How the Women Conned by Netflix's 'Tinder Swindler' Are Fighting Back
Three of Simon Leviev’s victims have raised $75,000 so far via GoFundMe, more than the $47,000 the con man was ordered to pay by an Israeli court.
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Victims of the now-notorious “Tinder Swindler” are clawing back what they’ve lost through a GoFundMe page.
After a Netflix documentary detailed how Simon Leviev tricked women he met on Tinder into giving him money, the three people featured most prominently — Cecilie Fjellhøy, Pernilla Sjoholm and Ayleen Charlotte — have started a fundraising effort that’s already accumulated about 56,000 pounds ($75,000). That’s more than the 150,000 shekels ($47,000) Leviev was ordered to pay his victims in a 2020 Israeli court order — one of the few consequences he’s had to face for his actions.