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"Keanu Reeves is not in love with you": A scammer pretending to be Keanu hit her up. She hit back.

In ‘Keanu Reeves Reeves Is not in Love With You,’ Becky Holmes takes readers on a guided tour of the world of romance fraud.

But as she documents in her new book, “ Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud,” out of a mixture of boredom and curiosity she soon began corresponding with these scammers, who were impersonating not only oil rig engineers and doctors but also, rather implausibly, celebrities. At times, she veers off into the sort of asides that one might expect in a Twitter thread or a Tumblr post, describing in detail the war she waged — and lost — against a source’s Maine coon cat or frequently declaring her love for the Italian vermouth Cinzano. Few professional writers could get away with describing a private detective and expert on the Sakawa Boys as “a well-dressed sexy bugger with eyelashes that any woman would pay thousands of pounds for.” And Holmes (who is British, if that wasn’t clear) is at her strongest when drawing on her relationships to the victims she’s befriended.

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