Skip to main content

Data from The GDELT Project · Reviewed and interpreted by RSRC

← Back to your results

Research & trends

Damage from investment and romance scams in Japan hits ¥45.5 billion

www.japantimes.co.jpEnglishObserved 2024-03-07–2024-05-08
Included for relevance; source claims are not independently verified. This record is based on saved titles and descriptions unless a separate deeper-reading assessment is explicitly shown. Observation dates are not incident dates. An arrest or charge is not a conviction.

How to read this record

OwnJapanTimes headline supplies combined45.5billion yen damage in Japan; description compares44.12billion remittance/other specialfraud. No underlying period/year from URL/date, denominator/casecount, detailed relationship-led investment or technology, arrest or newuniqueincidence.

Evidence basis: saved title description

Places in the available evidence

Victim location: Japan

Basis: explicit
Scope: aggregate
Reason: Explicit mixed-scam affected geography; separate45.5b/44.12bseries are not added or allocated to one case.

Unlisted locations remain unknown. Nationality, language and web address alone do not establish where a scam happened.

Current source qualifications

These attributed statements apply to their specified subjects and scope. They do not establish guilt, a whole-article denial, or an unstated outcome.

source specific current qualifications

text
OwnJapanTimes headline supplies combined45.5billion yen damage in Japan; description compares44.12billion remittance/other specialfraud. No underlying period/year from URL/date, denominator/casecount, detailed relationship-led investment or technology, arrest or newuniqueincidence.
field
interpretation
own role source layer limits
unknown roles
Item 1
country.jurisdiction
Item 2
country.operation
Item 3
country.publisher
Item 4
date.incident
Item 5
date.procedural
Item 6
development.reported_development
unknown role reasons
date.incident
No explicit calendar event-year selected: source2022statistics, retrospective2023report anchor, mixed2024reportperiod, relative years, unanchored months/days, publication/URL dates and employment periods cannot date individual incidents or procedures.
date.procedural
No explicit calendar event-year selected: source2022statistics, retrospective2023report anchor, mixed2024reportperiod, relative years, unanchored months/days, publication/URL dates and employment periods cannot date individual incidents or procedures.
country.operation
No selected validated country-role assertion. Nationality, claimed personas/destinations, subject origin, employer/host venue, datelines and publisher names are not core-country proxies. Unmapped institutions/localities remain explicit unknowns rather than guessed mappings.
country.publisher
No selected validated country-role assertion. Nationality, claimed personas/destinations, subject origin, employer/host venue, datelines and publisher names are not core-country proxies. Unmapped institutions/localities remain explicit unknowns rather than guessed mappings.
country.jurisdiction
No selected validated country-role assertion. Nationality, claimed personas/destinations, subject origin, employer/host venue, datelines and publisher names are not core-country proxies. Unmapped institutions/localities remain explicit unknowns rather than guessed mappings.
development.reported development
No completed own-source development selected; original narrative, actors and all candidate objects remain retained.
ownrole assertion scope limits
Item 1
role
victim
field
country
scope
aggregate
value
JP
exact reason
Explicit mixed-scam affected geography; separate45.5b/44.12bseries are not added or allocated to one case.
assertion index
0
original note limit amount objects
notes
OwnJapanTimes headline supplies combined45.5billion yen damage in Japan; description compares44.12billion remittance/other specialfraud. No underlying period/year from URL/date, denominator/casecount, detailed relationship-led investment or technology, arrest or newuniqueincidence.
all original application limit objects
Item 1
45.5billion yen is combined investment-and-romance damage, no romance-only allocation;44.12billion comparator is other special-fraud category, not additive.
exact ROOT qualified ownrole record note
ROOT explicit own-source selections after actual46context-class role review; source-specific limits in selected assertions and original immutable per-URL objects apply. No independent truth, clinical cause, identity, eventyear or measured effectiveness established. All original actors, calendar/statistical periods, country proposals and narrative retained.
exact ROOT qualified record note
OwnJapanTimes headline supplies combined45.5billion yen damage in Japan; description compares44.12billion remittance/other specialfraud. No underlying period/year from URL/date, denominator/casecount, detailed relationship-led investment or technology, arrest or newuniqueincidence.
Source statement flags
raw verified
false
is publisher quote
false
Current annotation provenance

