Hannah Sung speaks with Amelia Phillips, a matchmaker who specializes in online dating, on how to spot a fake profile A woman is suing Ashley Madison, an online dating service, for injuries she claims to have incurred while employed by the site to type a large number of fake profiles.

If that online dating profile sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

The larger sites also have a public image to protect, which works in your favor.In reality fewer than 100 people live within five miles of the tiny hamlet.On a false test profile set up by the documentary makers for “James”, 46, from Glasgow, received nearly 500 messages in two months.Panorama purchased the data of 10,000 people from Usdate – a company which sells profiles to sites - and found it included photographs of Brad Pitt, Michael Caine and Rick Stein.Some of the contact details were genuine, including the email addresses of academics, a House of Lords life peer and BBC employees, all of whom said they had never used a dating website.One perfect match was “Kazb”, who was using a photograph of Karen Bartke, an actress appearing in several prime-time dramas, including Monarch of the Glen.The Question“How do you know that the profile is for real and not something made up to get you to join the online dating site?