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Podcast: You Can’t Make This Up
Episode: Best of '22: The Making of a Swindler
Description: To finish out the year, we're replaying one of our most popular episodes of 2022.Wherever he went, Simon Leviev’s entourage would follow. A carefully curated supporting cast – his business partner, his driver, his security guard – created an air of glamour and legitimacy. But who were these people? Were they in on the scam? Or were they as much victims as the women Simon swindled?The Making of a Swindler Part 1 is a companion to the documentary, "The Tinder Swindler", only on Netflix.