One day in January 2018, Cecilie Fjellhøy, a Norwegian girl in London, crossed a row with a man named Simon on the dating app Tinder.
In Cecilie's view, Simon is simply the legendary "Treasure Boy":
He is handsome and well-dressed, often in and out of high-end clubs, attending various meetings and parties,
Sail a sailboat, drive a helicopter, travel around the world... Proper rich second-generation son.
Cecilie did not hesitate, immediately swiped right, the system quickly prompted, they paired successfully.
(Schematic)
After the initial contact, the two rushed to the scene, and Cecilie was quickly attracted to Simon's demeanor.
Simon volunteered to talk to Cecilie about his job, saying that he was the CEO of the Israeli Levyev Diamond Group (LLD) and inherited the family business from the father of the "King of Diamonds", Lev Leviev...
Simon's frankness and gentleness during the first meeting made Cecilie feel good.
The first date is coming to an end soon, and Simon says he is busy going to a conference in Bulgaria and wants Cecilie to go with him in his private jet to get to know each other better.
Upon hearing about "private jets", Cecilie was instantly interested:
"This has never been experienced before!"
So she immediately agreed to Simon...
On their journey to Bulgaria together, Simon began to tell her something unheard of:
Simon said that his profession was dangerous, that he had many enemies, that he had been betrayed, framed, imprisoned, beaten...
Cecilie listened to his story, on the one hand, a little afraid, on the other hand, she liked and sympathized more and more with this "Diamond Prince" who had gone through ups and downs.
The two were separated upon returning to London, and from then on, Cecilie felt completely in love.
For some time after that, the two continued to keep in touch on the chat software, expressing their thoughts about each other.
On Valentine's Day, Cecilie, who had returned to her hometown of Oslo, Norway, suddenly received a message from Simon, saying that he had come to Oslo to see her.
This surprise completely overwhelmed Cecilie, and she agreed to be Simon's girlfriend on the spot.
Out of caution, Cecilie went to Google and searched for the name Simon Leviev, and the result was that it was Leviv, a famous Israeli diamond family.
One description, which said the Leviv family had a close personal relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, only made Cecilie more convinced of Simon's identity and his so-called "dangerous background."
By this time Cecilie is completely in love with Simon, she is convinced that she is in love with the heir of the Leviv family, and every day she feels a happiness that she has never felt before...
However, the sweet relationship did not last long, and unexpected situations soon appeared.
One night, Simon suddenly sent multiple messages showing others in an ambulance, their clothes stained with blood, and the bodyguards next to him bleeding from their heads.
Simon voiced Cecilie to tell Cecilie that he had been raided by enemies, but thanks to the bodyguards protecting him from danger to his life, everything stabilized, and told Cecilie not to worry and go to sleep.
Early the next morning, Simon sent another voice message and a few pictures, saying that he could not swipe his credit card because the security team warned him that once he swiped the card, the enemy would immediately be able to lock his position, and his life would be in danger.
Simon wanted Cecilie to associate her credit card with his account for a while, so that he could cope with daily expenses, "two weeks."
Cecile, who was in love, agreed without much thought, but her credit card limit was not high, and she was quickly blown up by Simon.
Simon then asked her to take 25,000 cash to Amsterdam, saying that the cash would not be traced.
Cecilie agreed again, and in her opinion, helping the rich second-generation boyfriend through the difficulties was the most important thing.
Because Cecilie's credit card limit is not high, Simon gave her an idea, asking her to lie to the bank that she was an employee of the Leviev Group, and that as the CEO of the company, he would arrange for someone to help her get hired.
Soon after, Cecilie received a payroll from the "Leviev Group" with a monthly salary of up to $90,000 (only the payroll had no money).
Simon asks her to send her pay stubs to the bank so that they can give her a higher line of credit.
To keep Cecilie from feeling stressed, Simon also sent over an UBS wire transfer receipt showing that he had remitted $250,000 to Cecilie's account, enough to pay off the ones he had swiped off earlier.
Cecilie's hanging heart let go, she trusted Simon completely, and then decisively went to several other banks to apply for a new credit card, and got a higher limit...
In this way, Cecilie's own credit card was swiped by Simon for twenty thousand dollars within three days, and Simon quickly sent a message saying that it was not enough.
