From news.com.au

http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/online-dating-agency-created-fake-profiles-20091106-i1fx.html

Online dating agency ‘created fake profiles’HELEN WESTERMAN
November 6, 2009 - 1:32PM

An online dating agency created fake profiles and used them to “flirt” with registered users, Australia’s consumer watchdog has revealed.

Redhotpie.com.au, which describes itself as a dating site for “singles and swingers”, has been accused of misleading conduct by The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, for creating and publishing fictional profiles on its website.

The profiles were used to send “flirt” messages to registered users. The site claims to have more than 1.6 million members and features dating advice from author Bessie Bardot.

But the ACCC said the operators of redhotpie,Mark Semaan and Maxwell James McGuire, falsely represented that members could socialise with - and potentially meet - every Profile that was viewable on the site, “when It was not the case”.

It does not reveal how many profiles may be fake.

A directions hearing has been set for December 10 in Perth’s Federal Court.

Source: theage.com.au

Can anyone see a Class Action by members who have been sucked into paying to contact these ‘phantoms’ if the court action is a success ? And when we went public here with our info, RHP management deleted our profile to hide the evidence perhaps ?

Can;t say this a surprise.