MILF sues Match.com for jacking her photos

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background if u don't have time to read .... website allegedly jacked a milfs online photos and some slick cats from Africa catfished a simp out of house and home .....


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EXCLUSIVE: Florida model who sued Match.com says photos of her on site led to man’s suicide

Yuliana Avalos, 31, argues in a lawsuit against Match.com that pictures from her travel blog and modeling site were posted on Match.com and used as bait in a scam that killed Al Circelli of Yonkers.

By Lisa Lucas AND Stephen Rex Brown / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

A WABC TV framegrab of Al Circelli, 70, of Yonkers, and Yuliana Avalos, a Florida model, whose photo was allegedly posted without her authorization on Match.com as part of a scam that led to Circelli's suicide.

Her looks have killed.

The Florida model who sued the dating site Match.com revealed Saturday her photos were used in an online scam that drove a man to commit suicide.

Yuliana Avalos, 31, told the Daily News she was stunned to learn in 2010 that photographs from her travel blog and modeling site had been posted on Match.com and used as bait in a catfishing scam that reeled in Al Circelli of Yonkers.

“The woman who he thought he was talking to was begging him for money and he finally went broke,” said Avalos at her home in Palm Bay, Fla. “He had to borrow money from his son. He went bankrupt. He lost everything. He was so ashamed that he killed himself.”

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A photo of Yuliana Avalos that was posted on Match.com. She argues the photo was posted without her authorization. A spokesman for the site said her lawsuit is without merit.

A 2010 television report on WABC — which didn’t identify Avalos as the woman in the photographs — details the humiliation that drove Circelli, 70, to kill himself.

Over the course of more than a year Circelli corresponded with a woman named Aisha who sent sexy photos actually of Avalos.

Aisha needed money — lots of it — sent to Ghana so that she could handle some expenses, gain access to a fortune, and eventually unite with the divorced Circelli. The retired businessman bought it hook, line and sinker.


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A photo of Florida model Yuliana Avalos that was allegedly posted without her authoriztion on Match.com.
Circelli sent numerous payments of hundreds of dollars that eventually amounted to a whopping $50,000, according to the WABC report. Circelli took out credit cards in his son Peter’s name and got advances. He stopped making mortgage payments on his home, which went into foreclosure. Peter’s credit was ruined.


The day Circelli shot himself he thought Aisha would be arriving on a Delta airplane, WABC reported.

Avalos learned that her face had been used in the scam in 2011 for a segment on ABC’s “20/20.” Reporter Chris Cuomo sprung the stunning revelation on her during the interview, sending chills through her veins, she recalled.

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Yuliana Avalos is suing Match.com argued that photos of her were posted on the site without her authorization.
The horrifying consequences prompted her to pursue the $1.5 billion class-action suit in Manhattan Federal Court, which was announced Friday.

Avalos said the ordeal has led her to greatly reduce her online presence. The mother of two avoids photos of herself with her kids because the images have been used in scams, she said.


“I'm afraid to even take pictures of my kids — not even just posting them, but taking them,” she said.

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Yuliana Avalos has argued in a lawsuit against Match.com that photos of her were posted without her permission on the site as part of a scam that drove a man to commit suicide.
“They say terrible things like he’s sick and in the hospital and needs money.”

Avalos said her likeness is so prevalent on Match.com that it’s obvious the site isn’t doing much to protect users from catfish scams in which a mark gets suckered into sending money to a scammer posing as someone else.

“I pull up the page and there’s my picture on Match and then four pictures down there is me again!” she said. “As long as they’re making a profit they don't care.”


A spokesman for the site scoffed at 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,” the spokesman said. “We’re confident that our legal system is as adept as we are at detecting scammers and will dismiss this case in short order.”

Avalos, who said she would appear on “Good Morning America” Monday, had a message for the men who thought they were wooing her online.

“I have a boyfriend. I'm not looking for a date or a relationship or for any money,” she said. “If you see me on any website, it's not me.”


