Fact-checking online dates

New websites allow online daters to see who lives up to his/her profile.

Falls Church resident Jeff Martin, 32, went on Match.com in 2003, after his divorce. He estimates that, in the year that he used the site, he went on dates with 60 women. About a fourth to a third differed significantly from their profile, says Martin, most using a picture that was "five years and 20 pounds ago." His biggest shocker? A woman who sent him photos of a tall, athletic blonde -- one of her lying on the beach in a red bikini -- then flew herself out from San Diego to meet him and turned out to be someone else entirely.

"She probably outweighed me by 30 pounds," says the 185-pound Martin. "Her face was not at all the same."

He squired Ms. Someone Else around all three days they'd planned. She never copped to the deception. Love did not bloom.