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A woman from France claims she was scammed into sending a man she thought was Brad Pitt \u20ac830,000 (\u00a3697,000) to help with his \u2018cancer treatment\u2019.<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old victim named Anne said she was fooled by the scammer after she received a message on\u00a0social media<\/a>\u00a0from someone claiming to be the actor\u2019s\u00a0mother<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Just a day later, the interior designer was sent another DM from an account posing as the\u00a0Fight Club<\/em>\u00a0star in February 2023, which reportedly said (via<\/a>\u00a0Metro): \u201cHello Anne, my mother told me a lot about you. I would like to know more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The person sent Anne AI-generated pictures of Brad Pitt (X)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anne reportedly\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0French channel TF1 (via<\/a>\u00a0BFM TV) that she was going through a difficult moment with her husband at the time and felt she could confide in the person.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, we\u2019re talking about\u00a0Brad Pitt<\/a>, I\u2019m falling from the clouds. At first, I tell myself it\u2019s fake, but I don\u2019t really understand what\u2019s happening to me. After that, we will contact each other every day and we become friends,\u201d she said via translated text.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fake\u00a0celebrity<\/a>\u00a0account said they couldn\u2019t afford the funds for \u2018cancer<\/a>\u00a0treatment\u2019 because of their ongoing divorce from\u00a0Angelina Jolie<\/a>, which\u00a0reached a settlement<\/a>\u00a0in December 2024.<\/p>\n

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Anne transferred the account \u00a3697,000 to \u2018Brad Pitt\u2019 (TF1)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

They would send\u00a0AI-generated<\/a>\u00a0pictures of the actor in hospital holding up cards with personalised messages written on them and would also never talk over the phone because they were always too \u2018busy\u2019.<\/p>\n

After chatting for months, Anne agreed to\u00a0marry<\/a>\u00a0the person behind the account after she gets \u20ac775,000 (\u00a3652,310) from divorcing her husband.<\/p>\n

All that\u00a0money<\/a>\u00a0was sent to the fake account as they promised to send her luxury gifts in return, such as bags from Chanel and Herm\u00e8s, however, the person said she would need to pay a \u20ac9,000 (\u00a37,575) customs fee, which she never got back, BFM TV reports.<\/p>\n

She reportedly became suspicious when Pitt was seen in public with his new girlfriend, Ines de Ramon, so she opted to get investigators on the case and everything soon unravelled.<\/p>\n

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The pair would reportedly talk over DM but would never speak over the phone (X)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Anne is reportedly now in a hospital clinic with severe\u00a0depression<\/a>, BFM TV says, and it remains unclear if she ever got any of her money back, however, an investigation is reportedly underway.<\/p>\n

This comes after a representative of the actor had previously called out incidents involving people who are under investigation for allegedly defrauding two women out of $350,000 (\u00a3290,000) online.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awful that scammers take advantage of fans\u2019 strong connection with celebrities, and this is an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no social media presence,\u201d they said\u00a0via<\/a>\u00a0PEOPLE last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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