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Aug 2
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The Tinder Swindler: how his victims too...

THE TIMES
About this episode

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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Words by: Charlotte Lytton.

Producer: Taryn Siegel.

Read more: Conned by the Tinder Swindler: how his victims took revenge

Photo: Getty Images.

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