It's amazing and pathetic to me that the overriding sentiment here is mocking the woman for being duped. Just absolute zero empathy.
AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
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#12It is always shocking to me that someone with those kinds of resources can get duped like that -- with little checks and balances.
From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/1i1uvjq/scam... French start up Find My Scammer carried out the investigation pro bono as the victim has literally no money left in her account, not even a cent. Victim had no experience whatsoever with social media before creating an Instagram account in 2023 to share holiday pictures. Victim was targeted after liking pictures related to Brad Pitt on Inst…
> Crypto wallet where the stolen money is stored found. All information in the hands of authorities investigating the crime.
This is great news, and I hope Anne and the other victims can see at least some of their money returned.
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#13It is always shocking to me that someone with those kinds of resources can get duped like that -- with little checks and balances.
From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/1i1uvjq/scam... French start up Find My Scammer carried out the investigation pro bono as the victim has literally no money left in her account, not even a cent. Victim had no experience whatsoever with social media before creating an Instagram account in 2023 to share holiday pictures. Victim was targeted after liking pictures related to Brad Pitt on Inst…
An important point in the story: while she was contacted by the scammers when she was still married, it is after the divorce that she received most of the money that was eventually scammed - over €700k
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#14I am beginning to doubt my five Instagram girlfriends
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#15Consider that if someone secretly had our modern AI tech 10-15 years ago, they could have easily scammed a lot of people out of money in romance scams.
Now consider that the future isn’t equally distributed and some people are literally still living at the level of 10-15 years ago. Wow, there is a lot of opportunity for scammers out there, though the window will be closing every year as the world catches up, and no one will trust images, videos and voices anymore.
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#16It is always shocking to me that someone with those kinds of resources can get duped like that -- with little checks and balances.
From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/1i1uvjq/scam... French start up Find My Scammer carried out the investigation pro bono as the victim has literally no money left in her account, not even a cent. Victim had no experience whatsoever with social media before creating an Instagram account in 2023 to share holiday pictures. Victim was targeted after liking pictures related to Brad Pitt on Inst…
Do such links really work so that it’s enough to load the page on your browser and you are done?
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#17Lol this article doesn't even include the best part which were the pictures the scammer was sending. It's like 10 low res photos of Brad Pitt in a hospital bed, I think some of them lifted from movies. I don't even think AI really played an important role here. Edit: Here https://x.com/PopBase/status/1879197931129163782
What's the "best part" of someone with both HIV and cancer who is going through a divorce getting robbed out of every cent to their name and then mocked on the Internet?
Yeah, hilarious. Ell oh ell oh ell.
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#18“She has since told a popular French YouTube show that she was not "crazy or a moron" She might indeed not be crazy..
Nor a moron.
Solitary people who are groomed and love bombed aren't idiots, they are victims. Abuse of this type works so often because people have weakened defenses due to other events in their life. We're hard wired as a species to value social cohesion and social approvals.
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#19It is always shocking to me that someone with those kinds of resources can get duped like that -- with little checks and balances.
She didn't earn that money.
The bigger scam was acted against the wealthy entrepreneur who saw a big chunk of his money going to his ex-wife.
Divorce laws are ridiculous, you are better off not getting married and using a surrogate mother.
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#20Summary: First, criminals preying upon someone apparently vulnerable (after cancer, divorce, and who knows what else). Then, as if that wasn't more than enough for one person, a bunch of Internet people, and even some brand marketers, publicly mocking and harassing the victim.
She was paying for his divorce with jolie. She got 770k euros from her own divorce. Not exactly a poor person
A fool and her money are easily parted. You can have sympathy for her while admitting that she s a fool. Not even the first or second one.
Moral of the story is "don't be a fool" because there is no chance that scammers will disappeared