How an AI Brad Pitt conned a woman out of €830,000, triggering online mockery • FRANCE 24

Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt has put out a statement after a French woman was swindled into sending her life savings – €830,000 – after being scammed by his AI likeness. The woman appeared on primetime television on French channel TF1, claiming the fraudster sent daily photos, videos and even IDs as Brad Pitt, claiming the money was needed for secret cancer treatment. Her story has unleashed a torrent of widespread cyberbullying, memes and mockery online. Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.
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50 comments
  1. The amount of people in the comments section who think it’s not criminal to steal from stupid people is amazing. I’d qualify that idea as stupid, which according to their standard means I’m allowed to steal from them.

  2. I think she has some kind of eye infection that limits her eye sight. There's no way someone look at the pics & go "yup, that is Mr Brad Pitt just like I saw in movies 100%"

  3. I have zero game. I can't get women that I've dated in person to pay for a Happy meal. WTF . This is a really expensive case of monkey branching.

  4. It take a narcissistic women to think Brad Pitt would want her old as..Look in the mirror and tell me why in the hell would a handsome wealthy actor go seeking an dried up prune.😂😂

  5. A famous person asking you for money should of been the first red flag if you didn't notice the fake picture etc. No matter how much you want it to be true common sense has to kick in sometime.

  6. Way way back in the day I got caught up in a romance scam….😮but I didn’t have two nickels to rub together……as much as the scammer begged for money I literally had nothing to give….and this was before AI and I think I would have sent him money if I had any…..scammers are very convincing and especially nowadays…..but as much as is known now ,scammers still can take advantage of so many people…it’s just terrible….😮

  7. "she didn't fall in love, she just wanted to help"
    yeah, we believe that. help a billionaire with your coins. yaahahaahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  8. Those pictures are ridiculous!!! They look so goofy and amateur. It looks like the silly stuff I made in when I first started playing with Adobe Photoshop 20 years ago!

  9. Nigerians these shame is too much… 😭 Enough… The Giant of Africa pride fades 😭…
    This is world wide news for God and goodness sake… As a Nigerian I'm ashamed being one 😢😭

  10. Let's google. Brad Pitt – Net Worth: $400 Million!!!

    Would every single penny of his money be tied up in his divorce so that he couldn't get cancer treatment?

    Look, I feel sorry for the lady. She lost close to a million dollars. I don't know what I'd do if I lost my life's savings. But the question I have is, how was she smart enough to save up that much money and so FOOLISH to give it all away over a scam that an 8 year old could figure out was fake???

  11. What's crazy is that these "AI generated" images look like they were crudely Photoshopped by a Photoshop amateur. You don't need AI to scam this woman.

  12. It shows the arrogance of women nowadays who all call themselves a 10, they have all convinced themselves someone like Brad Pitt really could fall in love with them.

  13. we need to cancel "one person – one vote" and bring back eugenics. It's scary that people like this exist; this combination of evil and stupidity is truly terrifying

  14. This way of presenting the news by the female reporter opening and closing images on the touch screens and trying to read the story at the same time made this so discombobulated, spastic and disjointed. lol. Tech gone wild…just saying – maybe you need to tweak the presenting format to make it a little smoother and flowing. 🏃‍♀️

  15. She divorced her husband to be with an AI Brad Pitt and lost her money.

    Yet in the same breath says she didn’t fall in love

    That’s real karma that got her

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