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The owner of MelissaMidwest.com, a pornography website featuring Nebraska's Melissa Smidt, is suing Match.com for $4.5 billion, accusing the website of allowing copyrighted photos to be used on fake dating profiles in order to boost its profits.

The federal complaint, filed Jan. 27 by an attorney representing Shane Harrington, Melissa' ex-husband, lists Match.com and parent company InterActiveCorp of New York as defendants.

Harrington cites 117 complaints from Match.com users about fraudulent use of copyrighted pictures and warnings from the FBI, the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, the U.S. Army and Colorado's attorney general regarding online romance fraud.

The legal complaint filed by Harrington's lawyer, Evan Spencer of New York, calls Match.com's actions "the biggest fraudulent enterprise ever executed on the Internet by a publicly traded American corporation."

Harrington said he’s been trying to get rid of the fake profiles and copyrighted pictures for years, but there are just too many. He believes the profiles are operated by scam artists from around the world.