https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgnz8rw1xgo
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At one point, "Brad Pitt" said he tried to send her luxury gifts but that he was unable to pay customs on them as his bank accounts were frozen due to his divorce proceedings with actor Angelina Jolie, prompting Anne to transfer €9000 to the scammers.
"Like a fool, I paid... Every time I doubted him, he managed to dissipate my doubts," she said.
The requests for money ramped up when the fake Pitt told Anne he needed cash to pay for kidney cancer treatment, sending her multiple AI-generated photos of Brad Pitt in a hospital bed. "I looked those photos up on the internet but couldn't find them so I thought that meant he had taken those selfies just for me," she said.
Meanwhile, Anne and her husband divorced, and she was awarded €775,000 - all of which went to the scammers.
"I told myself I was maybe saving a man's life," Anne said, who is in cancer remission herself.
Anne's daughter, now 22, told TF1 she tried to "get her mother to see reason" for over a year but that her mother was too excited. "It hurt to see how naive she was being," she said.
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So sad.
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At one point, "Brad Pitt" said he tried to send her luxury gifts but that he was unable to pay customs on them as his bank accounts were frozen due to his divorce proceedings with actor Angelina Jolie, prompting Anne to transfer €9000 to the scammers.
"Like a fool, I paid... Every time I doubted him, he managed to dissipate my doubts," she said.
The requests for money ramped up when the fake Pitt told Anne he needed cash to pay for kidney cancer treatment, sending her multiple AI-generated photos of Brad Pitt in a hospital bed. "I looked those photos up on the internet but couldn't find them so I thought that meant he had taken those selfies just for me," she said.
Meanwhile, Anne and her husband divorced, and she was awarded €775,000 - all of which went to the scammers.
"I told myself I was maybe saving a man's life," Anne said, who is in cancer remission herself.
Anne's daughter, now 22, told TF1 she tried to "get her mother to see reason" for over a year but that her mother was too excited. "It hurt to see how naive she was being," she said.
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So sad.
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