The Tinder Swindler
Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, an Israeli conman wooed women online then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now some victims plan for payback.
- Released: 2022-02-02
- Runtime: 114 minutes
- Genre: Crime, Documentaries
- Stars: Cecilie Fjellhøy, Shimon Yehuda Hayut, Pernilla Sjöholm, Ayleen Charlotte, Kristoffer Kumar, Erlend Ofte Arntsen, Natalie Remøe Hansen, Josh King Madrid (JetSet)
- Director: Felicity Morris
Comments
- salmahesham-12836 - 24 February 2024
Great Documentary
The Tinder Swindler is a thriller and crime documentary posted on 2022. As indicated, a documentary documents a real life story. It is about an Israeli guy who pitched a couple of women then dumping them leading to a woman dumping him at the end of the documentary. The presentation of this documentary is probably the best thing in it. You relive the story of every woman in a way making you doubt it is a documentary, not a show. The choice of the male lead is good too because he looks so much like the actual criminal, which again takes us back to doubting if this is a documentary or a movie/show. The only bad thing about it is that it got a bit repetitive, which was possible to be avoided. - aumesh-10866 - 17 October 2022
A very well made documentary!
A must watch documentary if you use Tinder or any other dating app. A very well made documentary. A true eye opener of the exact cases of harassment that are going on around.
My ratings 9/10!
A must watch documentary if you use Tinder or any other dating app. A very well made documentary. A true eye opener of the exact cases of harassment that are going on around. My ratings 9/10!
A must watch documentary if you use Tinder or any other dating app. A very well made documentary. A true eye opener of the exact cases of harassment that are going on around. My ratings 9/10!
A must watch documentary if you use Tinder or any other dating app. A very well made documentary. A true eye opener of the exact cases of harassment that are going on around. My ratings 9/10! - li0904426 - 30 July 2022
"If something seems too good to be true, it probably is not"
"The Tinder Swindler" shows that some Tinder users are not just simply victims of scams, they contributed to them. The first woman met a guy online, then agreed to fly on "his private jet" within hours of meeting him. She slept with him the same night. And we find out later that this is a recurring scenario with other women. Would they have gone to this extent if the guy were just an ordinary man? There is a very old quote "If something seems too good to be true, it probably isn't." and also "It needs two to tango". Sincerely, I don't feel sorry for these women, obviously, they got obsessed with what money can buy and they became blind. They now need to pay for the consequences. - aserdcerebral - 30 May 2022
Competently Made Documentary about Two Sides of the Same Coin
I am neither a fraudulent man nor a defrauded woman, so I approached the watching of this Netflix documentary with, I would say, an objective eye.
A reasonably goodlooking man in his late twenties seduces well-employed older women with the illusion of a grand lifestyle and the promise of a conjoined future. He takes them on extravagant first dates, flies them around Europe on private jets with amenities they can't believe and orders the whole menu at restaurants. They're smitten.
It becomes apparent he's funding this galavanting excess in an inverted Ponzi scheme; he convinces women, like the ones currently on his rented jet or his exclusive hotel suite, to send him cash or lift the limits on their credit cards under the ruse of dangerous enemies making it impossible for him to access his own unlimited funds; he's gotta spend money to spend money.
He is after all, "heir to the Leviev diamond fortune." Diamonds are a dangerous business.
Rather than pay back these previous lovers their borrowed hundreds of thousands of dollars, it's on to the next one; they did, the Police everywhere tell them, after all, send him their money willingly.
Ultimately, what he does is identically what they themselves expected to do; to fund a lifestyle beyond their earning capacity with someone else's money; he does it by pretending to be the heir to a billion-dollar fortune; they would've done so with whatever social and sexual tools they had with them. In fact, he does throw in sex and social excess as a bonus, too.
"A man being rich is like a girl being pretty," so divines Marilyn Monroe in a referenced film, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953);
Think of the elaborate efforts at faking a fortune as his own massive blonde wig.
The Tinder Swindler - Or - Ladies Prefer Levievs to Hayuts.
