The Tinder Swindler – Arrested Again???

Remember that Israeli-born conman Shimon Heyada Hayut? Who goes by different scamming alias but his most known alias is Simon Leviev? Who used Tinder to lure his victims and cheat them of huge sums of money (amounting to a total of $10 million (£7.4 million) way back in 2017? Welll… Looks like he’s up for another jail time.

Shimon, 31, was recently arrested in Spain for using a false driver’s license. Shimon was screened by the police after he was found using the faux ID under the name of Michael Bilton. He was, as usual, driving in an £80,000 Maserati with a mystery woman in tow. According to the Mail Online, police recognized him from the Netflix documentary film that made him (in)famous earlier this year, which topped the streaming service’s “Most Watched” charts.

Although Shimon was allowed to go scot-free after his arrest, he was asked to provide an address of his base in Malaga to local police, while police have requested a criminal investigation to be taken out by a court in the Spanish port city of Algeciras.

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Tinder Swindler – How Does Shimon Scam Women Of Their Hard Earned Money?

Shimon uses his fake alias “Simon Leviev” to con women into believing what he’s not. Shimon makes them believe they’re in a long-distance relationship with “Simon Leviev” and that he travels extensively for work.

Shimon manipulates these women into taking loans and credit funds to transfer to him or, sending him cash suitcases. He mostly feeds them with the lies of how he’s in a huge financial mess and needs money to sort himself out, with promises that he’d pay them back.

Many of the women he deceived are currently in debt after signing away money to Shimon. There’s even a GoFundMe page set up by the three women who appear in the documentary – Cecilie Fjellhøy, Pernilla Sjoholm, and Ayleen Charlotte – to recuperate their losses, a combined total of £600,000.

Meanwhile, Shimon has been busy telling the press that he’s “not a fraud”, as he claimed in his first post-documentary interview, conducted by Inside Edition.

Tinder Swindler – Is There A Real Simon Leviev Out There?

Shimon has mostly used a scam alias of “Simon Leviev” to scam people, mostly women of their monies. Simon Leviev, the alias he went under, is actually the son of a real-life diamond empire billionaire Lev Leviev. Lev Leviev’s family announced in March this year that they were suing Shimon for defamation and violation of privacy. The lawsuit is being filed in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Following the dating app scams chronicled in The Tinder Swindler, he was then arrested in 2019 after being accused of using a fake passport in Greece. He was extradited to Israel, where he was born.

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Shimon told Israel’s Channel 12 during his arrest that “I have the right to choose whatever name I want, I never presented myself as the son of anyone, but people use their imaginations. Maybe their hearts were broken during the process…I never took a dime from them; these women enjoyed themselves in my company, they traveled and got to see the world on my dime.”

He was later tried in front of the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court and prosecuted in the same year, and sentenced to a total prison sentence of 15 months – but released after just five in May 2020.

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