The Tinder Swindler - Netflix

[yabbbadabbadoo]

My credit rating is so bad he would be fucked if he asked me

Does he accept provident?

 

[HeyYo123]

Nah, I’m sorry you’re an absolute idiot if you fall for that

 

[orla1989]

I don’t know. I didn’t love the documentary. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood to watch it. I didn’t like the layout, found it very confusing and too long

the first girl was so annoying. How she got on that plane I was just like what an idiot

loved loved loved Ayleen, she was so sassy and brill personality.

I think Simons clothes were legit cos didn’t Ayleen work in high fashion? That’s how she’d know

 

[D_Wills]

I don’t know. I didn’t love the documentary. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood to watch it. I didn’t like the layout, found it very confusing and too long

the first girl was so annoying. How she got on that plane I was just like what an idiot

loved loved loved Ayleen, she was so sassy and brill personality.

I think Simons clothes were legit cos didn’t Ayleen work in high fashion? That’s how she’d know

I agree, my sister recommended it to me so me and my fella watched it yesterday. Neither of us really liked it and we LOVE true crime. I am totally against victim blaming but these women, especially the first, were SO swept away with the thought of his rich lifestyle. At some point, especially after just a few weeks, you'd be like duck this drama, byeee!

However if anyone's seen The Puppet Master, I find that was way more shocking and its easy to see how that man targeted and controlled his victims. That one made me cry with how sorry I felt for them.

 

[orla1989]

I agree, my sister recommended it to me so me and my fella watched it yesterday. Neither of us really liked it and we LOVE true crime. I am totally against victim blaming but these women, especially the first, were SO swept away with the thought of his rich lifestyle. At some point, especially after just a few weeks, you'd be like duck this drama, byeee!

However if anyone's seen The Puppet Master, I find that was way more shocking and its easy to see how that man targeted and controlled his victims. That one made me cry with how sorry I felt for them.

Glad I’m not the only one that didn’t love it

im a huge fan of true crime too!!

I never watched puppet master so I may give it a look

 

[missmina]

I mean Ayleen was only sassy after the fact (and for netflix), she didn’t even work him out herself. She still fell for his act and borrowed him 140k (from what I remember). So I’m like cool but I think it was just an act she put on to seem cooler to the audience.
Also I can’t with the second lady, she so wanted to make it happen in the beginning, desperately trying to meet up with him and stuff but then dude shows up with his gf lol. She still couldn’t ditch him but became such a close friends (basically like family!) after a “holiday” together. Like come on.
Either way it’s crazy how after all of that he was still on tinder and ig, under the same fake name even. And how come the banks and the diamond family didn’t go after him yet (like at least nothing came out of it), at least after him forging the financial documents and using their and the company’s name. Unbelievable.
I don’t know if I even feel super bad for the women cause the level of their naivety and stupidity was astounding. Like most of them saw the guy only for like few days in total, probably had no idea about “him” other than him being a lame “diamon prince”, who’s supposedly constantly busy on business trips. I didnt see any actual personality from him, I dont even believe they were having any meaningful conversations other than “I love u baby I want u to be future mother of my baby” Like basically if he didnt convince them he was super rich they wouldn’t be into that at all. The first woman even went for a bleeping flight to Bulgaria on a first date with people she doesn’t know. And after they had sex he told her to leave lol. And then she proceed to take out half a million in loans for him...
Still, he is such a punchable person I cant wait to see him in jail for years, reputation 100% destroyed and no money. He’s such a trash of a human.

 

[Asparagus123]

Just watched this found it interesting
This kind of date love scamming is big business like huge amounts of money are swindled from vulnerable people every year.
This was unusual as he was an actual person
as most turn out to be a fake profile etc ..

So many women and men are caught up in these scams as they are desperate for love
even when they might think something isn’t right they don’t have the courage to speak out

My mums friend got caught up in one of these scams she was actually on the way to the airport to meet someone to hand over money for some “gold” that her online boyfriend needed.
Luckily my mum stopped her in time but it was so hard to convince her it was a scam !
They use well known tactics and love bombing being one.
So many women and men don’t come forward because they feel embarrassed and foolish and then people comment about how stupid these people are falling for these cons which then enables more scams to be committed,
It pure and simple theft and we should have more sympathy for these victims then more would come forward and more people could get caught
We would have so much more sympathy if these women had been hit over the head with a hammer and had their life savings taken from them but because it’s a bigger scam we don’t
The stigma needs to be taken away to enable this to be stamped out

 

[1001 others]

Would love to know more about the Finnish girl he scammed then appearing on the plane with a child

Someone on Reddit posted her IG handle but I'm not convinced it's her ... we only saw the back of her head in the documentary, after all. Although her content is of the good life, there's nothing that I can see of him or a child.

Someone will squeal in due course, I'm sure - social media is abuzz about him and people have questions!

