Was He Shimon Yehuda Hayut or Simon Leviev On Tinder? Swindler Story & Photos

Shimon Yehuda Hayut posed as Simon Leviev on Tinder to con his matches.

Netflix Original has a new documentary that features a conman’s story and it is getting whole different attention from the millennials. ‘Tinder Swindler’ has already hit the OTT screens and the lead character and the viewers are curious to know more about the main character of the story.

Shimon Yehuda Hayut and Simon Leviev along with their identity, whereabouts, and personal life are searched on a large scale post the release. Here is everything to know about the fraud man.

Was He Shimon Yehuda Hayut or Simon Leviev On Tinder?

Shimon Yehuda Hayut is the real name of the conman shown on the Netflix documentary ‘Tinder Swindler’. However, he changed his name to Simon Leviev on his Tinder profile and started to rob the women he matched with.

The reason he chose the name was to appear as a relative of the famous ‘King of diamonds’ Lev Leviev. This could pose him rich enough for his target group to fall for him and the con artist could easily dupe them for his own good.

Similarly, Shimon used his fake identity to lure the women and become richer and richer. In fact, if the girls googled him, he actually looked pretty rich. This was an added benefit to his journey of frauding and robbing.

Who Is Shimon Yehuda Hayut? Swindler Story And Photos

Shimon Yehuda Hayut was born and brought up in Israel and lived most of his life in his country. He later fled Israel and moved from there when he got accused of frauding his employee.

The man also has an experience of being the prison for some other serious offense. He was in Falklands prison for three years and just after his release he got a new job that could help him turn into a millionaire. He conned his first match in 2018 and never looked back until he was finally caught.

People are desperately searching for his photos and story as Swindler. He has an Instagram account with over 97 thousand followers but is private and it is not sure if the account got private after the release of the documentary or it was always that way.

As for his whereabouts, Simon is currently living in Israel as a free bird and is not atoning his mistakes as of 2022.

Shimon Yehuda Hayut Wikipedia And Age

Simon Leviev or Shimon Yehuda Hayut is yet to feature on Wikipedia despite being one of the most wanted criminals. Similarly, the Netflix documentary based on him is also yet to get a place on the platform.

Shimon’s age is around 38 years old. However, his birth details are unknown at the moment. As per the curiosity of the viewers, his net worth is certainly in a million and he lives a lavish lifestyle in Israel but the exact amount is a mystery.

Talking about his parents, Shimon tried to connect himself to the famous con artist Simon Leviev through his Tinder name but his father is not Rabbi Yohanan Hayut. The identity of his real dad and mom is not known.