Snowden docs expose Match.com/OK Cupid and big dating sites as fronts for honey traps and privacy harvesting.
NBC Investigates, Glenn Greenwald, and numerous other journalists have, this week, revealved documents and research that show that big dating sites are being used to trick users into laying their most intimate information into vast global databases for culling by both spies and marketing research mills.
Some sites start small, like OK Cupid, and then are taken over by the “Big Data” cartels who pump them for personal information; provide photo comparison access so outside spy and marketing groups can photo-compare dating pictures to Facebook and Linked-in profiles to harvest all of your outside information, create “honey traps” using fake profiles to get people to go someplace or do something as a trick; find your credit card information; find your personal interests and “intents”; and a host of other insidious Big Data privacy harvesting intrigues. Some sites were created just for privacy harvesting.
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Snowden Docs: British Spies Used Sex and ‘Dirty Tricks’ – NBC …
Documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and exclusively obtained by NBC News describe techniques developed by a secret British spy unit called the Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group … A “honey trap,” says the presentation, …
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Honey Badger Don’t Care About Camera Traps – Technology …
With charismatic lions and leopards often stealing the spotlight, small predators in Central Africa sometimes get overlooked. But with the help of camera traps, researchers recently got a better look at the tiny carnivores that populate Gabon’s forests, including mongooses, civets and the
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GCHQ’s “Dirty Tricks” Revealed: False Flags, Virus Attacks …
A slide from the documents taken from the NSA by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News. … Here’s the original GCHQ document boasting of honey traps, false flag operations, fake victim posts & nasty viruses http://t.co/Cy9h4ulGX7 — Glenn Greenwald …
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Snowden Confirms Spy Agency Launched False Flag Attacks and …
Snowden Confirms Spy Agency Launched False Flag Attacks and Used Honey Traps. Posted on February 7, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog. … A new report from NBC News shows that the British spy agency used “false flag attacks” and other dirty tricks:
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Honey Traps News
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Honey traps: Do spies use sex to extract secrets?
Honey traps, also called “honey pots,” have been a favorite spying tactic as long as sex and espionage have existed—in other words, forever. Perhaps the earliest honey trap on record was the betrayal of Samson by Delilah, …
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Honey Trap » You Suspect, We Confirm.
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New York Man Sets Online Dating Honey Trap to Recover iPhone …
The Brooklynite decided to lure the person with his phone into a honey trap. He set up a phony female profile on OK Cupid, complete with a cleavage-bearing photo plucked from the Internet, and began communicating.
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Greenwald and NBC News: The UK Uses ‘False Flags’ and Dirty …
Greenwald and NBC News: The UK Uses ‘False Flags’ and Dirty Tricks Against Targets. Bob Cesca on February 07, 2014. 253 Views. … Methods include using “honey traps” — the online and in-person sexual seduction of targets …
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The strange tale of Michelle, Karen, Orly and the “honey …
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Match.com Review | Is Match.com Real Or a Scam?
Match.com Dating Features Review. Match.com is packed with many features users love. Their marketing team has created many great features other dating sites do not offer.
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Is Match.com a scam? Read user comments and feedback on the …
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Top 844 Complaints and Reviews about Match.com
Talking to a match.com supervisor she told me that it was my problem and they could do nothing to fix the problem, asked if a complete or … Please be very weary of this site a lot of scams and who knows what is lurking in the background. I am going back to the good old ways of meeting …
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Match.com scam??????????????? – Yahoo Answers
Best Answer: Match.com isn’t a scam, but like anywhere, whether on the internet or in life, there are people who will use people that way, and sites like Match.com is a site people like that will use for that purpose. That is DEFINITELY a scam! I’m having a little trouble believing …
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Ripoff Report | match.com directory of Complaints & Reviews
Ripoff Report | match.com directory of 273 Complaints & Reviews: … Match.com Payment Scams, Fake Profiles, Closed Account, Internet Author: Atlanta, Georgia Websites: Match.com Internet 22, Report #1050935. May 14 2013 03:37 PM. MATCH.COM …
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Scams on Match.com | Dating scams, scam artists
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Online Dating Nightmare: N.Y. Woman Scammed Out of Thousands …
Match.com, one of the country’s most popular dating websites, takes credit for “more relationships and more marriages than any other site.” … Miller was shocked to learn that someone had apparently been using his picture to run a scam.
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Match.com Scams and Online Dating Scams: How to Avoid The …
Romance Scams a Growing Threat, Say Investigators Match.com is the leading online dating site with over 20 Million members and serving 25 countries and languages.
