Scammers targeted vulnerable and depressed women via Brad Pitt fan site, police said.
Thursday, September 26, 2024 12:57PMPolice in Spain have arrested five people accused of scamming two women out of 325,000 euros by pretending to be Hollywood star Brad Pitt online.
One woman lost 175,000 euros to the fraudsters, while another lost 150,000 euros . Of that total, police managed to recover 85,000 euros . "In order to find their victims, the cyber criminals studied their social networks and put together a psychological profile of them, discovering as a result that both women were vulnerable people suffering from depression and a lack of affection," reads the statement.
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