Brad Pitt is just not messaging followers — or asking for cash.
A consultant for the Hollywood star issued a warning to followers by way of Entertainment Weekly after a French lady named Anne misplaced her life financial savings, $850,000, in a rip-off involving faux messages and AI-generated photos of the actor.
“It’s terrible that scammers make the most of followers’ sturdy reference to celebrities,” the rep said, urging folks to keep away from unsolicited on-line messages, notably from actors with out social media accounts.
Anne, a 53-year-old inside designer, shared her story on France’s TF1 channel, explaining how she was first contacted by somebody claiming to be Pitt’s mom on Instagram.
Shortly after, scammers posing as Pitt himself reached out, convincing her they have been in a romantic relationship. To make their story plausible, they claimed Pitt wanted cash for kidney remedy, citing frozen financial institution accounts as a consequence of his divorce with Angelina Jolie.
They even despatched doctored photos of Pitt in a hospital mattress.
Anne, who believed the connection was actual, divorced her husband and despatched the scammers the funds. “I used to be in love with the person I used to be chatting to,” she advised Seven to Eight.
This isn’t the primary time Pitt impersonators have struck. In 2024, scammers in Spain defrauded two ladies of $350,000 utilizing comparable techniques.
While Anne has filed a police report, her ordeal led to despair and prompted TF1 to tug the episode from circulation to stop additional cyber bullying.
