So we are suing Match.com

[Midwest Shane]

Finally a law firm that is going to stop some of this catfish shit all these companies are allowing to happen. First Match.com is going down and then many other dating sites and social media sites. It?s time to pay for allowing these scams to go on for years and knowing about it.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 27, 2014
Las Vegas, Nevada

$4.5 BILLION AMENDED COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST MATCH.COM FOR FRAUD
Melissa Midwest and MelTech, Inc. Join Class Action On Behalf of Models in Fake Profiles

After filing the original lawsuit on November 21, 2013, IAC/Match.com released a false statement claiming they are ?adept? at screening fake profiles and that Plaintiff's case pending in the Southern District of New York before Judge Furman (case #: 13-cv-8351) is lacking in factual or legal basis. Plaintiffs Melissa Midwest aka Melissa Harrington and MelTech, Inc. (owner of Melissa Midwest's copyrighted images) have therefore filed an amended complaint today with the court including additional comprehensive legal and factual support for their claims. The amended complaint includes approximately 117 complaints from Match.com users posted on a single web site regarding fake profiles as examples, warnings from the FBI, U.S. Embassy in Gana, U.S. Army, and Colorado Attorney General regarding online romance fraud, examples of 3,000 fake Match usernames and approximately 50 fake profiles, identities of the top ten female models who appear in fake Match profiles (including Melissa Midwest, Raven Riley, Cassandra ?BlueEyez,?and Lana Brooke), and examples of four celebrities who were approved in fake Match profiles. In all Plaintiffs' have received thousands of complaints regarding the unauthorized use of their photographs in fake profiles, including at least hundreds from Match.com and People Media sites.

?My web site www.MelissaMidwest.com has been pirated for at least 8 years by Nigerians and others who use Melissa's photographs in fake Match.com profiles and other internet profiles. We have complained to the FBI, the police, and some of the web sites but nobody every responded,? said Shane Harrington, owner of MelTech, Inc. ?They are building a new museum in Las Vegas and have asked permission to put a Melissa Midwest display between Britney Spear and Paris Hilton. Melissa appeared in 38 magazines and her web site was the most successful of its kind in the world for years. She was once once the #9 most searched person on the internet. For Match.com to post her copyrighted pictures in hundreds if not thousands of fake profiles on their web site is inexcusable,? said Shane this morning.

?I was contacted by an industry insider who told me that the CEO of Match.com told him years ago that he does not care where profiles come from because fake profiles increase profits (or words to that effect),? said Plaintiffs' attorney, Evan Spencer. Furthermore, days after filing this case in November, IAC announced plans to spin off its Match segment into a separate entity, a clear indication that Barry Diller and the parent company are trying to distance themselves from the civil and criminal implications of Plaintiffs' lawsuit.



Shane Harrington of MelTech, Inc.
c/o Evan Spencer
Attorney at Law
305 Broadway, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10007
Tel. 347. 931. 1814
[email protected]

[lucas131]

4.5 billions only? ok then, have luck

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by lucas131

4.5 billions only? ok then, have luck

I didn't decide on the number the law firm that filed it did!

[Fat Panda]

Why are you spamming my email with this?

[k0nr4d]

Where are on earth did they come up wiht that number? Using numbers liket hat just makes the lawsuit look like bullshit.

"Man sues mcdonalds for $200billion for french fries being too salt", etc...

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by Fat Panda

Why are you spamming my email with this?

I sent it to all the affiliates that ever signed up for Melissa's program over the years. This is a big problem in the adult world and I would think people on GFY would be concerned about it. Maybe I was wrong but it effects 1,000's of models in OUR business. It took years to find a real law firm to go after these billion dollar companies...

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Where are on earth did they come up wiht that number? Using numbers liket hat just makes the lawsuit look like bullshit.

"Man sues mcdonalds for $200billion for french fries being too salt", etc...

