{"id":136228,"date":"2025-01-14T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=136228"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:04:35","slug":"french-lady-was-scammed-out-of-850000-by-a-fake-ai-brad-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/french-lady-was-scammed-out-of-850000-by-a-fake-ai-brad-pitt\/","title":{"rendered":"French lady was scammed out of $850,000 by a fake AI Brad Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-ai-position='3' class='ai-debug-positions'><a href='#' class='ai-debug-left ai-debug-visibility-hidden'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>243 words<\/a> BEFORE CONTENT <a href='#' class='ai-debug-right'>243 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a><\/section><section data-ai-position='5' class='ai-debug-positions'><a href='#' class='ai-debug-left ai-debug-visibility-hidden'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>52 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a>BEFORE PARAGRAPH 1<a href='#' class='ai-debug-right'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>52 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a><\/section><p><strong>Anne<\/strong>, a 53-year-old French interior designer who believed she was dating<strong> Brad Pitt<\/strong>, was conned into sending a whopping $850,000 for cancer treatment to a scammer claiming to be the actor. The lady detailed her story on TF1\u2019s Seven to Eight show, retelling how this imposter started an online romance with her.<\/p><section data-ai-position='6' class='ai-debug-positions'>AFTER PARAGRAPH 1<\/section>\n<section data-ai-position='5' class='ai-debug-positions'><a href='#' class='ai-debug-left ai-debug-visibility-hidden'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>98 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a>BEFORE PARAGRAPH 2<a href='#' class='ai-debug-right'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>98 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a><\/section><p>The situation dates back to 2023 when Anne was initially contacted by someone pretending to be Brad Pitt&#8217;s mom,<strong> Jane Pitt<\/strong>. The scammer messaged her through <strong>Instagram<\/strong>, telling her that she would be a good match for her son. Following this, another account contacted her posing as Brad Pitt, and they spent a year and a half communicating. The criminal then convinced her to send $850,000 for medical costs, with excuses about frozen bank accounts due to his divorce from Angelina Jolie. They utilized AI pictures of him in the hospital, taking advantage of Anne&#8217;s limited Internet knowledge.<\/p><section data-ai-position='6' class='ai-debug-positions'>AFTER PARAGRAPH 2<\/section>\n<section data-ai-position='18' class='ai-debug-positions ai-images'><a href='#' class='ai-debug-left ai-debug-visibility-hidden'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span><span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a>BEFORE IMAGE 1<a href='#' class='ai-debug-right'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span><span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a><\/section><figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1879197931129163782\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A French woman reportedly divorced her millionaire husband then was scammed out of $850k by a fake Brad Pitt. <\/p>\n<p>The scammer used AI-generated photos and claimed he was undergoing cancer treatment and couldn\u2019t access his money due to his divorce. She realized the truth upon seeing\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cG5KFa6ojr\">pic.twitter.com\/cG5KFa6ojr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1879197931129163782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure><section data-ai-position='19' class='ai-debug-positions ai-images'>AFTER IMAGE 1<\/section>\n        \n<section data-ai-position='5' class='ai-debug-positions'><a href='#' class='ai-debug-left ai-debug-visibility-hidden'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>0 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a>BEFORE PARAGRAPH 3<a href='#' class='ai-debug-right'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>0 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a><\/section><p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><section data-ai-position='6' class='ai-debug-positions'>AFTER PARAGRAPH 3<\/section>\n<section data-ai-position='5' class='ai-debug-positions'><a href='#' class='ai-debug-left ai-debug-visibility-hidden'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>39 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a>BEFORE PARAGRAPH 4<a href='#' class='ai-debug-right'><span class='ai-debug-display-none'>[(]<\/span>39 words<span class=\"ai-debug-display-none\">[)]<\/span><\/a><\/section><p>The lady even divorced her millionaire husband to continue the relationship with the person posing as the actor. Eventually, Anne realized she had been scammed after seeing the real Brad Pitt with his girlfriend, <strong>In\u00e9s de Ram\u00f3n<\/strong>, on TV.<\/p><section data-ai-position='6' class='ai-debug-positions'>AFTER PARAGRAPH 4<\/section>\n<section data-ai-position='4' class='ai-debug-positions'>AFTER CONTENT <\/section><section class='ai-debug-page-type'>REST CALL<\/section><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<section data-ai-position='7' class='ai-debug-positions'>BEFORE EXCERPT 1<\/section><p><span class='ai-debug-content-hook-positions'> [BEFORE PARAGRAPH 1] <\/span>Anne, a 53-year-old French interior designer who believed she was dating Brad Pitt, was conned into sending a whopping $850,000 for cancer treatment to a scammer claiming to be the actor. The lady detailed her story on TF1\u2019s Seven to Eight show, retelling how this imposter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<section data-ai-position='8' class='ai-debug-positions'>AFTER EXCERPT 1<\/section>","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":136229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","category-entertainment"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}