(CMR) Simon Leviev, the subject of Netflix's new documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” has been banned from dating apps like Tinder and Hinge after it was alleged he had scammed several women for approximately $10 million.
“The Tinder Swindler” follows three women who said they were conned by Leviev, an Israeli man they all met separately on Tinder sometime in 2018 or 2019.
In the documentary, the women alleged that Leviev — whose real name is Shimon Hayut — claimed he was the son of a wealthy tycoon, took them out on extravagant dates and started relationships with them before scamming them out of large sums of money.
“The Tinder Swindler” was released on 2 February. Tinder has revealed that it has banned Leviev.
“We banned Simon Leviev and any of his known aliases as soon as the story of his actions became public in 2019,” a Tinder spokeswoman said. “In the lead up to the release of the documentary, we conducted additional internal investigations and can confirm Simon Leviev is not active on Tinder under any of his known aliases.”
Dating sites and apps under Match Group Inc., including Match.com, Plenty of Fish, and OkCupid, have banned him.
In July 2019, Hayut was arrested in Greece and extradited to Israel, where he was convicted of four fraud charges and ordered to compensate his victims a total of more than $43,000. He was released after serving only five months of his 15-month sentence.
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