AI tools can be used to generate convincing text, images and even live video, enabling ever smarter and more targeted scams.

“We’re talking about Brad Pitt here, and I was stunned,” Anne said. “At first, I thought it was fake, but I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.” Still, she responded to the message and ...

A French interior designer was defrauded out of €830,000 by scammers impersonating actor Brad Pitt, leading to widespread mockery and the withdrawal of a TF1 program about her ordeal. The 53-year-old ...

The scammers apparently convinced the woman that “Brad” needed money for cancer treatment by sending her numerous AI-generated images depicting the movie star in the hospital.

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 ...

Ass producer Brad Pitt has found himself at the centre of a viral story which saw a woman lose $850,000 after being fooled by ...

Kid Rock shared his thoughts following the news that a scammer pretending to be Pitt has swindled a woman out of $850,000.

Anne subsequently gave her entire settlement fortune to the fake Brad Pitt, who at the time claimed to have kidney cancer. The fraudster explained that he needed money for surgery, as his accounts ...

Many posters for fake reunion projects are making their way through social media, and Seven is the latest victim. Back in ...

A French woman went viral for falling for a scam in which she was convinced that Brad Pitt was her boyfriend. Of course, some fairly brutal mockery ensued from those certain they'd never be so ...

"Our brains work on emotion, not logic. Logic tells you this could be a scam; emotion makes us fall for it anyway," an expert told Newsweek.