Faced with the success of the documentary series The Tinder Scammer, Simon Leviev – whose real name is Shimon Hayut – tried to defend himself in the columns of the British site Daily Mail.
Accused of fraud by several young women met on the famous dating application who accuse him of posing as the son of a billionaire before extracting large sums of money from them, Shimon Hayut told the Daily Mail not be the “monster” featured in the documentary series airing on Netflix. The one who would have managed to collect no less than 10 million dollars at the expense of his victims claims to be “the greatest of gentlemen”.
“People don’t know me,” says this 31-year-old man who ultimately only spent five months in prison before being released in 2020 for good behavior. “They can’t judge me. I was just a bachelor who wanted to meet girls on Tinder,” he continues on the British site of the Daily Mail.
If he is still wanted today in Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom for several scams, Shimon Hayut has started to show off his fortune (while his victims are crumbling in debt) on his Instagram account.
According to the American site TMZ, the young man has just hired celebrity agent Gina Rodriguez with a view to launching a career in the United States, with the idea, for example, of creating a dedicated dating advice podcast. to dating sites, or even participate in a reality show in the vein of The Bachelor where women would compete to win his love.