‘Exchange him for the hostages’: The Tinder Swindler visited an Israel military base for clout, took back gifts when barred from taking photos

Shimoyon Hayut, a con man whose exploits scamming women in Norway, Finland, and Sweden out of hundreds of thousands of dollars under the name Simon Leviev were detailed in an investigative series by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang and in the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, was turned away from an Israeli military base in …

Tinder Swindler Victim Ayleen Charlotte Speaks Out

In an exclusive Red Table Talk clip shared with Distractify, Ayleen recounts the moment when she first discovered her boyfriend “Simon” was not who he said he was. “I opened up Instagram, and there I saw his face on my feed. And I was like, ‘OK, this is weird,’” she explained to Jada, Willow, and …

People Are Sharing Their Own Tinder Swindler Moments

13. “When I was 25, I met this guy on Tinder. For the first couple weeks of dating we only spent time at my house or going out, never his. When I questioned why we couldn’t go to his place, he said he’d been living with a friend because his new place was still being …

‘Tinder Swindler’ Simon Leviev Has Moved Into Charging Nightclubs $20k For His Presence

Netflix Thanks to the recent Netflix doc The Tinder Swindler, Simon Leviev is a household name — and it’s not even his real name. The one born Shimon Yehuda Hayut is a longtime conman who was first nabbed in 2011 after cashing checks for a family for whom he was babysitting. His most famous exploits, …

Why Isn’t the Tinder Swindler in Prison? Many People Want Him Locked Up

They are each still paying off debts they accumulated after getting involved with the conman. Today, they’ve reached almost £128,000 out of a £600,000 goal. In American dollars, they are hoping to achieve their goal amount of $679,369. The Netflix documentary has opened the eyes of so many people when it comes to avoiding romance …

‘The Tinder Swindler’ Simon Leviev Has Been Banned From Dating Apps After The Netflix Doc’s Revelations

Getty Image When The Tinder Swindler documentary started streaming last week on Netflix, the film made a shocking revelation at the end. Simon Leviev, “The Tinder Swindler,” was still active on the dating app despite allegedly scamming millions of dollars (total) from several women. According to the documentary, Leviev pretended to be the son of …

‘The Tinder Swindler’ Victims Have Set up a GoFundMe

Cecilie Fjellhoy, a designer in London, quickly fell for Simon Leviev after meeting him on Tinder. While he visited her from time to time, their relationship was mostly long-distance, as he claimed he needed to travel for work. Cecilie was deeply in love with Leviev, but constantly worried about having a boyfriend who was always …

Who Is ‘The Tinder Swindler’? Inside The New Netflix Doc

Netflix Ever since the Netflix doc The Tinder Swindler was released last week, people have been asking a big question: Who is the Tinder Swindler? The film examines the stranger-than-fiction story of a wealthy jet-setter who used the dating service to woo women and fleece them out of money. Over the course of two years, …

Is ‘The Tinder Swindler’ A True Story?

Netflix Netflix keeps digging deep into the true-crime realm with no signs of stopping. From the revival of Unsolved Mysteries to Joe Berlinger’s Crime Scene series to the Making A Murderer show and the upcoming Inventing Anna (from Shondaland and starring Julia Garner), it’s never been easier to binge other people’s bad deeds to your …

Where Is the Tinder Swindler Now? Netflix Documents His Story

“I am not someone who waits in line or at places,” he told the station via The Times of Israel. “With all due respect, I will not sit and wait 3-4 hours. I am not someone who waits, and no one can say a word about it.” As of today, Hayut remains out of prison …