A French woman has claimed that someone defrauded her of $850,000 by using artificial intelligence to fake pictures of Brad Pitt, a famous Hollywood celebrity.
According to the New York Post, the victim, a 58-year-old French woman who works as an interior designer, told a French TV channel that she was initially contacted by a woman who claimed to be Brad Pitt’s mother and said that her son (Brad (Pete) needs someone like her in his life.
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The French woman said that at first she thought the messages were fake, but she didn’t know exactly what was happening to her. The relationship between the victim and the fake Brad Pitt continued for 18 months. During this period, the victim received romantic messages and marriage requests from the fake person.
According to Ghorbani: “There are few men who write to you like this. I was in love with the man I was talking to. “He knew how to talk to women and it was very well organized.”
At that time, the victim was in the process of divorcing her millionaire husband, who is about 2 decades older than her. The fraudster first claimed that he was sending expensive bags to this woman, and she only had to pay the customs fee for them, which was 9,200 dollars.
The scammer’s demands on the female victim continued and became more demanding, until finally Brad Pitt fakely announced that he had kidney cancer and needed cash for treatment because Angelina Jolie, Pitt’s real ex-wife, had accessed his bank accounts. has blocked
The scammer even sent the French woman fake, AI-generated images to show she was in the hospital. Finally, the victim agreed to transfer $850,000 to a bank account in Türkiye.
Last summer, when Brad Pitt was seen with his new lover, the French woman found out that she had been cheated on. It is not yet clear whether the fraudster has been arrested or not.
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