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Garth Johnston
Published Nov 19, 2005
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Here's a lawsuit that if true is going to make a crazy Quiz Show-style movie in a decade or two: A man in LA is suing match.com for "for sending ringers on fake dates with lonely hearts to keep them from dumping the service."
Think about that for a minute. If what this guy is claiming is true, and it is always possible that it is not, than Match.com keeps a number of men and women on its payroll who then go out on as many as 100 dates a month with customers whose subscriptions are about to dry up. Even worse, the suit claims that these pro-daters are given access to their marks accounts so as to appear to be perfect matches.
Obvs, Match.com denies the whole thing saying that the suit is "completely without merit" and that it would be fought "vigorously." And we want to believe them, but something about the suit just sounds so... believable. Anyone not buy this? Or better yet, has anybody met, or know, any of these ringers?
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