A 67-year-old woman lost all of her savings to a scammer posing as Keanu Reeves. The scammer had groomed her for two years, promising love and marriage before demanding money.
A 67-year-old woman lost all of her savings to a scammer impersonating Keanu Reeves . She fell for the same hoax in 2022. The 67-year-old lost her husband in 2007. His departure left her with a pit in her chest that she longed to fill with affection. Her desire eventually turned into desperation, making the unlikely possibility of online companionship appealing.
The scammer, posing as Reeves, reached out to her saying he was sorry for the earlier scam and that he felt “awful” about her being duped. Slowly-but-surely grooming Goodson into believing that he loved her, speaking to her daily, and comforting her during difficult moments over the span of two years. “He wanted to marry me,” she said, explaining how she started developing feelings for the man she believed to be Reeves. The scammers carefully groomed the woman for two years, convincing her that “Keanu Reeves” had fallen in love and wanted to “marry” her. She sent him tens of thousands of dollars through different means. Sometimes she believed she was helping Reeves himself, and others that she was covering for emergency expenses of his management team.
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