An investigation was opened in Reunion Island to try to identify the perpetrators of a scam which made it possible to extract 830,000 euros from a French woman convinced of financially helping the American actor Brad Pitt.
At this stage, no suspect has been identified and the police officers from the financial brigade, responsible for the investigation, are seeking to locate the accounts which received the transfers from this French woman who filed a complaint in Reunion.
In the show “Seven to eight” broadcast on Sunday on TF1, a woman, named Anne and aged around fifty, said she had paid 830,000 euros to scammers posing as the American star by sending her false selfies and falsified identity documents. and using artificial intelligence to dispel his doubts.
-Pretending to need money to pay for an operation for kidney cancer, the fake Brad Pitt managed to extract this large sum from this woman, who is now ruined and has made three suicide attempts.
Since the broadcast of the show, she has been the subject of ridicule from Internet users mocking her supposed gullibility. The report has since been removed from all platforms by TF1, after a “wave of harassment against a witness“. The matter reached the actor’s entourage, who warned his fans against scammers using his image.
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