A Tinder con artist catfished women and persuaded them to give him hundreds of thousands of dollars by pretending to be a billionaire's son, according to a new documentary [An immoral con artist stole money from stupid gold diggers]

yahoo.com ^ | February 2, 2022 | Julia Naftulin

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Netflix's documentary "The Tinder Swindler" is about man who scammed women into debt.

Shimon Hayut lied about his identity saying he was real-life billionaire diamond mogul Lev Leviev's son.

His victims say he loved-bombed them until they sent money or gave him their credit cards.

When 29-year-old Cecilie Fjellhøy met Simon Leviev on Tinder in 2018, she thought she'd scored the man of her dreams. He was handsome, generous, thoughtful, and rich.

At the time, Leviev told Fjellhøy he worked for his billionaire father in the diamond industry. Their online relationship quickly evolved into dates on private jets and at five-star hotels, massive flower bouquets, and romantic banter over phone calls and texts.

So when Fjellhøy learned Leviev had put her in debt for $250,000, an amount he once promised to return to her, she was stunned. She's still paying that money back today.

In Netflix's documentary "The Tinder Swindler," Fjellhøy and two other women who said they were victims of Leviev's scams, explain how they fell for the Israeli hustler, whose real name is Shimon Hayut. The documentary premieres on February 2.

In 2019, Finnish investigative journalists, with help from women who said they were conned by Hayut, found out his true identity. He was arrested in Finland in 2015 for scamming three other women, but after two years in prison, he was back to scheming. Since 2018, he's scammed an estimated $10 million from women he's dated and families he's worked for, and has been reported to police in seven different countries, according to "The Tinder Swindler."

[struggle]

A legendary salt daddy.

[Red Badger]

I’m Just a gigolo .............

[BitWielder1]

Dang, why did I waste my life doing honest labor? Where did I go wrong.

[TexasM1A]

Being stupid should hurt.

[dfwgator]

[dragonblustar]

Anyone on Tinder deserves it. Skank site for skanks.

[Red Badger]

Just a Gigolo
Artist: David Lee Roth

Composer(s) Leonello Casucci (in 1928)
Lyricist(s) Julius Brammer (1924, in German)
Irving Caesar (1929, in English)

Album: Crazy From The Heat EP

I’m just a gigolo and everywhere I go
People know the part, I’m playin’
Paid for every dance, sellin’ each romance
Ooh, what they’re sayin’

There will come a day, and youth will pass away
What’ll they say about me?
When the end comes I know they’ll say just a gigolo
And life goes on without me

I’m just a gigolo and everywhere I go
People know the part, I’m playin’
Paid for every dance, sellin’ each romance
Ooh, what they’re sayin’

There will come a day and youth will pass away
What’ll they say about me?
When the end comes I know they’ll say just a gigolo
Life goes on without me, ‘cause

I ain’t got nobody, nobody cares for me
Nobody, nobody cares for me
I’m so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won’t some sweet mama

Come and take a chance with me
‘Cause I ain’t so bad, you know baby it
So lonesome all of the time
Even on the beat, only only on the beat
Bozdee bozdee bop didy bop

I ain’t got nobody
Nobody cares for me
Nobody nobody

Lonesome baby, lonesome all of the time
Even on the beat, Johnny, Johnny on the beat
Get low so, daddy, mama
Sonny said, he’s got nobody no, ooh no
Say now

Nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody
Nobody cares for me

[nascarnation]

She and other victims said they later learned Hayut would use one woman's money to buy another a plane ticket, or fund his own trips, giving the illusion of wealth.

Ponzi romance!

[Jamestown1630]

I guess you have to watch the video to learn how a ‘billionaire’s son’ convinced them that he needed money.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Every time I hear about Amazon I get physically nauseous. Not because I hate Bezos or Amazon but because back in 2003 I owned 1000 shares of Amazon I bought at $54 and I got too paranoid and sold it at a LOSS in 2005 at something like $34 “Who the hell is going to buy books”. What is now? Over $3000 a share?

[Rebelbase]

He could have raised a lot of money at the Talkeetna Charity Bachelor Auction in Alaska.

[alexander_busek]

So when Fjellhøy learned Leviev had put her in debt for $250,000, an amount he once promised to return to her, she was stunned. She's still paying that money back today.

This is the key sentence containing an unforgivable distortion of information.

You cannot simply "put someone into debt." He may have persuaded them to lend him money / invest funds "with" him / mingle funds, etc. But unless he forged their signatures or stole their credit card PINs, he cannot have simply "put them into debt" without their being somehow complicit.

Regards,

[Seruzawa]

I find it sad that there are so many people who are so desperate for companionship that they will fall for such obvious scams. That’s one reason churches exist and the fall of religion America has exacerbated the problem. My two brothers and myself all found our spouses at Church. No divorces amongst us.

[alexander_busek]

Every time I hear about Amazon I get physically nauseous. Not because I hate Bezos or Amazon but because back in 2003 I owned 1000 shares of Amazon I bought at $54 and I got too paranoid and sold it at a LOSS in 2005 at something like $34

So you're the guy I bought them from back in '03!

Thanks!

Regards,

[PapaBear3625]

Anyone on Tinder deserves it. Skank site for skanks.

Greedy girl thought she hit the jackpot, where she could later get alimony/child-support/whatever for life, and got scammed herself. No sympathy.

[libh8er]

[Nateman]

Reminds me of creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti who is finishing up another trial against him today.

[NohSpinZone]

Speaking of DLR, I saw this photo of him yesterday and BOY do I feel old.

[Red Badger]

Yep, now I feel old, too.
thanks.................