AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830,000

[Martin Everson]

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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So sad.

yes
but people have to learn not to trust everything and and if they do then to face the consequences on their account

there is no workaround and it must be this way

 

[Martin Everson]

As AI improves I think a lot more people who cannot discern fake from real are gonna fall victim.


P.S Not everyone has common sense unfortunately and new laws may have to be there to protect such vulnerable people.

 

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people who cannot discern fake from real are gonna fall victim.

and new laws may have to be there to protect such vulnerable people.

that's the biggest mistake ever, we already tried and look how it ends

they have to learn how to live and survive or "perish" - nothing else works and alternatives end in hell