Data from The GDELT Project · Reviewed and interpreted by RSRC
Search the research collection
Find reporting by topic, place or language. Open a record to see why it was included and what the available evidence supports.
The chart uses every search filter above and all matching records, across every results page. The percentage denominator is all included URLs in the same dates, before theme, language, country or text filters.
Distinct included URLs matching these filters in each observation month. Select a point to explore its records. On small screens, scroll the chart horizontally.
A URL counts once per month and can appear in several months or themes. Themes describe the current record assessment; months show URL observations, not when events or each claim first appeared. Warnings, allegations and reported experiences are all included when coded. Partial months, collection gaps and changes in sources affect both measures. A higher share does not establish a higher risk to victims.
Each record represents a source web page, not a verified incident. Different URLs can describe the same event. About these records.
Contextual metadata coding; reported claims are not independently verified. Unassigned codes mean not reported in the available text, not absent in the event. The explicitly dated sentencing is 22 November 2023, although this metadata was observed in August 2026.
Reported caseVenice/Giudecca caregiver reportedly took EUR127,000from an elderlywoman and was acquitted, described as herself a romance-fraud victim/in love. Retain acquittal and disputed third-party financial harm, not proven criminal theft, coercion or actual loss to the caregiver herself.
Reported caseTinder-date headline describes deceiving a victim into cashing a fraudulent cheque; paragraph distinguishes catfishing/ghosting from crimes. Retain qualified financial-facilitation context with uncertain execution/participant-victim role. No retained actualloss, forgeddocument technique, coercion or fabricatedaffection is established.
Related mentionItalianAIromance-fraud coverage names aLeeJung-jae impersonator taking350,000withadollarsign andoffersprotectionadvice. Retain reportedloss/impersonation/AI andwarning without automaticcurrencyconversion, actualactorinvolvement or exactdate.
Reported caseMiaoli76-year-old woman proposed18,000AppStorecards for a supposedHongKong boyfriend’s claimed accident/importedmedicine/transfusion costs. Store/police intervention stopped the purchase after social/LINE trust-building. Claimed medical harm is a pretext, not verified physical injury or HongKong operations; October31has no year. Only a convenience-store clerk and police are stated in this source; no bank intervention is added.
Reported caseMiaoli76-year-old woman proposed18,000AppStorecards for a supposedHongKong boyfriend’s claimed accident/importedmedicine/transfusion costs. Store/police intervention stopped the purchase after social/LINE trust-building. Claimed medical harm is a pretext, not verified physical injury or HongKong operations; October31has no year. Only a convenience-store clerk and police are stated in this source; no bank intervention is added.
Reported caseUKFCApublishes a multi-firm review of payment service providers and detecting/responding to romance fraud. Sparse professional-report summary supplies no measured effectiveness, victim outcome or regulatory passage; do not invent findings beyond the retained method/report context.
Research & trendsThe Hindi source labels an OnlineDatingScam: a Delhi man met a purported scammer through a dating app, saw a7,000cafe bill and left using an urgent-call excuse. This is an unverified viral account of avoided payment, not completed loss, verified false identity or a proven arrest.
Reported caseA former-spy account alleges Russian romance/love-bombing approaches to Silicon Valley insiders aimed at confidential information. Retain general relational manipulation claims, not verified intelligence operations, actual information loss, sexual assault or financial victimization. Country targeting does not establish real perpetrator operations.
CommentaryMaria70 reportedly lost over half a million euros in online romance fraud to a supposedGaz surgeon, alongside Maltese annual fraud context. Retain attributed persona/loss, not realGazaoperations, a clinicalcondition or an independently verified national total. Maltesevictimcontext is not a specificMaria residence assertion.
Reported caseNorthernIreland used-car dealer faces charges in an alleged money-laundering operation aboveGBP600,000linked to an Angolan romance scam. Proceeds/charge amount is not a victim-loss total; Angolan description does not locate actual operations or establish guilt.