I mean Ayleen was only sassy after the fact (and for netflix), she didn’t even work him out herself. She still fell for his act and borrowed him 140k (from what I remember). So I’m like cool but I think it was just an act she put on to seem cooler to the audience.
Also I can’t with the second lady, she so wanted to make it happen in the beginning, desperately trying to meet up with him and stuff but then dude shows up with his gf lol. She still couldn’t ditch him but became such a close friends (basically like family!) after a “holiday” together. Like come on.
Either way it’s crazy how after all of that he was still on tinder and ig, under the same fake name even. And how come the banks and the diamond family didn’t go after him yet (like at least nothing came out of it), at least after him forging the financial documents and using their and the company’s name. Unbelievable.
I don’t know if I even feel super bad for the women cause the level of their naivety and stupidity was astounding. Like most of them saw the guy only for like few days in total, probably had no idea about “him” other than him being a lame “diamon prince”, who’s supposedly constantly busy on business trips. I didnt see any actual personality from him, I dont even believe they were having any meaningful conversations other than “I love u baby I want u to be future mother of my baby” Like basically if he didnt convince them he was super rich they wouldn’t be into that at all. The first woman even went for a bleeping flight to Bulgaria on a first date with people she doesn’t know. And after they had sex he told her to leave lol. And then she proceed to take out half a million in loans for him...
Still, he is such a punchable person I cant wait to see him in jail for years, reputation 100% destroyed and no money. He’s such a trash of a human.

Did anyone else wonder if they were a throuple?

 

[missmina]

We would have so much more sympathy if these women had been hit over the head with a hammer and had their life savings taken from them but because it’s a bigger scam we don’t
The stigma needs to be taken away to enable this to be stamped out

Well that would be a totally different situation though. Here it was their decision after all.

 

[tillyl7]

How is he getting away with this though? I don't understand how he's a free man and these ladies are left footing the bill after what he's done??
He's absolute scum.

 

[Restless Native]

His clothes were tacky as hell

 

[champagnepinkk]

I definitely thought they were a throuple

 

[yabbbadabbadoo]

How is he getting away with this though? I don't understand how he's a free man and these ladies are left footing the bill after what he's done??
He's absolute scum.

I think it said because he asked them to lend him the money, they willingly handed it over and gave him access to the credit cards, he technically didn't steal it they gave it to him

 

[Girlywhirly]

He is so punchable, how the GF is with him is beyond me, obv not right in the head.... he is a clear Narrsassitic PSYCHO

 

[Loveitme]

I love this .Completely different situ obviously but it reminded me of before my partner met me he was seeing someone and they asked to borrow 5k from him over a period of time .Never gave it back and also used him as a guarantor for a loans and never bothered Paying them back .We have just finished repaying the debt now

 

[hehehe]

It pure and simple theft and we should have more sympathy for these victims then more would come forward and more people could get caught
We would have so much more sympathy if these women had been hit over the head with a hammer and had their life savings taken from them but because it’s a bigger scam we don’t
The stigma needs to be taken away to enable this to be stamped out

I would certainly hope one would have sympathy for a woman being hit over the head with a hammer and robbed. These women were not, so I don't get the analogy here. They did not hand the money over against their will. They've since done the sensible thing and exposed him. But for every Cecillie I'm sure there were several others he tried to scam and failed. People do stupid tit all the time and get called what they are - stupid - for it. "Stigma" used to mean something, now it's just a woke buzzword for people who want all the free will but not the responsibility for their choices.

 

[Linkylu]

Who's seen it?

What did you think?

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I thought it was really well done ... will look forward to watching the movie too, which is no doubt being worked on as I type (or soon will be, I'm sure).

I know a lot of people will say that these ladies were foolish and should've had an inkling that he was a conman, but when he was so clearly presenting to them that he lived *that* life, he seemed believable, plus they were falling for him and he appeared to be saying all the right things. They're all intelligent women; he was obviously very convincing! Look - he even managed to convince this publication that he was a high flyer:

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The only question I had after watching it was, why didn't any of the ladies ask him why he couldn't ask his parents or other family members to help with money (through their connections)?

I feel very sorry for them all, but especially the one who was the main interviewee (the one who lived in the UK). She's bankrupt in the UK, and is up to her eyeballs in debt in her home country. I really hope they get some sort of financial reward from all the interviews and coverage.

If there was ever a fund of sorts set up to recoup the losses, it would be interesting to see how it would get divvied up ... a lot of things would be hard to prove.

It's so unfair that he is out and about, living up large, now ... I was scrolling through his Instagram earlier, when all of a sudden *poof* it went private. I wonder how he's funding his lifestyle now. I wonder too, how many others he scammed money from who are too embarrassed to come forward. I'd love to hear what the real Leviev family think of him using their name.

I had the same thought about why none of these women seemed asked him why his “family” wasn’t helping him. Also how he’s funding his lavish lifestyle again and I’m surprised the Leviev family haven’t tried to sue him, or maybe they’ve tried?

 

[Chinese_whispers]

She got into £250,000 worth of debt after going out with him for a MONTH?! Someone I went out with a few times asked me for a lend of €50 after two months a few years back and I got the ick/ never spoke to them again. There is definitely too trusting

 

[1001 others]

I had the same thought about why none of these women seemed asked him why his “family” wasn’t helping him. Also how he’s funding his lavish lifestyle again and I’m surprised the Leviev family haven’t tried to sue him, or maybe they’ve tried?

They've complained to the police ... not sure what good that will do though.

 

[orla1989]

I mean he set the scene, especially the first girl, like seeing a private jet etc… I can see how you’d think he’d give your money back…he was butt ugly tho, and something looks off about him from the get go

money speaks tho