Since Sunday, Anne, victim of a scammer posing as Brad Pitt, has made headlines in the press in France, but also in the United States. Contacted by the American site Entertainment Weeklya spokesperson for the actor reacted to this affair.
Sunday January 12, the show Seven to Eight devoted a report to Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer, who was scammed by a scammer pretending to be Brad Pitt. For several months, the fifty-year-old was persuaded to communicate with the Hollywood actor and paid nearly 830,000 euros to the scammer, who was located in Nigeria. But since this report was broadcast, Anne has become the target of mockery. In a new interview given to Guillaume Pley for Legend Storythe one who lost her savings wanted to clarify things. “I am a sensible woman: if you had been in my place, you would have fallen into the trap. If someone comes and speaks to you kindly, says words to you that you have never heard from your own husband, attentions , etc., well yes, we fall in. That’s how it happened because I wanted to end it every time, and every time, I kicked him out and he came back through another window. “she said.
Anne scammed by a fake Brad Pitt: a representative of the actor reacts to the affair
Since this report was broadcast, Anne’s story has crossed borders and been picked up by several American media outlets. Contacted by the site Entertainment Weeklya representative of Brad Pitt reacted to this affair. “It is horrible that scammers are taking advantage of the strong bond that exists between celebrities and their fans”declares the actor’s spokesperson. “But this is an important reminder not to respond to unsolicited online requests, especially from actors who do not have a social media presence.”he adds. This is not the first time that the image of the American star has been used by web scammers. Last September, Spanish authorities announced the arrest of five people accused of defrauding two women of $350,000 by posing as Brad Pitt, reports the American site.
Will Anne be able to recover her 830,000 euros after being scammed by a fake Brad Pitt?
For her part, Anne launched proceedings against Seven to Eightclaiming that it would have been forbidden to blur his face or change his name for the purposes of the report. The 50-year-old has also filed a complaint against her bank and hopes to be able to recover her money. “There really has to be a fault on the part of the bank for the victims to be able to recover their money. The luck for Anne is that the bank did not respect the Tracfin law, which aims to control the financing of money laundering and terrorism. Anne made bank transactions to bank accounts abroad, without the bank making her sign a liability waiver, without the bank sounding the alarm when a client moved two or three hundred thousand euros in a few months even though it does not correspond to their traditional banking habits“, explained Marwan Ouarab, director of the company Findmycammer, who came to Anne’s aid, in Legend Story.
