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Watch Super Scam Me Online | Nat Geo TV

abc.comEnglishObserved 2026-10-26
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

The programme listing asserts more than $1b stolen from American victims in 2025 and previews a journalist going undercover. Preserve the historical reporting period and aggregate claim; this is saved listing metadata, not viewing the programme, completing undercover work, a new October2026 loss total or official enforcement. Available-text NR boundaries: No other harm, extensions, operational/court/asset/help/institutional event, linked investment, technical/network method, blame, prior circumstance or policy is available. A planned journalist undercover exercise is not a police investigation or a victim assistance action. Specific insufficient-context holds: mechanism.relationship: The programme topic does not supply a specific deception mechanism in this own listing.

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
OwnABC programme listing reports a2025aggregate and planned journalistundercoverwork. No programme viewed; statisticsperiod is not incidentdate, American nationality is not residence andjournalism is not official investigation.
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
The programme listing asserts more than $1b stolen from American victims in 2025 and previews a journalist going undercover. Preserve the historical reporting period and aggregate claim; this is saved listing metadata, not viewing the programme, completing undercover work, a new October2026 loss total or official enforcement. Available-text NR boundaries: No other harm, extensions, operational/court/asset/help/institutional event, linked investment, technical/network method, blame, prior circumstance or policy is available. A planned journalist undercover exercise is not a police investigation or a victim assistance action. Specific insufficient-context holds: mechanism.relationship: The programme topic does not supply a specific deception mechanism in this own listing.
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
aggregate
value
research_statistics
reason
A reported 2025 aggregate, not an October2026 incident or new population estimate.
Source statement flagsNo listed value

development assertions

role
reported_development
basis
explicit
field
development
scope
aggregate
value
reported_loss
reason
Attributed lower-bound aggregate; do not infer victims live in the US from nationality.
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
8275b7620eecd054b4efde4134f7a94a9d895468d8608bcba629d472d07f31d4
current source binding
input hash
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decision id
9b986e000729df3505f93e973ed718382c6db3408cd6d3dcba9f360345b72012
document id
b4ce8db1ab63d8203db3f709f4ee1156fed3a5733d66ea442711eaaa25e42a67
hash domain
sha256-json-sortkeys-utf8-compact-v1
enrichment id
cb1098dad24b35ab9253d67ed37a716deab3393044319b8df968a3ed52fdbad3
finding evidence sha256
e9e08698a09eca6acae62b4e78de5d18bfee8fb3daba2701197141993a8587b9
enrichment payload sha256
ad589d0730bfebe8ad3f9fa5399ed180cdabb2571a8213300cd204029b05b13a
approved delta ids
No listed value
provenance
Item 1
json pointer
/selected_file_bindings/b4ce8db1ab63d8203db3f709f4ee1156fed3a5733d66ea442711eaaa25e42a67
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
general
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 pretextnot reported 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 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: b4ce8db1ab63d8203db3f709f4ee1156fed3a5733d66ea442711eaaa25e42a67
Decision: 9b986e000729df3505f93e973ed718382c6db3408cd6d3dcba9f360345b72012
Base reviewed revision: 8275b7620eecd054b4efde4134f7a94a9d895468d8608bcba629d472d07f31d4

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