Israeli Tinder scammer Shimon Hayut will create a dating app

Israeli swindler Shimon Hayut, who posed as the son of billionaire Lev Leviev, will create a fraud-proof dating application. Fox News reports this.

“The idea came to me when I was a scammer on Tinder. They say I made the dating environment unsafe. So I thought, 'Okay. Let's make it safe.'" Hayut explained his initiative.

An application called Safe Love, according to the criminal, will be presented in the near future. To register, you will need to add a government-issued ID and take a selfie. Moreover, if the photos uploaded to your profile differ from the selfie by 15 percent, they will be automatically rejected. “I know what fake passports look like. No one has ever asked me a single question about them. I know how to challenge the system,” Hayut said.

In addition, the scammer plans to add an SOS button to the application. It can be clicked if the user feels unsafe during a date. According to Hayut, by activating it, the phone will begin to record video and audio, which will be immediately transmitted to law enforcement agencies.

However, the Online Dating and Matchmaking Association (ODDA) opposed the scammer's idea and sent a letter to Google and Apple demanding that they not allow the application to be placed in their stores. “We believe that no app store wants to be the platform that allows a fraudster to return to the very environment in which he committed his crimes,” the appeal says.

Hayut himself, in turn, emphasized that the ODDA complaint will not affect his desire to launch the application. In his opinion, they are afraid that his idea will turn out to be superior. “Yes, technically I’m a convicted felon, but I’m not the same guy I was when I was 19. And we are changing. People change,” he noted.