A fraudster defrauded a French woman of 830,000 euros using AI images of Brad Pitt

A 53-year-old French woman transferred 830,000 euros to a fraudster who pretended to be Brad Pitt using artificial intelligence. The woman believed that she was in a relationship with the actor, to whom she transferred funds for alleged cancer treatment. This is reported by The Guardian, writes UNN.

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Anne, an interior designer, filed a fraud complaint with the police. According to her, she communicated with the fake Brad Pitt for a year and a half.

At the beginning of 2023, the 53-year-old French woman was written by a person posing as the mother of an American actor. “Jane Pitt” wrote to the victim that she would be a good match for her “son”. Subsequently, the woman was contacted from another account under the name of Brad Pitt.

It is noted that the fraudster used the technology of creating images of artificial intelligence during communication: thus, he sent a selfie and a “copy of Pitt’s passport” to the interlocutor.

I was in love with the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to a woman

According to the woman, the actor asked her for financial help for “cancer treatment” because his accounts were frozen during the divorce proceedings with Angelina Jolie. The victim also received AI-generated photos of Pitt, allegedly in the hospital, with a request for financial help for “kidney treatment.”

We will remind

Last December, after eight years of legal proceedings, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reached a final divorce settlement. Jolie expressed relief at the end of that phase, focusing on rebuilding her family.