The 53-year-old French woman said the “relationship” began soon after she received a message from an account claiming to be Jane Etta Pitt, the Hollywood star’s mother, telling her she was exactly the woman her son needed.
Before taking a coach seat on a plane to see Henderson, since that was all she could afford, Lea also paid thousands of dollars to ship a box from New Zealand to China, which was where she worked.
However, when speaking to The Herald, Lea said the scammer reassured her, with claims that Henderson’s Instagram video was for other people.
Lea’s experience comes a month after a woman was scammed into handing over $859,000 by a person who used AI-generated photos of Brad Pit to convinced her they were in love and that he needed money for cancer treatment.
“I left a message and received a message from his agent saying Martin liked my comments and would like to message me,” she said, noting they shared messages over WeChat and Telegram.
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