Streaming content has become the new television and the idea of this product is to make you see what they have because it is their way of selling. One wonders , is the Tinder scammer real? , although Netflix tells us that it is, in this investigation we will try to find the truth behind the successful “documentary”.
At least the central character and despised for his actions in the Netflix production really exists and it is Simon Leviev , who has a real name and is Shimon Yehuda Hayut. This character pretended to be the son of a billionaire from the world of diamonds to deceive his victims around the world and his center of operations, as we know, was Tinder.
The truth is that although this character managed to deceive several women, the documentary shows three who were victims and decided to go from anonymity to appear in the production. The documentary has already accumulated more than 65 million hours of viewing worldwide in the few weeks since its premiere.
This production is made to succeed , since it has the sum of many elements to catch people’s attention: money, conspiracy, sensuality and even a bit of morbidity due to the evil of the other… a very well condensed novel, then, really everything? this happened like this? Was it a very well thought out production?
Simon Leviev: a new “influencer”
It seems that Netflix achieved the opposite effect, what it wanted with this documentary . The victims began a long investigative process together with journalists to find the whereabouts of Simon Leviev and make him pay for his crimes; however, we already know that he had very little to respond to in court.
Although the exposure on the Internet and the media earned the Israeli Shimon Yehuda Hayut the hatred of many, today he is quite an obscure celebrity and clearly lost his Tinder account. However, every minute that passes increases his Instagram account and he plans a video that he will launch on his YouTube channel to tell his “truth”.
That video, like many of the videos released by “influencers” with exaggerated stories and that catch the attention of followers, has a single purpose: to make money .
We know that YouTube pays for the advertising that it can place before and during a video that you have on your channel , so imagine for a moment the millions of views and the hours of playback that video will have… It will mean thousands of dollars for the bank account of the YouTuber. Tinder scammer.
This character is still free, with a life that he shows with apparent luxuries, like many others who do this on social networks with the aim of attracting people so that they feel the need to lead that life and therefore admire what they publish. Deep down, what people admire is what they would also like to have and they really don’t imagine that everything is nothing more than a very well organized lie.
The Tinder scammer has an apparent job as a business advisor and that is apparently how he makes a living, but there is no real evidence that this is his business. Beyond the images with expensive clothes, private flights and glasses of champagne that he shows in his posts on the second Instagram account, there is no way to really know what the economic reality of Shimon Yehuda Hayut is.
Currently, this shadowy character has developed an additional income from his unexpected fame thanks to Netflix. Through the Cameo platform, he sends personalized messages and videos saying the name of the person receiving the greeting, receiving payments between 200 and 1,400 dollars.
The fake influencers
People have the false concept that a person with thousands of followers is already an influencer ; In fact, it is thought that an Instagram account with three thousand followers can already be considered an influencer and the truth is that there is a whole operation of false characters behind these accounts and that they intend to earn money with it.
There are many ways to detect fake influencers , however, we are going to establish a list that allows us to identify at a glance an account of someone who is not real or who has gotten there without any kind of organic content effort.
- Automated Bots : These characters can hire automated bots to respond and interact with everything they post, so you can get the idea that there is real movement on their social media profiles.
- Purchase of followers : The objective of the purchase of followers is that you can show a profile with “community” but it is easily identifiable, because if you see an Instagram account with a hundred thousand followers, but with about six likes and barely one comment in a post, it’s already suspicious.
- Viral effects : An account that grows due to a viral event, as is the case with the Tinder scammer, does not necessarily imply that it is a true influencer. This person manages to grow in numbers due to the temporary interest of those who want to know details beyond the public about a story such as this case. But there will be no real interest in interacting with the content and it would even be harmful in the long run for any brand or people to engage with these types of fickle profiles.
In conclusion, the Tinder scammer is a real person, but he is also a character that Netflix helped build and who knew how to take advantage of the moment to make the most of it, thus continuing to do what he loves the most: getting easy money.
