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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Exactly. That show, which I have accurately represented, is mainly geared toward the black community, but it mostly applies to any culture or community or group that has been inundated with feminism. The women are in total shock when someone tells them they are average.
Rich parents who read her too much of Disney's version of Cinderella and not enough of Jemima Puddle-Duck.
She conned it out of thousands of men using the same dating sites, as millions of other women are also doing.
This is just so much irony.
I doubt if she recognized the drop after 27 (or 25 perhaps). She wouldn’t be hunting for millionaires. She won’t recognize the negative impact of $250,000 in debt. Wouldn’t surprise me if she tries to hide it.
Imagine a guy who owns a pluming or construction business waking up the day after his wedding and being told by his wife she owes $250,000 (plus any outstanding college loans as well).
I had a hard time dating in general when I was young, because many men expected to jump into bed right away. I had one blind date arranged by ‘friends’ where this telecom exec started out IMMEDIATELY telling me he wasn’t interested in marriage or kids.
I wondered what I was there for - or what he thought I was there for - if that was the first complex sentence he uttered before drinks had even arrived.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t a one-time experience. I had a lot of very short, one-time dates back then...
Shouldn’t that advice apply to men as well?
A con-man is successful because his target WANTS TO BELIEVE that she got incredibly lucky.
Her ego would not permit her to ask the simple question: what reasons would such a man have to be interested in ME?
They also would be in total shock if someone told them their intelligence was average (and anger if they were told it was below average).
How many women swipe right for average looking guys who don’t have a lot of money and won’t swindle them?
Just sayin’.
After you leave high school or college, with hundreds, or thousands of people, your chance of finding someone who is available decreases dramatically. How many new, single people are you going to meet every day at the same job or even commuting on the subway? Can you go to a bar or nightclub every night to find someone? (You look desperate and eventually pathetic.) Will you find "Mr Right" in the grocery store?
Yep. “Average” is now an insult.
What’s really interesting is that they tend to think their degrees and jobs and incomes make them attractive to men. The reality he imposes is that men and women are actually different. It’s pretty shocking to hear that obvious truth in this day and age.
When the fact is the men would just rather date their secretary.
Yes. The obvious point he makes to them is that the men they want are ALREADY RICH, so they don’t care about the woman’s career. The career is the most important thing in their lives, and the men they want see it as neither here nor there (truth is, it’s probably a negative). Men can and will date down in an economic sense, and be fine with it; women are not generally willing to do that. This is stuff that was common knowledge a couple of generations ago. It’s shocking to hear it now.
There are all kinds of places to meet people, if you’re involved with church, hobbies, volunteerism, neighborhood citizen groups, have friends who are also involved - any number of ways.
Too many people just have no real desire to get off their butts and outside of themselves.
It’s like Eddie Murphy in Raw...
What you gonna do, get a job at a boutique on the weekends? And say, ‘Here, Johnny. I made $70, put that with the rest. Now we have $300 million and 70.’
All you have to do, you marry a man with $300 million, is ___ your husband. That’s it! That’s your job. ___ your husband! That’s it. That’s… Just ___ your husband. You fill out a W-2, they say, “What you do?” You say, “I ___ my husband.” That’s it!
I’m thinking that came from an Eddie Murphy routine.
“Gonna take half my ____; _______ ain’t told the first joke.
“Eddie.....I want to talk to yooooooooooo.”
Classic stuff. Eddie doesn’t seem dated at all.
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