She believed she was having a long-distance relationship with Brad Pitt. Scammers actually used the image of the American actor to steal nearly 830,000 euros from Anne. This 53-year-old interior designer was the victim of “grazers”, feelings scammers. These individuals did not hesitate to use artificial intelligence to pretend to be Brad Pitt. Anne opened up about her traumatic experience on the show Seven to Eight on TF1, Sunday January 12. The facts began in February 2023 when Anne joined the social network Instagram to share family photos, with her husband, a millionaire entrepreneur, and their daughter. Anne was quickly stalked by a certain Jane Etta Pitt, who claimed to be Brad Pitt’s mother. “It’s a woman like you that my son needs”she told the victim.
Poems, marriage proposals and “deep fake”
If Anne did not believe her interlocutor, she received a message the next day from the fake Brad Pitt: “Hello Anne, my mother told me a lot about you. I would like to know more. » If Anne first believed in “you fake”she ended up becoming “bring” with who she thought was Brad Pitt. Their exchanges became regular and more intimate, while Anne was going through a difficult period with her husband. “I had someone in front of me who was interested in me and my work because my own husband wasn’t even interested in my work”she told Seven to Eight. Anne also received poems and songs from her interlocutor: “There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I loved the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women. »
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As soon as the fifty-year-old had doubts about the identity of her alleged lover, the fraudsters used artificial intelligence and various tricks to calm their victim’s suspicions. Anne notably received a photo of the passport of Rob O’Malley, Brad Pitt’s double in the cinema. The scammers even brought Shiloh, born from the union between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, into the picture. The alleged young girl would have written to Anne to find out about her. Exchanges were made only by messages or through videos. These were deep fakes, montages created with artificial intelligence to make anyone say anything. When Anne wanted to call her lover by telephone, the latter pretended to be detained on filming or at meetings.
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The scam then started when the fake Brad Pitt allegedly proposed to Anne. The latter admitted that she was ready to say yes at the time. The usurper quickly announced that he had “races” for Anne by sending her videos “from Vuitton, from Hermès, from Chanel”. The only downside was that Anne had to pay customs duties of $5,180. If she initially refused, her lover assured her that her bank accounts were blocked because of her lawsuit with Angelina Jolie. “I, like an idiot, paid the 5,000 euros. Every time I had doubts, he managed to remove my doubts”testified Anne, who ended up paying 9,000 euros without ever seeing her gifts which would have been withheld due to an overload problem.
A payment to an account in Türkiye
The fifty-year-old divorced at the same time with her husband. She then received the tidy sum of 775,000 euros which ended up in the pockets of the scammers, who claimed that Brad Pitt was suffering from kidney cancer and had to have an operation. Anne will pay the money into an account in Türkiye, no questions asked. “It costs me to do it, but I tell myself that maybe I will save a man’s life”she explained. The affair finally ended in the summer of 2024 when the real Brad Pitt made his relationship with Ines de Ramon official. Anne then no longer believed the story and filed a complaint.
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Today, Anne no longer has a roof over her head and lives with a friend. She only has 40,000 euros left in savings and has attempted suicide three times. Since the report, she has been admitted at her request to a clinic specializing in severe depression, specifies TF1 Info. “I wonder why I was chosen to hurt me like that. I have never hurt anyone in my life. These people deserve hell. We have to find these crooks”she finally declared in Seven to Eight.
