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Reported case

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

abc7ny.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
The own San Francisco/California victim cue lacks a place mapping in the candidate dictionary, so no new gazetteer entry or alias is invented. New York is only outlet branding here, not a publisher-location assertion. No offender operation/court or exact incident/procedural date is given. This URL is reviewed on its own wording and is not joined to other same-headline records.
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
Item 1
country.jurisdiction
Item 2
country.operation
Item 3
country.publisher
Item 4
country.victim
Item 5
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

role
reported_development
basis
explicit
field
development
scope
single_case
value
reported_loss
reason
ABC7 New York's own retained description reports a $500,000 fake-romance crypto loss and a subsequent scam, without a second amount or proof of recovered funds.
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
620b67502a5802cca1a2adfca627a71e3ce7216eae5b194f39f1e2c8c5dd9d04
current source binding
input hash
2c390c69d37d9e229bf3ea9730198d78cf287cbf755b8d83295eb0fbd9b79a82
decision id
7f09a46780b7d97b54de4b4877ec0e023ebf0d971b266884933286e043e6ea85
document id
aa64d4dce4bb3e9bf9ecadbe3f803378fe565187f0647db748ce8250a8182b69
hash domain
sha256-json-sortkeys-utf8-compact-v1
enrichment id
04b858c8f2cc6ebdbe07f22fd6919e3b7184f2b3e81d7ed49fa3fd4ca0686b86
finding evidence sha256
19ecd218c2d625f8454d45b9bf577ef45b7de94719a5b75d0861497b8581fdaa
enrichment payload sha256
7383389e68eacdb21afe87a54f5fef3dfad3dfdcbc4c387059b9470ba240199d
approved delta ids
No listed value
provenance
Item 1
json pointer
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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: aa64d4dce4bb3e9bf9ecadbe3f803378fe565187f0647db748ce8250a8182b69
Decision: 7f09a46780b7d97b54de4b4877ec0e023ebf0d971b266884933286e043e6ea85
Base reviewed revision: 620b67502a5802cca1a2adfca627a71e3ce7216eae5b194f39f1e2c8c5dd9d04

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