A few days after the broadcast in Seven to Eight of a report on Anne, victim of a scam by a fake Brad Pitt, justice decided to get involved. Thus, an investigation is underway to try “to identify the beneficiary accounts of the funds” which were taken from him, according to information from Parisian.
Last January 12, in a new issue of its magazine Seven to Eight broadcast on TF1, Harry Roselmack presented a topic about a love scam. Viewers were able to discover the incredible story ofAnnea 53-year-old interior designer, who believed she was living a love story with a fake Brad Pitt who scammed her on the Internet for a year and a half. The scammers managed to steal from him 830 000 euros in particular by sending him fake photos and videos. It all started in February 2023. Anne was on a ski vacation in Tignes and for the first time, she registered on social networks to post her vacation photos. It was then that she was contacted by a woman who told her: “It’s a woman like you that my son needs“.
Scammed by a fake Brad Pitt, how Anne fell into the scammers’ trap
The day after this exchange, Anne receives another message. “Hello Anne. Indeed, my mother spoke to me a lot about you. I would like to know more, but I would like to know if you are from the media world because I am careful about my private life“His reaction was not long in coming.”I’m amazed. At first I tell myself that it’s fake, nonsense, but I, who am not used to social networks, don’t really understand what is happening to me“, she confides in the report. After that, they contacted each other every day and an increasingly complicit relationship was established. Especially since at that time, the couple she formed with her ex -husband is struggling.I had someone in front of me who was interested in me, my work“, she explains.
Scammed by a fake Brad Pitt: An investigation opened to try to find the crooks, three men already identified?
According to information from Parisian revealed this Thursday, January 16, 2025 by the Saint-Denis de la Réunion public prosecutor’s office, an investigation is underway with the financial brigade. The objective of the authorities is to now try “to identify the beneficiary accounts of the funds“, knowing that”no suspects have been identified at this time“. Anne did not wait for justice to try to find out who was hiding behind this scam. Last fall, she contacted Marwan Ouarabfounder of FindmyScammer“which strives to find the ‘grazers’ victims who contact him“, indicated our colleagues. According to him, those who defrauded Anne were in Nigeria. These are three men aged around twenty who each have a predefined role in this scam.. “The first would be in charge of relations with the victim. The second would be responsible for ‘create fake identities and link American phone numbers with accounts that talk to Anne on social media’. Finally, the third would intervene to ‘manage money laundering and allow the crooks to take out the funds in cash’”, relayed The Parisian.
