Thanks to the development of technology, today's single men and women want to have a sweet love, they can start with various social software.
At the same time, it also facilitates the fraudsters to commit crimes.
The documentary "Tinder Fraud King" records such an international version of the "pig killing plate" panorama.
The protagonist Simon is a "show off" Internet celebrity with 100,000 fans, and his footprints have traveled all over the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway, Finland, Sweden and so on;
He has many names, many identities, such as undercover intelligence officer, airline heir, son of a Jewish rabbi;
Every girlfriend, confidant, and friend who met him felt that he was a perfect and sincere and frank "rich and handsome man"...
Despite tens of millions of scams around the world, he is still able to get away with it and continue to live a life of luxury.
The story sounds absurd, but the reality is even harsher.
Opening: The Little Town Girl and the Diamond Prince
"Fingertips glide across the phone screen, knock out to the left, pair to the right."
On Tinder, the world's largest social dating platform, many people believe they can find eternal love or fast food love here.
Cecily, a 29-year-old town girl, is one of them, having used the app for 7 years, completing 1,024 pairs at Tinder.
Cecily, a master's degree from the University of London, is an information technology consultant who still longs for Disney's fairytale love, especially the story of an ordinary girl like Beauty and the Beast who saves the cursed prince.
She believes that one day, she will meet Prince Charming in Tinder.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
The truth is that she met a liar before she met Prince Charming.
One day, she brushed up on a man named Simon Levev. Men dress stylishly, Sven is handsome, and has a business elite style.
Cecily was momentarily moved, and immediately looked for his traces on the social software Instagram.
She found that Simon turned out to be an Internet celebrity with 100,000 followers, and every dynamic had a lot of likes and many fan messages.
As can be seen from a large number of photos, Simon travels all year round, often attends high-end business banquets, and loves luxury cars, food, and diving.
Cecily couldn't help but slide her fingers to the right, and the two actually "paired successfully".
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
"Would you like to have a cup of coffee together?"
Simon's enthusiastic invitation made Cecily intrigued by him.
She thought: This guy's life is very different from mine, and it would be cool to meet him.
When she saw me, she exclaimed that Simon was personable and elegant, more attractive than she looked in the photos.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
At the time of a cup of coffee, Simon's "sincerity" deeply touched Cecily.
Simon, who describes himself as the president of THE LLD Diamond Company and the son of an Israeli diamond tycoon, is currently divorced and raises his daughter with his ex-wife.
Simon's social page
Deliberately put a "family photo" with the Diamond King
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
After the chat, Simon appeared to be attracted to Cecily and confessed affectionately:
"I want to get to know you well."
He also invited Cecily to travel to Bulgaria in his private jet.
Cecily is hard to refuse, this is simply a plot that only happens in the movie, and it is completely in line with her love dreams.
Despite being warned by friends that she might be deceived, Cecily boarded the plane.
On the plane, she also met Simon's ex-wife and children, and the other party was full of praise for Simon.
At that moment, she genuinely felt that her prince had appeared.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
Within 24 hours, the two had developed a close relationship in a foreign country.
Simon also frankly exposed his "scars", saying that there have been many enemies who have coveted his property over the years, and how dangerous it is to do his own diamond business...
His fragility and helplessness made Cecily heartbroken.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
Afterwards, Simon continues to fly around the world, and Cecily returns to her ordinary life, but this does not stop the love between the two from continuing to heat up.
Simon not only booed and greeted every day, all kinds of love words, but also often created some small romances, such as huge rose bouquets, such as suddenly appearing in a remote town at 3 a.m. just to see Cecily.
Cecily fell.
When Simon offered to live with her and ask her to help find a house in London, with a budget of $15,000 a month, her mind was full of pink bubbles.
It's just that when Cecily starts looking at apartments in London, her elite boyfriend is in "trouble."
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
One night, Cecily received several photographs of Simon with blood, as well as a video.
Simon said in the video that he was being chased by enemies in the business and that bodyguards were injured to protect him.
Thinking of the scars on Simon's back, Cecily was worried.
Just then, Simon took the opportunity to say:
"Because the other party will track my location through the swipe record, can I use your credit card temporarily?"
