Posted on 02/23/2022 9:29:27 AM PST by yesthatjallen
When Cecilie Fjellhoy, a 29-year-old Norwegian grad student living in London, swiped right on a 28-year-old supposed billionaire diamond heir on Tinder in 2018, she thought she’d found her Prince Charming. But the supposed dream man, who called himself Simon Leviev, turned out to be a nightmare, an international con man that duped her out of $250,000 and landed her in the psych ward.
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Leviev’s profile showed a man who appeared to live a jet-setting life full of stylish suits and designer clothes, sipping cocktails on exotic beaches and attending high-powered business meetings. Fjellhoy had no reason to doubt that he was the “Prince of Diamonds” that he portrayed himself to be. She even Googled him, and found that there was indeed a billionaire Russian-Israeli diamond mogul, Lev Leviev a k a “The King of Diamonds,” who she took to be her suitor’s father. In reality, the two men weren’t related, and Lev doesn’t have a son named Simon.
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Thanks to Fjellhoy’s tip, VG journalists including Natalie Remoe Hansen, Kristoffer Kumar and Erlend Ofte Arntsen were able to track down Hayut’s mother in Israel, who denied having contact with him in years. The Israeli police, meanwhile, confirmed that Hayut is an Israel-born fraudster who fled in 2011 to skip out on sentencing for fraud, theft and forgery. He served two years in a Finnish prison from 2015 to 2017 for defrauding several women, before he was sent back to Israel in 2017.
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How does a 29 year old grad student have enough money to con out of?
I don’t really have any sympathy for these victims.
This is kind of how I feel about Mitt Romney ever since 2012.
I hope you learned your lesson. Frauds don’t come a lot more obvious than Slick Willard. Stay vigilant! :-)
“How does a 29 year old grad student have enough money to con out of?”
$250K worth.
Lots of grad students come from wealthy families.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve recently watched the Tinder Swindler and Inventing Anna on Netflix.
They both got their money from people who didn’t have it to give. The Tinder guy got women to get loans. Anna used a friend’s work AMEX card and ran up $62,000.
I don’t understand it.
“Cecilie Fjellhoy, a 29-year-old Norwegian grad student living in London”
But at least Cecilie isn’t living under a “patriarchy.” Feminism + dating apps = an entire generation on the brink of destruction. How does a grad student have that kind of money? Among other questions.
He used female tactics.
Against females.
That’s all.
Yeah... She was hoping to live a life of luxury with a billionaire she met on a phone app.... HAHAHAHA The swindler got swindled.
👍 ha ha!!
who is zooming who?
She didn’t. She took out loans and gave the man the money.
I saw that on Netflix, those women were really gullible.
I saw that on Netflix, those women were really gullible.
I don’t understand why a woman like that needs to go online to find ‘love’ in the first place.
There are terrible predators in this world. They come in both male and female versions. Neither sex is predator free.
That is a lot of loan money to have access to. Sadly, she probably got the same value she would have gotten from the education.
She was an above average looking 29 year old woman. But she was going to hook a billionaire international man of mystery on a dating app. Women might be overvaluing themselves just a tad in these matters.
I wonder how much they made telling the story for a Netflix documentary.
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