It is always shocking to me that someone with those kinds of resources can get duped like that -- with little checks and balances.
Love is blind.
In Spanish when somebody says love is blind, another will quickly add “and deaf and stupid/idiot“
AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
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#72Lol 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
It's the sad part, not the "best"
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
How why would anybody give money to Brad Pitt? Dude's rich enough already.
Which makes her more of a ...?
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#74Lol 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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#75The 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.
Mmm more your ex wife… she was 53, which is pretty much in the age range of HN
Yeah, she's not the best poster-girl for the problem, apparently getting a divorce for her scammer, and having a daughter who warned her after she was duped (much more difficult to accept due to sunk cost and embarrassment).
But her relative age just highlights how you don't have to be 95 to fall for these scams when fakes are getting so good. I should have said, I hope you are warning and educating your parents, grandparents, spouses, children.
Please inform your loved ones why it's important to never trust unsolicited communication.
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
How why would anybody give money to Brad Pitt? Dude's rich enough already.
There are always explanations for why the invented persona needs cash, and the scammer also presents sophisticated evidence chains for it. Most people are susceptible to it; see the massive success of spear phishing in corporate environments.
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#77Why would anyone give a celeb money? Especially a high profile one like Brad Pitt.
Like I get if you believed that Josh Hartnett or Pauly Shore is asking you for money. They haven't worked much in the last decade.
But Brad Pitt? That's almost as bad as Ryan Reynolds or Kevin Hart asking you for money cause they're in so many movies.
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#78Summary: 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
> She got 770k euros from her own divorce.
The ex husband must be laughing his ass off at this!
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
How why would anybody give money to Brad Pitt? Dude's rich enough already.
As would be Nigerian princes. Seems just a variation of the same old scam.
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#80Lol 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
calling that AI is very generous.