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    The ‘Tinder Swindler’ Might Just Scare You Off Dating Apps

    The true crime doc drops on Feb. 2.

    By Lydia Wang
    Jan. 12, 2022

Anyone who’s perused the likes of Hinge or Tinder or OkCupid can agree: Online dating is terrifying. But for the women who swiped right on con man Simon Leviev, finding love on Tinder led to horrific, expensive consequences straight out of a crime thriller. The Tinder Swindler, a new documentary from the producers of Don’t F**k With Cats, tells the story of how Leviev conned his matches out of hundreds of thousands of dollars — and how his victims fought back.

The trailer, out now, focuses on grad student Cecilie Fjellhoy, who fell for Leviev on Tinder and agreed to travel with him to Bulgaria on a private jet. The romance took a turn when he revealed that he had prominent enemies and needed to borrow substantial amounts of cash. But after lending him money over and over again, Fjellhoy realized Leviev wasn’t who he said he was — and she wasn’t the only woman he swindled. As another match says in a voiceover, “We don’t know how far this conspiracy actually goes.”

Fjellhoy told her story on an August 2019 episode of Nightline. “That’s the hardest part of it… when I realized that he wasn’t [who] he said he was,” she said. “That the person that I thought that I knew and loved, he had just done [something] in the most evil way.” Leviev, who commented via text message, initially claimed he was innocent and the alleged scam was nothing but a “loan between friends that went south.” 

In December 2019, he pleaded guilty to fraud charges and was imprisoned in Israel. But that’s not exactly how his story ends: Leviev is reportedly out and about, dating models and posting photos of his faux lavish lifestyle. So how did these women all fall for the same scam?

Check out the trailer below and catch The Tinder Swindler on Feb. 2 — if you’re a true-crime fan, you won’t want to swipe left on this one.

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