Tinder Swindler: Israeli alleged scammer banned from dating apps

The subject of a hugely popular Netflix documentary has been banned from several dating sites after allegedly defrauding women he met on Tinder.

After the documentary was released online, Match group, the company that owns Tinder, OKCupid and Plenty of Fish banned Simon Leviev from their services.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R3LWM_Vt70

The documentary alleges that Israeli Simon Leviev, whose real name is Shimon Hayut, posed as a wealthy son of a diamond dealer, who would take women on extravagant dates before asking them for larger and larger sums of money.

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Israeli 'Tinder Swindler' banned from dating sites after allegedly scamming victims out of $10m