instructed to use fake last names with the women they called.

What Happened to My Nonprofit

[Jessica — 3–5 paragraphs, firsthand: how they first contacted you, what was charged and when, the discovery, and the recovery fight. Redacted statement screenshot if possible.]

More than $1,000, taken from a nonprofit that exists to empower women through free resources and advocacy, by an operation marketing itself as women’s empowerment. We got every dollar back. It should never have required the fight it did — and most of the women in those complaint threads didn’t have a marketing career’s worth of documentation instincts to fight with.

Is the Worldwide Women’s Association Legit? My Assessment

Here’s how I’d summarize it, carefully and factually:

A legitimate professional association earns renewals through member value. What the public record documents here — across every brand name — is an operation whose revenue appears to depend on flattery-driven card capture, recognition-product upsells, and billing that continues against members’ expressed wishes. Its BBB rating hovers near the theoretical floor. Its “separate” sister organizations share servers and sales scripts. And when I searched for the independent, verifiable member success stories that surround every real association I’ve ever encountered in twenty years of marketing — chapters meeting, careers advanced, mentorships formed — I found complaint threads instead.

I was scammed. Hundreds of women publicly report the same. Draw your own conclusion — but draw it before you read out your card number, not after.

If You’re Reading This Mid-Phone-Call

Hang up. You owe a stranger on the phone nothing — not politeness, not an explanation, not a “maybe.” Any organization whose discount expires when the call ends is not an organization; it’s a script.

Then, if you want to verify everything I’ve written here yourself: search this organization’s name — all four of its names — alongside the words “BBB” and “reviews.” Read the primary sources. They are worse than anything I’ve summarized.

If They Already Have Your Card

1. Dispute every charge with your card issuer as an unauthorized recurring merchant — request a chargeback and a merchant block, not just a refund.
2. Replace your card number, and assume that’s not enough. Ask your bank to watch for charges under any of the four names above; complainants report billing that survives card replacement via automatic card-updater services.
3. Cancel in writing by email and archive everything — including a screenshot if the site offers you no cancellation option.
4. File reports with the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the Better Business Bureau under every name that charged you, and the New York Attorney General at ag.ny.gov. Disputes get your money back; reports build the record that ends this.
5. If a business or nonprofit account was charged, tell your bank the account type, document for your board or bookkeeper, and loop in your attorney if your organization’s name appears anywhere in their marketing.

If this happened to you and you want to talk to someone who’s been through the recovery fight, reach out to us directly — you’re not alone in this.

The Real Thing Is Free

Here’s the part of this story I’m proudest to write. While researching this operation, I kept coming back to one number: they charge women $99 to $499 to be listed in a “registry” that exists to bill them again.

So we built the opposite. The She Thrives Directory is a real directory of professional women — and it’s completely free. No phone interview. No card number. No “discount that expires when we hang up.” Free, because recognition should never be for sale.

Join the She Thrives Directory — free, forever →

And whether you join or not, our full resource library — confidence-building workbooks, business and career guides, financial literacy tools — is free to every woman, always. That’s what a women’s organization is supposed to look like.

To the Woman Who Almost Said Yes

Nothing about being targeted by this operation reflects on your judgment. It reflects on theirs. They built a machine aimed at the most under-served hunger in professional life — a woman’s desire to finally be seen for what she’s built — and they aimed it deliberately, with scripts and quotas and fake last names.

You deserve the real thing, and the real thing exists: local chambers, genuine industry associations, women’s business communities where recognition is given rather than sold. I wrote a full guide on how to vet any professional organization before joining — the seven questions that would have saved me.

Share this article. Every share puts it one position higher in the exact search a woman makes mid-phone-call, with a warm voice on the line telling her she’s amazing. Let’s make sure what she finds is the truth. And if this story moved you to do more, we’re always looking for women to join the movement.

→ Read next: How to Spot a “Membership Trap”: A SHE Guide to Vetting Professional Organizations

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Worldwide Women’s Association legitimate? It is not BBB accredited and averages roughly 1.07/5 stars across 84 BBB customer reviews, with complaints describing unsolicited recruitment, payment pressure, unauthorized charges, and billing that continues after cancellation. It shares website infrastructure and near-identical marketing with the International Society of Female Professionals, the Worldwide Association of Female Professionals, and the Worldwide Women’s Organization.

Are the ISFP, WAOFP, and Worldwide Women’s Organization the same company? The WWA’s own website loads assets directly from theisfp[.]com, and all four brands use nearly identical marketing copy, membership structures, and sales processes. Complainants across all four report the same billing patterns, including charges reappearing under different business names.

How do I cancel a Worldwide Women’s Association or ISFP membership? Complainants report no cancellation option on the websites and ignored emails. Cancel in writing by email for your records, then dispute charges with your card issuer as unauthorized recurring billing, request a new card and merchant block, and monitor statements for all four business names for at least twelve months.

Is there a free alternative to paid women’s registries? Yes. The She Thrives Directory is a free directory of professional women with no membership fees, no phone sales, and no upsells — plus a free library of empowerment, career, and financial resources.

Jessica Feldman is the founder of She Thrives Enterprise, a 501(c)(3) women’s empowerment nonprofit, and Digital Vibes Agency, a digital marketing agency in Chandler, Arizona, with 20+ years of marketing experience. This article reflects her firsthand experience and publicly available consumer records as of the publication date.