It's on behalf of tens of thousands of people over years and years I just helped get the ball rolling a bit. Melissa's pictures are only a fraction of what this is about! This this going to be a big deal, Match is already reeling a bit...

[Diomed]

Your cunt wreaks of desperation.

Ah fuck you.

[TheSquealer]

More douchebaggery. Wonderful. As if some dumbass at match.com is going to know who some random porn whore from Nebraska is.

Your ex was much better at attention-whoring than you are.

[Seth Manson]

Originally Posted by Fat Panda

Why are you spamming my email with this?

Because you cant login to check your stats and you wont be getting part of the $4.5billion either.

[Midwest Shane]

The law firm is filing this lawsuit! This is on behalf of tens of thousands of people not just MelissaMidwest. If you are not interested in protecting the models in our own business well than I guess I can't say anything back to that lol...

[sandman!]

good luck

[EddyTheDog]

I thought Match.com were a UK company?..

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

More douchebaggery. Wonderful. As if some dumbass at match.com is going to know who some random porn whore from Nebraska is.

Your ex was much better at attention-whoring than you are.

The law is the law and why should Match.com not be held responsible for breaking the law?

[babymaker]

You should have spell checked and more that PR before releasing to the media, it looks real bad to have such glaring errors. Good luck with the case though

[DVTimes]

good luck to you

[Harmon]

U.S. Embassy in Gana

It's Ghana, you dumb fuck. This makes you look more idiotic than your lawsuit is. And you want people to take this Press Release seriously?

[EddyTheDog]

?I was contacted by an industry insider who told me that the CEO of Match.com told him years ago that he does not care where profiles come from because fake profiles increase profits (or words to that effect),? said Plaintiffs' attorney,

Pass the oxygen - I can't breathe.....

[NALEM]

Midwest Shane, we dont know each other personally. You did however meet Buster who tells me your a good guy. What I am about to tell you is meant for you own good.

1. Don't settle on the first lawyer who just happens to be willing to accept a potential class action lawsuit.

2. Its a rare occasion that there is sound advice here. Its true, a demand in the initial complaint filed or shown in the press release for BILLIONS makes you all appear to be a bad joke.

3. In a potentially high profile legal matter, you spend the money and hire professionals in public relations management to write up the copy, and then have it sent over to a competent lawyer to carefully review it before it is released.

4. You carefully plan out the media / communications strategy, and make sure whatever the message is going to be, to have it published on the right sites, and to have in place writers and copy to counter or suppress anything negative that is stated publicly.

[dyna mo]

your attorney uses an aol email account and files multi-billion $ lawsuits.

makes sense.

[whOaKemosabe]

What happened here https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=643440

[TheSquealer]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

The law is the law and why should Match.com not be held responsible for breaking the law?

A) I don't personally give a fuck about this other than the fact that you are a fucking moron.

B) You didn't prove anything other than you are a massive douchebag filing a frivolous MULTI BILLION lawsuit just so you can get attention for it. Ultimately the public has to pay the costs for your stupid bullshit tying up the courts.

C) You are delusional if you think anyone outside a few industry ass kissers and solo model promoters even know who the hell Melissa Midwest is to begin with and you are trying to make the case she is currently famous based on fleeting and faint popularity 10+ years ago.

D) It's 100% certain that no one at match.com can be expected to be responsible for a photo used in a profile and approving a profile does not prove willful negligence simply because the photo happened to not be used with the permission of the owner of the image.

E) You aren't even intelligent enough to lay out a case for what they did wrong exactly and how this cost you money and how/why it is actionable to begin with.

You want everyone to think you are doing it on behalf of a fist full of porn whores and site members who didn't ask you to ... because you care?

Give me a fucking break.

I hope their inevitable counter suit ends your existence as well as that of the dumb whore you have posing nude all over church properties.

You are an idiot.

[TisMe]

Has the class been certified?

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by whOaKemosabe

What happened here https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=643440

ValMidwest will make well over $100k her first full year in the business!

