As Many As 60% Of Match.com Profiles Are Fake, Customers Say

Match.com boasts over two million members – and regularly advertises this impressive number of singles that are looking for love on their online dating site. However, a new class action lawsuit that has been filed by five former customers of the personals website claim that where they were looking for romance, they often found inactive profiles, fake profiles, and scams.

In the Match.com class action lawsuit, the customers state that as many as 60 percent of the dating profiles don’t have real singles behind them. In reality, many of the members are either inactive, without premium membership (which means that they cannot communicate over email), or fake people with fake profiles. In fact, many of the fake profiles feature stock images found on the internet, sometimes of pornography actresses or models, and involve internet scams.

Instead of screening users and removing fake or unused profiles, the recent Match.com class action lawsuit states that the online dating company simply let the profiles stay – and used them to inflate their number of users when advertising their services.