The Tindler Swindler was released on Netflix and viewers can’t get over it. The gripping new crime documentary focused on serial fraudster Shimon Hayut, who posed as the son of a billionaire Israeli diamond merchant to swindle women he dated out of thousands of pounds.
Based on real-life events, Shimon was seen posing as billionaire Simon Leviev, with the show seeing the accounts of three women who were conned out of thousands of pounds after meeting the conman on a dating app named Tinder. The Netflix documentary mainly focuses on Norwegian graduate student Cecilie Fjellhoy, who was swindled out of a whopping £200,000 after being swept off her feet by ‘Simon’ who wooed her after flying them from Bulgaria from London through a private plane on their first date.
As their relationship continued, Cecilie found herself handing over thousands of pounds to the handsome charmer as he begged her for money to protect his identity from people who were out to kill him. Eventually, Cecilie clocked that her partner wasn’t who he said he was and soon joined forces with his other female victims in a bid to bring him to justice.
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Meanwhile, the official synopsis of the documentary reads, “Swipe, swipe, swipe… It’s not easy to find love online, so when Cecilie matches with a handsome billionaire playboy, she can’t quite believe it when he turns out to be the man of her dreams. But dreams aren’t reality and by the time she discovers this international businessman isn’t who he says he is, it’s too late. He’s taken her for everything.”
The synopsis continues, “Where this fairytale ends, a revenge thriller begins. Cecilie discovers his other targets and once they band together, they’re victims no more, THE TINDER SWINDLER meets his match.” However, Hayut was eventually arrested and imprisoned in December 2019 at Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, according to The Times Of Israel, but released the following May, after serving five months of his 15-month sentence.