A fraudster poses as Brad Pitt and gains the trust of a woman. She transfers around 800,000 euros to him until the fraud is eventually uncovered.
The user Culture Crave, which is a news portal with a newsletter, reports on X.com/Twitter that a woman in France was defrauded of 800,000 euros: A fraudster posed as the well-known actor Brad Pitt and thus gained the trust of the French woman.
However, the fraud was ultimately uncovered when the French woman saw in the news that the actor had a new girlfriend. Otherwise, the fraud would probably have continued for much longer, and the person would have lost even more money.
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How did the fraud work? The fraudster or fraudsters, the exact number of people is unknown, posed as the actor Brad Pitt to get money from a French woman.
The criminal contacted her directly on Instagram to convince her that he was real. He succeeded with fake images and videos that he generated with AI. And so well that the French woman divorced her husband because she hoped to build a relationship with Brad Pitt.
The fraudster also convinced her that Brad Pitt no longer had access to his bank account because he had divorced Angelina Jolie. However, he urgently needed money for a kidney operation. The French woman, who had come to trust the scammer, paid him around 800,000 euros.
How was the criminal caught? The defrauded woman realized that she had fallen for a forgery when she saw in the news that Brad Pitt appeared with a new girlfriend. And to her surprise, it was not her.
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