Sandra Bullock has issued a informing to fans astir a caller societal media scam.
"My family's safety, arsenic good arsenic the guiltless radical being taken vantage of, is my heavy concern, and determination volition beryllium a clip erstwhile I volition remark more, but for present our absorption is helping instrumentality enforcement grip this matter," the 60-year-old shared successful a connection to People.
The award-winning actress continued, "Please beryllium alert that I bash not enactment successful immoderate signifier of societal media. Any accounts pretending to beryllium maine oregon anyone associated with maine are fake accounts and person been created for fiscal summation oregon to exploit radical astir me."
Sandra Bullock says societal media scammers are sparking "deep concern" for her family's safety. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
The Oscar winner's connection came aft her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, took to societal media to stock that accounts person been impersonating her online.
The baking teacher and TV property wrote connected Instagram, "I walk aggregate times a time reporting fakes, dealing with weird & scary emails to my BUSINESS and HOME from men who judge that, done 1 of these galore fake 'me's, they person a narration with my sister done backstage messages and disconnected app sites and person been giving (sometimes) THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to an incredibly celebrated and palmy grown a--ed woman."
The 54-year-old besides attached screenshots to stress her point.
"My family's safety, arsenic good arsenic the guiltless radical being taken vantage of, is my heavy concern, and determination volition beryllium a clip erstwhile I volition remark more, but for present our absorption is helping instrumentality enforcement grip this matter."
— Sandra BullockShe explained that the screenshots amusement "a fewer FB imposter accounts, each of which I’ve reported some connected this app and to a unrecorded human" astatine Meta.
"Surprise! They are each inactive up!" Bullock-Prado added.
Sandra Bullock clarified that she is not connected societal media. (Araya Doheny/WireImage/Getty Images)
A typical for Meta did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
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"When I report, one besides study to a information work that gives the relationship addresses straight to a Meta employee," she continued, earlier adding that "these accounts are tally by transgression rings" that "also tally fake groups wherever a fake maine posts 'official statements.' Not me.
"This is my lone relationship and y’all cognize it’s astir baking, cooking, animals, and gardening. I’m a grown a--ed mediate aged pistillate with a beingness and I don’t troll astir astatine 54 DMing people."
Sandra Bullock's sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, left, shared that accounts person been impersonating her online. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Sandra's younger sister besides referenced a caller communicative of a pistillate being swindled retired of $800,000 by idiosyncratic impersonating Brad Pitt.
On Jan. 12, French tv transmission TF1 aired an occurrence of its amusement "Sept à Huit," which told the communicative of a 53-year-old interior decorator named Anne who revealed that she had mislaid 830,000 euros (approximately $850,000) successful idiosyncratic funds due to the fact that she thought she was sending wealth to a cancer-ridden Pitt.
Through falsified documents and images arsenic good arsenic artificial intelligence, Anne believed she was speaking to, and yet successful a narration with, the 61-year-old actor.
Brad Pitt was impersonated online and conned a pistillate retired of $800,000. (Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
A typical for Pitt told Fox News Digital that the concern involving Anne was "awful."
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"It's atrocious that scammers instrumentality vantage of fans' beardown transportation with celebrities," the rep said, "but this is an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, particularly from actors who person nary societal media presence."
Brad Pitt does not person immoderate verified societal media accounts. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images)
Pitt does not person immoderate verified societal media platforms.
"At archetypal I said to myself that it was fake, that it's ridiculous," Anne said, per AFP. "But I'm not utilized to societal media and I didn't truly recognize what was happening to me."
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Janelle Ash is an amusement writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to janelle.ash@fox.com.