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Brad Pitt Issues Stark Warning After Scam Used Fake Pics of Him

The actor wants the world to know that it’s almost certainly not him they are communicating with on social media.

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.”