Even the victim’s own lawyer thought at first that it was a joke, but it is not. A resident of Granada has filed a legal complaint as the alleged victim of a scam of at least 170,000 euros by a person who posed as the American actor Brad Pitt, whom he would have reached through the internet and with whom he came to believe that they were in a relationship and that they would make a movie together.
According to the Ideal of Granada, which has contacted the complainant’s lawyer, Antonio Estella Aroza, from the Esya Legal office, the middle-aged woman contacted at the beginning of 2022 through Facebook with a kind of actor’s fan club. From then on, they began a series of interactions for a time that would supposedly lead her to directly contact Brad Pitt himself.
In this way, according to the lawyer, conversations began with the alleged scammer or scammers, who managed to gain the trust, friendship and even the love of the victim, with a relationship “analogous” to that of a couple.
“She came to be convinced that she had a relationship with Brad Pitt, that she was dating him. In fact, she reproached him on some occasion because she had seen him at such and such a festival in the company of another woman,” says the lawyer. .
The person who allegedly defrauded the neighbor from Granada even promised to come to Spain and record a movie together, at which point he began to ask her for different amounts of money through different bank transfers over four or five months to deal with the expenses derived from these activities.
“They explained to her that her physical features, of a woman from Andalusia, perfectly suited one of the characters in the script for the feature film,” explains the lawyer.
During this period, the person posing as Brad Pitt sent him photos of his alleged attendance at red carpets for premieres and even some photomontage with a message directly addressed to the woman.
In one of the montages made public by Ideal, Brat Pitt is seen in a medium shot with a note written with a pen in capital letters that reads “Honey, I really love you and I promise to pay you everything.”
Every detail of the story is more than a movie. At one point, the fake Pitt told her that he would visit her in person with the intention of proposing to her, but he didn’t show up, and the woman’s infatuation turned into depression and frustration.
But the scam went even further if possible and the criminals posed as detectives specialized in investigating fraud such as the one suffered by the neighbor from Granada. They claimed to speak on behalf of the FBI or a UN body dedicated to clarifying this type of thing.
It was then that he learned that he had been the victim of a very expensive hoax and went to Estella Aroza, who tells this bizarre story and will be in charge of handling the case.
“The complaint is already filed, but with the successive strikes that have affected justice, not a single piece of paper has yet been moved,” he says, adding that it will be a long road that may take seven or eight years to reach. to an outcome.
Estella Aroza has detailed that the amount of money scammed could exceed 170,000 euros, for which she has filed a legal complaint, still pending, for possible crimes of fraud, identity theft and even money laundering.
“It’s not that she’s a millionaire, far from it. She had recently received an inheritance and that’s why she had that capital,” the lawyer told the local press.
The large amount of money that the victim claims to have entered the fake Brat Pitt was not transferred at once. At first they asked the woman for relatively modest amounts, even so high, to bank accounts located both in Spain and in several foreign countries. The scammer’s first requests for funds were five or six thousand euros, but as the relationship intensified, the amount increased. The record was a transfer of 35,000 euros, says Estrella Aroza.