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by NALEM

Midwest Shane, we dont know each other personally. You did however meet Buster who tells me your a good guy. What I am about to tell you is meant for you own good.

1. Don't settle on the first lawyer who just happens to be willing to accept a potential class action lawsuit.

2. Its a rare occasion that there is sound advice here. Its true, a demand in the initial complaint filed or shown in the press release for BILLIONS makes you all appear to be a bad joke.

3. In a potentially high profile legal matter, you spend the money and hire professionals in public relations management to write up the copy, and then have it sent over to a competent lawyer to carefully review it before it is released.

4. You carefully plan out the media / communications strategy, and make sure whatever the message is going to be, to have it published on the right sites, and to have in place writers and copy to counter or suppress anything negative that is stated publicly.

Thanks but I didn't hire them they came to me and were filing either way! They wanted me on board because Melissa's pictures were the most stole on all these sites for some reason. Thanks for the info and it helps and makes sense. Shane

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

?They are building a new museum in Las Vegas and have asked permission to put a Melissa Midwest display between Britney Spear and Paris Hilton."

They're building an Attention Whore Hall of Fame Museum in Vegas?!?

Wax statues of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton already exist at Madame Tussaud's House of Wax in Las Vegas, but for some reason they do not have a statue of the much more famous Melissa Midwest.







Tell us more about this proposed museum...have to check it out on my next trip.



ADG

[dyna mo]

If the match.com legal crew were so inclined, they would rake the OP over the coals for that press release.

and by rake over the coals, I mean thoroughly destroy. That's a huge liability sitting out there.

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

They're building an Attention Whore Hall of Fame Museum in Vegas?!?

Wax statues of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton already exist at Madame Tussaud's House of Wax in Las Vegas, but for some reason they do not have a statue of the much more famous Melissa Midwest.







Tell us more about this proposed museum...have to check it out on my next trip.



ADG

We can talk about it anytime you want! It's being built by the guy who ran and owned Celebrity Sleuth Magazine for years. He is using stuff he collected over all these years to build it. Like I would just make that up dumb ass, he called and asked if he could put MelissaMidwest in it and I said of course. It's not a wax one it will be more of memorabilia type thing. I don't care if you people don't believe me or don't like me. I will just keep working hard and making money again!!!

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

A) I don't personally give a fuck about this other than the fact that you are a fucking moron.

B) You didn't prove anything other than you are a massive douchebag filing a frivolous MULTI BILLION lawsuit just so you can get attention for it. Ultimately the public has to pay the costs for your stupid bullshit tying up the courts.

C) You are delusional if you think anyone outside a few industry ass kissers and solo model promoters even know who the hell Melissa Midwest is to begin with and you are trying to make the case she is currently famous based on fleeting and faint popularity 10+ years ago.

D) It's 100% certain that no one at match.com can be expected to be responsible for a photo used in a profile and approving a profile does not prove willful negligence simply because the photo happened to not be used with the permission of the owner of the image.

E) You aren't even intelligent enough to lay out a case for what they did wrong exactly and how this cost you money and how/why it is actionable to begin with.

You want everyone to think you are doing it on behalf of a fist full of porn whores and site members who didn't ask you to ... because you care?

Give me a fucking break.

I hope their inevitable counter suit ends your existence as well as that of the dumb whore you have posing nude all over church properties.

You are an idiot.

This is spot fucking on.

[OneHungLo]

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[Midwest Shane]

I also don't give a shit about the money from this lawsuit it cost me nothing to be a part of! If this law firm can get Match.com and sites like them to remove the thousands of fake Melissa pictures and profiles I will have won already. I get 100 emails a week from people thinking they are going to marry Melissa because of these scams. Some are very sad where people have sent what they believe to be a hot girl tens of thousands of dollars to come marry them. Some have sent their life savings to these fake girls/scams and Match.com has let this happen and it's not right and it's not legal. They know what's going and don't care so I am going to speak up.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

ValMidwest will make well over $100k her first full year in the business!

