Man sues Ashley Madison for $5 million on claims of misleading men with fake profiles

At least one Ashley Madison user is trying to benefit from the massive leak released by hackers, who released the names of thousands of subscribers in August.

Because of the leak, David Poyet claims he discovered 70,000 ‘women’ the site claims are available for men looking to cheat on their spouses are fake. Poyet said he was fraudulently tricked into believing 30 percent of the site’s users were women, meaning there were 5.5 million of them.

Poyet said the hack exposed there were only 15 percent of users who were on the site; only 12,000 to choose from.

TMZ reports Poyet is seeking $5 million in damages, claiming Ashley Madison had fake accounts talk to men instead of real women.

The class-action lawsuit states Ashley Madison hired “employees whose jobs were to create thousands of fake female profiles,” Courthouse News reports.

“In short, defendants did not only mislead in marketing and promoting the website, they purposefully induced members — like plaintiff and the class — to engage with the fake profiles by sending out the initial communication to members. This directly caused members to incur costs while believing it was an actual person communicating with them.”

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