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Online Dating Scams: Buyers Beware – The Huffington Post
Online dating services are booming businesses, and the boomers who are joining them are doing so in big numbers. People aged 50 and older represent 25 percent of membership on the popular dating site Match.com — a 45 percent jump in the last five years, a spokesman said.
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match.com scam ? – scams – report the scam here
Message Board > Internet Scams … my dad recently got a Match.com account and has been talking to this person who says … Whenever a 35 year old relatively good looking woman approach a man close to his 60’s there is something wrong! Your dad will get scammed and he will not only be scammed …
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Are There Fake Members Over at Match.com?
I agree with the above comments also would like to add another litter scam match and i am pretty sure others do, when your subscription is about to end or has ended you all of a sudden get people wh are intrested in you and then whenyou pay for another month they dissapear.
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Mid Life Crunches: Is Match.com a Ripoff?
rottrunner said… Yes, match.com is a ripoff and scam. I have in the past received emails I can’t open, or even see who looked at me, wtihout paying.
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Scammers Target Lovelorn on Match.com | NBC Southern California
Match.com said that the company employs 100 fraud team agents screen every profile for possible scams, but acknowledged that “a few of these sophisticated criminals still slip through all of our checks
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Is Match.com a Scam ? – Xomba
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Match.com Review : Match.com Earns The 2 Spot
Match.com: Review Of Our Match.com Results. Guys looking for a site with an insane amount of good looking women will not be disappointed on Match.com.
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Does this sound like a Match.com scam? – AskMen
I have been on match.com for a few months, but cancelled my subscription a few weeks … Why would you need to rejoin even if she is legit? She has your email address, if she’s interested she’ll write, if not, she won’t. Renewing your membership won’t affect that either way. … Do you have her …
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Back in june 2010 i was winked at by raymond gerald on Match.com. He was supposedly in spain doing a project and was from ireland originally but living in indiana.
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Match.com overun by Nigerian scams? | Plenty of fish blog
33 Responses to “Match.com overun by Nigerian scams?” Dating Savvy Says: July 10, 2011 at 9:07 am | Reply. Avoiding the headlines so far is great, but I’m sure it’s not that Match.com aren’t trying.
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The Match.com Scam | ijlandthensome
So I did try match.com, and after sending out 64 emails, with not a SINGLE response,I decided it was all BS. My profile is pretty tame, no extreme political, religious, or even musical or movie interests available, since one time a guy told me my taste in Linkin Park was a dealbreaker.
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Media Lens Message Board: ‘Dirty Tricks’: UK Spies Use …
Documents leaked by the US National Security Agency whistleblower and published by NBC news Friday detail strategies used by the Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group … No specific instances where the “honey trap” was successfully employed is mentioned, …
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Dating Scams: Online, Classified, Chat Rooms and More
… (or handsome guy) may be in love with your wallet or purse, not you! Here are some of the typical scams. Consumer Fraud Reporting Dating Scams Reporting on the Latest Frauds, Scams, Fake Lotteries, Spams and … Even if you use established dating websites, like Match.com, eHarmony …
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Affair Match.com Reviews – Dating Services – Canoga Park, CA
Affair Match.com: Canoga Park, CA, 91303. 2 stars – based on 2 reviews This company’s business is providing online dating services. View map … Affairmatch is a scam: I can not agree more with the previous poster. I wish I read this before I signed up.
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Home Workers Match legit? – SCAM
Home Workers Match legit? Found http://www.homeworkersmatch.com online. They sound legit, but wondering if anyone else has heard of them? #2 … Scam.com Is Proudly Hosted By Rackco and Protected By CloudFlare.
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Match.com Review – Online Dating Advice | Free Dating Guide …
Match.com Overview. Match.com is one of the oldest online dating services having been created back in 1995. Like all dating services, you’re provided with a profile to describe yourself and what you’re hoping to find in the person you hope to date.
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Romance Scam • Match.com – NEGATIVE!
You are right… Match.com is full of scammers. Before I was scammed I had no idea about stuff like this and assumed this was an innocent way of meeting people… but after I spent an hour or so researching scam artists and their profiles I easily within my search radius found 6 …
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Romance Scams
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www.scamwarners.com • View topic – FAKE PHOTO FROM MATCH.COM
Fake documents & photos … “I receive this email from this man calling myself Carlo Dante with this photos as I …” · “Welcome to Scamwarners. That’s definitely a scam and I’m glad you spotted it. There’s nothing the police can do to catch him though. He’s likely to be in West Africa, using …
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REVIEW: Media-Match.com Don’t look for a job here. « Who …
Ever hear of Media-Match.com?, Is it a scam, the fittings of a really poor business model, or just taking advantage of people? I’ve recently had the pleasure of checking out this job posting/applying website that seems to cater to the creative, tv industry, and film industry.
