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Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 7:05:12 PM | I have spent months researching Yahoo Personals and a few weeks looking into Match.com, and I believe both companies are engaged in massive fraud deliberately and for profit. Class Action status is entirely appropriate. Anyone who's paid for a membership at either in the last five years who is dissatisfied on account of a low response rate should be accorded a full refund.
Both I and a friend became intrigued with the phenominon of profiles where the users were always online, but never responded, not even to messages that my friend (not me) composed which should have evoked a complaint about violation of terms of service. Yahoo's "Personals Trainer" sent out a newsletter recently listing reasons why users don't get responses, and totally ignored the whole issue of dead profiles.
Match.com's strategy is more manipulative, but very subtle. After a week or so, they no longer show you who is contacting you. Prior to that, you get a succession of winks and emails, mostly from people overseas who would be hard to trace by law enforcement authorities in this country. After the week, you get one or two more emails, then they stop, the fraud machine gives up on you. If they were real, they'd keep coming.
Another site that like Yahoo loves to use fake profiles is FriendFinder.com and somespamsite.com. On Saturday morning there will be a dozen hot new chicks posting profiles, and two or three on other days. Many of these are within a couple of miles of my house, but I've never seen any of these chicks around here. Any other dating service I've ever joined, I met at least a few people I knew. I finally figured it that these people I never see don't really exist! | | | |
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