Reported caseA former-spy account alleges Russian romance/love-bombing approaches to Silicon Valley insiders aimed at confidential information. Retain general relational manipulation claims, not verified intelligence operations, actual information loss, sexual assault or financial victimization. Country targeting does not establish real perpetrator operations.
CommentaryNewTaipei councillor/land-department reporting describes emotional/romance-fraud concerns and monitoring over4,000vulnerable elders’ property, with police alerted if changes occur. Retain preventive service/planning context, not4,000victim cases, actual interception, proof all elder people are vulnerable or homicide implied by a colloquial pink-corpse-collector label.
Prevention & supportThe headline reports a man convicted of murdering three siblings in Spain over debts linked to online romance fraud. Neighbours say two sisters believed they had US-serviceman relationships. Keep homicide/legal and alleged persona context with unspecified harm-actor role across the sisters/brother; no USoperations, actual loss total or crime date inferred.
Reported caseKhmer reporting describes65Chinese/Vietnamese nationals detained in PhnomPenh/Kampot in online romance-fraud operations targeting other countries. Retain arrest/operation geography, not nationalities as residence, voluntary offending or65victim cases.
Reported caseNewTaipei councillor/land-department reporting describes emotional/romance-fraud concerns and monitoring over4,000vulnerable elders’ property, with police alerted if changes occur. Retain preventive service/planning context, not4,000victim cases, actual interception, proof all elder people are vulnerable or homicide implied by a colloquial pink-corpse-collector label.
Prevention & supportA California widower reportedly lost one million with a dollar sign after a wrong-number text, fake romance and an investment approach. Retain attributed financial/relationship/platform and prior widower status, not an independently verified amount, causal vulnerability or actual crypto transfer from the crypto-scam label.
Reported caseSuzuka police report a woman in her forties losing Ethereum worth JPY13.6million after matching-app contact with a male-named person. Retain reported financial/crypto/contact, not false identity from a name alone or a year inferred from30th.
Reported caseSpanish headline explicitly describes pig-butchering mixing seduction, crypto and modern slavery; partial paragraph names an unprecedented USDOJcrypto seizure. Retain mixed seduction/coercion/seizure context, not a full monetary value from the truncated15,000million phrase, all workers trafficked or exact perpetrators/case dates.
Related mentionIndonesian police-online-fraud heading names love-scam methods/AIevidence, with a general paragraph listing messaging/ecommerce platforms. Retain source-associated technology context, not every listed platform necessarily used in one romance case or a specific synthetic technique.
Research & trendsA California widower reportedly lost one million with a dollar sign after a wrong-number text, fake romance and an investment approach. Retain attributed financial/relationship/platform and prior widower status, not an independently verified amount, causal vulnerability or actual crypto transfer from the crypto-scam label.
Reported caseTaipei42-year-oldHuang was induced through Facebook/LINE photos, claimed divorce, caring/flirting and false love to invest in antiques; bank/police stopped one-million cash withdrawal. Retain attempted loss, trust manipulation/platform/investment and prevention, not completed loss, verified female identity or an actual divorce.
Reported caseSpanish headline reports three siblings murdered/incinerated after online romance fraud; paragraph says the killer also killed a cellmate. Retain source-associated three-sibling homicide; the cellmate death is not automatically romance-linked or added to the event count. No legalverdict/date/financial amount supplied in this variant.
Reported caseThe headline reports conviction for killing siblings over debts linked to romance fraud. Neighbours say two sisters believed in relationships with apparent US servicemen. Retain source-associated homicide, conviction and qualified persona claims; this variant does not itself establish Spain, a three-person total, financial-loss figure or crime date.
Reported caseMadridcourt reportedlyconvictedthekiller ofretiredsistersAngeles/Amelia and theirdisabled brotherPepe at home inDecember2023, inaromance-fraud-linkedtriplehomicide headline. Retain source-associatedhomicide andconviction, not threeindependentlyprovedromancevictims or thecellmate death. Dateprecision/source actorroles needexplicitannotation. December2023 is the date this Italian source states; retain the month attribution separately for chronology discrepancy review rather than treating observation as incident or correcting the source silently.
Reported case