Simon Leviev, aka The Tinder Scarmer, has risen in popularity in recent weeks since Netflix released a documentary featuring three women who claim to have been scammed through dating apps. Leviev, whose real name is Hewit, is reported to identify himself as the heir to a wealthy Israeli businessman. He won suitors with rich gifts and then demanded money from them to ensure that his “enemies” threatened to kill him. Next, we are going to know everything about this new internet phenomenon.
Who is Simon Leviev
Leviev, whose real name is Shimon Yehuda Hayo, was born in 1990 in Tel Aviv and belongs to a family of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Leviev first met the law in 2011. At the time, he was charged with fraud for stealing and passing checks from people he worked with. Before being arrested by Israeli police, he escaped across the Jordanian border on a false passport and fled to Europe. But in Israel, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison in absentia. For years there was no trace of his activity, until in 2015 he was arrested in Finland for fraud, after a complaint by three women. There he was sentenced to three years in prison.
In 2017, he returned to Israel. There he legally changed his name: he stopped being called Shimon Yehuda Hayo in favor of the name Simon Leviev, with which he became internationally famous and again left the country. The beginning of the plot phase of the Netflix documentary and recounted in a VG article: He privately called women on Tinder and asked them for money to pay for a life of luxury and his excesses. On the app, he introduced himself as Simon Leviev, the son of a famous millionaire who made his fortune selling diamonds.
Where is Simon Leviev now?
In the documentary, Simon Leviev can be seen as a wanted man in Israel, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and Norway. He was eventually arrested by police on a false passport in Greece in July 2019 and extradited to Israel after the unruly events in the Netflix documentary. At the time, he denied any charges were brought against him. “I have the right to choose whatever name I want, I have never presented myself as anyone’s son, but people use his imagination,” he told Israel’s Channel 12. “Maybe his hearts were broken in the process… I never got a dime from them. These women love my company, travel and see the world with my money.
In December 2019, he was convicted of theft, fraud and document forgery in Israel – charges from 2011, unrelated to his crimes throughout Europe – and sentenced to 15 months in prison. After spending five months in prison, he was released for good behavior. Currently, Simon Leviev is 31 years old and a completely free man in Israel, according to the Instagram stories featured on The Tinder Scarmer and as we can all see on his social media account. Before the arrival of the documentary on Netflix, his account was active with almost 100,000 followers, although it was set to “Private”. But as the documentary has gone viral in recent days, Simon has completely deactivated his Instagram.
Before deleting his account, he wrote: “Thank you all for your support. I will share my story in the days to come as I find the best and most respectful way to tell it to all of you, all stakeholders, and myself.” Until then, keep an open mind and heart. Simon Leviev has not been charged with any crimes that may have occurred outside of Israel, including the fraud of Cecily Feilhoy, Pernilla Seeholm, or Aileen Charlotte, three of whom have testified in a Netflix documentary. According to The Times of Israel, he allegedly swindled around $10 million from victims across the continent between 2017 and 2019. Cecily, Pernilla, and Eileen continued to pay off their debts.
Who is Simon Leviev’s girlfriend
Kate was born to Katrina Corinaken in the Ukraine on December 24, 1997. When she was one year old, she and her family came to live in Israel. At the age of 6, she spent time in Siberia and Russia, but later, at the age of 11, she returned to her mainland, ultimately raising her nationality and adopting it. Although they don’t know much about her parents, according to the extraction site, the collection of CVs of influential and expressive people, in Kunen, a 15-year-old sister.
Kate exclusive for international models. At the age of fourteen, while living in a small apartment in Ashkelon, she watched fashion channels and dreamed of being on the catwalk. This is what happened: at the age of 18 she was working all over the world.
The agency I discovered is Metropolitan Models, but it is now represented by IMG Models and its facilities, Tel Aviv, in Israel, and Paris, in France. On Instagram, he has more than 120,000 followers.
As he did with many of his partners, Simon Leviev contacted Conlin through social media. As he said in Radar, he was very convinced to go out with her. He explained that Leviev told him “everything” about her past on her first date, after following her for more than four months on social media. It was in November 2020 when they started together and they did it until July 2021. That month they supposedly separated, although there was not much certainty about that separation.