The base reviewed revision is preserved. Current source bindings and approved qualifications are attached for this release.

base version key
9fd9592eb7bff9e1705ad4231870573b4ce1d2e7b0e8b8cd71cab65c4c1c2925
current source binding
input hash
b1f3641cf4e313a8e9a641ddfc5eb78b498f7cbe1b611de286f512a3da60e117
decision id
ff8e9bb55e5a6b1181acc755fdf657ce807a9f3db921c7608b178b96776c89e8
document id
8f5850a6d4369a663e65503e39148472775f2fcf1b8003c11fd685b512ac18e7
hash domain
sha256-json-sortkeys-utf8-compact-v1
enrichment id
0e193ba5db870b393342acf0d3b5ebce8b24d23de89844b241d729450d405998
finding evidence sha256
f112bfa38ba0fc8805a63b5a825a6e228a2e6478913c31bd40c44fd0e4494e08
enrichment payload sha256
1ad63629e743418ea06829d791c88e50abcf78530b0d88c78070ba5d2f8972cf
approved delta ids
No listed value
provenance
Item 1
json pointer
/source_map/records/8f5850a6d4369a663e65503e39148472775f2fcf1b8003c11fd685b512ac18e7/annotation_binding
artifact sha256
6939f2def082e3f6a3b5e12b6ad0b2345e9d52d21c842659b684b87e8b0e6510
annotation key
78d6877c8310cecbe183c69fc4e635193992e6cc849636761c53aac8f8de72da

Themes reported in the text

These labels describe the available reporting. “Not reported” does not mean a harm did not happen. A theme's stage applies to that statement, not every claim in the article.

Financial and property harm

cashreported occurrenceStage: completed

45.5billion yen is combined investment-and-romance damage, no romance-only allocation;44.12billion comparator is other special-fraud category, not additive.

Interpretation details
Scope
mixed fraud
Person or institution described
targeted person
Link to romance fraud
mixed scheme
Causal claim
source associates
All 24 assessed themes
ThemeAssessment
Blame, stigma and responsibility framingnot reported in available text
Homicide and lethal violencenot reported in available text
Disruption of daily lifenot reported in available text
Financial and property harmreported in available text
Suicide and self-harmnot reported in available text
Family and social harmnot reported in available text
Protection or recovery of assetsnot reported in available text
Policy and regulatory responsenot reported in available text
Justice proceedings and outcomesnot reported in available text
Coercion and exploitationnot reported in available text
Psychological distressnot reported in available text
Blackmail and extortionnot reported in available text
Help, reporting and preventionnot reported in available text
Physical or sexual harmnot reported in available text
Investment pretextinsufficient context
Technical facilitationinsufficient context
Investigation and operational responsenot reported in available text
Organization and division of labornot reported in available text
Relationship-based deceptioninsufficient context
Involvement in other offendingnot reported in available text
Continued or renewed targetingnot reported in available text
Prior circumstances and claimed vulnerabilitynot reported in available text
Institutional barriers or harmful responsenot reported in available text
Moving money for a schemenot reported in available text

Connected reporting

Only direct reviewed connections are shown. Shared wording is weaker evidence than a supported case connection. A connection through a third article does not establish that two reports concern the same case.

No direct connection is recorded. This does not establish that the story is unique.

Research provenance

1 saved revision. Corrections preserve earlier versions.

A page can change after it first appears. Observation dates record when its URL was seen; they do not prove that the wording assessed here was present on every date.

Record: 8f5850a6d4369a663e65503e39148472775f2fcf1b8003c11fd685b512ac18e7
Decision: ff8e9bb55e5a6b1181acc755fdf657ce807a9f3db921c7608b178b96776c89e8
Base reviewed revision: 9fd9592eb7bff9e1705ad4231870573b4ce1d2e7b0e8b8cd71cab65c4c1c2925

The local research archive retains source hashes, quoted evidence and review records. This collection does not redistribute full publisher articles.