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Everyone is a fool in some aspect of life. This person was bad with money and fraud, but maybe she is or was an extremely talented artist. Maybe you understand money and fraud, but are otherwise talentless. Neither of you are fools.
Wrecking your life is substantially worse than not being a good artist.
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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 ?
Also that she happens to be the 2 worse diseases in popular knowledge.
I don’t know… seems contrived.
The lack of empathy of the responses here saddens me. I sincerely hope none of your parents or grandparents are scammed. And I hope you are all educating your loved ones on the threat of scams in this new era when AI fakes are so easy and realistic.
Lol 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.
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
Even if we aren't vulnerable to scams, we may be vulnerable to falling for false rumors, fake news, myths, or just things that sounds true but turn out to be false.
"Don't be a fool" isn't really much of a lesson, but it is useful to know there are fake Brad Pitt milling around potentially preying on vulnerable women.
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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.
Let's just ignore thousands of European noble families and wealthy industrial tycoon dynasties.
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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!
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.
Your timeline there is a bit off. When she met this Brad Pitt, she was still married. She started sending money to him; got divorced; got a settlement of €775,000; and proceeded to give all of that as well to Brad Pitt. Still worthy of sympathy, but no one would question mockery of a married man who started chatting with a fake Angelina Jolie on social media, started sending her money, got divorced, and then gave the…