He said the team's expenses were too great and hoped Cecilie would help him again, so Cecilie weighed it up and applied to another new bank for a $40,000 credit card.
For some time after that, Simon sent a message to Cecilie almost every two or three days for help, and the content was a lack of money.
In this way, this bank twenty thousand, that bank ten thousand, unconsciously, Cecilie borrowed more than 200,000 dollars from 9 banks.
Simon is grateful for all that Cecilie has done, and he keeps sending voice thanks, saying that he will never forget cecilie to help him through this, and Cecilie is the other half of his destiny.
However, after spending nearly $500,000, credit card collection bills began to snowflake into Cecilie's home, and Cecilie had to tell Simon that she could no longer hold on and was in desperate need of $500,000 to pay off the debt.
At this time, Simon kept saying that it was not safe and convenient to transfer money, and then he kept saying that he had difficulties of one kind or another.
The two began to get into a very unpleasant fight, quarreling on the phone, and finally Simon proposed a solution, he asked Cecilie to go to a safe hotel in Amsterdam, and he would write a check to her face.
After the meeting, Simon did indeed hand him a $500,000 denomination with a check for the "Leviev Group" on the head.
But at this time, Simon's attitude was quite cold, and the two had long since lost their understanding as lovers, and after a casual meal, they hurriedly separated.
Cecile, who was overwhelmed by the debt, could not care less about her emotional entanglement with Simon, and she was anxious to cash the check to pay off the credit card debt.
However, after the check was delivered to the bank, the staff called and said that the check could not be cashed...
Cecilie suddenly realized that something was wrong, and hurried to check the $250,000 wire transfer that Simon claimed to have returned, and was equally shocked to find that the money had not arrived...
When she dialed Simon's phone again, she found that the other person's phone was always on the busy line and could no longer get through...
At this moment, Cecilie realized:
I was deceived by Simon!
At this juncture, the bank's collectors came to the door, and Cecilie had no choice but to tell everything that had happened to her, including, of course, her impersonation of Levyev Diamond Group employees to do the credit limit.
When Cecilie showed a picture of Simon on her phone, the two bankers looked at each other and sighed:
"It turned out to be him..."
Bank employees told Cecilie that there was more than one woman who had the same experience as her, as well as in other european countries, and Ms. Pernilla Sjöholm of Sweden was another.
Like Cecilie, Pernilla was drawn to the charismatic Simon when she stroked Tinder, except that Pernilla didn't fall in love with him.
After the two were paired, Simon invited Pernilla to meet him in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and offered to book a flight and hotel for Pernilla.
After that, Pernilla received a message on her mobile phone to make a reservation under the name "Leviev Diamond Group".
Pernilla was also curious to google "Leviev Diamond Group" and then went to Amsterdam to meet Simon.
Simon took her to the Diamond Museum and patiently talked to her about a series of professional knowledge such as diamond production and marketing, cutting and so on.
After the appointment, Pernilla was convinced of Simon's "CEO of the Levyev Diamond Group" and the "Prince of Diamonds".
However, Pernilla does not have feelings of love for Simon and agrees to be friends with each other first.
In the days that followed, Simon and Pernilla remained in touch, showing his "luxury living" side every five minutes, going on vacations to Greece, attending beach parties, and sailing yachts out to sea.
Suddenly, one day, Pernilla's mobile phone suddenly rang, it was a message from Simon, there was a news link in the message, Pernilla clicked to see, it was the news that Simon's "father", the founder of the Levyev Diamond Group, was involved in the diamond smuggling case.
Pernilla then received a message from Simon about being hunted down by his enemies and unable to use his credit card.
Simon sincerely offered to borrow thirty thousand dollars from Pernilla to get through the storm.
Pernilla had saved up a deposit to buy a house, and after much deliberation, she finally decided to lend the money to Simon:
"At that time, I thought that my friend's life was more important than buying an apartment, so I lent him ..."
As with Cecilie's experience, Simon didn't return the money to Pernilla afterwards, and he quickly disappeared after getting the money...
Bank employees eventually revealed the truth to Cecilie:
This man is from Israel and is a professional fraudster, and Simon is just one of many names he uses in his deception.
