Police spokesman Roman Hahslinger said today that they circulated Jacobson's photo after it was provided by a woman who said she was defrauded of 46,000 euros (about USD 52,000).
He said the suspect apparently used a photo of Jacobson in a false identification document he gave the victim and "must look deceptively similar" to him. She wasn't identified in keeping with Austrian confidentiality rules.
Jacobson is best known as the co-creator of the popular US sitcom "The Nanny." Hahslinger says he hasn't been in contact over the mix-up, adding Austrian police "cannot know every celebrity in the world.