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Florida mom's photos used in more than 200 bogus Match.com profiles: $1.5 billion lawsuit
'Not a day goes by when someone doesn't tell me that they saw my pictures posted on Match.com or another web site,' says Yuliana Avalos, a Florida mom and part-time model who never actually signed up for the site. She charges the popular dating site with engaging in 'one of the biggest conspiracies ever executed on the Internet.'
By Dareh Gregorian / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, November 22, 2013, 3:10 PM
Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 12:59 AM


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Florida mom Yuliana Avalos says she never created a profile on Match.com, but her pictures are used in over 200 of them.

Match.com really does offer dream dates — thousands, “if not millions,” of profiles are pure fantasy, charges a $1.5 billion lawsuit.

The mega-popular dating site is engaging in “one of the biggest conspiracies ever executed on the Internet,” the class-action Manhattan Federal Court suit says.

The plaintiff, Yuliana Avalos, is a mom and part-time model who never joined the site, but says her pictures have been used “in hundreds if not thousands of fraudulent profiles” posted on the company’s dating sites over the past six years.

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Avalos said her photos have been used in 'hundreds if not thousands' of fake profiles.

“Not a day goes by when someone doesn’t tell me that they saw my pictures posted on Match.com or another website,” the Florida woman said in a statement.

The suit says she’s not alone.

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'Not a day goes by when someone doesn't tell me that they saw my pictures posted on Match.com or another web site,' says Yuliana Avalos.
“Thousands” of others, including celebrities, soldiers and adult actresses, have had their pictures plucked from Facebook and other sites and used for bogus profiles as well — even though they “are not and never were” members of Match’s dating sites, the suit says.



The court filing says it’s making the allegations based on hundreds of complaints filed by other alleged victims, and through Avalos’ lawyer’s own probe, which included the use of photo recognition software.

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Avalos' suit says her photos have been used on the company's dating sites over the past six years.
The phony profiles are often created by scammers in other countries for “criminal purposes,” which include “romance scams” that “entice victims to send money to people outside of the country,” said Avalos’ lawyer Evan Spencer.

The suit says that at best, the company looks the other way, because it can tell the bogus profiles are being posted with IP addresses in foreign countries — not the city listed on the profile.


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The suit says that thousands of other people have had their pictures snatched from Facebook and other sites for bogus profiles. Here, a Match.com landing page.

But the company also creates its own bogus profiles, the federal suit says.

It doesn’t elaborate on the charge — but notes that inflating the number of profiles on Match and its other 25 dating sites is good for their business.

The suit also says the company could easily crack down on the numerous bogus profiles — Avalos is pictured in more than 200 of them — by using facial recognition software, but chooses not to.

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Avalos' suit says the company ignores the fraudulent profiles and also creates its own.
RELATED: THE DANGERS OF POSTING PHOTOS ONLINE

It charges the company with negligence and unjust enrichment, and seeks $500 million in money damages for the “thousands” of victims, and $1 billion in punitive damages.

Reps for Match.com and its corporate owner, IAC, which is based in Chelsea, did not return calls for comment.

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Plaintiff Yuliana Avalos says Match.com is 'one of the biggest conspiracies ever executed on the Internet.'
Launched in 1995, the dating website bills itself as the largest in the world. A standard membership costs $35.99 a month.

The IAC sites together rake in about $350 million a year, the suit says.

The company has been sued over bogus profiles by its members before, but the suits were tossed because the terms of Match.com’s users agreement doesn’t require it to “police” profiles.
 
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Simp nikka

Pathetic

Yeah. That dude must of been really desperate for the p*ssy if he was sending money to an internet profile. AN INTERNET PROFILE. He didn't even meet the chick and theoretically she didn't even exist.

I can't feel sorry for this nikka mayne. He killed himself cause he was an embarassment to men everywhere!
 

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google image search for the win

We have people on here who use the net everyday who still don't know how to use reverse image search. You expect an old man who probably only uses email, cnn, and dating site to know how to do it?
 

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:salute:them using bytches pictures to get simps for their money. :huhldup: fakkits on this site using bytches pictures for dikk shots
 
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LMFAO @ part time model.

So, you have some guy with a iphone5s take pictures of you while wearing no name wal-mart swimwear for an instagram profile and now you're a model?

Ok....:rolleyes:
 
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