Shhh, the IRS may be watching...



What's your take?



ADG

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

I also don't give a shit about the money from this lawsuit it cost me nothing to be a part of! If this law firm can get Match.com and sites like them to remove the thousands of fake Melissa pictures and profiles I will have won already. I get 100 emails a week from people thinking they are going to marry Melissa because of these scams. Some are very sad where people have sent what they believe to be a hot girl tens of thousands of dollars to come marry them. Some have sent their life savings to these fake girls/scams and Match.com has let this happen and it's not right and it's not legal. They know what's going and don't care so I am going to speak up.

Anybody that would be willing to send anybody "their life savings" because they communicated via email or chat and met them on an internet dating site deserve to get smoked. It's called thinning the herd.

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

A) I don't personally give a fuck about this other than the fact that you are a fucking moron.

B) You didn't prove anything other than you are a massive douchebag filing a frivolous MULTI BILLION lawsuit just so you can get attention for it. Ultimately the public has to pay the costs for your stupid bullshit tying up the courts.

C) You are delusional if you think anyone outside a few industry ass kissers and solo model promoters even know who the hell Melissa Midwest is to begin with and you are trying to make the case she is currently famous based on fleeting and faint popularity 10+ years ago.

D) It's 100% certain that no one at match.com can be expected to be responsible for a photo used in a profile and approving a profile does not prove willful negligence simply because the photo happened to not be used with the permission of the owner of the image.

E) You aren't even intelligent enough to lay out a case for what they did wrong exactly and how this cost you money and how/why it is actionable to begin with.

You want everyone to think you are doing it on behalf of a fist full of porn whores and site members who didn't ask you to ... because you care?

Give me a fucking break.

I hope their inevitable counter suit ends your existence as well as that of the dumb whore you have posing nude all over church properties.

You are an idiot.

Umm Melissa's site at one time had 10 million plus people going to her site and plenty still know her. The lawsuit filed explains everything did you really want me to post the hundreds of pages explaining it all?

I guess we will see, my things have a crazy way of working out! Nobody thought Melissa would make millions of dollars but she did thanks to my crazy ideas. People told me 10 months ago that ValMidwest had no chance in this business and the single market was dead but her site and things we are doing will make close to $400k in her first full year and in a couple years we will be doing a million plus with just her. It's funny how so many of you know so much. I have made a good living doing the opposite of what 99% of you say so no reason to change that now ;)

[Midwest Shane]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

Shhh, the IRS may be watching...



What's your take?



ADG

Umm I ALWAYS file my taxes correctly not worth the trouble of trying to hide a little money! With Melissa we made millions and we could figure out how to do them correctly then I think we can handle a few hundred grand ;)

[NALEM]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

Thanks but I didn't hire them they came to me and were filing either way! They wanted me on board because Melissa's pictures were the most stole on all these sites for some reason. Thanks for the info and it helps and makes sense. Shane

If this is spun correctly, you get the additional traffic to the new site.

Shane, only you potentially know what is really going on in this case.
Do your best to keep an eye on the lawyers. I hope you have written stipulation that any mention of Mellisa Midwest requires them to give you first right to review. If they ever attempt to release a statement like you just did - honest to God, you need to bitch slap them and in writing tell them what I just told you.

Otherwise ... good luck!

[Markul]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

If the match.com legal crew were so inclined, they would rake the OP over the coals for that press release.

and by rake over the coals, I mean thoroughly destroy. That's a huge liability sitting out there.

BINGO

[Seth Manson]

?I was contacted by an industry insider who told me that the CEO of Match.com told him years ago that he does not care where profiles come from because fake profiles increase profits (or words to that effect)?

Originally Posted by EddyTheDog

Pass the oxygen - I can't breathe.....

This is serious business. Dont you know that all multi-billion dollar lawsuits are based on hearsay?

