Who is behind the fake Brad Pitt ? The financial brigade leads the investigation after a woman was swindled out of €830,000

A 53-year-old interior designer was the victim of a huge scam on social networks. A scammer extorted 830,000 euros from her by pretending to be a Brad Pitt in love with her. The authorities are still looking for the perpetrator.

Anne, an interior designer and mother with an uneventful life, fell for a love scam worthy of a Hollywood script.

A conman extorted 830,000 euros from her by pretending to be a Brad Pitt in love with her, between February 2023 and June 2024. The fifty-year-old testified in Sept à huit on TF1 this Sunday, January 12, 2025.

Devastated by this story, the fifty-year-old attempted suicide three times. She took refuge in Reunion Island with a friend. “I've never hurt anyone in my life. These people deserve hell. We have to find these crooks.”

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Investigation in progress

According to the Saint-Denis de La Réunion prosecutor's office contacted by Le Parisien, “an investigation is underway with the financial brigade”. The authorities are working to “identify the accounts where the funds are being used”. For now, “no suspect has been identified” according to information from Parisien.

For several months, Anne had been getting closer to Marwan Ouarab, founder of FindmyScammer who seeks to find the “grazers” of the victims who contact him.

In Nigeria ?

The latter discovered that the scammers were in Nigeria and had even found the GPS coordinates of the house where the Internet connection.

Three men are said to be hiding behind it, Le Parisien explains: one in charge of relations with the victim, the second in charge of “creating false identities” and the third who would manage the money laundering and allow the scammers to withdraw the funds in cash.

According to Marwan Ouarab, the man would have made at least thirty victims by pretending to be Brad Pitt or Keanu Reeves.

Since its broadcast, the sequence has been removed from TF1 platforms, due to a wave of cyberbullying that Anne has suffered on social networks social.