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Simon Leviev

Simon Leviev, born Shimon Yehuda Hayut, is an Israeli businessman convicted of fraud and forgery, whose story was told in the 2022 Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler.

born 1990The Tinder Swindler documentaryConvictions for fraud and forgeryPosing as Lev Leviev's son

Born: 27 September 1990, Ramat Elchanan
Occupation: professional gamer

Simon Leviev was born in 1990 in Ramat Elchanan

Leviev was born Shimon Yehuda Hayut in 1990 in Ramat Elchanan, Bnei Brak. His father is Rabbi Yohanan Hayut, who served as a rabbi for El Al. At 15 he moved to Brooklyn, New York, with friends of his family.

He later changed his name to Simon Leviev and presented himself as a son of businessman Lev Leviev. In 2011 he was charged in Israel with theft, forgery and fraud over stolen checks. He did not appear in court and left the country for Jordan and then Europe on a forged passport.

In 2015 he was arrested and sentenced to prison in Finland. He is alleged to have used the dating app Tinder to meet women and borrow money he never returned. In 2019 he was arrested in Greece and later sentenced in Israel to 15 months in prison.

In 2022 members of the Leviev family filed criminal complaints against him in Tel Aviv. In September 2025 he was arrested in Georgia at the request of Interpol, and in November 2025 his lawyers said he was released after Germany dropped its extradition request.