For Anne, a French woman in her fifties, things began innocently enough in early 2023.
The interior designer, who had no experience with social media, opened an Instagram account and began posting holiday snaps.
While browsing the site, she saw a picture of Hollywood actor Brad Pitt and hit “Like.”
That’s all it took for Anne to be targeted by a scammer.
Anne received a message from a woman introducing herself as Jane Etta Hillhouse, the mother of William Bradley Pitt – known to the world as
