Anne, a lovestruck French woman, was absolutely convinced she is talking to Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, who told her to help him with medical treatment as his bank accounts were blocked amid an ongoing divorce case with actress Angelina Jolie. The 53-year-old interior designer even received photos and videos of Pitt in the hospital, even though he always avoided her calls.

 

Married to a millionaire 19 years her senior but going through a rough patch, Anne received poems and declarations of love from Brad Pitt. By the time she was told to divorce her husband, she had fallen in love online after the 60-year-old movie star asked her to marry him. He also told her that he had sent her luxury gift like Chanel and Hermes, but asked her to pay €9,000, which she didn’t receive, of course.

 

Like any other love scam, Anne had been duped with the same story script. The so-called Brad Pitt was Artificial Intelligence-generated. After her divorce was finalised and she received a compensation of €775,000, she wired the scammer all the money from the settlement. In total, the French woman handed over €830,000 to the fraudsters.

Her scam story started in February 2023 when she created an Instagram account to share photos of her skiing holiday in the Alps. A woman claiming to be Jane Etta Pitt – the real name of Brad Pitt’s mother – contacted her in English, saying – “My son needs a woman like you.” The next day, the “son” conveniently popped up in her messages, asking to know more about her.

 

Soon, both started chatting and became friends. Over the course of the next year and a half, the pair conversed regularly and their relationship blossomed into a full-blown online romance as he sent her romantic poems and other fiery declarations of love. Her fake lover appeared interested in her work, unlike, her husband whom she eventually divorced.

 

One day, the fake Brad Pitt asked her to marry him, and Anne said she was very close to saying yes. While Anne had her doubts, she was reassured when the fake movie star’s “doctor” wrote to her by email and explained that her “husband” was “in a worrying state and is fighting to survive”. Anne was led to believe that “Brad” was in hospital and in need of money to pay for kidney cancer treatment.

All the scammer needed to do to convince her was to send AI-generated photos and videos of Pitt in the hospital. When Anne’s daughter warned her mother that she was being conned, she said – “You’ll see when he’s here in person then you’ll say sorry.” She only started to realize she had been scammed when she saw reports of Brad Pitt with his new girlfriend, jewellery designer Ines de Ramon. 

 

Even then, the scammer sent a fake news flash that dismissed the reports of his relationship with de Ramon and said he was going out with an unnamed “very special person”. Then a person posing as an FBI agent contacted her saying he could get her out of the honeytrap for €5,000. Again, she wired the money. Almost penniless, she sold all her furniture and moved in with a friend

 

By then, it was too late. Despite never being able to speak on the phone with Pitt, which is a red flag, the scammer’s smooth words led her to believe it was a genuine romance. She has since filed a legal complaint for fraud and opened an online crowd funding account to cover her legal costs. After attempting suicide three times, the victim was admitted to a clinic specialising in severe depression.

Revealing how she was being scammed in a French documentary show, Anne said – “There are so 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 always very well put together. 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. After that, we got in touch every day and became buddies.”

 

A similar scam was reported last September when Spanish police arrested five people accused of scamming two women of €325,000 by posing as Brad Pitt via online and WhatsApp messages. The scammers contacted the women on the internet page for fans of the Oscar-winning actor and led them to believe they had a “sentimental relationship with him”.

 

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January 14th, 2025 by financetwitter

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