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Netflix’s new documentary “The Tinder Swindler” gave viewers a glance into world-class fraud run by a bachelor who posed to be a billionaire.
The film, launched on Wednesday, was an prompt hit because it climbed to the No. 2 spot on the streaming service’s high 10 films within the nation.
That’s not stunning given the extensively intriguing storyline.
Who's the ‘Tinder Swindler?
Simon Leviev, 31, is from Bnei Brak, Israel, and has no connection to the billionaire Russian-Israeli diamond mogul, Lev Leviev. His actual identify is definitely Shimon Hayut, per Esquire.
The conman instructed three girls within the movie that he was a billionaire founding father of jewel provider LLD Diamonds.
He would showcase his lavish life-style within the begin, making his victims belief them by spending cash on luxurious meals, journeys, actions and procuring sprees. Then, he would declare that he's in peril and his enemies are after him so he wants entry to another person’s bank card so he's untraceable.
One girl estimated that she lent him $40,000, one other stated upward of $200,000. In keeping with USA At the moment, he swindled $10 million from victims internationally.
The place is he now?
Leviev lives in Israel as a free man.
In keeping with The Instances of Israel, Hayut was “charged in Israel with theft, forgery and fraud in 2011 for cashing stolen checks, however fled earlier than sentencing. He was convicted in Finland for defrauding girls and was returned to Israel in 2017, however fled the nation once more.”
He then assumed a brand new id and took on a profession of conning girls. He was arrested in 2019 and charged in Israel for crimes he dedicated within the nation. Leviev served solely 5 months in jail. Per the report, “Hayut had met situations for launch beneath a program geared toward decreasing the jail inhabitants amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak amongst inmates.”
Pernilla Sjoholm, who was one among Leviev’s victims within the documentary, was knowledgeable of his launch. Per Decider, she stated, “I used to be in shock from the choice to launch him. I’m actually upset by (Israel’s) justice system which supplies a person like that a lowered sentence. He deceived folks and left jail after 5 months? Did you go loopy in Israel?”
What's he so far?
Since I started scripting this story, his Instagram account, @simon_leviev_official, with 159,000 followers, switched from public to non-public, which implies he actively makes use of it. In his final put up from three months in the past, he's leaning on a purple Ferrari automobile.
The caption stated, “It doesn't matter what folks pondering of you, all the time preserve singing your individual tune.”
Leviev is certainly singing his personal tune and has undertaken a brand new entrepreneurial enterprise — he presents enterprise recommendation for a payment, in accordance with The Tab. His web site states that he “made all of it on his personal” to turn out to be a “rich businessman.”
Tinder instructed the publication that Leviev is not on the app: “Now we have carried out inner investigations and might verify Simon Leviev is not energetic on Tinder beneath any of his recognized aliases.”