Interior Designer Plays the Fool: How a Fake Brad Pitt Scammed Her Out of $850,000! | VIDEO

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*Ah, love in a digital age! It’s not always roses and poetry, especially when your “true love” turns out to be a scam artist pretending to be Brad Pitt. Enter Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer from France, who has become a real-life cautionary tale after losing her life savings — approximately $850,000(US) — thanks to an elaborate scheme that would make even the sketchiest reality TV producers cringe.

So how did our heroine end up in this mess? Well, it all began innocently enough when she was contacted by someone “pretending” to be none other than Pitt’s own mother. Because, as we all know, the first step in online romance is the venerable mother-in-law introducing herself. Right? That fictional matriarch sweetly claimed, “It’s a woman like you that my son needs.” Because nothing says “trustworthy” like a stranger in the ether claiming to be the celebrated actor’s mom.

Despite initially calling the entire charade “fake” and “ridiculous”—you know, those little alarm bells that go off when reality hits—Anne seemed to have misplaced her skepticism along with her bank account.

“I didn’t really understand what was happening to me,” she confided as if that explained spending a small fortune on nonexistent gifts. Yes, Anne, social media was clearly not prepared for this level of gullibility.

Anne loses $850K to Brad Pitt scammer in digital love hoax // Fake Brad Pitt
Fake Brad Pitt

But wait, it gets better! After convincing Anne to cough up nearly €10,000 (about $10,500) for some imaginary customs tariffs—because who needs logic when you can pretend to be dating a movie star?—the scam went into full soap opera mode. Next thing you know, “Brad” claimed he was dying of kidney cancer and needed money to cover his medical bills because his bank accounts were locked up tighter than the vault at Fort Knox, courtesy of his pesky divorce from Angelina Jolie. I mean, why throw in some mundane excuses when you can add life-threatening drama into the mix?

As if the barrage of poorly Photoshopped hospital bed images and AI-generated lovesick tweets weren’t enough, Anne’s heart was finally shattered when she discovered that the real Brad Pitt was dating Ines De Ramon. Cue the violins! The scammer’s elaborate web was pulled back, revealing Anne’s tragic—and utterly avoidable—naiveté. “I’ve never harmed anyone,” she lamented. Well, let’s just say that “making bad life choices” isn’t exactly a criminal offense, but at this rate, the fictional Pitt should definitely be issued a restraining order.

After sharing her tale on the French news show TF1, you’d think Anne would receive some sympathy, but no—she was met with a horde of trolls who pounced on her misfortune with the glee of a cat attacking a laser dot. This public mockery led Anne into a downward spiral, and she soon found herself hospitalized for severe depression. So yes, in this delightful modern twist, the scams aren’t the only source of suffering; the awful world of the internet can have deep, sharp teeth as well.

In an unreal stroke of irony, even Netflix France jumped into the fray, promoting “four films to see with Brad Pitt (really) for free,” turning Anne’s heartbreak into a punchline fit for the comedy specials of stand-up legends. So here’s a free lesson: if you ever find yourself in a situation that resembles a bad romantic comedy, maybe it’s time to step back and reconsider your choices.

As Anne attempts to navigate her emotional and financial recovery, we’re left with the age-old question: Are we truly smarter than the romance scams that seek to ensnare us? Will we ever learn? Or are we doomed to laugh at our collective folly while Hollywood churns out tales of woe inspired by yet another love-struck interior designer misled by a fake Brad Pitt? Only time will tell, my friends!

Fake Brad Pitt
Fake Brad Pitt

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