Scammers Posing As Brad Pitt Dupes French Woman Out Of $850,000
A 53-year-old woman in France got scammed out of $850,000 by a fake Brad. The scammer first pretended to be Brad’s mom, and said she was exactly the woman that her son needed.
A French woman reportedly divorced her millionaire husband then was scammed out of $850k by a fake Brad Pitt.
The scammer used AI-generated photos and claimed he was undergoing cancer treatment and couldn’t access his money due to his divorce. She realized the truth upon seeing… pic.twitter.com/cG5KFa6ojr
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The victim then received messages and A.I. photos from fake Brad for a year and a half, like poems and even a marriage proposal. The scammer started asking for money by saying they’d send her luxury handbags if she paid for the customs bill. Eventually, fake Brad claimed he was hospitalized with kidney cancer and needed money for treatment . . . because his bank accounts were frozen due to his divorce from Angelina Jolie. Seems legit, and then she even got emails from a fake doctor that said Brad was fighting for his life! How are you going to doubt Brad’s mom and doctor?? So she sent the money to a Turkish account.
Finally, she started to connect some dots last summer that it was a scam when she saw photos of Brad with his girlfriend Ines de Ramon online. That realization ended up with her hospitalized for severe depression. Quote, “I ask myself why they chose me to do such harm like this? I’ve never harmed anyone. These people deserve hell.”
It’s unclear if the scammer was ever caught.