After seeing Simon's private jet and lavish life, Cecily had little doubt about his ability to pay off his debts. What's more, in her opinion, her lover is in trouble, and she has an unshirkable responsibility.
The story of "Beauty and the Beast" seems to have been moved into reality.
After taking out all her savings, she applied for credit cards from 9 banks to help Simon get through the storm.
However, after she hit more than $250,000, Simon's promised repayment was delayed.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
The inner uneasiness grew stronger, and Cecily carefully asked Simon about the repayment time.
At this time, the former lover put away his tenderness and thoughtfulness, and said indifferently on the other end of the phone:
"Come to me and I can give you a check."
After receiving the check, Cecily constantly blamed herself: Was he wrong, was the relationship ruined?
It wasn't until the bank clerk told her that the check was fake that she woke up.
Her "prince" is nothing more than a hypocrite.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
The real Simon, just a poor child born in Israel, has been cheating for a living since he was a young man, and has long been wanted by the Israeli police.
Cecily was just one of the victims of his massive scam.
While Cecily was terrified and raised money for him, he was spending money in Sweden with Cecily's credit card and his "new prey" in Sweden.
In 3 days, it cost Cecily the $20,000 she had worked so hard to scrape together.
It's all a Ponzi scheme created by Simon:
After attracting a famous woman to "take the bait", the money cheated from A is spent on B, and the money cheated from B is spent on C...
As long as the "capital chain" continues, he can maintain his luxurious life.
Around the world, he has defrauded hundreds of women, accumulating as much as $10 million, or about 60 million yuan.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
Many of the victims are highly educated and well-off women.
Why are so many women so hard to escape his scam?
The answer may be found in the story of the second victim.
Sequel: Domineering female president and intimate male girlfriend
The second victim, Penella, in Tinder Scam King, is two very different types of people than Cecily.
She grew up independent and did not have a romantic "Disney love dream", but she still longed for a partner who was evenly matched and shared her life together.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
Simon threw in his favor, no longer staged a love script, but carefully played her intimate male girlfriend -
Have shared hobbies, be generous to her, listen carefully to her stories...
He was even able to fly over to accompany her for a cup of coffee and a few days of conversation because of a bad mood from Penella.
His presence is like a charging station for Penella after work.
Of course, in the end, Penella also had a similar ending to Cecily.
Penella deliberately added the prince's symbol to Simon's notes
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
It can be seen that they are deceived, not simply due to "greed for money", but because of emotional connections.
Because of the feelings for the other party, out of trust and love, it is difficult to bear to see the other party fall into difficulty without helping.
As mentioned in The Toxic Logic:
"We all have emotional needs: the need to be loved, the need to feel needed, the need to gain a corresponding position in the eyes of others.
These needs imply other emotions: love, hate, fear, greed, hope, loyalty.
"Emotions are both fragile and sensitive. As long as someone knows how to appeal to our emotions, they can deceive us, manipulate us, and make us accept falsehoods as truth. ”
Simply put, everyone is looking for someone who understands and accepts themselves, eager to find closeness and response in them.
Not necessarily about love, but necessarily deep emotional communication.
Simon knows this well, which is why he always has victims to be deceived.
Moreover, the dynamics in his social accounts and the "banknote ability" he showed at the beginning of his acquaintance all implied that he was not short of money and was fully capable of repaying the high loans consumed by the other party's credit card.
One detail in the documentary:
When Penella was vaguely uneasy about the money lent, she received a check from Simon that exceeded the amount she had lent at the time, as well as a watch that looked expensive.
If Penella questions again, Simon will show a very angry posture.
Because of the fear of losing the relationship, many women will have difficulty refusing to turn down the call of an intimate partner.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
A girl like Cecily, who has a "prince and princess" fairy tale complex, is the best "prey" for scammers.
Her "tragedy" actually reflects the impact of our current mainstream thinking.
In many popular love scripts, women are often portrayed as empathetic, helpful, and even willing to sacrifice themselves.
This is invisibly weakening women's self-awareness, affecting their exploration of their own potential, and it is easy to become passive in the pursuit of love.
Fortunately, simon, the fraud king, was eventually "trapped" by a similar routine.
Final Ending: Fiancée's "Counter-Killing"
After Cecily and Penella join forces to expose Simon's identity, he still has the luck to talk about marriage with another girl, Irene.
