Jamel Debbouze arrested, Elise Lucet beaten… What these recent “revelations” about French personalities hide

Fake news is currently circulating about French personalities like Elise Lucet and Jamel Debbouze. Behind these lies a real financial scam system.

A performance by Elise Lucet "which turns into a tragedy", Jamel Debbouze "attacked; in court… Many surprising revelations about French personalities have been circulating on the Web since the beginning of March. They come from false press articles using outrageous titles and a layout reminiscent of the biggest names in the French press. To attract clicks, statements or incidents are invented from scratch concerning personalities well known to the French like Elise Lucet, Jamel Debbouze, but also Yann Barthès. The false information is accompanied by striking visuals which are in fact montages. For example, the image which shows Jamel Debbouze handcuffed. by Australian police is a distorted photo of a protester Sydney, stopé during an anti-containment rally.

Once the user has clicked on the link, it comes to a fake article from Mondewho assures that Jamel Debbouze would have been attacked. in court by the Bank of France. Elise Lucet, for her part, appears with a tuméfié in an article explaining that she “said goodbye" his ordinary life, or that his broadcast the day before ended in tragedy. Obviously, none of these mishaps happened or happened in the past. the comedian, nor the journalist. The goal of the scam is only to make the reader ultimately believe that they can earn money and send it to the reader. nbsp;towards foreign platforms for the automatic resale of cryptocurrencies, promising immediate gains.

Elise Lucet herself warned against this "coordinated campaign of malicious posts" using his image. France 2 and the newspaper Le Monde decidedé file a complaint against the authors of these false advertisements, according to the Huffpost.

Yann Barthès has also beené touch&eac; by this scam with messages like “Yann wasé amazed to see the profit he made after buying Bitcoins on the Big Money Rush trading platform. Sponsored content is thus inserted.

These misleading campaigns circulate in particular on very popular social networks such as those of Meta or X, formerly Twitter. They are shared by labeled accounts for a fee, a feature that is available to all users. set up by Elon Musk after the purchase of the platform, which offers better visibility. &agrav; these accounts. Previously, the label, or the "blue checkmark" as called by historic Twitter users, certified an account as official or in any case serious. But that was before.