Best of '22: The Making of a Swindler

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

To finish out the year, we're replaying one of our most popular episodes of 2022. Wherever he went, Simon Leviev’s entourage would follow. A carefully curated supporting cast – his business partner, his driver, his security guard – created an air of glamour and legitimacy. But who were these people? Were they in on the scam? Or were they as much victims as the women Simon swindled? The Making of a Swindler Part 1 is a companion to the documentary, "The Tinder Swindler", only on Netflix.

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0:00.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't Make This Up.
0:08.0	You Can't Make This Up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.
0:15.0	Last week we heard from director Felicity Morris and producer Bernadette Higgins
0:22.0	about their hick documentary The The Tinders Windler.
0:26.3	This time, we're giving you an even closer look into the world of Simon Laveyev and all the shady
0:31.4	happenings that didn't make it into the documentary.
0:35.0	For the next two weeks we're going to play a special exclusive series,
0:39.0	The Making of a Swindler.
0:42.0	Felicity and Bernadette tell us more of a swindler.
0:47.0	Felicity and Bernadette tell us more of a story that, well, you can't make up.
1:16.6	Let's listen now to the making of a swindler. Well, why am so sweet? Sometimes I'm sour though, but I don't know. You're important to me. I like you. You're in my heart. I trust you in a way which I cannot even explain you a good genuine girl a woman which is very important and I feel very comfortable with you I feel it feels
1:22.0	right you know what I mean that's why I want to
1:24.6	build it up that's why I want to give it a chance that's why I want it to work and
1:29.2	it will it will It will. Marina Conococova in her book, The Confidence Game.
1:45.0	Trust, sympathy, persuasion.
1:49.0	The true con artist doesn't force us to do anything.
1:53.0	He makes us complicit in our own undoing.
1:57.0	He doesn't steal, we give.
2:00.0	He doesn't have to threaten us.
2:02.0	We supply the story ourselves.
2:05.0	And we don't realize what is happening until it's too late. Simon Leviev is a convicted con man who has swindled multiple people out of an extortionate amount of money by pretending to be the son of
2:24.4	diamond tycoon and billionaire Lev Lev Lev Leviev. Using tinder he met women groomed them into falling in love with him, and systematically conned them
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