Josiane Balasko was recently the victim of a scam on her cell phone. The 76-year-old actress was asked for large sums of money and thought it was her son…
Telephone scams abound and unfortunately trap many people. Josiane Balasko, who has just been awarded the Molière for best actress in a private show for That’s lovewas recently the target, and she almost got caught…
Josiane Balasko, target of a scam: “Immediately, I call my son…“
The 76-year-old actress revealed in a video interview for the TikTok account of Current Woman that she had been targeted by a scam. One day, she received a message, supposedly from her son Rudy, 38, whom she adopted with the late sculptor Philippe Berry. “Mom, I lost my phone. You can’t call me, but you can send me messages“, she had read on her phone.
“Immediately, I call Rudy, my son. His phone is on answering machine. I say to myself: ‘Indeed, he lost it, it doesn’t respond’. He sends me another thing back, saying: ‘Can you pay for this thing?’“, she said. Faced with this curious request, the star who we also find in the cinema in the film The Scammer then found herself confused.
Fortunately for her, the actress did not know how to proceed. “You had to pay 1,000 balls on one side, 1,000 balls on the other, sums… Me, as I’m bad at anything that involves technology, telephone, I didn’t pay“, she added. She immediately called her accountant for help. That’s when she alerted her. “In my opinion, I would be wary“, warned the accountant. Thus, Josiane Balasko avoided the scam just in time!
Josiane Balasko, her astonishing addiction: “Thierry Lhermitte was in the same situation“
But if Marilou Berry’s mother seems uncomfortable with new technologies, she nevertheless turns out to be a great fan… of video games! “If I listened to myself, I would play video games all day, I love it“, she assured Paris Match. The woman who discovered she had a hidden half-brother as a teenager even shows signs of addiction, especially with gambling Age of Empire from which she had difficulty detaching herself.
“Many times I threw the game away to stop, and then started again. I know that Thierry Lhermitte was in the same situation.” she explained on the microphone of Europe 1. And to specify: “At first, it’s a hobby, but sometimes people tell me ‘stop with your game’. Well, I can still work. But if I spent the time I spend on my games writing, I would have written the Bible.”
