The new feature on Tinder that would allow Americans to investigate matches for possible crimes better was not created by Israeli criminal Simon Leviev.
This became known through the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, in which three victims are interviewed who have sometimes been defrauded for hundreds of thousands of euros.
As of this week, users may be able to check their matches to some extent through Garbo, a non-profit organization with which Tinder partners and focuses on background checks. In this way, possible crimes could come to light, although Garbo himself indicates that he cannot check everything accurately. Tinder has been working with Garbo since 2020. Unfortunately, the Netflix documentary only appeared this year.
Many Tinder users have indicated that they want the feature, a spokesperson told entertainment website TMZ. While the Simon Leviev story didn’t bring about the background check, the dating app would “be glad if similar events could be prevented.” Someone like Simon Leviev would immediately be singled out with the new system, and it sounds like.
Leviev was born Shimon Yehuda Hayut. He hooked up with women on Tinder and pretended to be a relative of diamond dealer Lev Leviev. He then cheated these women of money and said nothing more. In total, Leviev would have ‘earned’ millions of euros with his practices.
