Simon Leviev, the protagonist of The Tinder scammer has duped his victims for more than 10 million dollars. The Netflix documentary tells the stories of three of the women who met him through the dating app.
Leviev pretended to have the life of a millionaire, with trips in private planes, ultra-expensive luxury cars and dinners in restaurants with bills of thousands of dollars. He claimed to be the son of Lev Leviev, one of the main diamond merchants, and after convincing his victims, he started the scam by asking them to borrow large sums of money.
One of the victims is Cecilie Fjellhoy. She incurred more than $250,000 in debt through various loans to “help” who she believed to be her boyfriend. He used the money to cheat her next victim, showing a millionaire life that was actually fake.
As we can see in The Tinder Scammer, Simon Leviev has never faced charges for his actions, in fact he lives a pretty nice life in Israel. But his victims have had to face the harsh reality of having to repay all the money with which they borrowed, supposedly to help the one they thought was their partner.
What was Cecilie Fjellhoy after 'The Tinder Scammer' on Netflix?
Pernilla Sjoholm and Cecilie Fjellhoy At the end of The Tinder Scammer Cecilie Fjellhoy explains that she returned to Tinder, even after the terrible experience with Simon Leviev. She now works to make sure no one else experiences what she went through when she was scammed. She founded a non-profit organization called Action: Reaction to support victims like her.
Next to her is Pernilla Sjoholm, another of Leviev's victims, who also appears in The Tinder Scammer. Both hope that, through all the interviews and media appearances about their experiences, there will be pressure to establish legislation that protects future people affected by this type of crime.
In an interview with ELLE magazine, she explains that four banks have sued her and she has had to face lawsuits for the money she owes after the scam of which she was a victim. In fact, as she explains, only one financial institution has eliminated the debt after analyzing the situation.
Cecilie Fjellhoy has also explained that, due to the four lawsuits she faces for the loans made as a victim of the Leviev scam, she may not be able to return to her home country. Even an employee of the bank that forgave the debt has expressed his confusion during his intervention as a witness in one of the trials “The banks have contracted insurance for this type of situation.”
Following the media exposure that Tinder scammer has given victims, Cecilie Fjell's misfortune could change today. Being the swindled one, the debts should be forgiven and the one who should face trials is Simon Leviev.
