Sunday, November 20, 2005
via FARK: Match dot sham
Online dating gets slapped... with suits
Match.com is accused of sending out bogus romantic e-mails, Yahoo may have posted made up profiles.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court.
Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp. (Research), is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.
As long as they put out, what's the problem?

