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., 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. …
In a separate suit, Yahoo Inc.’s personals service is accused of posting profiles of fictitious potential dating partners on its Web site to make it look as though many more singles subscribe to the service than actually do.
You mean there’s only 191 reasons not to bother with online dating?
Wow…I’d hope I’d be smart enough to realize I was on a “sham date”. There have been some weirdos, though….
Mofo – I can’t be too down on the concept of online dating … it seems like just about everyone I know has at least tried it, including some v. attractive women. And one of my best friends is getting married to a girl he met on Friendster. But in practice, I’ve found you just can’t tell enough about someone from an online profile to tell if there’ll be any chemistry … it’s just an inefficient use of time.
I’m not very good at the online dating thing…I always end up on a date thats leads to some pig guy wanting me to come back to his house and “watch movies” or actually in reality, locking me in his basement! I’m not against it, just bad luck.