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'Tinder Swindler' romance fraudster promises 'safe' dating app – using intel from con man playbook

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Netflix picks up rights for a documentary on the 'Tinder Swindler'

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Netflix has purchased a documentary on the "Tinder Swindler," who tricked women he met on the dating app into giving him millions of dollars. The notorious con-man pretended to be Russian oligarch Simon Leviev, the son of Russian-Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev. He would take his victims -- mostly Scandinavian women -- on trips via private jets, stay with them in luxury hotels and treat them to expensive dinners. In truth, he's an Israeli man named Shimon Hayut, who fled to Europe twice to escape theft, forgery and fraud charges in his home country. Online dating scams have been fairly common these past years, with con-artists using every available outlet into finding potential victims.