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The testimony of Anne, 53, victim of a scammer posing as Brad Pitt, caused hilarity on social networks. The woman, who was defrauded of 830,000 euros, said she was “angry” at the reactions of Internet users, but also by the editing of TF1.
The sequence made the rounds on social networks and caused hilarity among Internet users. Sunday January 12, viewers of the show Seven to Eighton TF1, discovered the testimony of Anne, 53, taken on a boat by a fake Brad Pitt who extorted 830,000 euros from her.
The so-called “star” had managed to seduce the fifty-year-old who, captivated by this man “who knew how to talk to women”, had sent him huge sums of money to help him. In order to gain her trust, the grazer (a scammer operating on the Internet) had generated false images using artificial intelligence where we could see the supposed lover in full operation at the hospital.
The story of Anne, scammed out of 830,000 euros while believing she was having an affair with Brad Pitt, saddens me.
Using AI to exploit the naivety of the most gullible can cause considerable havoc.
Do not hesitate to raise awareness among your loved ones about this subject. pic.twitter.com/unu3OjvAKl
— Random Debunk (@osint_random) https://twitter.com/osint_random/status/1878739774711926963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
These crude montages, which appeared in the report, had sparked mockery and parodies on the web, while Anne was described as psychologically fragile after having attempted suicide three times. Faced with this cyberharassment, TF1 deleted Anne's story from the replay of the show. But for the victim, the damage is already done.
She denounces a sensationalist report for “sullying” her image
In a video broadcast on Tuesday January 14 through the show Legend on YouTube, Anne spoke out to denounce a false report: “It is said that my daughter and I were angry for months. Never, ever did my daughter reject me,” she maintains. The one who says she only has a 6 m box2 with a few boxes in it” deplores the methods of the TF1 journalist who came to interview him: “He retained what should not have been retained in order to tarnish my image and increase the audience”.
The one who was the target of mockery also wanted to send a word to her detractors: “You cannot judge the way in which I fell into this scam […] I'm not crazy or stupid like some people say. I'm not the only one in this situation.”
A report soon to be produced by a competing channel?
The fifty-year-old, who only discovered social networks in 2023, claims to have regularly had doubts about the veracity of her relationship with the fake actor. “I had moments where I didn’t believe it but the show doesn’t say it,” she laments.
Anna made the decision to put Seven to Eight in residence. “Very soon the real story will be revealed […] on M6, which wants to do everything possible to restore the bullshit of TF1”, she had clarified earlier in a Facebook post.
