“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 post Avalos’ pictures, according to the New York Post. Now, the part-time model is taking legal action.
Late last week, Avalos and an unspecified group of other plaintiffs who say their photos were used to make phony accounts filed a $1.5 billion class-action suit against Match.com’s parent company, IAC (InterActiveCorp), in Manhattan federal court, according to the Post.”* Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Amanda Scherker / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/model-sues-match-fake-profiles-yuliana-avalos_n_4337660.html
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