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Former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o would be hard-pressed for relief from a civil suit. Manti Te'o says he has received a confession from Ronaiah Tuiasosopo for leading the former Notre Dame linebacker to believe he was in a relationship with a non-existent woman, but that might be all he gets from Tuiasosopo.

How could someone be fooled by a fake girlfriend for months? Barb Sluppick, who has operated the RomanceScams.org website for the past decade, knows the answer to that question all too well.

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick compared the alleged hoax about a "girlfriend" that ensnared linebacker Manti Te'o with the documentary "Catfish."

Anyone who’s done it knows that online dating can be a giant pain in the neck. But it works. A new study analyzing 400 academic studies related to online dating found that although it’s far from perfect, it has plenty of advantages. And it has dramatically transformed the way people find mates.

A dating website that caters specifically to individuals deemed "attractive" by their peers recently dumped about 30,000 members because, it claims, they were only granted access to the service due to a rather peculiar virus — and not because they met a standard of "beauty."

Something just didn't seem right when Ilana Angel met her Internet date at a bar. He furtively looked around the room and immediately suggested they go someplace else in his car, leaving hers behind at the bar....

Singles website Match.com said Sunday that it will begin screening its users against the national sex offender registry after a woman filed a lawsuit against the company saying she had been assaulted by someone she met through the popular dating service.

A California woman has sued popular website Match.com, saying she was sexually assaulted by a man she met through the online dating service.

Wondering where can you find the most singles looking for love online? Curious what U.S. cities have taken to e-dating--and which are hesitant?Dating site Match.com has used data on online activity between June and August to rank the top 10 cities for online dating in the U.S. (Fun fact: according to Match.com, Labor Day "is historically one of the most active days online.")

Here's something different from the world of online dating. "Wings," a Facebook app from a company called Triangulate, pulls in data from your account and analyzes and uses what it finds to populate your dating profile page. You can also opt to let Wings access data from your other social and media accounts on Netflix, Twitter, Pandora or Foursquare. It was built around the concept that actions speak louder than words.