The Edinburgh-based company was responding to allegations that it set up fake user profiles to entice prospective customers.
As to why someone would do this, put up fake ads, the answer of course is profit.
He trained his reporters in covert tape-recording techniques and would even set up fake companies to carry out stings.
The techniques deployed by the crime ring ran the gamut, from child ID theft to setting up fake stores to process credit card payments.
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Match.com stands accused of quote "date bait, " which is making up fake emails from sexy potential partners to lure back customers whose accounts are about to expire with Match.com.
This is the venue's first exhibition of a Dallas artist and will feature works that Mr. Swenson created specifically for the show, like a piece involving hundreds of fake snails climbing up the sides of a large colorful beer stein.
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Duncan pleaded no contest to setting up a fake charity, called Army Navy Union, to sponsor bingo games.
Now a blogger, John Hempton of Bronte Capital, has revealed that he set up a fake profile on girlsdateforfree.com - a Cupid Plc site.
Some of the people they hired to process foreclosures used fake signatures to -- on fake documents to speed up the foreclosure process.
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"We went through their website and figured out who one of their key clients was, and then set up a fake email chain, " says MAD managing partner Michael Murray.
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For Labour, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch suggested social networking sites should stop children from being able to use fake names or set up multiple accounts to disguise their identity.
Blogger John Hempton, of Bronte Capital, set up a fake profile on girlsdateforfree.com that he deliberately made as unattractive as possible to test what kind of reaction he would receive.
In August 2012, an Italian journalist set up a fake Twitter account for a member of Russia's government and tweeted that the president of Syria had been killed, causing brief fluctuations in the oil markets.
Sheffield Crown Court heard how the pair communicated using Facebook and Pooley even set up two fake accounts on the social media site so the girl's parents would not spot he was talking to their daughter.
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One stumbling block: Coming up with a fake chocolate placebo that appears like the real thing.
In January, a woman in Randolph, New Jersey, said that she, too, wound up with a fake Apple tablet after shopping at her neighborhood Walmart.
This is when hackers set up hundreds of fake merchant accounts to simultaneously withdraw small sums of money from a single account--no one knows it has happened until it's over.
Replacement parts like oil filters, headlamps, batteries, brake pads, fan belts, windshields and spark plugs, packaged with fake logos, are turning up all over the world, including the U.S. The carmakers say safety is at issue.
"It was a great head fake for Thain to set up this committee when he had the Archipelago deal in his back pocket, " says Seth Merrin , chief executive of Liquidnet, a privately held electronic marketplace for institutional traders and an NYSE rival.
And investors saw a growing number of companies using fake pro forma numbers to pump up their earnings releases.
Just the anticipation of a historic storm has people preparing for the weather event rather than stringing up orange lights and fake cobwebs.
Erin had asked a former cellmate, Joe Mallia, to steal Miss Prowse's mobile phone and send fake messages saying she had made up evidence against him.
In defense of the candidates, it's true that they have so far resisted wearing those fake turtle necks with zip-up collars that are so popular this year.
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"The age limit will never hold some people back, but I think tightening up the law on fake ID will deter those who are on the fence, " says Martinez.
The anonymous satirist who runs "The Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs" started hitting up his readers for money-making ideas just weeks after being named to Business 2.0's list of "50 Who Matter Now, " even while, in character as Apple Chief Steve Jobs, he boasted about Apple's huge stock gains.
The anonymous satirist who runs "The Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs" started hitting up his readers for money-making ideas just weeks after being named to Business 2.0's list of "50 Who Matter Now, " even while, in character as Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Steve Jobs, he boasted about Apple's huge stock gains.
Even the billowing steam, it turned out, was fake: no one had dared stoke up the pre-war boiler.
Still, the statement was printed on fake parchment, and a guy dressed up as George Washington handed out Sharpies.
The strike turned up 4 million pieces of fake Microsoft products, plus machines such as replicators and printing presses.
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