
Have you ever noticed how rarely anyone talks about what’s actually going on?
I realize marketing works a certain way, and so does journalism. But let’s address the one thing I haven’t heard anyone say about the new Netflix hit, The Tinder Swindler.
Guard your heart, protect your finances.
Social media for the show promises to “make you reconsider using any dating app to find love” and this is even a question posed to one of the victims at the very end of the documentary. So … are you back on Tinder?
But let’s be clear. Tinder has nothing to do with this con, nor does the act of online dating.
Feel free, friends! Your ability to hook up in peace is not being threatened.
That’s the good news, I guess. Here’s the bad news: the Tinder Swindler con can happen to anyone, anywhere.
“Well, it won’t happen to me — I’m too smart. I’m not gullible, etc.”
And if you feel that way … I can’t blame you. That said, Simon Leviev (or Shimon Yehuda Hayut) scammed women around the world out of $10 million dollars.
Did any of them know better? Did any of them *almost* know better? It probably wouldn’t be “good TV” to ask them — and maybe that’s why no one has.
But we need to talk about how this happened because it’s not one or two gullible women, it’s potentially dozens of women just being swindled by this man, and likely, more getting taken elsewhere.