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Military romance scam on match.com – Arizona Local News …
For some people, match.com may be a great way to meet new people and maybe find the person of your dreams. But as this next viewer discovered, it’s also a place where scam artists lurk, looking to use love to steal your money. “I was new to the Valley and didn’t know a lot of people …
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Dating Scam – Internet Dating Fraud – Bustathief.com
Jen Says: June 30th, 2012 at 5:47 pm. My aunt has been in contact with a guy going by the name of “Crossley Gerrard.” They met on match.com and they got close immediately.
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Are There Fake Members Over at Match.com?
I’ve no doubt there are fake profiles on Match.com and other paid sites. They may not be all have active subscriptions but there is no way to think that paid sites don’t suffer from scammers like the Nigeria ones David mentioned.
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Everything you need to know about FAKE Profiles! – Dating …
Hi Heres another fake dating site using fake profiles. BADOO, i was a victim lucky for me I found my own pictures and information used as a profile created by Badoo creaters.
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Model’s $1.5 Billion Suit Against Match.com Claims Fake Profiles
The lawyer for a Florida model Yuliana Avalos suing Match.com as part of a $1.5 billion class action lawsuit said today the company could easily weed out fake profiles if they used photo recognition software and checked IP addresses.
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Match.com Profiles That Allegedly Use Celebrity Profiles …
A lawyer who’s suing Match.com for $1.5 billion for allegedly approving fake profiles is striking back at the site’s allegation that his lawsuit is filled with “outlandish conspiracy theories.”
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Match.com Review | Is Match.com Real Or a Scam?
Plus, we are confident that users won’t come across fake profiles on Match.com. They have no need to create fake profiles. Millions of real users sign-up every year. Perhaps the biggest advantage to signing up for Match.com is the ease of finding a mate.
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Search for “match.com fake profiles” | Scambook
Almost every person on there is fake….same messages sent…profiles dont match….people appear twice…definatly a scam…they will not refund my money
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Match.com – Official Site
Match.com is the number one destination for online dating with more dates, more relationships, & more marriages than any other dating or personals site.
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Match.com Sued for Fake Profiles
Imagine walking past a bar that is advertising a singles night, looking through the window and seeing the place packed to the roof with good looking singles who are just your type- a couple of them wink, and wave at you.
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Top 844 Complaints and Reviews about Match.com
After viewing the site, I decided that most profiles were fake and wanted out. I called customer service, asked for a refund, and asked why I wanted to cancel. … Match.com Company Profile. Basic Information Company Name: Match.com. Home; Brands; About Us; Contact Us;
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Man Sues Match.Com Posts Fake Profiles – POPSUGAR Tech
One of the reasons some people are wary of online dating is that people tend to stretch the truth when describing themselves. Perhaps you can build up a BS detector for embellishments of electronic personalities, but what if the dating prospects were not even real? For some people, it’s a big leap
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This Model Is Suing Match.com For $1.5 Billion
“Not a day goes by when someone doesn’t tell me that they saw my pictures posted on Match.com or another [website],” says Miami model Yuliana Avalos. That’s not because Avalos is an online dating enthusiast — it’s because Match.com allegedly allowed more than 200 fake profiles to …
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Model’s lawyer points out use of celebrity pics in Match.com …
Who knew Al Pacino and Rob Lowe were looking for love online? Match.com is so bad at spotting fake dating profiles, say the Florida mom who sued the dating site for $1.5 billion, that photos of the silver screen superstars accompany profiles for nobodies.
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Match.coms Fake Profiles Result In $1.5 Billion Lawsuit …
In a new $1.5 billion lawsuit, Match.coms fake profiles are under attack, not just for the obvious identity abuse and criminal activity but the lawsuit aims to set a precedence in deterring dating websites from turning a blind eye toward the rampant problem of identity theft.
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Match.com website sued for using fake profiles | kens5.com …
DALLAS — Several subscribers to Match.com filed a federal lawsuit against the Dallas-based dating Web site alleging as many as 60 percent of the profiles of prospective dates belong to inactive or fake users who cannot be contacted.
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Online daters, be warned! 1 in 10 profiles are scams, report …
They will painstakingly craft a fake profile and begin targeting people that are looking for love. Once they’ve made contact, they will typically request to move the conversation to a private instant messaging service. … Match, and others, …
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Yuliana Avalos – Scallywag and Vagabond
Florida model, Yuliana Avalos has launched a $1.5 billion lawsuit against match.com asserting that the dating site and its affiliate sites have posted thousands of fake profiles, including cover models and Hollywood celebrities to bilk lonely hearts. The trademark infringement suit was filed by
Fake profiles on match.com? – relationship advice
A reader, anonymous, writes (12 May 2013): Listen my friend my good buddy joined match.com and had a couple dates.
