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As the story gains traction on social media platforms, the focus has turned to how the scammers could pull off such an elaborate scheme using AI.<\/em><\/p>\n A scam involving AI-generated images of Hollywood star Brad Pitt used to defraud a French woman of $850,000 (N1,313,258,500) has been traced to Nigeria.<\/p>\n The fraudsters posed as 61-year-old Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, claiming to require money for a kidney transplant as his accounts had been frozen due to his ongoing divorce from Angelina Jolie. Their…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> As the story gains traction on social media platforms, the focus has turned to how the scammers could pull off such an elaborate scheme using AI. A scam involving AI-generated images of Hollywood star Brad Pitt used to defraud a French woman of $850,000 (N1,313,258,500) has been traced to Nigeria. The fraudsters posed as 61-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00391844:8fcfdbf56fdd530ba29daedb52677981:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,50490,50491,257,393,6665,50492,17854,13731,254],"class_list":["post-189726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aidriven","tag-brad","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-pitt","tag-romance","tag-scam","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00391844:8fcfdbf56fdd530ba29daedb52677981:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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