Tinder Permanently Bans ‘Tinder Swindler’ Shimon Hayut

Tinder has completely banned Shimon Hayut, also called “Simon Leviev” after the Netflix documentary based mostly on his scams went viral.

Within the documentary, a number of girls accused him of scamming them of a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars} after assembly by means of Tinder.

“We banned Simon Leviev and any of his identified aliases as quickly because the story of his actions grew to become public in 2019,” the assertion reads. “He’s completely banned from Tinder. Within the lead as much as the discharge of the documentary, we performed extra inner investigations and may verify Simon Leviev isn’t energetic on Tinder beneath any of his identified aliases,” the assertion to ET reads.

 Hayut claimed to be the son of Israeli diamond tycoon. He would spoil them with journeys and lavish presents earlier than convincing them to open bank cards of their title for him to make use of as a result of he had highly effective enemies and his life was at risk. He would ask them to extend the spending limits after which stroll away.

Hayut was sentenced to fifteen months in jail for fraud in 2019 however solely solely served 5 months. The ladies are nonetheless paying again his $10 million debt.