Tinder Swindler Fraudster Simon Leviev Is Banned From All Dating Apps
He’s suspected to have con women of £7.4million.
It’s unknown how many people have fallen for Simon Leviev’s scam, but it’s estimated he conned his victims out of £7.4million. The 30-Year-Old, whose real name is Shimon Heyada Hayut, operated under several aliases, fooling women he met on Tinder into believing he was the son of a billionaire diamond merchant.
The Tinder Swindler is what everyone is talking about after his crimes were shown on a Netflix documentary.
Shimon Hayut is a 31-Year-Old man who pretended to be a billionaire named Simon Leviev.
It’s alleged that Simon had scammed several women for an estimated total of $10 million.
Once Simon gains the women’s trust, he convinces them to loan him money under pretense and use it to reel in other victims by flaunting his expensive lifestyle and treating them to lavish gifts. But thankfully, the Tinder Swindler has now been banned after a Netflix documentary showed he majorly uses the platform to contact and defraud women.
He conned several women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund his lavish lifestyle.
With his victims mostly on Tinder, he convinces them to loan him money once he gains their trust.
The women Simon defrauded have now teamed up to tell their story in The Tinder Swindler on Netflix.
The Match Group, which owns Tinder and several popular dating apps, has announced that Simon will also be barred from creating a profile on all its platforms, including Hinge, PlentyofFish, Our Time, following the release of the documentary Pairs, Ok Cupid, and Meetic. A spokesperson for Match has insisted the ban would be permanent.
Similarly, the fraudster has been banned on Tinder and other popular dating apps, like Hinge.
A spokesperson for Match Group, who owns Tinder, has insisted the ban will be permanent.
At the moment, Simon doesn’t have an active account, but if such is spotted, it will be deleted instantly.
They added that Simon currently doesn’t have an active account on any of its apps and that if such is spotted, it would be deleted instantly. However, the swindler had been on the run for years but was arrested in 2019 when he used a fake passport in Greece. He had been a fugitive from Israel since 2011, where he’s wanted for fraud, theft, and forgery and skipping out on sentencing twice.
In late 2019, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison but was reportedly released after just five months.
Three of Simon’s victims, Pernilla Sjöholm, Ayleen Charlotte, and Cecilie Fjellhøy, narrated how he tricked them in the Netflix docu.
Pernilla Sjöholm, right, shared how Simon defrauded her of thousands of dollars.
He had previously served a two-year sentence in a Finnish prison for conning three women in 2015.
The fake billionaire fugitive was sentenced to 15months in prison and ordered to pay his victims $43,289 in compensation in December 2019 but was then released after only serving five months. Meanwhile, who Simon hopscotched around Europe, living lavishly off the saving of unsuspecting ladies he conned into trusting him had three of his victims spoke about how he tricked them in the Netflix documentary.
Fjellhøy, pictured with Simon, has teamed up with Koeleman and Sjoholm to launch a fundraiser.
The Norwegian graduate student Fjellhøy claimed she gave Simon over $270K during their relationship.
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