Simon was born into an ordinary family in Bernie Black, Israel, his original name was Shimon Hayut, and when he became an adult, he went to court to change his name to Simon Leviev, in order to have the opportunity to impersonate a member of the Family of Leviv, Israel's oldest diamond oligarch.
As soon as he became an adult, Simon began a career of fraud, committing several scams in his early 20s.
In 2011, in order to escape the Israeli government, Simon escaped from Israel and hid in Finland, starting his tried and tested deception tricks, and since then, the more he cheated, the more he deceived.
Simon's deception method is basically a routine, first through social media to meet women, and then "inadvertently" to date women to show their "rich" identity, after gaining trust, and then for various reasons to "borrow money" from the victimized women.
Of course, simon, who "just debuted", is not very skilled in technique and acting, and has cheated three women of hundreds of thousands of dollars in his years in Finland.
He was dubbed by the police "the protagonist of the demonic version of The Cat and Mouse Game" (a genius fraudster played by Little Plum).
He was arrested and imprisoned by the Finnish police in 2015, and after being released from prison after serving two years in prison, he did not relent, but went to London and resumed his fraud career.
Relying on PUA women in many European countries, cheating on sky-high prices to maintain their luxurious lives...
In 2017, Simon began looking for women on the dating app Tinder, picking "prey" that was suitable for the hand.
He knows very well that on the other side of the dating app, some women who yearn for good love are also looking for good men through Tinder, and Simon deliberately shows the personality that meets the tastes of most women.
Using the same routine, Simon continues to scam one girl after another on Tinder.
Since 2015, he has tried this routine repeatedly, he once told one girl that he was an arms dealer, and then lied to another girl that he was a real estate tycoon, of course, he used the identity of "Levyev Diamond Prince" the most.
Over the years, he has used the money he swindled from some girls to eat, drink and have fun, and then use these "luxurious daily tricks" to trick more girls...
In just a few years, Simon Leviev, a man originally born into an ordinary Israeli family, became a wanted fraudster in Israel, Sweden, The United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and Norway.
But he was unusually cunning and repeatedly escaped capture.
However, no matter how cunning a liar is, there are times when he falls behind.
In July 2019, Simon Leviev cheated on women in many European countries, but refused to let go of his long-term girlfriend Ayleen Koeleman.
Because of his wanted nationwide, Simon's travel became more and more difficult, so he asked Ayleen for help, hoping that his girlfriend would protect him, and Ayleen happily agreed.
What Simon didn't expect was that his true love Ayleen had secretly connected with the multinational police, and under the command of the police, Ayleen was setting up a trap to arrest Simon.
She lied that she was in Greece and asked Simon to fly over to meet her, and Simon flew to Greece happily, but was quickly stopped by the Greek police for a fake passport, after which Interpol appeared and arrested Simon for fraud.
The super fraudster was arrested, the truth was completely revealed, Simon packaged himself as the "Diamond Prince", and directed himself to encounter the threat of the enemy, need help, successfully defrauded several women, over the years, he defrauded the total amount of tens of millions of dollars.
His private jets, the security team, the Phantom Rolls-Royce, the upscale villas, the luxury yachts, all he rented or hired.
The characters of the "Diamond Prince" are all packaged by him in order to deceive money and deceive.
However, the criminals are punished, and the case does not have a happy ending.
Simon was sentenced to only fifteen months in prison and only five months in prison before being freed.
In the following two years, he was still active on multiple social media, still playing with people as Simon Leviev, gaining more than 100,000 followers, and continuing to PUA men and women who did not know his true identity.
Until February 2 this year, the documentary "Tinder Fraudster" was launched on Netflix.
The "simon_leviev_official" account on Instagram suddenly poured into thousands of netizens, and everyone left a message:
"Shameless!"
"You've lied to so many people!"
"You're the 'Tinder scammer'!?"
……
After that, Simon's account was officially deleted under the repeated bombardment and reports of countless netizens.
It turned out that Instagram officials finally realized after receiving complaints that the owner of this account was actually the buddha of the documentary "Tinder Fraudster" released by Netflix not long ago.
After the Instagram ban, Simon was also collectively banned by a series of dating apps such as Tinder.
According to media reports, Simon's life is still leisurely and moist, but many women who have been cheated by him are still struggling in the abyss of debt...