{"id":416365,"date":"2025-09-11T17:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416365\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:42:27","slug":"conman-poses-as-keanu-reeves-69-yr-old-mumbai-woman-believes-it-loses-%e2%82%b965000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416365\/","title":{"rendered":"Conman poses as Keanu Reeves, 69-yr-old Mumbai woman believes it, loses \u20b965,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A 69-year-old woman in Maharashtra’s Mumbai was allegedly duped of \u20b965,000 by a conman who posed as Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves and convinced her that he needed money to book a flight ticket to India to meet her.<\/p>\n

\"The The victim also had a number saved on her phone with the name \u2018Keanu Reeves\u2019(File Photo) <\/p>\n

The victim is a resident of Mumbai\u2019s Versova and stays alone. A First Information Report (FIR) was filed into the matter against the unknown person on Monday by the victim\u2019s daughter, who lives in London, reported<\/a> Indian Express.<\/p>\n

The accused was reportedly in touch with her through the Telegram app.<\/p>\n

What the FIR says<\/p>\n

According to the FIR, the 69-year-old woman was allegedly manipulated by the conman that she was talking to actor Keanu Reeves by gaining her trust. The victim\u2019s daughter, who lives in London<\/a>, only came to know about what had happened after she noticed a notification of NEFT transaction of \u20b965,000 made to an unknown person in Dehradun on June 30, according to the report. She flew to Mumbai<\/a> to file the FIR.<\/p>\n

This was possible since the daughter had access to her mother’s emails due to the latter\u2019s deteriorating mental health condition.<\/p>\n

Also read: Suspect supplying mule accounts to cyber fraud gang arrested<\/a><\/p>\n

When the daughter asked the woman whom she sent the money to, she said she had sent it to a friend, the FIR stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cSubsequently, as she sought more details, her mother told her that she has been in touch with Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves and his close associate through social media and that he had sought the Indian currency to book flight tickets to visit her in India,\u201d said the FIR, according to the IE report.<\/p>\n

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After seeking more details from her mother, the daughter found more chats between her and the accused. The woman had reportedly shared sensitive documents such as photos of her bank passbook, deposit slip, passport, and more with the conman and another person posing as the Reeves\u2019 associate.<\/p>\n

The victim also had a number saved on her phone with the name \u2018Keanu Reeves\u2019, who she would chat with and who made her believe that the bank had stolen the money, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

The victim also reportedly mentioned that she would sell her jewellery to arrange the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cScreenshots from the Telegram (app) reveal that the scammer persistently attempted to brainwash the victim, creating distrust toward her family members and encouraging her to isolate herself from them,\u201d the complaint read.<\/p>\n

A case has been filed under relevant sections including Information Technology Act\u2019s sections 66C (identity theft) and 66D (cheating by personation using computer resource), and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita\u2019s (BNS) Section 318(4) (criminal offences of cheating).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 69-year-old woman in Maharashtra’s Mumbai was allegedly duped of \u20b965,000 by a conman who posed as Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,142780,77,10440,42738,41045,93985,1463,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-conman","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-keanu-reeves","12":"tag-mumbai","13":"tag-mumbai-news","14":"tag-mumbai-police","15":"tag-scam","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115186902490475427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}