What is the relationship between Anne D., a 53-year-old divorced mother and the 61-year-old American actor Brad Pitt? First a media surge around a sentiment scam organized by “grazers”, these crooks who attack vulnerable women from certain African countries to embezzle substantial sums of money.
According to Anne D., who allegedly suffered an embezzlement of more than 800,000 euros over 17 months, between February 2023 and June 2024 (i.e. the equivalent of more than 47,000 euros per month, divided into various sums), she wanted to testify in the portrait of the show “Sept à Huit” on TF1 to denounce these perfectly organized scams which go so far as to maintain a psychological hold on their targets.
“I was scammed”
But her story, which she considers to be truncated and far from the message of prevention that she intended to convey, as she confided to the media Legend on Youtube, has had harmful repercussions since the broadcast. TF1 has also decided to remove the interview from all of its media, while negative comments are multiplying on social networks.
“I am a caring woman. I’m not crazy or stupid. I just wanted to help one person. I was fooled and that’s why I wanted to testify. I’m not the only one in this situation. I was scammed!“, she explains from Reunion Island where she currently resides.
Weakened by a complex relationship which left trauma and a complicated divorce, the fifty-year-old wanted to believe in her virtual meeting with a fake Brad Pitt, behind whom was hidden one or more evil individuals who knew how to manipulate her emotional flaws.
“She got caught up in the game”
“She got caught up in the game“, describes ex-hacker Marwan Ouarab who traced the “grazers” to Nigeria in particular. Anne D. is in emotional distress. She realized that the photos were “fake” , she noticed that they were photo montages. She didn’t believe it, but the scammers had her in their web.
During the two days of interviews, Anne D. explained that she was experiencing emotional and emotional distress. “If someone comes and says words to you that you have never heard, pays you attention that your own husband never gave you, we fall into it“. She deplores that her words were diverted from the meaning of her approach during the editing of the portrait.
It is her daughter Margaux, living in mainland France, who will finally rescue her mother from this infernal scam where she escapes without a sum of money exceeding 800,000 euros.
-In a difficult financial (and psychological) situation, she summarizes her current situation. “My life is a 6 m² box with a few boxes inside“.
From Correns to Cogolin
However, there is one thing in common between the American actor Brad Pitt and Anne D.: the Var department. A little over an hour’s drive separates Angelina Jolie’s ex-husband and the places where the mother grew up between her childhood and adolescence.
In 2011, the couple called Brangelina set their sights on a huge wine estate with around forty rooms in Correns, the Château de Miraval. Despite the (tumultuous) divorce of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the sixty-year-old from Hollywood has engaged in a contentious standoff with his ex-wife to maintain his haven of peace in the Var.
Anne D.’s journey is more modest. On social networks, she leaves traces of two personal accounts indicating her birth in October 1971 and schooling in educational establishments: at the primary school of Cavalaire (1977-1981) and at the Gérard-Philipe college in Cogolin (1983-1987 ). She also displays a photograph of herself, a young blonde woman, who seems fulfilled and with a broad smile.
Modest personal income
Anne’s life then continued far from the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, in the Indian Ocean for more than thirty years. Married to a man who is said to be “very financially comfortable”, she is the mother of a young woman living in the Lyon region.
At the head of a company specializing in furniture retail, created in 2006 in Saint-Denis in Reunion, the fifty-year-old has always had modest personal income. The hundreds of thousands of euros “harpooned” by the scammers would come from the liquidation of her divorce with her ex-husband, whose activities are not known.
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