While the affair of the “fake Brad Pitt” has been making the whole world laugh for days, the actor and humorist Jeanfi Janssens has also spoken out on the subject. It must be said that he was the victim in the past of a scammer pretending to be someone famous and rich…
This doesn’t just happen to others… Jeanfi Janssens was also the victim of a scam by a person pretending to be a celebrity to extract money from him, just like Anne, the fifty-year-old who recently testified In Seven to Eight on the fake Brad Pitt who made him pay more than 830,000 euros. The comedian almost fell into the trap of a person pretending to be… the prince of Dubai!
Jeanfi Janssens flirted with by a Dubai prince? “I was fooled by the AI“
Last year, Jeanfi Janssens was “convinced that he was going to become princess of Dubai” as he told it on the microphone of Big Heads. The 51-year-old actor was convinced to communicate with the prince of Dubai via the gay dating application, Grindr. At the time, the two had started to communicate regularly virtually and the person they were talking to didn’t even have a profile photo!
But nothing to panic Laurent Ruquier’s friend, who was convinced that this supposed prince had to hide so as not to be recognized on the application. “He explained to me that there, the relationship with homosexuality was complicated, that everyone could get hanged.“, he added. His interlocutor made him believe that he was extremely attracted to blond, blue-eyed, middle-aged men and even took the deception a little further. “We had a video conversation together, I must have probably been fooled by the artificial intelligence, it was his head“, the comedian recently recalled.
-“I understood that it was not for my beauty“
But one detail began to ring a bell: “When he asked me for money, I understood that it wasn’t just for my beauty“The scammer asked him first.”small amounts“by giving him this kind of speech:”So that you have all the sympathy of my father, it would be good if you bought him his end of Ramadan dress.“
But fortunately, Jeanfi Janssens understood the deception before it was too late, when he realized that the dresses that this fake prince from Dubai was asking him to buy were worth between 3,000 and 15,000 euros! His dreams of “become the new Lady Di” however collapsed as quickly as a house of cards.
It must be said that the comedian currently on tour with his show Fallen from the sky remained in denial for some time before opening his eyes. “I wait for love so much that I want to see it everywhere (…) I found the story so pretty that I said to myself: ‘Believe in it until the end‘”, he explained. It is therefore not that rare to fall into this kind of trap…
