Anne's scammer, whose testimony was discovered in Seven to eight, would have been found. The latter posed as actor Brad Pitt and managed to extort more than 800,000 euros from the victim, now the target of cyberstalking.
It's a documentary that has attracted a lot of attention. Sunday January 12, like every week, TF1 broadcast a new issue of Seven to Eight. This time, Harry Roselmack's teams looked into the case ofAnne, a woman victim of an online love scam. Not just any one, since the criminals made her believe that she was having a love affair with Brad Pitt… just that! First approached by a woman who introduced herself as the actor's mother and said that a woman like her was needed for his sonAnne gradually fell into the net, until she sincerely believed she was in a relationship with the star of Fight Club, Snatch, Inglorious Basterds and other cult films.
That's when the scam began: little by little, the fake Brad Pitt asked her for more and more money, explaining that her accounts were blocked due to his divorce from Angelina Jolie and that he would reimburse her as soon as the matter was settled. Total amount paid by Anne? More than 800,000 euros, which she obtained after her divorce from her husband. A spiral from which she finally got out thanks to the help of her daughter, who never stopped trying to open her eyes.
Anne angry with TF1, she asked for the report to be withdrawn
Courageous, it must be said, Anne agreed to tell her story openly in Seven to eight. A decision that she regrets today since she is the victim of cyberharassment. She asked TF1 to delete the report from its replay platform and points the finger at the channel in an interview with Legend on YouTube. “You can't judge how I fell for this scam.”lamented Anne, indicating that she was “angry” against TF1 and Seven to Eight. “We only remember one thing from this report, which is: “Anne was in love with a fake Brad Pitt'. That's not the story at all.”she adds.
Fake Brad Pitt scam: Anne's scammer has been found
In this same video, Marwan, a repentant hacker who now helps victims of grazers – crooks specializing in romantic scams – makes a major revelation: the person who scammed Anne has been found! Although he obviously cannot reveal his identity, he nevertheless gave some information about them. As he suspected because it is a country where romantic scams are common, the criminal is from Nigeria.
“For Anne's case, we found her grazers in Nigeria (…) We discovered that this guy, in addition to pretending to be Brad Pitt, he pretends to be Keanu Reeves ! (…) He will be arrested normally in the coming dayswe have great hope that she will be able to recover her money, perhaps not in full but in my opinion a good part (editor’s note: thanks to the lawsuit filed against his bank)“explained Marwan in front of the cameras, who specified, with supporting photo, that he also found the GPS coordinates of the criminal and his house, thanks to a booby-trapped link that he sent to the person concerned and that the latter opened. Enough to give a little hope to Anne, who has since become very friendly with the internet vigilante.
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