“We’re talking about Brad Pitt here and I was stunned,” she said. “At first, I thought it was fake, but I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.” The Independent is the ...

The woman, who goes by the alias Anne, first got in touch with fake Brad Pitt in 2023. After creating an Instagram account to post photos of her skiing trip in the Alps, a woman claiming to be ...

Romance scams, where fraudsters lure victims with false promises of love, prey on thousands of people every year. In 2023, ...

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 ...

In recent weeks a high-profile “romance scam” in France, in which a woman forked out over €830,000 (S$1.1 million), or fake donation drives for Los Angeles fire victims, show “absolutely ...

The scammers used fake social media and WhatsApp accounts ... posted on social media promoting “four films to see with Brad Pitt (really) for free”, while other media commentators made ...

Anne explained how she ended up paying 830,000 Euros ($1.2 million) to swindlers posing as a sickly Brad Pitt, who was ...

Hollywood star Brad Pitt recently opened SINTEF's conference on digital security. Well, actually, no, he didn't. "I cloned his voice in less than three minutes," says Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad, ...

"If you see a fake account, are friended or messaged by ... appearance at a Lakers game in December. In January 2025, Brad Pitt fans were cautioned about online scammers after a French woman ...