Anne’s story fascinates all of France, and even the whole world. In Sept à Huit, this Sunday January 12, 2025, Anne recounted the terrible scam of which she was the victim. She fell in love with a fake Brad Pitt online and was cheated out of more than 800,000 euros. Since then, its story has fascinated all of France. Karine Le Marchand even had fun with it on Instagram.
Because of this terrible affair, Anne sank into a deep depression and asked to be hospitalized. But some good news will certainly cheer him up! Indeed, this Tuesday, January 14, LEGEND, Guillaume Pley’s media, posted a YouTube video in which Marwan, a hacker, claims to have found the culprit!
“In Anne’s case, we found these grazers in Benin. As I said, in general, romance scams come from Nigeria, Benin or more broadly, Africa. They can also come from the Philippines, but it is much rarer“, he begins.
“The scammer distributed everything in cryptocurrency“
“First there was a scammer who received the money in bank accounts. Anne made transfers to bank accounts abroad. From there, the scammer distributed everything in cryptocurrency. We were able to trace the funds, we know the address of the wallet which currently holds the funds, and Above all, we have the address of the scammer’s house, the name of the scammer and a lot of information about him“, continue Marwan.
But how did he achieve such a miracle? “We managed to gain full access to the scammer’s device by sending him a booby-trapped link which he clicked on. We sent him a link, we regained access to his phone“, he explains.
But be careful, the craziest part is yet to come! Indeed, while doing his research, the hacker discovered that the scammer was also pretending to be another actor: “We discovered that this guy, in addition to impersonating Brad Pitt, he also impersonates Keanu Reevesthe actor from John Wick! So, this was too much for us, we decided to report it to the local authorities. Everything is in progress. In my opinion, he will be arrested in the coming days“.
“We have great hope that Anne will be able to recover her 830,000 euros“, he indicates, before qualifying: “Maybe not in full.“
Around thirty victims
Marwan also explains that in addition to Anne, the scammer would have scammed around thirty victims. “Anne is not the only victim in this case. There are also other victims. By infecting the crook’s devices, we found that there were around thirty of them, including Keanu Reeves. So basically, the guy pretended to be Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves and had at least thirty victims.“.
“I confirm that to date, Anne has been the world’s largest victim of celebrity impersonation scam.“, he also indicates.
Everything seems about to work out for Anne. It must not have been easy for her to expose herself like this, but we are convinced that thanks to her and the highlighting of her story, future scams of the same kind will be avoided.
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