{"id":4595,"date":"2022-02-02T07:36:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T06:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/02\/catfishing-on-a-whole-other-level-the-shocking-story-of-the-tinder-swindler\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T07:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T06:36:37","slug":"catfishing-on-a-whole-other-level-the-shocking-story-of-the-tinder-swindler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/02\/catfishing-on-a-whole-other-level-the-shocking-story-of-the-tinder-swindler\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Catfishing on a whole other level\u2019: the shocking story of the Tinder Swindler"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Netflix documentary unravels the financial and emotional cons of Simon Leviev, who scammed women who thought he was their friend or boyfriend<\/p>\n

When Cecilie Fjellh\u00f8y first met the man she knew as Simon Leviev for a 10am coffee date at the Four Seasons Hotel in London in January 2018, he seemed to align with his Tinder profile. His pictures were flashy \u2013 designer clothes and expensive sunglasses in luxury cars and private jets \u2013 and his in-person demeanor was equally debonair. \u201cHe has this magnetism,\u201d Fjellh\u00f8y recalls of her first impression in the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, out this week. \u201cThere\u2019s something about this guy that is special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fjellh\u00f8y, then a 29-year-old Norwegian graduate student living in London, was charmed by the man who claimed to be the \u201cprince of diamonds\u201d, a billionaire heir to the diamond fortune of the Israeli magnate Lev Leviev. And she was surprised: Simon had to leave that afternoon for a business trip in Sofia, Bulgaria. Would she like to go with him via private jet? She agreed \u2013 \u201cI felt I would be stupid if I said no,\u201d she says \u2013 and the film, directed by Felicity Morris, stitches together the trip through the documentation on Fjellh\u00f8y\u2019s phone. There\u2019s a \u201cYolo\u201d WhatsApp message to her friends; photos of Leviev\u2019s security team aboard the private jet; video of the woman and toddler Leviev said were his ex and child, and one in which Fjellh\u00f8y kisses him on the cheek. They spent the night together in the hotel, and she flew back to London the next day, smitten with the man with whom she began exchanging messages daily.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Netflix documentary unravels the financial and emotional cons of Simon Leviev, who scammed women who thought he was their friend or boyfriend
\nWhen Cecilie Fjellh\u00f8y first met the man she knew as Simon Leviev for a 10am coffee date at the Four Seasons Hotel in London in January 2018, he seemed to align with his Tinder profile. His pictures were flashy \u2013 designer clothes and expensive sunglasses in luxury cars and private jets \u2013 and his in-person demeanor was equally debonair. \u201cHe has this magnetism,\u201d Fjellh\u00f8y recalls of her first impression in the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, out this week. \u201cThere\u2019s something about this guy that is special.\u201d
\nFjellh\u00f8y, then a 29-year-old Norwegian graduate student living in London, was charmed by the man who claimed to be the \u201cprince of diamonds\u201d, a billionaire heir to the diamond fortune of the Israeli magnate Lev Leviev. And she was surprised: Simon had to leave that afternoon for a business trip in Sofia, Bulgaria. Would she like to go with him via private jet? She agreed \u2013 \u201cI felt I would be stupid if I said no,\u201d she says \u2013 and the film, directed by Felicity Morris, stitches together the trip through the documentation on Fjellh\u00f8y\u2019s phone. There\u2019s a \u201cYolo\u201d WhatsApp message to her friends; photos of Leviev\u2019s security team aboard the private jet; video of the woman and toddler Leviev said were his ex and child, and one in which Fjellh\u00f8y kisses him on the cheek. They spent the night together in the hotel, and she flew back to London the next day, smitten with the man with whom she began exchanging messages daily. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Netflix documentary unravels the financial and emotional cons of Simon Leviev, who scammed women who thought he was their friend or boyfriend When Cecilie Fjellh\u00f8y first met the man she knew as Simon Leviev for a 10am coffee date at the Four Seasons Hotel in London in January 2018, he seemed to align with …<\/p>\n

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