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Reported case

Northern California retiree loses $500,000 in pig butcher scam, then falls for the same scam again

abc30.comEnglishObserved 2026-10-17
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.

Story groups for this report

Contextual research groupings, not verified case membership.

How to read this record

Each of six own copies reports Adan Look losing $500,000 in a fake romance involving a crypto investment, then encountering another scam. Keep reported loss separate from the second scam; no second amount, crypto-transfer route, recovery or unique-case merger is inferred. Retiree status alone does not establish vulnerability. The repeated-targeting subtype remains unspecified.

Evidence basis: saved title description

Places in the available evidence

No geographic role could be established from the available text.

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

notes
San Francisco, California explicitly locates the described victim, but neither place is in the candidate gazetteer; this geographic representation hold is retained without adding mappings. ABC30 Fresno's brand is not publisher-country proof. Operation and jurisdiction are absent. No event year/day is stated; publication does not date the loss. No cross-URL identity or combined losses are asserted.
context kind
FILE-derived DATE20 notes and unknown-role qualifications
qualification
Exact authored FILE fields; no native SQL producer, country inference, case identity or new semantic review.
unknown roles
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country.operation
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country.publisher
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country.victim
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date.incident
Item 6
date.procedural
Source statement flags
raw verified
false
is publisher quote
false
source truth verified
false
interpretation not source literal
true

source specific current qualifications

note
Each of six own copies reports Adan Look losing $500,000 in a fake romance involving a crypto investment, then encountering another scam. Keep reported loss separate from the second scam; no second amount, crypto-transfer route, recovery or unique-case merger is inferred. Retiree status alone does not establish vulnerability. The repeated-targeting subtype remains unspecified.
context kind
FILE-derived ALL24 review notes and explicit denials
qualification
Exact authored FILE fields; an empty denial list adds no denial and changes no code state.
changes to explicit denials
No listed value
Source statement flags
raw verified
false
is publisher quote
false
source truth verified
false
interpretation not source literal
true

Reported developments

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

development assertions

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development
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single_case
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This URL's own description reports a retiree losing $500,000 in fake-romance crypto deception, then another scam. It does not give the amount or outcome of the second scam.
Source statement flagsNo listed value
Current annotation provenance

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

base version key
ed0afcf0f968735b926863d11955941f222c9e819ee6d6144e696dc30d48701f
current source binding
input hash
8b37332837c363ea6966786ec1df9156f6ed62e54e2f2d0c50dd7c35ce36c482
decision id
b7472b81f6445c9ff459abe2db79d3ac9bbf1f42c7b7d9f1ced87ee466158aba
document id
aa36fbf0a1d0cbfa9c1c52281b7d61393631bef4427eb212bec85eca43958ae4
hash domain
sha256-json-sortkeys-utf8-compact-v1
enrichment id
86e1903c1859a9b02f73ee1178e18bcc68d1a7aa2804d29e576203eeaed9dea3
finding evidence sha256
7581873772579df668820460183e8340f1fb05e913cb2dc0c272c1836fd781fb
enrichment payload sha256
dcea2bb32da13ce1d664c5447d08d9af240b602e5f427031c3e76dff69d6782a
approved delta ids
No listed value
provenance
Item 1
json pointer
/selected_file_bindings/aa36fbf0a1d0cbfa9c1c52281b7d61393631bef4427eb212bec85eca43958ae4
artifact sha256
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annotation key
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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
Interpretation details
Scope
single case
Person or institution described
targeted person
Link to romance fraud
explicit
Causal claim
not established

Relationship-based deception

fabricated relationshipallegationStage: completed
Interpretation details
Scope
single case
Person or institution described
alleged offender
Link to romance fraud
explicit
Causal claim
not established

Investment pretext

investment tradingallegationStage: completed
Interpretation details
Scope
single case
Person or institution described
alleged offender
Link to romance fraud
explicit
Causal claim
not established

Continued or renewed targeting

unspecifiedreported occurrenceStage: completed
Interpretation details
Scope
single case
Person or institution described
targeted person
Link to romance fraud
explicit
Causal claim
not established
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 pretextreported in available text
Technical facilitationnot reported in available text
Investigation and operational responsenot reported in available text
Organization and division of labornot reported in available text
Relationship-based deceptionreported in available text
Involvement in other offendingnot reported in available text
Continued or renewed targetingreported 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: aa36fbf0a1d0cbfa9c1c52281b7d61393631bef4427eb212bec85eca43958ae4
Decision: b7472b81f6445c9ff459abe2db79d3ac9bbf1f42c7b7d9f1ced87ee466158aba
Base reviewed revision: ed0afcf0f968735b926863d11955941f222c9e819ee6d6144e696dc30d48701f

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