Crime documentary series is more than any web series or show because it shows you a story that is based on real accounts. The Tinder Swindler is also one among those which is a British crime documentary series directed by Felicity Morris. Released under the production of Raw TV, the series follows a man who uses a dating application Tinder to manipulate the users to give money for his lavish lifestyle.
Tinder Swindler Release Date
A long 114 minutes long docu-series was released on February 2, 2022, on Netflix. About the ratings and the reviews, the series holds 7.2 ratings on IMDb and 96 % on Rotten Tomatoes. It is also liked by 94 % of people. Many claimed it to be one of the best, visceral and propulsive docu-series. The series is being added to the most favorite docu-series list. It is the one, which showed the true reality of online dating and its consequences. One interesting but shocking fact about the series is that after the release Simon Leviev was permanently removed from the dating site, and it is just because after knowing his reality.
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Tinder Swindler Recap
Well, after reading the recap of the series, you must probably start denying, ignoring, and investing your time in online dating and so many dating sites. The story is about fraud, you can say, an Israeli conman Shimon Hayut, who has made a fool of so many women on the large platform of dating site: Tinder. He pretends to be the son of Russian-Israeli diamond mogul Lev Levi and introduced himself as Simon Leviev. He has traveled across Europe and has swindled so many.
He would charm women by giving them lavish gifts and take them to a dinner night on his private jet. He used the money, which he had conned from his previous victim to attract the next. His next step was to pretend that he was being targeted by his enemies and showed the same photos and messages to the women. He emotionally fools women and urges them to help him financially due to the breach of security. The women take bank loans and credit cards upon his saying to lend him money which he did not return. He showed them fake bank documents to assure them that he is the right man, and break his contacts with them later on. It is estimated that he swindled $10 million from the people globally.
Three of the women victim Cecilie Fjellhøy, Pernilla Sjöholm, and Ayleen Charlotte came straightforward for the interview and talked about what happened with them exactly. They told that they all were lured by him by falsely saying that he is rich and lives a lavish life, and taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from them. After knowing his truth, he was being prisoned for 15 months but released later with his good behavior. Upon his release, he again go back to the Tinder site, but he was banned permanently. He made a statement that he is not a monster nor a criminal, but he just wants to meet new girls.
Is Tinder Swindler Based On True Story
Of course yes. The docu-series is based on a real man and his real story. He was first got involved in frauding and forgery with a woman in 2011 in Israel but fled before sentencing. His bad involvement was again found in frauding with a woman in Finland in 2017, but he came to Israel and fled again. After all this, he started coming women for which he got arrested in 2019 and was sentenced to 15 months jail but got released after five months. All his victims were not satisfied with the law and the system, as they blamed that it is not right that he is a free man now. ” No matter what, but he is a free man now, and it is very bad that the law is so weak before a criminal like him ” – one of his victims wrote this.
Tinder Swindler Cast
The docu-series shows the interview of Shimon Hayut itself with his victims. The victims have all the women who have been conned by his master tricks and game.
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