The Tinder Swindler is Shimon Hayut, aka Simon Sharon, Simon Leviev, a convicted Israeli fraudster. He used dating apps to meet multiple women, then established lines of credit and loans in their names. Using persona a legend with a different name and background has become increasingly difficult with today's increasingly open society and globalization.

Not only do the advanced biometric scanners at border crossings match your face with other identities in their database, but anyone can take a good picture of you and google the picture. Facial recognition is more and more common, but it never stopped the Tinder Swindler. The pathway was trust.

To build a fake identity like the Tinder Swindler on Tinder is still possible, hence he uses the classical recruitment steps. He planned the approach knowing "you never have a second chance to make a first impression" and exposed his wealth and success and lifestyle, letting the props tell the story instead of himself.

He followed the same steps as recruiting an agent: Initially, he scanned the Internet to find the most efficient social media app to use. Then he found his targets by matching with them on Tinder. Then he likely made a background check to make an assessment of their credibility and personality. Then he used momentum and initiated the first date quick before second thoughts occurred. The first date was crucial to be able to "cultivate" them mostly on-line. Then he started to build trust but also a desire.

Then he made an agreement with them, became explicit a couple agreed on dating exclusively. Once he passed those steps, which took different time periods, he eventually dropped the "accident" and need of money.

Source: Säkerhetspolisen

He would match with a woman on Tinder, take her on an exclusive impressive first date, and slowly build their relationship while flying around the world and secretly dating other women. Step by step, he indicated that he had enemies from business, his "enemies" were catching up on him. Eventually, he would send pics of his wounded bodyguard, allegedly attacked. He would then text each "girlfriend" to say that his credit card could not be used for security reasons due to the risk of being traced.

The Tinder Swindler used the rhetorical structure, the seven ancient cues: Quis, Quid, Quando, Ubi, Cur, Quem ad modum, Quibus adminiculis, often mentioned in journalism, research, and police investigation. The very same questions are used by actors to prepare for a role, which he did!! The questions; Who, what, when, where, why, in what way, by what means

One tends to trust the feelings more than the logic. That is why he spent a lot of time building rapport, trust, and desire before the scam came, the attack of his bodyguard and the need to go "stealth"

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The challenges have thus increased in creating a false identity or persona based on fake identity, but by using Tinder and females' vulnerability, Simon the swindler succeeded.

It becomes more difficult for fraudsters and others who create false legends with malicious purposes. But just like insiders, the human is the segue passing the technical and physical obstacles. He used the women and their trust not only to vouch for him but to go further. Awareness has generally increased in society and the new generation learns to be source-critical, but fraudsters and swindlers like Simon will always make their way into people's minds & hearts and into their bank accounts, unfortunately.