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  • Suit claims Match.com set up fake dates

    11/18/2005 10:23:01 PM PST · by Panerai · 19 replies · 1,089+ views
    Cnet ^ | 11/18/2005
    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, 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...