It’s a report that went viral in just a few moments. Sunday evening, at 6:26 p.m., viewers of “Seven to eight” on TF 1 discovered the incredible story of Anne, a woman who was the victim of an online scammer.
For 22 minutes, in front of the camera, she tells how a person managed to extract no less than 830,000 euros in a few months by pretending to be the American actor Brad Pitt.
The story is enhanced with photo and video montages made by the cybercriminal, as well as screenshots of emails and text messages sent over the weeks.
Since then, on , has hundreds of thousands of views and is parodied.
A filter imitating the face of the fake Brad Pitt is used several thousand times by amused Internet users. Even the Charente-Maritime gendarmerie went there with its message on danger! Isn't it? » can we read on the social network.
However, since Monday evening, the sequence has become completely invisible. At the end of the day, TF 1 deleted the replay of “Sept à quatre” from its TF 1 + platform before putting it back online a few moments later, missing the report on Anne's story and any reference concerning him, more than 20 minutes less.
A decision taken by mutual agreement between Éléphant, the producer of the magazine, and the channel following this wave of cyberharassment. “Anne was the subject of denigration on social networks and we therefore judged that it was better to delete the replay,” the production told us while the channel must also communicate shortly.
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