A former UT student who founded an online dating show has been sued for allegedly coordinating a large-scale bot attack against another media company, according to court documents.
The lawsuit, which was filed in a Dallas County District Court in February, contains allegations that Evan Rama and affiliates of his company, KupidTV, organized the bot attacks to cause reputational harm to UniLink, a media startup. The suit is seeking $250,000 from KupidTV, according to the complaint.
Rama, who was a student in the McCombs School of Business before “dropp(ing) out,” according to his LinkedIn profile, said that UniLink has “no real case.”
The lawsuit claims the bot attacks were organized in retaliation after UniLink rejected an acquisition offer from KupidTV. Hamza Hammad, founder of UniLink and a computer science student at UT-Dallas, added that the attacks came at a time when UniLink was beginning to experience a significant increase in active users each day.
“I felt like I finally made it,” he said. “That’s when the botting happened, and everything came down.”
According to Hammad, Rama first contacted him last August over Instagram to discuss acquiring UniLink, a social media company he founded last year with a target demographic of verified college students.
Hammad said his Instagram account was suspended on Dec. 12, 2025, and then reinstated hours later. A couple of weeks later, he noticed unusual activity on his account.
“I pulled out my phone, and it was just 4,000 followers at once,” he said. “5,000 comments of like, curse words, flipping off emojis, to flag my account to get it taken down again.”
Evidence submitted in support of UniLink’s complaint includes text messages from a sender whose identity is redacted. The text messages, which the lawsuit claims to be from an anonymous KupidTV employee, appear to say “they did bot. Him and Param,” referring to Rama and Param Patel, a co-founder of KupidTV.
The Texan could not independently verify these claims. Patel did not respond to a request for comment.
Rama said he has retained legal counsel and filed a countersuit against Hammad, but a countersuit filing does not appear on the court docket at the time of publication.
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story in our April 21, 2026, flipbook misattributed the rejection of the attribution offer. The story has been updated here to reflect the accurate information. The Texan regrets this error.
