Data from The GDELT Project · Reviewed and interpreted by RSRC
Media coverage research
Romance scams in the news
Explore how romance scams are reported, what harms and responses appear in the coverage, and how a story develops over time.
Each record represents a web page found through GDELT, such as online news coverage, commentary or a blog post. We review its saved title and description, then add themes and context. These are not recordings or full copies of the source pages. What counts as a media record?
These are counts of coverage, not counts of scams. Several articles may describe the same event. A source may report an allegation, repeat another story, or discuss an event from an earlier year.
Reviewed 2026 coverage: 1 January–4 October · Method RSRC-QCA-2026-10-08.2 · Codebook 1.1.0
Observation period: 1 Jan 2026–4 Oct 2026. These dates describe the collected windows; missing files are listed in the methods.
6,484Included media URLsRelevant in the available evidence
24Themes assessedA theme may appear in many records
Explore a theme
Included URLs mentioning each theme. Themes overlap; warnings and reported experiences remain distinct in the records.
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- Emotional and psychological harms
- Reported arrests and other enforcement actions
- Court proceedings and their outcomes
- Prevention and support coverage
Open a record’s connected reporting to examine repeated wording or later developments. Use these leads to build research questions; they do not establish how common a harm is among all victims.
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Choose a theme, language, country or search phrase. Plot the matching coverage over time, then open the records behind each month.
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A URL is counted once in each month when it was observed. The same URL can appear in several months, so these figures should not be added together.
All included sources contribute to these totals. First and last months may be partial; check the observation period and file availability before comparing them.
Recently observed coverage
Ordered by when GDELT observed the record, not when the reported event happened.
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Research & trendsNeed help with a suspected scam? Find support and reporting resources. For research syntheses, visit Research Insights.