'AI Brad Pitt' used in incredible $850k romance scam
Title only AI Brad850k romance loss; no format, clinical harm or underlying case details borrowed.
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| Feb 2025 | 554 | 1,629 | 34.0% |
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| Dec 2025 | 124 | 333 | 37.2% |
| Jan 2026 | 67 | 530 | 12.6% |
| Feb 2026 | 224 | 1,106 | 20.3% |
| Mar 2026 | 90 | 360 | 25.0% |
| Apr 2026 | 145 | 491 | 29.5% |
| May 2026 | 200 | 785 | 25.5% |
| Jun 2026 | 121 | 842 | 14.4% |
| Jul 2026 | 191 | 1,143 | 16.7% |
| Aug 2026 | 224 | 640 | 35.0% |
| Sep 2026 | 139 | 638 | 21.8% |
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Title only AI Brad850k romance loss; no format, clinical harm or underlying case details borrowed.
Reported caseAnne savings lost false Brad romance/AI;830k headline, no format or distress from different versions.
Reported caseHyogo/Toyama315m30 alleged victims; own Nigeria persons UN doctor/military personas SNS/coordinated overseas transfers. Remittance not proven laundering, nationality/UKpersona not actual country role.
Reported caseAnne53/TF1 disclosure/lifesavingsfalseBradAIimages/divorce, no attempt/depression fromothermembers.
Reported caseAnne800k AI false relationship and divorce; actor medical emergency is fabricated pretext, not target health condition.
Reported caseMiddleaged Frenchwoman850k fakeBrad dating/manipulatedimages; noexplicitAI generationfrommanipulationalone.
Reported case830k/NZ1.5m false BradAI cancer-cost pretext; currency conversion not separate loss and cancer not target condition.
Reported caseGeneric online love/largepayments andexpert interviews withscammers; pluralnotcoordinatednetwork, no individuallyidentifiedcase.
CommentaryVSD explicitly reports repeated suicide attempts, severe depression and requested hospitalization; reported association not independent causation or death. Interview withdrawal Jan14 has no explicit year here. Current source-specific layer: All24 codes assessed using this own VSD source. Existing repeated survived attempts, reported severe depression and requested hospitalization are retained as source attribution, not death or independent causal diagnosis. No graphic details. Instagram/fake mother and actor/AI hospital pictures are source-specific mechanism claims. Divorce funds775000 and total830000 not separate additive losses; Spanish325000 comparison, claimed Turkey account and unverified superlative/1200case estimate remain distinct. No actual operation nationality/country, precisely dated serious harm, judicial sentence, formal forged document, extortion, housing loss, employment theft, crypto/investment, family consequence or programme viewing inferred. Stronger later2026 family/divorce assessments are not overwritten by this2025 source.
Reported caseGarda investigating romance complaints30s man arrest, dating apps. Arrest allegation not conviction or specific financial sum.
Reported caseRetired Scots neuroscience lecturer17k online AI romance headline. Profession not clinical diagnosis/persona or link to every17k case.
Reported caseFrenchdesigner falseBradAIgeneratedmedia7crore, formatunspecified, no ownclinicalharm.
Reported caseWoman six-figure love-scam/social-network deception, no age/location/persona or specific common case from bare wording.
Reported caseFrench woman false Brad photos/AI months, title romantic belief; no image format beyond explicit captions.
Reported caseFrenchwoman nearly1m caption vs850k headline, falseBradromance/divorceAIheadline. Differencepreserved, noclinicalcondition.
Reported caseHe64 Tamsui old-song contact537万 romance crypto-investment, property mortgaged and six arrested. Collateral is not property loss/homelessness, crypto investment is not proven crypto payment.
Reported caseOwn CNA He64 Tamsui537万/mortgage/six arrested, crypto investment not proven transfer, collateral not home lost.
Reported caseCanadian economic/financial aggregate and Romance crypto-use headline. Crypto use alone does not establish a specific crypto transfer mechanism, investment promise or unique incident total. Current technology subtype remains unspecified; original transfer coding retained in frozen history.
Research & trendsHe64 Tamsui old-song contact537万 romance crypto-investment, property mortgaged and six arrested. Collateral is not property loss/homelessness, crypto investment is not proven crypto payment.
Reported caseOwn CNA He64 Tamsui537万/mortgage/six arrested, crypto investment not proven transfer, collateral not home lost.
Reported caseTaiwanShanLiangLiang4mRomancecrypto/distress12kgweightloss. Weightchange notexplicitassault/sexualviolence orindependentdiagnosis, noallhousingloss.
Reported caseIrishdatingapp multipleRomancecomplaints investigation/arrest, no exactname/target/airport fromsimilarregional headlines.
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Reported caseIreland30s arrest/investigationdatingapps, no ownfinancialsum/persona orAirportLouth/KarlJessbodyborrowed.
Reported caseIrishdatingapp multipleRomancecomplaints investigation/arrest, no exactname/target/airport fromsimilarregional headlines.
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