The Tinder Swindler Shimon Hayut has returned to Instagram, days after deleting his account.
Last week, Netflix released their true crime documentary on the fraudster, who conned millions from women he met on Tinder by posing as billionaire playboy Simon Leviev.
Shimon deleted his social media on February 2 following the release of the film, but has since returned to the social media platform to defend himself.
On Monday, the 31-year-old said: “If I was a fraud why would I act on Netflix I mean they should have arrested me when we were still shooting.”
“It’s high time the ladies start saying the truth. If you can’t give them world they’ll turn yours to hell.”
Shimon then went to say he will be “addressing the whole world” this Friday, February 11, adding: “Say my name #Simon Truth.”
Shimon, who posed as the son of Russian-Israeli diamond mogul Leviev, essentially ran a Ponzi scheme by wooing women he met on Tinder with lavish gifts and trips, which he paid for with money he’d stolen from previous women.
After dazzling each victim enough, ‘Simon’ would ask to borrow money from them because for security reasons he couldn’t use his own money, but promised to pay them back.
He would then start the cycle all over again with a different woman, stealing an estimated $10 million over the years.
The Tinder Swindler documentary featured three of Shimon’s victims – Cecilie Fjellhoy, Ayleen Charlotte and Pernilla Sjoholm.
The women shared their extraordinary and often terrifying experiences with Shimon, and revealed how they eventually teamed up to get him arrested for his crimes, only for him to be released five months later.
The Tinder Swindler is on Netflix now.
