If you are looking for love through popular dating apps like Tinder, I advise you to watch this movie before accepting the invitation of any handsome young man who shares your interests and likes his pictures on his trips here and there. The end usually will not be a marriage proposal attached to an island and a silver yacht similar to the famous Muharram Fouad song.
“Tinder Swindler” is a movie that Netflix released a few days ago, specifically on February 2, to reopen a case file that sparked controversy in the Israeli and European media and press for years regarding the Israeli fraudster Shimon Hayut.
Listen, or to be more precise, listen to the story with me from the beginning.. “Shimon Hayut” is a young Israeli man who introduces himself to his victims through the “Tinder” application as an Israeli billionaire named “Simon Leviev”, the son of a wealthy family that trades in diamonds.
Pictures on board sea yachts and in private planes, trips to the most beautiful places in the world, and videos of wild nights in the most luxurious nightclubs between Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles.
Attractive content arouses the curiosity of women looking to date a rich and handsome man through the Tinder app. From here the story begins, Simon accepts the request and sets a date for the meeting, usually in a famous seven-star hotel, or a luxury restaurant only frequented by the wealthy.
Of course, the meeting will be limited to the minute because “Simon” always travels around the world for his endless work and meetings, so there is no objection to the handsome billionaire taking a private plane from Amsterdam in the morning to meet the prospective girlfriend in London for an hour in the followingnoon!
This case, of course, breaks the walls of caution in the mind of any girl, so that the fraudster begins to set up a tight trap. We have a girl looking for love, so what regarding if a handsome billionaire loves her and pays a food bill in the first meeting that may exceed a thousand euros?!
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Dual love and money .. Who will resist the temptation?
The film tells in a way that combines the documentary and dramatic character of how Simon succeeded in trapping his first victim, “Cicely Velhoy”, a Norwegian girl living in London. An offer that tickles the feelings of a girl, especially if she is an expatriate suffering from loneliness and looking for love, so she finds in front of her wrapped in a dream of obscene wealth.
On the plane, she meets Simon’s ex-wife and his son, a strange situation, but the smart fraudster completes the picture with this detail that he told regarding hours ago. “Simon” is really amazing, he did not leave anything unanswered, he knits the details even if they are trivial to give his story more realism and admiration.
He artfully paints the picture of a miserable billionaire who lives fraught days, but at the same time is a model father who takes care of his son and his ex-wife as well, but surprisingly, this woman is also another victim who discovers her truth in the end.
Moments that embody all the psychological games that can be practiced on a girl to convince her of the image of a man who cannot be refused, and the game is complemented by love messages via “WhatsApp” and expensive roses bouquets, so another meeting following days ends with sharing bed and love, ideas and dreams regarding a future and a joint life following he travels To Oslo, the victim’s hometown, and offers her to move to live with him in Amsterdam!
The film moves to the rest of the victims of Simon or Simeon, another woman, but more realistic, a Swedish girl named Brinnelli. The storming of this woman will not be through fantasies of love, but rather with life, travel, dinner invitations and noisy evenings to build bridges of solid friendship between them and promises of joint projects, and to confirm that he does not think regarding Love or sex offers her his Ukrainian sweetheart and this is another story.
Events develop suddenly, Simon turns into a stalker when he sends video clips of attacks on him and his bodyguard by his rivals in the diamond trade, and hiding and running away becomes a matter of necessity for him and those he loves, and for this he cannot use his bank accounts to spend on himself or on the army of helpers Who accompanies him as they watch and this threatens his life!
The nets of the carefully set trap converge when he asks to borrow money and in huge numbers, starting from 20 thousand euros to reach hundreds of thousands. Unlimited credit, in honor of the promises of a handsome billionaire that are undoubtedly reliable.
Here the Norwegian sweetheart fell into the trap, as did the Swedish friend, and they were joined by a third Finnish girlfriend who was exposed to the same game that lasts by sending them “Simon” or “Simon” with compensation checks in numbers greater than what they gave him as a kind of temptation, but all of them are not exchangeable.
The two most famous victims are Cecily and BrinelliWhenever the minutes pass and you see Simon’s game and discover part of his truth, you only have to salute the film director Felicity Morris for the great effort that was made to track the story, specifically when one of the victims turns to the Norwegian press to adopt the story and begins to reveal the truth of the fraud through a long investigative investigation conducted by a journalist team that travels between England, Norway, Greece, Spain, Sweden and Israel!
