Powerful instances for a middle-aged French girl who acquired scammed out of $850K, fooled into pondering she was relationship Brad Pitt after being duped by manipulated photographs of the actor.
53-year-old Anne, married to a millionaire on the time, fell for the rip-off in 2023 … at one level sending a big chunk of cash to the scammer who claimed they wanted cash for most cancers remedy — full with faked hospital mattress pics to seal the con.
A lady in France was scammed out of €830,000 after believing she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt.
These are the images she acquired, allegedly from Brad Pitt, that satisfied her. pic.twitter.com/DHZklWbUDj
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How’d she have that money to ship? Oh, simply her divorce settlement after buying and selling in her millionaire hubby for her pretend film star boo, in keeping with French community BFM TV.
The pretend Brad instructed her he couldn’t use his personal money as a result of he was tied up in a divorce with Angelina Jolie — which was lately settled IRL.
Anne’s brush with the pretend Pitt started on Fb, the place the scammer first posed because the actor’s mother. A month later, “Pitt” himself slid into her messages, sparking a whirlwind “romance” that included marriage proposals and pleas for her to ditch her millionaire husband.
There have been pink flags from the beginning — she solely texted with the pretend Brad since he was “too busy” for calls. However with varied romance scams on the rise, it’s straightforward to see what number of weak folks might fall for them.
She lastly caught on after recognizing a pic of the actual Brad Pitt out together with his present girlfriend, Ines de Ramon.
Anne filed a criticism in 2024 and has since been getting remedy at a clinic for extreme melancholy. The police have but to trace down the scammer.