But Irene chose to "kill relatives in righteousness" and scam "Tinder Fraud King".
Irene went to see Simon alone, accompanied him without changing her face, and after gaining trust, she said that she could help him sell second-hand clothes and get the cost of escape.
Irene, who got a lot of luxury goods, immediately put it on the second-hand network to sell, but did not give Simon a penny, and learned Simon's appearance, pretending to confess: I love him, don't worry.
Later, Irene discovered that he was preparing to flee to the airport and immediately reported his whereabouts to the local police.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
Their actions bear fruit, as if to make people see a "girls help girls" ending.
But unfortunately, the end credits illustrate the cruelty of reality.
After being caught by the police and sentenced to 15 months in prison, Simon was released after only five months in prison.
Because the credit cards he uses are in someone else's name, and it is someone else who offers it to him.
So what he did did did not constitute fraud, and the reason he went to jail was something he had done in Israel before.
Image source: Network
Today, he is living freely in Israel.
And because of "Tinder Scam King", he turned into an Internet celebrity, continued to live the luxury life of a drunken fan, and had a new supermodel girlfriend.
He even does paid content, and through his personal website, you can pay him for business inquiries.
Want to know what it is? You have to pay $311
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
It is lamentable that this thrilling scam against women has not been fairly tried from start to finish.
Cecily and other victims are still paying off huge debts, and have even been subjected to online violence because of this report.
All kinds of insulting words poured out on them.
"Haha, the gold worshipper is deceived."
"They're stupid."
"Stupid, idiot."
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
But looking back at the whole thing carefully, in order to expose Simon's evil deeds, they showed extraordinary courage and boldness as victims.
After losing her money and lover, Cecily dials Simon's phone in the hope of knowing the truth, only to get a threat — Simon knows her passport number, her phone number and address at her mother's home in Norway.
Desperate, she had thought about suicide.
Eventually, she plucked up the courage to contact the other victims and expose the incident to Norway's largest newspaper.
Working with newspapers means that they need to fully expose this private experience and accept the scrutiny of the public.
This is a rather difficult thing to do, and Cecily already has a premonition that this will lead to a malicious "judgment.".
But she overcame her shame and still chose to hand over nearly 400 pages of the record.
Source: Documentary "Tinder Scam King"
Psychological counselor Wu Zhihong once said this:
"The starting point of humanitarianism is that when a person faces another suffering person, he will clatter in his heart: What if I am him?"
In this world, the guilty are always those who seek to hurt others.
When we question the victim, we undoubtedly become the accomplice of the perpetrator.
For the victim, this is equivalent to a second injury.
As early as before, a victim @ HuixinZz recorded her pain in Weibo, she lost sleep all night, often just fell asleep and woke up:
"The money is gone, the feelings are gone, and the trust in society is gone."
Victim @ Zhao Jing also said:
"The absurd fact of being deceived of feelings and money hastens the collapse of the ego."
Instead of laughing, be more considerate.
In this way, they will have more courage to ask for help, so that the next victim will not appear.
Write at the end
At a New Year's Eve talk show in 2021, Officer Chen humorously admonished everyone:
"You've been cheated, it's not that you're stupid.
"We're dealing with scam syndicates, organized, disciplined, not resting on Sundays, working harder than you do.
"They also have scripts, and a lot of the people who study scripts are phDs in psychology and know people's weaknesses."
Source: Variety show "Talk Show Conference"
According to incomplete statistics, there are 1,026 victims of a pig killing plate alone, and the amount of victims is as high as 260 million yuan, of which few can be recovered in the end.
Since 2018, "dating scams" have become one of the three major scams of online fraud
When there is a perfect and fragile "favorite object" on the online social platform, remember to have more questions:
Why did he identify you in such a short time? What can you bring in return for him?
Believe that love is beyond reproach, but polish your eyes.
In the adult world, there are not so many stranded princes/princesses waiting for you to rescue.
Click [like], I hope that everyone's affection will not be disappointed, and they will sincerely have care.
Author: Quasimodo, known as Little Q, finds some people and tells their stories. This article is reprinted from the WeChat public account with permission: Yi Jian Reading, the public account of the [people] loved by young people.