Karma is a b*tch! The Tinder Swindler Shimon Heyada Hayut aka Simon Leviev who scammed women of more than $10 million in the name of love has also been swindled by tricksters who are obviously smarter than him. How did it happen? The Daily Mail reports that Simon was scammed $7K in his quest to get his and his girlfriend’s Instagram pages verified.
Here is how Simon got swindled:
He was approached last week by a verified Instagram personality named Richnana who said she could help him and his girlfriend, Kate Konlin, become legitimized with a blue checkmark. The Instagram scammer also offered to remove fake profiles set up by people posing as Hayut.
Richnana claimed her boyfriend worked at Instagram’s parent company, Meta, and that he could help them for a price – which Hayut paid, only to realize he’d been conned, sources told DailyMail.com. The story was broken by TMZ.
The duo who tricked Hayut convinced him they were the real deal by speaking with him via Facebook and claiming they were phoning from Meta’s headquarters, sources said. They staged the call from a busy office setting where people could be seen passing through in the background.
They successfully convinced Hayut to PayPal him thousands to verify his account, and his girlfriend’s page.
But when his manager became aware of the scheme, she became skeptical and contacted Meta, which confirmed that they don’t charge for blue badge status.
The woman, who went by the moniker richnana, who reached out to Hayut disappeared after the money sent, sources said.
Her boyfriend, named ‘Chris Fox’, was tasked with brokering the deal. In message exchanges, he promised to verify the accounts for $5,000 total although PayPal payment grabs obtained by TMZ showed about $7,000 EU, or $7,700 US, was sent.
It’s believed this could be an act of revenge.
Fox said that he would start working to verify the accounts ‘immediately’ upon receiving payment.
The Instagram scammers might have sought to avenge Hayut for the crimes he’s accused of committing against women, including Pernilla Sjoholm and Cecilie Fjellhøy, who’ve gone public with their stories.
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