A French girl has been mocked on social media after shedding greater than €830,000 (£700,000) to scammers posing because the Hollywood actor Brad Pitt.
The 53-year-old inside designer, identified solely as Anne, thought she was in a year-long romantic relationship with the Struggle Membership and Ocean’s Eleven star.
However after opening up about her ordeal to reporters, she suffered a lot trolling that the French tv channel TF1 needed to pull her interview.
“The story broadcast this Sunday has resulted in a wave of harassment against the witness,” TF1 presenter Harry Roselmack wrote on X.
“For the protection of victims, we have decided to withdraw it from our platforms,” he added.
On the time of the published, Anne was reported to have been affected by extreme melancholy.
Anne instructed TF1’s Seven to Eight present that, after beginning to use Instagram for the primary time, she was contacted by somebody posing as Pitt’s mom.
“She told me that her son needed someone like me,” Anne defined. The scammers messaged her once more a number of days afterwards, this time posing as Brad Pitt.
Anne mentioned she started speaking to the pretend model of the actor someday in February 2023 on completely different social media and messaging platforms, together with WhatsApp.
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Brad Pitt with associate Ines de Ramon on the Venice movie pageant. File pic: AP
She even obtained AI-generated selfies of the 61-year-old actor.
‘I actually did not perceive’
“At first I said to myself that it was fake, that it’s ridiculous,” Anne defined to TF1. “But I’m not used to social media and I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”
Scammers started requesting cash, telling Anne that Brad was within the hospital with kidney most cancers and wanted cash for therapy. He claimed his financial institution accounts have been frozen throughout divorce proceedings with ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
Scammers ‘deserve hell’
Anne mentioned she lastly realised she had been scammed after she noticed photos of the true Brad Pitt along with his present associate, Ines de Ramon.
“I ask myself why they chose me to do such harm like this?” she instructed TF1. “I’ve never harmed anyone. These people deserve hell.”
Police are investigating the rip-off, however the interview has triggered some social media posts making jokes at Anne’s expense.
A spokesperson for Brad Pitt instructed US outlet Leisure Weekly: “It’s awful that scammers take advantage of fans’ strong connection with celebrities”, including it was “an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no social media presence”.
