Brad Pitt has issued a cautionary statement in response to the viral story about a French woman who divorced her husband and handed over her life savings to a scammer posing as the actor by using crude AI images. “It’s awful that scammers take advantage of the strong bond between fans and celebrities,” a spokesperson for Pitt said in a statement to Variety. “This is an important reminder not to respond to unsolicited online messages, especially from actors who are not present on social networks.” The 53-year-old woman came forward this week to reveal that she had been duped out of more than $850,000 after a man she believed to be Pitt initiated a virtual relationship with her and claimed to need an enormous amount of money for a kidney transplant. “At first I said to myself that it was fake, that it’s ridiculous,” the woman, identified only as Anne said in a TV interview. “But I’m not used to social media and I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”
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