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The Tinder Swindler (Netflix)

On the dating app Tinder, ‘Simon Leviev’ seemed like a real catch. Handsome, well dressed, always at meetings or parties. He had more than 100,000 Instagram followers and was in the diamond business and the son of a billionaire. Plenty of women were tempted to swipe right. Unfortunately, one of the key messages of this documentary is that if someone seems too good to be true, they probably are.

Leviev was a conman who would invite women to a swanky hotel for coffee on a first date before whisking them away on his private jet. Then, after a period of lovebombing, the requests for money would begin. A security situation meant he couldn’t use his credit cards or access his account – could he borrow ten, 20, 30 grand? Just for a few days?

Several of those women contribute to this film, all (such as Cecilie Fjellhoy, right) still affected financially and emotionally by their encounter with Leviev. One even checked herself into a psychiatric unit after finding herself thinking about suicide. But they decided they weren’t going to let him get away with it…