True crime fans, listen up, as Netflix have another con-focused documentary coming up called The Tinder Swindler, and this one sounds *juicy*.
Titled The Tinder Swindler, Netflix's latest true crime doc will tell the story of a conman who used dating app Tinder to entice his victims, and the fusion of crime and modern dating is set to be chillingly close to home.
Netflix initially announced the project back in September alongside a string of other true crime offerings and, yep, that's us officially glued to the sofa for the next few months.
The streaming platform also confirmed that The Tinder Swindler will be coming to screens on 2nd February 2022, so there's not too long to wait.
Introducing the project, Netflix tweeted, "You’ll never 'swipe right' the same again after watching this new film premiering in February 2022 that tells the jaw-dropping story of a prolific conman who posed as a billionaire playboy on Tinder, and the women who set out to bring him down."
Intriguing.
Though there aren't too many more details confirmed just yet, The Tinder Swindler is thought to focus on Shimon Hayut, an Israeli conman who used the dating app to defraud women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hayut reportedly pretended to be the son of Israeli businessman and so-called "King of Diamonds", Lev Leviev. He apparently used the name Simon Leviev on Tinder, enticing women with expensive gifts and private jets before tricking them out of huge amounts of money.
One of Hayut's victims, Cecilie Fjellhoy, told ABC News in 2019 that the scammer conned her out of $200,000 (around £150,000).
Describing how it felt when she found out the man she thought was her boyfriend "never existed," she said, "That's the hardest part of it … when I realised that he wasn't [who] he said he was."
"That the person that I thought that I knew and loved, he had just done [something] in the most evil way," Fjellhoy explained, before adding that she was later admitted to a psychiatric ward following the incident.
Hayut was imprisoned in Israel in December 2019 but was released after five months.
Other upcoming true crime docs recently confirmed by Netflix include The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman, Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, and Bad Vegan. So, yep, a lot to look forward to then.
