The Tinder Swindlerthe app confirmed the conman, who primarily operated under the name Simon Leviev, would no longer be able to use the app in a statement to"We banned Simon Leviev and any of his known aliases as soon as the story of his actions became public in 2019," a spokesperson said on Monday."He is permanently banned from Tinder.
The documentary, which debuted last week, revealed how Hayut allegedly scammed his Tinder matches out of hundreds of thousands of dollars each through interviews with three of his victims. According to the women, Hayut pretended to be the son of Israeli diamond mogul, Lev Leviev of LLD Diamonds, and gained their trust by taking them on extravagant dates involving everything from private jets to expensive meals, which he paid for using other victims' money.
Hayut, who already served three years in prison for scamming three Finnish women prior to that arrest, was sentenced to 15 months in an Israeli prison but was released after 5. Since then, he has started his own"consulting" business and remains a free man. Thankfully though, it seems like his Tinder scams are done for now.