The Indo Daily: Brad Pitt, the French woman and the €830,000 scam explained

The woman said she believed she was close to agreeing to marry the fake Brad Pitt.

It’s a tale as old as time – the quest for love bringing together two people who seem to have an awful lot in common. But sometimes, even the oldest stories can have a very modern twist.

Like the 53-year-old French woman known as ‘Anne’, who thought she had met her ultimate match when an exciting online suitor came into her life. But if your new love just happens to be Academy Award-winning movie star Brad Pitt, maybe your Hollywood dream is just fiction?

More people are searching for love online at a time when technological advances are blurring the lines between what’s real and fake. It’s a perfect storm for fraudsters, with “romance scamming” on the rise.

Ellen Coyne is joined by Catherine Field and Saoirse Hanley to unpack a cautionary tale of technology, deceit and love in a digital world.