Brad Pitt fraudster scams French woman out of $800,000 using AI

An AI-generated Brad Pitt scammed a French woman out of over $800,000 after she was convinced that they were in love and he needed money for cancer treatment.

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The woman, known as Anne, handed over €830,000 (around £700,000 or $850,000) to the fraudster over the course of a year and a half, after she received a message from someone purporting to be Jane Etta Pitt, the actor’s mother, telling her she was exactly the woman her son needed.

A day later, an AI imitation of the star messaged her, asking to know more about her. The scam artist would then send her poems and declarations of love, before asking her to marry him in a plot to get her to send over money. At the time, the 53-year-old interior designer was in the middle of divorcing her husband, a millionaire entrepreneur.

She told media in France: “There are few men who write to you like that. I loved the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women and it was very well put together.”

She continued: “We’re talking about Brad Pitt here and I was stunned. At first, I thought it was fake, but I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”

A french woman was scammed out of over $800K by someone pretending to be Brad Pitt

• Scammer DM'd her on Instagram and convinced her with AI-generated videos and edited images

• She divorced her husband thinking they would get together

• Scammer convinced her his bank… pic.twitter.com/VWD3RtvIO3

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