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18 Memes From People Obsessed With ‘The Tinder Swindler’ On Netflix

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If you’re obsessed with scammer and dating horror stories, Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler was made for you.

The documentary comes from the same minds who brought us Don’t F*ck With Cats and has been topping Australian Netflix since it dropped at the start of February. The film revolves around three victims defrauded by Israeli conman Shimon Hayut, who for years went under the alias Simon Leviev.

These women would first meet Simon on Tinder, lured in by his glamorous profile which presented himself as a wealthy man living a luxurious lifestyle. Simon claimed that he frequented the world’s best restaurants, five-star hotels and private jets, as his father was a billionaire diamond tycoon.

The women featured in the documentary believed they were seriously dating Simon and all fell victim to the same scam. After a few weeks of dating, Simon would send them messages that his bodyguard had been attacked by his “enemies” which meant he could no longer use his own credit cards as he was being tracked. He then asked the women for their credit cards, and for them to even take out loans, as he couldn’t access his own funds anymore. And he wasn’t asking for any small sum, these women were transferring upwards of $20k at a time.

Of course, Simon never repaid the women. Instead, he kept up a constant stream of Tinder relationships so that he would be impressing one potential new victim with the money he was receiving from his last victim. Simon is estimated to have scammed a total of $10 million during his lifespan.

Thankfully, this documentary did see one of his girlfriends get some revenge on this conman. Ayleen Charlotte had been dating Simon for 14 months — and had given him thousands of dollars in loans — when she found out from a journalist about his checkered history of scamming women. Then being a total boss, she decided to scam the scammer by maintaining a relationship with Simon, only to convince him to sell his designer clothes on eBay and then keep all the earnings for herself. “Of course, it wasn’t in line with everything that I gave him, but it felt like a little bit of payback,” she chuckled. Queen shit.

Simon was eventually arrested and charged on four fraud charges, but he ended up only serving five months of his 15-month sentence. Sadly, the three women and countless of his other victims are still in debt. Simon now lives in Israel and while the documentary claimed he was back on Tinder, the dating app has since confirmed that his profile has been banned.

The Tinder Swindler was quite the journey and it’s left people on Twitter completely hooked.

18 memes from people obsessed with Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler:

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The Tinder Swindler can be streamed on Netflix.