One such case involved a 53-year-old French interior designer who was tricked into paying €830,000 ($855,000) for someone posing as actor Brad Pitt for alleged cancer treatment. The scam began when ...

AI tools can be used to generate convincing text, images and even live video, enabling ever smarter and more targeted scams.

The scammers apparently convinced the woman that “Brad” needed money for cancer treatment by sending her numerous AI-generated images depicting the movie star in the hospital.

A French interior designer was defrauded out of €830,000 by scammers impersonating actor Brad Pitt, leading to widespread mockery and the withdrawal of a TF1 program about her ordeal. The 53-year-old ...

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Anne subsequently gave her entire settlement fortune to the fake Brad Pitt, who at the time claimed to have kidney cancer. The fraudster explained that he needed money for surgery, as his accounts ...

When she continued to receive messages from the fake account — which included ... was tricked out of $850,000 by scammers posing as Brad Pitt in a romantic scheme that lasted over a year.

Kid Rock shared his thoughts following the news that a scammer pretending to be Pitt has swindled a woman out of $850,000.

Ass producer Brad Pitt has found himself at the centre of a viral story which saw a woman lose $850,000 after being fooled by ...

"Our brains work on emotion, not logic. Logic tells you this could be a scam; emotion makes us fall for it anyway," an expert told Newsweek.

A French woman went viral for falling for a scam in which she was convinced that Brad Pitt was her boyfriend. Of course, some fairly brutal mockery ensued from those certain they'd never be so ...

Romance fraud affects both men and women. Victims are not naive, but often share similar psychological and behavioural ...