The Tinder Swindler: how his victims took revenge - the Sunday Story
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🗓️ 2 August 2025
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It is one of Netflix’s most watched documentaries – The Tinder Swindler told the story of scammer Simon Leviev and how he conned women out of more than $10 million. Now two of his most high-profile victims reveal the depression and bankruptcy that followed and how they’re taking revenge by turning their story into a book.
Swindled Never After: How We Survived (and You Can Spot) a Relationship Scammer by Cecilie Fjellhoy and Pernilla Sjoholm (Podium Publishing, £15.99) is published on August 19
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| 1:22.2 | It's one of Netflix's most watched documentaries. The Tinder Swindler told the story of scammer Simon Leviv and how he conned women out of |
| 1:31.3 | more than $10 million. |
| 1:36.0 | Now two of his most high-profile victims revealed the depression and bankruptcy that followed, |
| 1:42.5 | and how they're taking revenge by turning their story into a book. |
| 1:47.7 | If Siam and Lviv were to enter the busy North London Cafe in which I'm sitting with Cecilia |
| 1:53.6 | Fielhoi and Pernila Soylum, he would wet his pants and run, Soilm says. |
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