Victim of… Keanu Reeves fell a woman from Heraklion, Crete – The scammer “Keanu” convinced the woman that he needed the money to get his movie rights
A woman from Heraklion, Crete, fell victim to… Keanu Reeves – but in a bad way.
The woman lost €150,000 when she fell victim to an online scam by six people, who have been identified, after she thought she was chatting on social media with the famous Hollywood actor.
In particular, “Keanu Reeves” convinced the woman that he needed the money to get his film rights and promised her that he would return it to her many times over.
The woman was convinced and gradually deposited a total of 150,000 euros in foreign bank accounts.
When he realized he was a victim of fraud, he contacted the police.
The incident was reported a year ago, however, the Security Sub-Directorate of Heraklion, following the routes of these amounts, managed to trace it and formed a case file against six people, a local woman and five Nigerian men, against whom warrants are expected to be issued arrest.
The Police announcement follows
A case of fraud was investigated yesterday (13.01.2023) by police officers of the Heraklion Security Sub-Directorate and a case file was filed against six people (5 foreigners and one citizen) accused of the crime of fraud.
In particular, on 21.01.2022, an unknown actor presenting himself on social media as a recognizable film artist convinced his countrymen to help him financially in paying his taxes, reaping financial benefits from the profits of a film production in which he participated. In this way, he managed to convince her to make bank deposits in various accounts that he indicated to her, withdrawing a total of one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) euros.
From the thorough investigation and preliminary investigation of the above Service and after the appropriate utilization of data, it was found that from June 2021 until November 2021 the perpetrators extracted partial sums of money from the country, then proceeded to split the sums into individual smaller and the re-transfer of the money to accounts belonging to the above perpetrators.
The preliminary investigation is carried out by the Security Directorate of Heraklion.
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