Simon Leviev who was accused of being the “Tinder Swindler” in a Netflix documentary said he is ‘not this monster’ but rather was just a single guy that wanted to meet some girls .
Although this is Simon’s first time officially speaking out since the release of Netflix’s documentary, “The tinder swindler” this will hardly be his last time appearing in the spotlight.
He has not been charged with any crime related to the accusation in the documentary which alleged that he swindled multiple women into opening credit cards for him under alleged to take premise that he was in danger of enemies. 
His victims said Simon claimed to be son of Lev Leviev an Israeli diamond magnate.
May 2020, Simon was released from an Israeli prison after serving five months of a 15 months sentence for four unrelated fraud charges. Simon’s release came as an effort to reduce the spread of COVID among inmates in the prison.
He is permanently banned from Tinder and previously denied wrong doing in a voice memo that cared in the Netflix specials saying “I will proceed with the lawsuit against you for discrimination and lies and, you know, everything is based basically on a lie… And that’s it, this is how it’s gonna be.”
