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Anne, 53 years old, fell in love with Brad Pitt on social media, and transferred 830 thousand euros to him, believing that the actor had cancer and that he couldn’t touch the accounts because of his divorce from Angelina Jolie – it was all a big lie!
This French citizen tells her story in a report shown on the “Sept à Huit” program on the TF1 television channel, last Sunday, January 12th.
Anne reveals how it turned out “in love” with fake Brad Pitt who you only met on social media. And although it may seem unbelievable, in fact, two Spanish women have already succumbed to the same scam, having been .
In the case of the 53-year-old French woman, she reveals that she spoke to this would-be man for around a year and a half via social media.
The supposed actor convinced her that had kidney cancer and that he needed surgery, but said he did not have access to his bank accounts because they were frozen due to .
Right-handed authors “” used fake photos of the actor in different everyday situations, and even sent Anne a video generated by Artificial Intelligence (IA).
“She would send me photos and when I looked online, I couldn’t find them,” she says on TF1, highlighting that she concluded that they were images that the supposed Brad Pitt took especially for her.
Anne only discovered the scam when she saw news about the beginning of the relationship between the real Brad Pitt and the Spanish-American model. Inés de Ramón.
Severe depression and stripped of almost all possessions
When she started these conversations with the scammer, Anne was overcoming a difficult time on a sentimental level with her then husband, with whom she has a daughter and whom she has since divorced.
The woman now suffers from severe depression and is living with a friend after having lost almost all of her assets in the scam, including her 775 thousand euros to which he was entitled in the context of his divorce.
“I wonder why did they choose me to hurt me to such an extent. I’ve never hurt anyone in my life. These people deserve hell”, explains the TF1 report.
After the scam, Anne is a victim of cyberbullying
TF1 was, however, forced to take down the report with Anne because she is being victimized by .
In the journalistic piece, in addition to Anne’s testimony, some of the images “created” in the scam were also published, as well as records of emails and messages exchanged.
The images in particular drew a wave of mocking reactions on social media, with many people mocking Anne for believing they were real.
In one of them, the supposed Brad Pitt appears holding a paper saying “Anne I love you” (Anne I love you).
non french oomfs you’re missing out on an insane documentary that came out today where a woman was scammed (MORE THAN 800K😭) by a brad pitt impersonator and THIS was the type of pictures he’d send her 😭
— alex ˚✧₊ (@shoyobito)
Until Charente-Maritime police thought it would be a good idea to use this story to remember the importance of its awareness campaign against .
“This woman who fell in love with a fake Brad Pitt would certainly not have been fooled if she had signed up to our account… Thanks to our advice, she is out of danger! Isn’t it?”, he writes on the institution’s profile on the social network X, or Twitter.
This woman who fell in love with a fake Brad Pitt would certainly not have been fooled if she was subscribed to our account…😉
Thanks to our advice, you are out of danger! Isn’t it? 😁
— Charente-Maritime Gendarmerie (@Gendarmerie_017)
A double “punishment”
Anne thus ends up being victim of a double “punishment”which led TF1 and the company producing the report to withdraw the possibility of it being reviewed.
“Anne was target of defamation on social media and, therefore, we decided that it was better to delete the replay”, explains a source from the Elephant company to the newspaper.
In a profile of “Sept à huit” on X, it is noted that this is “a news program that deals with social issues in a neutral way”, assuming that the report in question “triggered a wave of harassment against a witness.”
“To protection of victimswe decided to remove it from our platforms”, concludes the TF1 program.
