A scam involving AI-generated images of Hollywood star Brad Pitt used to defraud a French woman of $850,000 (N1,313,258,500) has been traced to Nigeria.
The fraudsters posed as 61-year-old Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, claiming to require money for a kidney transplant as his accounts had been frozen due to his ongoing divorce from Angelina Jolie. Their victim is a 53-year-old identified as Anne by French broadcaster TF1.
A France 24.com report says the victim told TF1 that she was first targeted on Instagram by someone posing as Pitt’s mother after she shared pictures of herself skiing in the resort of Tignes.
Lady Anne’s lawyer, Laurene Hanna, said her client lost 830,000 euros to the scammers.
The attorney said on X that Anne has been in touch with Marwan Ouarab, the founder of the FindmyScammer.com website, to find the fraudsters.
According to the French daily Le Parisien, which quoted Mr Ouarab, the scammers — three men in their 20s — are in Nigeria.
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