He is ripped off by € 30,000 online by a grazer and goes to the ex-miss that he thought of seducing

The story could have stopped online for this Belgian man victim of a grazer, except that he presented himself physically at the door of the ex-Miss saying to be the “Future husband of Sophie Vouzelaud”.

Victim of a grazer, he presents himself with the former miss

Fabien, the husband of the first Dauphine of Miss France 2007, discovered with surprise this unexpected visitor and filmed the whole exchange which was then broadcast on Tiktok. The victim was convinced that she had engaged with Sophie Vouzelaud on Whatsapp.

The Belgian man even paid up to € 30,000, while in reality, the whole sum went into the pocket of a scammer with feelings, also called grazer.

In the video, the couple tries to explain the deception to the Belgian man who expected to leave with Sophie Vouzelaud. The victim therefore finds himself faced with reality and finally leaves by recognizing, “It’s me the fool, I was the one made to be” “.

Sophie Vouzelaud explains that identity theft is a phenomenon that regularly affects it. “When I announced that I was pregnant, I received lots of messages from men who told me ‘you betrayed me, I thought we were together’, but it was not me”she says. The popularity of the old Miss Limousin 2006 therefore makes it a privileged target for crooks.

As a reminder, she was the second hard of a hearing woman to participate in a Miss France competition and she marked the spirits in 2007 by missing the crown.

Since then, Sophie Vouzelaud has participated in several television shows such as Dance with stars In 2015 on TF1, the first European channel.

Valentina Peri, anthropologist and book author “The Galant grant, manual of the sentimental scam”decrypts this well -established scam: “It’s very easy to have a false profile, we have access to many equipment that we can fly like videos or photos”.

These scams ask for a real strategy as the researcher explains: “You must also have a technique, there are really procedures to gradually build the confidence of their victims and then start asking for money”.

Unfortunately, social networks like Facebook or Instagram facilitate these sentimental scams. The crooks use the content available on the accounts of real personalities to fuel their false profiles and therefore deceive their victims.

Experts therefore ask to be very careful during exchanges with people who present themselves as celebrities but also strangers on digital platforms.

If someone famous contacts you, the best is to ignore since it is probably (not to say “always”) a grazer. And if an unknown person claims to be in love with you and claims money, the best is to make a blockage and then a report to the platform.