Sandra Bullock is thought for protecting her private life personal, however she felt compelled to talk out Monday about scams coming from social media accounts impersonating her.

"My household's security, in addition to the harmless individuals being taken benefit of, is my deep concern," Bullock stated in an announcement to PEOPLE, "and there will likely be a time when I’ll remark extra, however for now our focus helps regulation enforcement deal with this matter."

The Velocity star clarified that no accounts that say they're hers truly are, as a result of she doesn't have any.

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"Please bear in mind that I don’t take part in any type of social media," she continued. "Any accounts pretending to be me or anybody related to me are pretend accounts and have been created for monetary achieve or to take advantage of individuals round me."

Bullock's assertion adopted a social media put up from her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, through which she complained about scammers creating pretend accounts and pretending to be her.

Bullock-Prado stated she was solely sharing a couple of of the various fakes on Fb, however that her reviews to Meta, which owns the platform, have gone unheeded.

"I spend a number of occasions a day reporting fakes, coping with bizarre & scary emails to my BUSINESS and HOME from males who imagine that, by way of considered one of these many pretend 'me's, they’ve a relationship with my sister by way of personal messages and off app websites and have been giving (typically) THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to an extremely well-known and profitable grown assed lady," she wrote.

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She clarified that she has only one account.

"Once I report," Bullock-Prado continued, "i additionally report back to a safety service that offers the account addresses on to a Meta worker. These accounts are run by crime rings. Additionally they run pretend teams the place a pretend me posts 'official statements.' Not me. That is my solely account and y'all understand it's about baking, cooking, animals, and gardening. I'm a grown assed center aged lady with a life and I don't troll round at 54 DMing individuals."

Bullock-Prado shared a hyperlink to a January information story from PEOPLE about Bullock's The Misplaced Metropolis costar Brad Pitt warning individuals towards responding to social media accounts, after a French lady misplaced $850,000 in such a rip-off.

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The lady believed she was relationship As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood actor and that he wanted the cash for medical bills.

"It’s terrible that scammers reap the benefits of followers’ sturdy reference to celebrities," a spokesperson for Pitt instructed Leisure Weekly on the time, "however this is a crucial reminder to not reply to unsolicited on-line outreach, particularly from actors who don’t have any social media presence." In her personal message, Bullock-Prado instructed individuals to keep away from the imposter accounts completely.

Bullock-Prado urged individuals to report and block the accounts.

"In case you see a pretend account, are friended or messaged by one, report and block," she suggested her followers. "The one motive I keep on FB is to watch this for my very own data so I’m conscious of the hazard coming at me (and sure, due to these scams, I've needed to contain native regulation enforcement they usually've been excellent)."

Bullock's representatives and Meta didn’t instantly reply to EW's request for remark.

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