Woman in France scammed of £700,000 after believing she was in relationship with Brad Pitt

Woman in France scammed of £700,000 after believing she was in relationship with Brad Pitt

A lady in France has been misled after she became persuaded that she was involved with Hollywood entertainer, Brad Pitt.

The 53-year-old casualty, who gave her name as Anne, is the furthest down the line lady to succumb to the “Phony Brad Pitt Trick” after a few cases were accounted for in Spain in 2024.

The inside creator told French channel TF1 that the bad dream started in September 2023 when she got a message on Instagram from “Jane Etta Pitt, the entertainer’s mom – or so they guaranteed.”

Their talk immediately went to Brad Pitt and how the two would make an incredible heartfelt match.

Anne was told by the fraudster acting like Brad’s mum: “It is a lady like you that my child needs.”

The extremely following day that another record reached her, expressing: “Hi Anne, my mom educated me a great deal regarding you. I might want to know more.”

From the start, she thought it very well might be a trick, yet she before long fell in the fraudster’s tangled snare of duplicity.

Anne was floored that she was really talking with Brad Pitt, adding: “right away, I thought it was phony, however I was unable to comprehend what was befalling me.

“From that point forward, we would get in touch with one another consistently and we became companions.”

At the time, she was going through a rough patch in her personal life and her relationship with a millionaire entrepreneur, 19 years her senior, was in tatters, newspaper Sud Ouest reported. 

Posing as Brad Pitt, the fraudster sent her poems and songs and AI photos to look like the actor. 

“He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done,” Anne said. 

He started buying her luxurious bags, but told her that she had to pay for customs. This is how Anne lost her first €9,000 (£7,580). 

Eventually, the scammer, still impersonating the actor, claimed that he had kidney cancer and needed money for treatment. 

He told Anne that his ex-wife Angelina Jolie had frozen his bank accounts and he had no access to his fortune. 

Fake photos of Brad Pitt in a hospital bed, strapped to an IV machine, soon followed and the victim was convinced. 

She eventually transferred 830,000 euros (£697,000) to help with what she believed was cancer treatment for the film star. 

It was only after Anne saw pictures of Brad Pitt with his new girlfriend, Ines de Ramon, in the newspapers that she began suspecting the scam. 

The victim went to the French police with the story, who then launched an investigation in he summer of 2024. 

Following the con, BFMTV reported that Anne is currently hospitalised in a clinic, with severe depression.