We all have our reasons for going on Tinder. For most of us, it’s the need for company and the possibility of meeting somebody who could end up being the one! However, this wasn’t why Shimon Hayut landed on the dating application. Using Tinder under the alias of Simon Leviev, he created the illusion of being a globetrotting businessman and misled multiple women into giving him huge sums of money. This is the story that made Felicity Morris and Netflix come up with ‘The Tinder Swindler’, the streaming giant’s upcoming true-crime documentary.
The documentary follows three women who set out to bring down Hayut after he deceived them and robbed them of their life savings. The conman also made the women incur massive debts, with one of them opening multiple lines of credit just to fund his activities. For those new to true-crime documentaries, you could take a look at ‘Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer,’ ‘Tiger King,’ ‘Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist,’ and ‘Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.’
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Born in 1991, Shimon Hayut grew up in a modest apartment in the orthodox city of Bnei Brak in central Israel. His father Yohanan Hayut is the chief rabbi of El Al Airlines. As a boy,…
