Romance Scammers Use AI-Generated Brad Pitt Deepfakes to Defraud Woman of $850,000
Scammers used AI image generation tools alongside fraudulent social media accounts to impersonate actor Brad Pitt over 18 months. The victim was deceived into transferring $850,000 under the guise of fake medical bills.
- first report
- 12 Jan 2025
- last update
- 12 Jan 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-01-12Yahoo Boys Allegedly Used Deepfake Technology to Impersonate Brad Pitt and Defraud French Woman of $850,000 in Romance ScamAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/901
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Classification
- AI role
- AI-enabled attack
- categories
- Deepfake fraud
- severity
- 4 · Confirmed real-world loss
- targets
- Individuals
- owasp llm top 10
- no entry for these categories
- dates
- happened 12 Jan 2025 · first reported 12 Jan 2025
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- record
- confidence 0.90 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z
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# Romance Scammers Use AI-Generated Brad Pitt Deepfakes to Defraud Woman of $850,000 https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/romance-scammers-use-ai-generated-brad-pitt-deepfakes-to-def · AIR-2025-0177 · closed 2025-01-26 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-01-12 - AI role: AI-enabled attack ## Summary Scammers used AI image generation tools alongside fraudulent social media accounts to impersonate actor Brad Pitt over 18 months. The victim was deceived into transferring $850,000 under the guise of fake medical bills. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-01-12: Yahoo Boys Allegedly Used Deepfake Technology to Impersonate Brad Pitt and Defraud French Woman of $850,000 in Romance Scam (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/901) ## Sources - 2025-01-12 AI Incident Database: Yahoo Boys Allegedly Used Deepfake Technology to Impersonate Brad Pitt and Defraud French Woman of $850,000 in Romance Scam https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/901 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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