Like his father, in August 2024, Anthony Delon will also have to face identity theft as part of a Facebook scam. An account that uses his image and impersonates him tries to contact some of the 8,000 people who subscribed to extract money from them.
Several thousand euros recovered by a fraudster
According to the actor, who spoke on his Instagram account, the author of this scam would have communicated with “more gullible” people through Messenger, Facebook’s internal messaging system, and then redirected them to a Telegram account.
On this social network, he then spoke to his victims to convince them to give him money: “I would have managed to obtain 500 euros from certain people by inviting them to meet me, supposedly for a guided tour of Douchy,” he said. residence of the Delon family, says Anthony Delon.
He announced his desire to file a complaint, but without the prosecutor’s office being informed at this time, he confirmed to France 3.
On August 27, 2024, video ads were detected on Facebook featuring Alain Delon, who disappeared a few days earlier. The actor promised, through a voice generated by artificial intelligence, 100,000 euros, on condition of registering on a casino site, to “redistribute his fortune.”
Behind this casino hides a scam that seeks to recover users’ banking and personal data.
Source: BFM TV