Little by little the solutions to the equation jump in front of the screen, Simon the handsome billionaire lives his tumultuous life at the expense of his victims, all the pictures of fancy dinners, raucous parties and private plane flights are really real but it’s not his money but he excels in making each victim spend on his exciting story with another victim, and every one Some of them know him by a different name and maybe a different account on Tinder, although the same videos and love messages send a text to each of them at the same time!
Who is Simon Leviev, the diamond billionaire?
In a poor, hard-line neighborhood in Tel Aviv, we know who Simon, the handsome diamond billionaire, is. He is in fact the young con man, Shimon Hayut, who was kicked out of his home by his mother years ago due to his many problems. He forged dozens of passports with fake names in order to defraud people, to the point that he was wanted by the authorities. The Israeli, who does not know how he got out of the country and where he resides.
Chamoun planned his game with the utmost precision. He established a fake website for the company owned by the family of “Leviev” diamond tycoons in Israel, forged press interviews written with him through graphic and photoshop techniques, wore the most expensive clothing brands in the world, and hired a team of assistants and guards who are ignorant of the truth of his work, they Just get paid to participate in skits and are convinced that he is indeed a billionaire Simon Leviev!
Interpol moves in cooperation with the victims following they appear in the various media and tell their story, and despite that, Shamoon is still chasing them and asking them for money, and sending his pictures while he is staying in a modest inn and eating on the sidewalk, and that everything that is reported regarding him in the media is a conspiracy hatched by his enemies.
Simon is arrested several months later, on charges of defrauding women and obtaining nearly 10 million dollars from them, but the law alone does not protect those looking for blind love. He did not steal, but rather a request to borrow money from the women, but he is not owed by a bank or an official body, and none of them possesses or an official paper proving that he owes her.
It is a very sad and realistic ending, especially since the Israeli authorities sentenced him to 15 months in prison, and he was released following 5 months for good behavior!
I tried hard to rule out sectarian and religious bias on the part of the Israeli authorities in this story, especially since the victims are from other countries, but what is surprising is that Chamoun got out of his prison to return to his normal life, and even publishes once more over the past year photos of his trips, luxurious clothes, luxury cars and private planes.
The quorum continues and the filmmakers are in trouble
The film caused a sensation over the past week, and the newspaper “Daily Mail” said in a report that Hayot, who deceived European women for two years using a dating application Tinder, was surprised by the massive media coverage and violent reactions towards him.
Which prompted Chamoun to respond to the filmmakers and the Netflix network that he will take legal measures once morest them and demand huge financial compensation .. Where did he get all this audacity?!
“I will tell the real story in the next few days, when I come up with the best and most respectful ways to tell it, so as not to offend the parties involved, and until then, please, be open-minded and hearty,” Chamoun wrote on his Instagram account.
But shortly followingwards, he closed his Instagram account, which has more than 100,000 followers, while the dating application “Tinder” issued a statement published by “Variety” newspaper last Friday, saying: “We have conducted internal investigations and can confirm that Shimon Lviv is no longer active on Tinder under any of his known aliases.
But the crisis here is not in his cessation of activity on “Tinder”, but we are facing real and clear fraud crimes, but the culprit is still at large, and he may reap millions of dollars for defamation, while his victims are still shackled with bank debts until now, which is the shock ignited by the two Norwegian victims. And the Swedish when they appeared in television interviews before and following the presentation of the documentary to confirm that their lives had turned into a “horror movie”, and that the banks mercilessly withdraw all their savings and income to pay off what was borrowed plus the value of the interest.
The film topped the lists of the most watched in several countries, and even at the level of the Arab countries, where it ranked fifth for the highest viewing via Netflix in the UAE, while it reached the third place in Egypt as of this writing, and is expected to cause a greater commotion in the coming hours, but will it restore this right? To the victims or save them from prison!
It is true that the law does not protect fools, but there is no objection to recognizing that the brutal world order decided to make us all on the brink of a pit of “obscenity”, a world that squeezes you and drains you professionally and humanly, and gives you hope behind a phone screen that opens up legitimate and illegal dreams for you as well, dreams in reality It is nothing but a way to revive a giant “business” under the name of social communication, dinosaur entities profiting from your basic human instincts such as the search for love, and here they have no objection to leaving predatory hyenas like Shimon Hayut to devour what remains of you.
