"Simon Leviev (
Hebrew: סיימון לבייב; born
Shimon Yehuda Hayut, 27 September 1990) is an Israeli business man convicted of theft, forgery and fraud. According to
The Times of Israel, between 2017 and 2019 he allegedly conned an estimated $100 million from people in a
Ponzi scheme.
[2][3] His criminal activity became widely known in 2019 after the publication of an article titled "The Tinder Swindler" by investigative journalists from the Norwegian tabloid
Verdens Gang, with the support of Israeli journalist
Uri Blau, and later with the release of the 2022
Netflix documentary of the same name."
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