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Woman scammed by fake Brad Pitt for over €800k!

A scammer duped a French woman into paying out hundreds of thousands of pounds after convincing h...

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13.47 15 Jan 2025


Woman scammed by fake Brad Pitt for over €800k!


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A scammer duped a French woman into paying out hundreds of thousands of pounds after convincing her that she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt.

The scammer used AI to make images of Brad Pitt, sick in hospital, to scam her out of €830,000. She thought she was helping with cancer treatment for him.

Andrea is joined by Becky Holmes, author of ‘Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You’, to discuss these types of scams.


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