Users sue Match.com for date fraud

Frustrated Match.com users are suing the online dating service over complaints that company employees posed as interested date prospects -- online and in-person! -- to trick accountholders into re-upping paid subscriptions. Please stifle your ROFLs.

Match.com 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.

"This is a grossly fraudulent practice that Match.com is engaged in," said H. Scott Leviant, a lawyer at Los Angeles law firm Arias, Ozzello & Gignac LLP, which brought the suit.

Link to story (Thanks, Mo)

[#1 posted by Lester1371 , May 5, 2008 6:27 AM]

We need a place to expose situations and warn others who use these services. There is such a website now. It is called www.stoptheact.com
Please warn others before they become victims of the same scam. It is completely anonymous.