THE man known as the Tinder Swindler has been flaunting his luxury lifestyle after stealing £7 million from his dates.
Known to his victims as Simon Leviev, the 31-year-old conman is seen in an Instagram video smiling as he sits in a Lamborghini, to the fury of those who’ve seen it.
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One woman wrote “you will pay in hell” while another slammed him as a “f****** scammer”.
The shameless convicted conman himself recently posted a defence of himself and criticised the women he scammed.
“If I was a fraud why would I act on Netflix I mean they should have arrested me when we were still shooting,” he wrote
“It’s high time the ladies start saying the truth. If you can’t give them world they’ll turn yours to hell.”
The Tinder Swindler was born Shimon Hayut but changed him name to Simon Leviev, then styled himself The Prince of Diamonds.
His cruel dating scam has been turned into a hit Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler.
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Victims believed he was the son of Russian-Israeli gem tycoon Lev Leviev, dubbed The King of Diamonds, but in fact they are not related.
The bogus diamond trader has also recently been seen posing in head-to-toe designer clothes in his social media posts.
Three of his victims bravely shared their stories for the show, telling how they were unfortunate enough to swipe right on Leviev and fell for his lies.
His Tinder profile claimed he was a diamond merchant who travelled the globe, but it was all fantasy.
The money he lavished on dates with his victims- including chauffeur-driven cars and trips on private jets – was all conned from other women.
Once he had victims under his spell, the documentary claims, he would pretend he was in danger, or that powerful enemies had frozen his bank accounts.
Victims sent him their savings or took out huge credit card loans to get him out of trouble.
One victim, Cecilie Fjellhøy said she ended up in a psychiatric ward after he conned her out of £185,000 in a matter of weeks.
Another victim, Swedish business owner Pernilla Sjöholm, had just split from her fiance when she fell for the fraudster.
She parted with significant amounts of cash, and only found out when she was contacted by journalists investigating him.
A third woman, Ayleen Charlotte, said she learned from a newspaper article that her boyfriend of 14 months was scamming women all over Europe.
But she turned the tables, pretending to support him while trying to recoup some of the money she had lost.
Ayleen helped police track him down to Greece, where he was arrested trying to board a flight using a fake passport.
He was eventually extradited to Israel where he was given a 15 month sentence for crimes committed a decade ago.
It emerged he had also served two years in jail in Finland for similar dating frauds.
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