Movies The new documentary tells of a Tinder scammer imprisoned in Finland – he claimed to be a fighter pilot and a diamond prince, promised to be gentle and scammed millions of women.

Streaming service Netflix will premiere a documentary this week, with exceptional connections to Finland and Finnish women. The documentary follows an Israeli Shimon Hayut a heartbreaker who has charmed women in the great metropolises of Europe for years.

The man is also known by the nickname Tinder Cheater, as as acquaintance intensified, he began pumping money from his girlfriend. The sums are great.

According to an estimate in the documentary, Shimon Hayut, who has also appeared as Simon Leviev, has managed to shell out up to $ 10 million, or about $ 9 million, for his own use in recent years.

Novelty document is fascinating to watch, although the story of the Israeli serial scammer is certainly already familiar to the media.

HS, for example, has talked about him in 2019 here and here article and in 2020 in this article.

For the first time, Shimon Hayut made headlines in early 2016, and then in Finland.

The young Israeli was 25 years old when he was sentenced in the Helsinki District Court to three years in prison for gross fraud. He had attracted three Finnish women to pay for their luxurious lives. He had introduced himself to his victims, sometimes as a fighter pilot, sometimes as a gun dealer. After his release from prison in Finland, he was heard for the next time in February 2019.

At the time, the Norwegian news site VG reported how Hayut had continued his favorite scams. Finland had deported him to Israel, from where he had slipped and ended up in European metropolises. In the best restaurants, he had performed as the son of a diamond mining man, the “diamond prince”. The victims were women from Norway and Sweden, among others. The article is readable from here.

The title of the article in the Norwegian VG was Tinder Swindler, which means Tinder cheater. The Netflix document goes by the same name. In Finland, the documentary is named In the footsteps of a Tinder cheater.

The Norwegian newspaper article was widely distributed on the Internet in English. At the same time, Hayut’s way of cheating was revealed. The scammer repeatedly introduced a wealthy businessman to his victims. At some point, he started squeezing money, citing his life-threatening enemies, which he couldn’t supposedly use his own credit cards to spray. This allowed him to pump in his money and be able to present a luxury life under which he was able to attract new victims to his network.

Document begins by presenting the romantic dreams and dating world of young women, where dreams are combined with somose poses and the princely dreams of movies. There are Tinder swaps, private jets and champagne. There are caviar, huge floral arrangements and romantic messages of longing.

The structure of the film works in two directions. The main line of the story is to show how the scam begins, how the victim is wrapped up in the net, how he is flirted with, and when he moves from marriage promises and other eloquence through fraud to pressure. That’s when imagined enemies, fear of death, and outright intimidation also swim in the story.

More significant however, the storyline is made up of victims. The documentary features three women: a Norwegian Cecilie Fjellhøy, Swedish Pernilla Sjöholm as well as Dutch Ayleen Charlotte.

Their story is at the heart of the documentary, and at the same time they bring a theme of revenge into the story, in which the object becomes a subject. Women expose themselves to shame and even danger. They reveal to all the people their longing for good faith and romance, but they also get to put sticks in the chariot of a scammer.

One of them asks in the documentary how anyone dares to blame the victim in such a case.

Netflix production presents a lot of what has already been said in the media, but In the footsteps of a Tinder cheater also reveals new details. It will be revealed, for example, how the Norwegian newspaper VG’s desire to photograph a scammer in Munich, Germany, was to go fatally wrong.

The scammer noticed the photographer in the window of the luxury restaurant after dinner, and fled his victim Pernilla on his ride.

Rarely in documentaries do you experience such a dramatic moment as this chase. There is a woman used by the journalists as bait, as well as a scammer Hayut and her business partner who are afraid of being exposed in a hard-moving car.

On the other hand is also the case that Felicity Morrisin The documentary, directed by Raw and headquartered in London, is engaging in storytelling and emphatically tense, but the working group shows no greater interest in deepening the backgrounds and more generally reflecting on the core of the scam.

Such a missing analysis has previously been presented in Helsingin Sanomat, among others, as a forensic psychologist Julia Korkman analyzes Hayut’s actions and the conditions for the success of the scam. Korkman saw Hayut take advantage of the good faith of a lover.

“Succeeding in a crime like this is facilitated if it is good to see people’s weaknesses, needs and emotional states and make the most of them without feeling any guilt. Likewise, the ability to ask questions that make people open up, ”Korkman said In HS in 2019.

In Finnish it is interesting that Tinder Swindler highlights in a new way the role of our crime news in Hayut’s revelation worldwide. When Norwegian Cecilie Fjellhøy woke up to the dishonesty of her “boyfriend”, the credit company Amex urged the woman to read the top of the Finnish MTV criminal news.

Among other things, MTV’s article explained how Hayut found “two fake Israeli passports, three fake Israeli driving licenses, two fake Israeli flight licenses and five fake American Express credit cards” when he was caught in Finland.

With the help of a Google translator, the Norwegian understood that the Finnish media news was about her “boyfriend”, a man who had recently blown him over 200,000 euros under various pretexts and did not intend to pay anything back.

The documentary also tells how one of the women Hayut was promoted to in Finland would have had a child with her, and how this mother would have moved with Hayut’s company when the scammer flirted with her new victims.

In the documentary Hayut’s revelation is followed in detail, but the investigation seen in the document has largely been done in the past and by others. There is a lot of the same material, stories and sources that were already featured in the 2019 article by the Norwegian VG.

Netflix has instructed the media not to tell about the role of Dutchman Ayleen Charlotte in the story. That’s new in the story of the serial scammer.

Simon Hayut had managed to weave a Dutch woman into her network at a time when a Norwegian newspaper was already exposing the scam to the whole world. However, this point in the story may reveal that Ayleen Charlotte’s courage and ingenuity eventually led to Hayut being arrested in Greece in a joint operation by local police and Interpol. There was a brief prison sentence ahead in Israel.

How the story of people going now? According to the documentary, the women who were exploited and interviewed in the film continue to pay their debts.

The documentary ends with much-talked-about images of Simon Hayut living free in his native Israel. Lifestyle seems to be the same as before, that is, to the point of view. There are luxury cars and a mannequin as a female friend. Hayut sells business tips for his job.

He has not wanted to be involved in the film. Instead of collaborating, the protagonist of the documentary threatens the filmmakers and accuses them of lying.

Documentary in the footsteps of the Tinder Swindler on Netflix Wed 2.2. from.