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AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Post by Gualdrapo »

seydor wrote: post #20
neilv wrote: post #6

Summary: 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

I don't see how that validates the response of the public mocking and harassing them.

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Post by throwawaysleep »

ternnoburn wrote: post #23
spiderfarmer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My grandpa has a saying that translates to something: "The money bag never hangs in front of the same house for more than three generations". This is just one of the reasons why.

"This" -- do you mean theft and abuse are the reasons why? Or debilitating illness (HIV/Cancer).

She was tricked. The money wasn't physically taken. She lost the money because, unlike she claims, she is indeed a moron.

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Post by fn-mote »

seydor wrote: post #20
neilv wrote: post #6

Summary: 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

The lack of morality in the parent post discourages me.

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Post by exogeny »

extr wrote: post #22
exogeny wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's possible for things to be both sad and funny from different perspectives. Hope that helps.

Don't backtrack now. It's only funny to you because you don't know her. I don't find everyday sociopathy as amusing myself.

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Post by ttoinou »

ternnoburn wrote: post #18
moi2388 wrote: post #4

“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.

Should society remove citizen’s rights to those helpless people then ? Who should watch over them and be responsible for their acts ?

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Post by _ink_ »

anon22981 wrote: post #16
thiscatis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Depends. Mostly not. But Pegasus spy software was put on iPhones via silent SMS. So those targets didn't even need to click a link. All they really had to do was owning an iPhone. And made their number known.

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Post by paul7986 »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #31
seydor wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I don't see how that validates the response of the public mocking and harassing them.

Unfortunately for her the mocking is to teach other fools not to be one!

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Post by ralfd »

cowmix wrote: post #2

It is always shocking to me that someone with those kinds of resources can get duped like that -- with little checks and balances.

Her daughter should have done more to safe her own inheritance. Like, if you safe 800K Dollar in convincing your mother she is not romanced by Brad Pitt, I would handle that as a full time job!

That said this is increasingly common and especially elder people can be easily scammed with AI.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1df081i/my_mother_an...

> Reading through all of this, apparently lots of elderly people having "relationships" with celebrities. Adding my mother to the mix. She's been corresponding with "Elon Musk" for at least six months. She's not even that old, she's only 67...but extremely gullible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/15sls1v/my_dad_think...

> My Dad thinks Elon Musk is texting him and has lost over $10K - Help!

I don’t know how we can deal with that in the future. Financial regulation to make it easier that people at risk have more banking safe guards and their children/spouses can supervise accounts better? Or hope it fixes itself when the 4Chan generation who grew up with Nigerian prince scams replaces boomers?

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