PARIS: A French girl who revealed on tv how she had misplaced her life financial savings to scammers posing as Brad Pitt, has confronted a wave of on-line harassment and mockery, main the interview to be withdrawn on Tuesday (Jan 14).
The girl, named as Anne, advised the Seven to Eight programme on the TF1 channel that she had believed she was in a romantic relationship with the Hollywood star, main her to divorce her husband and switch 830,000 euros (US$850,000).
The scammers used faux social media and WhatsApp accounts in addition to AI image-creating expertise to ship Anne what seemed to be selfies and messages from Pitt.
To extract cash, they pretended that the 61-year-old actor wanted cash to pay for kidney therapy, together with his financial institution accounts supposedly frozen due to divorce proceedings together with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
Anne, a 53-year-old inside decorator with psychological well being issues, spent a yr and half believing she was speaking with Pitt and solely realised she had been scammed when information emerged of Pitt’s real-life relationship with girlfriend Ines de Ramon.
“The story broadcast this Sunday has resulted in a wave of harassment towards the witness,” TF1 presenter Harry Roselmack wrote on his X account on Tuesday. “For the safety of victims, we now have determined to withdraw it from our platforms.”
Anne was stated by the channel on the time of its broadcast to have been affected by extreme despair and acquired hospital therapy.
