Author Topic: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist  (Read 36501 times)

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #40 on: February 24, 2019, 03:33:20 PM »
Can we merge this with the "Don't swipe recklessly" thread?

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #41 on: February 24, 2019, 03:55:16 PM »
FTR, Levi (Lev) Leviev doesn't even have a son named Shimon:


So he's Lev Leviev Halevi? Ooh boy, that's a mouthful.

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #42 on: February 24, 2019, 09:38:39 PM »
There's nothing glorifying about this guy other than he's a crook and a chilul hashem. Catch me if you can was creative and he at least mostly ripped off corporations lol

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #43 on: February 26, 2019, 06:51:50 PM »
I was in JFK T8 and this guy approached me asking me if I speak Hebrew. After I said yes he said he lives in Boston, needs to take the Amtrak from Penn Station to Boston and that he left his cc on the plane, couldn’t get it and cancelled it. He needs $80 and he’ll give me his number and pay me back. I feel a little guilty but was kinda not sure how legit he was. I didn’t have money either way but took a pic of him just in case... anyone have a similar experience?
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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #44 on: February 26, 2019, 07:07:25 PM »
I was in JFK T8 and this guy approached me asking me if I speak Hebrew. After I said yes he said he lives in Boston, needs to take the Amtrak from Penn Station to Boston and that he left his cc on the plane, couldn’t get it and cancelled it. He needs $80 and he’ll give me his number and pay me back. I feel a little guilty but was kinda not sure how legit he was. I didn’t have money either way but took a pic of him just in case... anyone have a similar experience?
Was approached by a similar personality in Atlantic subway station several years ago. Scam.

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #45 on: February 26, 2019, 07:08:24 PM »
Was approached by a similar personality in Atlantic subway station several years ago. Scam.
can u try to describe him, maybe I shud post the pic here?

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #46 on: February 26, 2019, 07:08:54 PM »
Forgot to mention the part that when he saw he wasn’t getting anywhere he started cursing at me

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #47 on: February 26, 2019, 08:02:27 PM »
can u try to describe him, maybe I shud post the pic here?
yeah, post the picture.

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #48 on: February 26, 2019, 08:05:28 PM »
yeah, post the picture.
is it the right thing to do? Maybe he was legit...

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #49 on: February 26, 2019, 11:02:15 PM »
He was in the news just now. Been scamming people for years. Jos picture is there, too.

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #50 on: February 26, 2019, 11:03:31 PM »
He was in the news just now. Been scamming people for years. Jos picture is there, too.
link?

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #52 on: May 25, 2019, 09:39:19 PM »
It's called catfishing.. nothing new under the sun!

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #53 on: June 30, 2019, 01:18:49 AM »
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #56 on: October 07, 2019, 11:05:41 AM »
Google translate is great ;D

I'm  guessing it has something to do with Animal?
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #57 on: October 07, 2019, 11:24:48 AM »
I'm  guessing it has something to do with Animal?
lol, indeed.

"Beasts, who also called himself Simon Leviev"
" As soon as the animals landed at Ben Gurion Airport"
"The animal mode of operation was sophisticated."
And so on

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Re: Real Life Israeli "Catch Me If You Can" Con Artist
« Reply #58 on: October 07, 2019, 01:10:36 PM »
lol, indeed.

"Beasts, who also called himself Simon Leviev"
" As soon as the animals landed at Ben Gurion Airport"
"The animal mode of operation was sophisticated."
And so on

This could actually be very useful for Google to work on their AI where it comes to written ABGD languages and identifying names within text.
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