The Tinder Swindler - Netflix

[pandora206]

If anyone needs another reason to avoid online dating, this takes it to another level! It's hard to believe this guy got away with it for so long.

I watched this, but noticed he sounded exactly like Nandor in What we do in the shadows on the voice mails, it made it unintentionally hilarious!

@DDMAC

The threat of his life constantly was such a crock of shit. Couldn’t believe they kept buying that lie.

As if a member of a billionaire family would have nobody to turn to except a woman, who in one case wasn't even a girlfriend, who he'd only known a few months.

One month!

I hope that by doing the interviews for Netflix Cecile gets some money towards her debts

The letter at the end shows how uneducated he is- silly spelling mistakes. That would have made me suspicious as a billionaire's son would have been sent to top schools.

Yes and if your life was always in danger, why only have one bodyguard? You’d want an army around you.

And pernilla says she met them at a club and mentioned how drunk Peter was

Great bodyguarding work Pete

Maybe the enemies had the night off

He's just posted on Instagram 'I'm not well.

@Toffeepenni

I watched this, but noticed he sounded exactly like Nandor in What we do in the shadows on the voice mails, it made it unintentionally hilarious!

🤣 Glad it wasn't just me!

I've only watched ten minutes of this but in the first hour of one date he calls himself the prince of diamonds - being old and cynical that alone would have rung alarm bells.

@UnUdderOne

I've only watched ten minutes of this but in the first hour of one date he calls himself the prince of diamonds - being old and cynical that alone would have rung alarm bells.

The fact that she had to go to his hotel for coffee would have rang alarm bells for me. I thought he was going to ask her to go to his room. And then he was late, wasn't he? Completely disrespectful and putting her in her place.

Did the women ever say what they actually had in common with this man to form the basis for the relationship? What did they love about him exactly? All the messages just seemed vacuous and teenage. Is taking photos of each other for the gram really enough to build a life on?

@JunoLunar

Did the women ever say what they actually had in common with this man to form the basis for the relationship? What did they love about him exactly? All the messages just seemed vacuous and teenage. Is taking photos of each other for the gram really enough to build a life on?

No, I've watched some more now, he was just good at drawing women in and pretending to be vulnerable. Hideous man.

He love bombed them and dazzled them with his £. I guess he was good at acting and charming them as he had a very irritating voice that would have been hard to get past for most.

@Toffeepenni

I watched this, but noticed he sounded exactly like Nandor in What we do in the shadows on the voice mails, it made it unintentionally hilarious!

Haha yes, I thought the same. Nandor the Relentless does Mills & Boon.

I’m with the posters saying, “WTF were those women thinking?”. Call it victim blaming if you like, I don’t care.

I’ve only seen the first half but already I’m embarrassed for Cecilie and Pernilla.

Especially Cecilie. What sensible adult goes through life expecting it to be like a Hollywood romance film and clutching desperately at opportunities to live that narrative? Rushing into central London for coffee with some bloke, at his convenience, then going off on a plane with him after one hour. Christ. When she texted her friends to tell them that she was rushing home to pack for a private jet trip to Bulgaria (??!!) with a man she’d just met, because of course nothing is real unless you’re putting it on social media, the more sensible ones warned her off. She wouldn’t have it through, would she? No, because she wanted her story to be ‘girl swept off her feet by a billionaire who saw that she was special’. Idiot.

He’s undoubtedly a terrible person, but he saw her coming. Pernilla was a cling-on who wanted a bit of the billionaire lifestyle for herself so that she could boast about it on social media. All this, “oh, you should meet me on Mykonos!” bollocks. Dazzled by the pretend wealth. Painting herself as a victim doesn’t really wash with me, I’m afraid.

I have some sympathy for the women as I got swindled to a lesser tune of a few hundred bucks from someone I went out with in my early 20s - but in my defence we had been going out for a year, I fell for the promises that he would pay me back. After a few months when it became clear he was talking rubbish (about this and many, many other things) I got rid. He certainly wasn't getting another penny out of me. Fool me once and all that.

Simon probably couldn't believe his luck with Cecile - he at least had to play a longer game with the others. It seems strange to me that she fell so much when he had given her so little? They must have only met a handful of times and been texting a month!
I couldn't believe her kissing him on the jet!!

I loved Alyeena, she was awesome.
But what I didn't understand was why she kept in contact with him for so long afterwards. Once she got the clothes that should have been it, bye mate.
And did she have a direct email for a policeman? Surely she didn't just send an email to [email protected]. Whatever police station that was needs commended! I have a lot of contact with police for my work and trying to get anyone to do anything is a mission! She is lucky that went so quickly into the right hands.

sleepyhoglet
The letter at the end shows how uneducated he is- silly spelling mistakes. That would have made me suspicious as a billionaire's son would have been sent to top schools.

I thought exactly the same. My daughter wrote better than that when she was 5.

How much did the Dutch lady lose?
I didn’t hear on the documentary, and struggle to find online.

I actually wouldn’t have been too worried with English as not first language and a lot of Uber wealthy kids are lazy - I know a few people who have taught in Middle East and said it’s hard work.

Ayleen is a baller! No whining and self pity for her. Cecilie and Pernilla still can’t see that they contributed to their own problems, can they?

As for the Gofundme thing: they all should be embarrassed.

Interestingly, Inventing Anna has just landed on Netflix. Similar story, but this time the swindler was a woman, Anna Delvey.

I’ve read a lot about the case because I’m there for the financial scandals. One of Anna’s friends, who worked on a magazine and happily accepted free drinks, dinners, personal training and trips away during the good times (with the money Anna stole from banks by kiting cheques, amongst other things) ended up getting stuck with a bill for $60k or something for a trip to La Mamounia (luxury hotel in Morocco) and flights when Anna’s credit card was rejected. She’s pulling the same “poor me” schtick as Cecilie and Pernilla. Happy to hang out with the rich people, ligging for all they are worth, when they are benefiting, never asking questions about where the money is coming from. Until it’s their money, naturally.

I thought it was pretty bizarre that these women fell for it. He's not a guy anyone would've looked twice at if he was poor. I was also struck by what hard work it must have been to keep up his web of lies, flying from place to place showering the new woman with gifts, whilst busily rinsing the last one. It sounds like a compulsive psychopathic condition where you think so little of women that you simply see them as prey. I also couldn't believe that he actually accrued no cash or assets and just spent it all and that he served so little time.

There's another show on Netflix at the moment which is just as awful in a very different way. I can't remember the name. About a man who convinces people he works for MI5 and basically gets them to run around with him from 'safe house' to 'safe house' for 10 years cutting them off from family and friends and losing touch with themselves. He also fleeced them and their famillies. It is truly extraordinary and makes you wonder how people can be so deceptive and manipulative. It's sad too as he estranges a Mum from her children.

@Bouledeneige I was told about that today. Its called The puppet master on Netflix. I will watch this weekend.