Goldberg said she had personally verified all the claims in the complaint. The ex-boyfriend told WIRED in a phone call that he denies "any and all allegations" in the complaint, but declined to comment further due to what he described as another pending case that involves both him and Herrick.
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The complaint states that the ex "would manipulate the geo-physical settings" of the app-a simple enough hack using GPS-spoofing apps for Android or jailbroken iPhones-to make fake accounts appear to be located at Herrick's home or work. (WIRED has chosen not to identify him as he's not named as a defendant in the complaint.) He allegedly began impersonating Herrick on Grindr even before their breakup earlier this year, but only started using the spoofed accounts to harass him after they separated. Herrick's civil complaint points to an ex-boyfriend as the source of the impersonation attacks. And those more extreme invitations, according to Herrick, would bring a more aggressive and, at times, even violent crowd of visitors. Spoofed profiles with pictures of Herrick's semi-nude body began to offer rough, unprotected sex, orgies, and drugs. In the weeks that followed, Herrick says, the fake accounts began to evolve. The unwanted suitors had gotten his phone number through the app as well, and bombarded him with messages, calls, and pictures of genitalia. Soon there were eight or nine visitors a day, and then more than a dozen, all finding their way not just to Herrick's home, but also to the midtown Manhattan restaurant where he worked. Herrick reported the fake profile to Grindr, but the impersonations only multiplied. The next day brought just as many, all of whom referred to the same spoofed account. Herrick says three more men came to his home that first day, all expecting sex. "That's me, but that's not me," he remembers saying. That's when the man pulled out his phone and showed Herrick a Grindr profile that included a photo of Herrick in his kitchen, taken from his Instagram account, including the 32-year-old actor and model's face and bare chest. Herrick said that he hadn't-he hadn't even looked at the app in a week-and asked how the stranger even knew his name.
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Then he asked matter-of-factly if Herrick was the one who'd been communicating with him via the hookup app Grindr, and who'd minutes earlier invited him over for sex. As Herrick tells it, the man innocently pressed the buzzer for Herrick's apartment. Last October, Matthew Herrick was smoking a cigarette in front of his West Harlem brownstone when the first visitor appeared.