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Best Answer: eharmony does, that’s why they let you “view your matches free”, they show you all the wonderful but fake profiles. The more expensive, the more likely they add fake profiles to justify the price … The fact is that there really are a lot of fake profiles on there… but …
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Match.com Review | We Tested Match.com | Our Full Results Here!
Match.com is one of the oldest and best run sites in this game. It’s the largest in terms of its brand and in terms of its membership. Match.com is the catch all of dating, its membership varies very greatly and an understanding of how to decipher profiles can really spice up your dating life.
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Match.com Is a Fraud Says Class-Action Suit
Not only does Match.com allow fake profiles…they create them and have employees chat with customers, posing as real customers through these fake profiles. What sort of person would continue doing this for a job?
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Looking for Love Online? Watch Out for Fake Profiles on …
well-rounded persona, they know their fake identity becomes easier to believe. Then, sooner or later, they wave the biggest red flag of all: they’re living or working overseas and they can’t meet you in person.
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Match.com (company): What percentage of Match.com profiles …
I was shown a profile today that said a rather attractive and outgoing woman lived in my area, did not have kids and was never married. A quick Facebook look up showed that the pictures are up to date, but the person lives on the other side of the country and has a 6 year old kid. (Marital status…
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Fake profile warning beware might be a match.com situation
2/5/2013 12:40:40 PM: Fake profile warning beware might be a match.com situation : brandi21almost San Antonio, TX 21, joined Jan. 2013: I chatted with this girl online she was the nicest girl ever.
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Model’s $1.5 Billion Suit Against Match.com Claims Fake …
iStock/Thinkstock (NEW YORK) — The lawyer for a Florida model suing Match.com as part of a $1.5 billion class action lawsuit said Saturday the company could easily weed out fake profiles if they used photo recognition software and checked IP addresses.
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Match.com Sucks – Tjshome.com – Funny status messages and more
Match.com change your unethical business model and earn your revenue fair! By TJ on Saturday April 26, 2008 @ 03:14 AM | Views … Plain and simple. I was a match.com subscriber and I can tell you first-hand it is bullshit. Fake profiles, fake responses, all for a ridiculous amount of money.
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Match.com being sued for allegedly approving fake profiles …
New York plaintiffs’ lawyer Evan Spencer is suing Match.com for $1.5B for allegedly approving fake profiles although the site claims the lawsuit is filled with “conspiracy theories,” reports Business Insider. Spencer released screenshots of apparently fake profiles to the media, that …
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Looking for a match ?Model’s $1.5 Billion Suit Against …
The lawyer for a Florida model suing Match.com as part of a $1.5 billion class action lawsuit said today the company could easily weed out fake profiles if they used photo recognition software and checked IP addresses.
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Model says Match.com allows never-ending scam using her …
Model says Match.com allows never-ending scam using her photos on fake profiles. Videos; Video Details; Wikipedia Images … i got an attack from a fake youtube profile and as i go on i found out who it was.if you w… published: 29 Apr 2013. author:
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How to Spot Fake Profiles on Dating Sites – YouTube
If you’d prefer to read about how to spot fake profiles, it’s posted here the forum on my website:http://theforum.esldatingdiaries.com/… Otherwise, just stick around for the entire 17 minute video and learn everything I know about finding fake profiles on dating sites. I’ve been …
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Yuliana Avalos sues Match.com after her photo was used in …
A MODEL is suing a dating website claiming her picture has been used in hundreds of fake dating profiles without her consent. Florida woman Yuliana Avalos is suing Match.com as part of a $1.5 billion class action lawsuit after she was contacted by dozens of men attracted to a fake …
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Model’s $1.5 Billion Suit Against Match.com Claims Fake Profiles
The lawyer for a Florida model suing Match.com as part of a $1.5 billion class action lawsuit said today the company could easily weed out fake profiles if they used photo recognition software and checked IP addresses. The lawyer for a Florida model suing Match.com as part of a $1.5 billion class
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Percentage of fake profiles on paid versus free dating sites …
Percentage of fake profiles on paid versus free dating sites? Posted: 7/31/2011 6:15:24 PM: It’s because the paid sites create their own fake profiles in order to keep people on it, to make it look like there are more potential matches, and to prompt renewals.
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Fake Profiles Have Famous Faces On Match.com ‹ Global …
It seems celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Biel and Al Pacino are looking for love on Match.com. The New York Daily News reports that the lawyer of the model suing Match for $1.5bn has uncovered fake profiles on the site that use pictures of celebrities.