Spain|Two women fell for a scam where they thought they were talking to movie star Brad Pitt.
of Spain the police have arrested five people who are accused of defrauding two women of large sums of money. The accused are suspected of pretending to be movie stars To Brad Pitt on the internet and defrauded women of a total of 325,000 euros, The Guardian news.
Spanish police announced on Monday that the suspects had contacted the women on the movie star’s fan site and led the women to believe that Pitt had an emotional connection with them. In this way, the scammers had made the women invest in projects that did not actually exist.
175,000 euros were embezzled from an Andalusian woman, while 150,000 euros were taken from another woman living in the Basque Country.
According to the police, the suspects had drawn up a psychological profile of the women and, based on that, judged them to be in a vulnerable position, without affection and in a depressed state. The suspects made the women believe that Hollywood star Brad Pitt himself promised them a romantic relationship and a future together.
The police raided the homes of all five suspects, where they found several phones, bank cards, two computers and a diary in which the suspects had written texts they had used to deceive women.
The police managed to find EUR 85,000 of the money defrauded from the women.
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