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BBC News - AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830,000
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.These scammers are extremely clever and know how to play on the vulnerable. They are very good at finding and exploiting a weakness.
I have no doubt that the victim feels many things including feeling extremely stupid.
I feel really sorry for her. She's lost her dream, her life savings and now the entire world is laughing at her.
I used to spend a lot of time baiting these (insert sweary word). A lot of people "play" with them and correct their English and tell them how they know they are scammers. I (as do other scam baiters) de-educated them (Ie correcting a saying or spelling so it is incorrect). Some of the ones I played with were very good indeed.
Someone I was once close to was romance scammed and it was very unpleasant.
This lady fell for a con-artist because she believed him, because she wanted to believe him.
Instead of victim shaming, how about we make it normal to say "Lady, you were conned, but you were a victim. The person who conned you is to blame."
//Instead of victim shaming, how about we make it normal to say "Lady, you how about saying were conned, but you were a victim. The person who conned you is to blame."//
Yeah but when they're an idiot how about saying "lady you're an idiot that was conned by a bad person. You aren't the first and won't be the last'.
Keeping it real.
She knows that! She has already suffered enough. Someone might be reading this thread, realising they've been had. What do you think will make them report it or ask for advice? A) people are going to laugh at me and call me thick or B) I get I've been an idiot but people will understand and support me because I've been the victim of a con man.
There is keeping it real and then there is keeping it kind.
Absolutely zero sympathy - she deserved to be scammed.
I mean come on - Brad Pitt needs money for hospital treatment, together with some very clearly iffy photos. I could 'sort of'* get it if it was a random that scammed her, but somebody pretending to be Brad Pitt? And no media coverage of his illness.
Brains of a rocking horse.
*actually I don't get it.