OMG... I brought jokes again... HAHAHAAHA

[babymaker]

Originally Posted by Markul

BINGO

EasyX close to going live?? Been stuck at 99% for a bit hoping it is soon

[Seth Manson]

Does anybody else think this attorney looks kinda... funny?

[JFK]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

Shhh, the IRS may be watching...



What's your take?



ADG

I think I need one of those

[L-Pink]

"[email protected]" Nice email address.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by JFK

I think I need one of those

You can borrow mine if you promise to return it in the same condition:

A Match.com spokesperson issued this statement in response to the suit:

The real scam here is this meritless lawsuit, which is filled with outlandish conspiracy theories and clumsy fabrications in lieu of factual or legal basis.

ADG

[freecartoonporn]

My Best Wishes.....

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

"[email protected]" Nice email address.

So we have an attorney with an aol email and virtual office space ? ???

Square Office Space
305 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10007

"Executive office space located in the heart of downtown Manhattan
Used for permanent offices, virtual professionals and meeting space on demand"


"$10/hour, $35/half-day , $65/day"


.

[k0nr4d]

From their TOS:

Furthermore; we do not have a contractual obligation nor moral or ethically responsibility or the technical means to:
- verify the identity of persons who register as Members or use our Services; or
- to verify or monitor Member Content (although we do reserve the right to monitor if we think it appropriate).

As a Member you are advised not to assume that any Member Content is accurate. A person may not be who he or she claims to be. You should at all times exercise the same caution you would normally when you meet people. We cannot be liable for false or misleading statements by Members.

So a user of the site can't really claim they were mislead, because they agreed to this TOS when signing up (and people DO upload these themselves, so it's not nessesarily Match.com doing it), and they would be protected by DMCA/EUCD for users uploading copyrighted images. I am confused as to what exactly are your lawyers intending to argue?

I could see them argueing paris hilton images or something, but with all respect melissa midwest is not a super famous entity. I have worked in porn for years and i wouldn't recognize her...

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Do New York courts allow plaintiffs to claim Insanity in Civil lawsuits?

[babymaker]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

So we have an attorney with an aol email and virtual office space ? ???

Square Office Space
305 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10007

"Executive office space located in the heart of downtown Manhattan
Used for permanent offices, virtual professionals and meeting space on demand"


"$10/hour, $35/half-day , $65/day"


.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet That's not good lolzzzzzzzz

[johnnyloadproductions]

Poor Val, her father passed and you seem to be cunning at exploiting every event for publicity.
This is how girls become jaded.

From the valmidwest website:

SO TODAY VALERIE DODDS AKA VALMIDWEST WAS SENTENCED TO 45 DAYS IN JAIL FOR HER PUBLIC NUDITY STUFF. THEY SENT A 19 YEAR OLD GIRL OVER CHRISTMAS WHO’S FATHER JUST DIED TO JAIL. PEOPLE IF YOU LIKE VAL OR NOT THIS IS NOT OK! PEOPLE WHO PULL GUNS ON PEOPLE OR GET CHAGRED WITH FELONIES DON’T GO TO JAIL A LOT OF THE TIMES. NOBODY EVEN SAW HER DO THIS IT WAS 3AM AND THE ONLY REASON THE POLICE FOUND OUT WAS FROM CREEPING ON HER WEBSITE. SHE HURT NOBODY, NO LIVES WERE EVER IN DANGER. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN PEOPLE DO THINGS SO MUCH WORSE AND WALK AWAY WITHOUT JAIL TIME. LINCOLN YOU WENT TOO FAR THIS TIME AND WE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT. IF YOU ARE VAL’S FRIEND THIS IS YOUR TIME TO ACT. JUDGE FOX WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE AND WE WILL NOT LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS! FREE VALMIDWEST…

[Marcus Aurelius]

Originally Posted by Midwest Shane

I didn't decide on the number the law firm that filed it did!

I applaud the effort, but if you want to win you shouldn't be posting the details on GFY. Especially the one I quoted.