Simon Leviev The Tinder Swindler story 2022
Between 2017 and 2019, Israeli national Simon Leviev – born Shimon Hayut – defrauded nearly $10 million from women he met through the dating app.
He was caught in 2017, but due to good behavior, he only served five months in prison; since then, he’s allegedly dabbled in business consulting, real estate, and bitcoin.
Tinder has long been a popular dating app among those looking for love, but it turned into a nightmare for several European women when they met a fraudster who pretended to be their prince charming. Shimon Hayut, an Israeli national, is now known around the world as Simon Leviev, the Tinder Swindler, and was the subject of a recent Netflix documentary of the same name.
But, aside from scamming innocent ladies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, who is the actual Shimon Hayut and what other crimes has he committed?
Hayut changed his name to Simon Leviev in order to impersonate Lev Leviev, a Russian-Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate. He would swindle European women he met on Tinder by luring them with destination dates via private jets, expensive meals, and five-star hotels, all while portraying a wealthy lifestyle on social media.
After establishing his character and developing relationships with his dates, he would pretend to be in danger from “enemies” who he claimed were out to harm him, and then utilize the scenario to dupe his girlfriends into loan him thousands of dollars and allowing him to use their credit cards.
According to The Times of Israel, Hayut’s fraudulent actions amounted to an estimated US$10 million between 2017 and 2019, in a Ponzi scheme in which he used money from one lady to support costly dates with another. And the documentary was only the tip of the iceberg when it came to Hayut’s illicit activities.
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Hayut’s roots can be traced back to the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, just outside Tel Aviv. His father is Rabbi Yohanan Hayut, the chief rabbi of El Al Airlines, according to The Times of Israel. His father was also accused of assisting him in defrauding plaintiff Rabbi Pinhas Badush of hundreds of thousands of shekels, equaling $400,000 in US dollars.
Hayut was charged with theft, forgery, fraud, and cashing stolen cheques in his home country in 2011. He was accused of stealing checkbooks from a family he was babysitting for and attempting to fake three checks while working as a handyman a year prior. He was apprehended, arrested, and freed on a $3,000 bail (10,000 shekels). He escaped Israel later that year under the alias Mordechai Nissim Tapiro.
According to the Times of Israel, Leviev was accused of scamming three women in Finland in 2015 and sentenced to prison from 2015 to 2017. Before evading the charges and fleeing the country under a new identity, authorities were supposed to hand him over and return him to Israel. This was also around the same time as his Tinder scheme.
Hayut was finally apprehended in Greece in 2017 by Interpol and the Israel Police for using a fraudulent passport, according to The Times of Israel. The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court subsequently sentenced him to 15 months in prison, ordered him to compensate his victims for 150,000 shekels (about US$43,300), and fined him 20,000 shekels (roughly US$5,800). However, towards the end of the Netflix documentary, we learn that Hayut was freed for good behavior after only five months in prison.
Now comes the bigger question. Since his release, what has Hayut been up to? To begin with, he’s been kicked off Tinder. The corporation “barred Simon Leviev and any of his known identities as soon as the tale of his conduct became public,” a spokeswoman informed E! News.
He had been flaunting his luxury jet-set lifestyle on Instagram up until recently, but following the documentary’s release, he deleted his account. “Thank you for all your support,” he wrote before shutting down his account, according to Esquire. I will provide my side of the story in the next few days when I have sorted out the best and most respectful way to tell it, both to the concerned persons and myself. Please have an open mind and heart until then.”
According to Cosmopolitan, some internet sleuths believe they have discovered Hayut’s Tiktok account, which publishes films of him on private jets, yachts, and sports automobiles, although this has yet to be proven. In any case, he appears to be living the high life.
Hayut also created his own website to provide business consulting services, but he has since moved on from that endeavor, deactivating the website and focusing on real estate. His website claimed that he had a net worth of tens of millions of dollars, which he supposedly acquired from bitcoin and real estate investments.
He was last linked to model Kate Konlin, but she revealed in an email chat with RadarOnline that the two are no longer dating due to their busy schedules, however, they are still friends.
Meanwhile, Ayleen Charlotte, Pernilla Sjöholm, and Cecilie Fjellhy, the three ladies who fell for Hayut’s con, are still paying off their debts and have set up a GoFundMe campaign, which has so far raised almost US$96,000.
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