Sad bloke scammed out of £21k by online girlfriend who turned out to be AI-generated – Daily Star

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A heartbroken bloke was duped by a gang of scammers into sending them over £20k on a fake AI girlfriend.
Mr. Liu, from Shanghai, China, transferred nearly 200,000 Chinese Yuan (£21,778) in what he thought was a whirlwind online romance during a two-month period last summer, according to China Central Television (CCTV). The unwitting Casanova thought he was supporting the woman’s dreams of opening a business and paying her relative’s medical bills.
The con artists had made fake documents, including an identity card, family medical records and receipts. Chief among the scammer’s deceits was their creation of an AI-girlfriend, who Mr. Liu thought was a real person, shown walking down a street or holding a painting.
Mr. Liu’s blissful reality was ruptured when he still hadn’t met his supposed soulmate after two months of talking online. The man called the police, who found the gang consisted of “a team of scammers sending videos and photos that were all created using artificial intelligence of by combining multiple photos”.
It comes after a woman was left homeless when a savage con artist, masquerading as A-lister Brad Pitt, fooled her into shelling out a staggering £700,000.
‘Anne’ was hoodwinked into thinking that she was helping Pitt pay for cancer treatment, and had become convinced she was communicating to Brad due to AI-generated images.
The poor woman’s lawyer Laurene Hanna said her client was desperate to recover the money, having been left homeless and penniless.
The Paris-based lawyers said: "Love scams on the internet are not new. Anne is really not the only one. What my client needs is to be given some sensible advice and to be treated with dignity,” reports the Mirror .
"There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done," Anne said.
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