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Match.com sued for sending its employees out as fake dates
Posted on 11.18.05 by templeton @ 3:19 pm

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…(filed under “bad” deals)

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  1. Human emotions are hard to control. Assuming the said paid employees go out on the fake dates, and actually end up liking, and ultimately sleeping with the subjects, would that be prostitution? If so, Match would be in for even bigger charges of aiding and abetting prostitution.
    Their name should probably be changed to “watch the con”, not “match dot com”.

    Now Match is saying that they’ve gotten the employee to sign an avidavit that she was never and employee. Yeah right.

    Isn’t that too easy. If anybody brings up an allegation against a giant like Match that seriously damages its reputation, do you really believe that all Match would do would be to get the person to sign an avidavit? No way, it’d be more like suing the pants off that woman.

    The case of her signing an avidavit just means she’s been bribed with a few millions to keep her quiet. Scams will never end. Support the free sites: oasisoflove.com and end the greed.

    Comment by RAA — December 18, 2005 @ 9:01 pm

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