69-year old woman duped, transfers Rs 65,000 to fund flight tickets for ‘Keanu Reeves’

The FIR stated that the victim’s daughter who lives in London has access to her emails, due to the elderly woman’s deteriorating mental health issues.

According to the FIR, the woman’s daughter saw a bank notification on her mother’s email regarding a NEFT transaction of Rs 65,000 on June 30 to a bank account of an unknown person from Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

“Her mother first told her hat she had sent the money to a friend. Subsequently, 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,” stated the FIR.

The police said the woman’s daughter told her that it was not possible that a Hollywood actor would seek money and that the money was transferred to another account in Dehradun.

The victim’s daughter sought more details and found chats between the accused and her mother, including photos of her bank passbook pages, deposit slip, passport, shared with the impersonator and a person claiming to be his associate.

The person whose name was saved as “Keanu Reeves” by the senior citizen also continued to chat with her and used his influence over her to make her believe that the bank had stolen the money, the complaint said.

The woman’s daughter returned to India and filed the FIR.

In the complaint, it is also submitted that chats showed that the victim had mentioned selling her jewellery to send money to the person. The woman’s daughter said that this raised a strong possibility that she may have previously too transferred funds to the accused.

“Screenshots 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,” the complaint said.

According to complainant, the elderly woman’s search history showed her mother searched for ways to send parcels to Brazil and to the address given by the accused. There were also proof of strangers trying to get information about her money and accounts, the victim’s daughter stated.

The police have registered a case under sections 66C (identity theft) and 66D (cheating by personation using computer resource)

of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and criminal offences of cheating under Section 318(4) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

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