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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.
| Observation month | Matching URLs | All included URLs | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 86 | 86 | 100.0% |
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Reports describe Van Yeboah’s guilty plea in a $100m organization involving romance fraud and business-email compromise. The combined figure cannot be assigned entirely to romance cases.
Reported caseDerrick Van Yeboah reportedly pleaded guilty in a $100m organization case. This is not a sentence or a new scam incident on the observation date.
Reported caseA Naples report says a man was arrested after stabbing a stranger and claimed revenge for an earlier romance scam. The victim’s sex differs across brief versions, so it is not reconciled by guessing; motive remains attributed.
Reported caseA Texas ranking discusses several types of fraud. Its ranking is not a measure of residents’ dishonesty or a verified romance-only incidence estimate.
Research & trendsA Dublin report describes a one-year sentence for allowing an account to be used in a €49,000 romance case. Nationality does not locate the financial victim.
Reported caseReports describe Van Yeboah’s guilty plea in a $100m organization involving romance fraud and business-email compromise. The combined figure cannot be assigned entirely to romance cases.
Reported caseReports describe Van Yeboah’s guilty plea in a $100m organization involving romance fraud and business-email compromise. The combined figure cannot be assigned entirely to romance cases.
Reported caseA named woman describes romance-investment scam workflows, specialized roles and pressure to obtain nude images. She says targets include financially secure adults over 35 and older people with limited online knowledge. This is an attributed account, not prevalence data or proof of coercion of every participant. The excerpt mentions inducing nude images but does not explicitly describe a threat to publish them, so sexual extortion is withheld.
Reported caseDerrick Van Yeboah reportedly pleaded guilty to a role in an organization taking over $100m. Facing up to 20 years is not an imposed sentence.
Reported caseDerrick Van Yeboah reportedly pleaded guilty to a role in an organization taking over $100m. Facing up to 20 years is not an imposed sentence.
Reported caseA Naples attacker claims frustration over a romantic scam motivated stabbing an unrelated woman. The claimed fraud and motive are unverified; the attack does not justify violence or establish fraud causation.
Reported caseFukuoka reports 78 recognized cases and about ¥830m in combined SNS investment and romance fraud in January. The mixed-scheme total is not romance-only.
Research & trendsDerrick Van Yeboah reportedly pleaded guilty in New York in an organization case exceeding $100m. Coverage does not show a new fraud event on the observation date.
Reported caseReports separate Van Yeboah’s $10m role from a wider $100m romance and business-email-compromise scheme. Those amounts overlap and cannot be summed.
Reported caseThe headline says FBI arrest while the description reports Derrick Van Yeboah’s guilty plea. Preserve the source’s procedural mismatch rather than treating them as simultaneous events.
Reported caseDerrick Van Yeboah reportedly pleaded guilty to a role in an organization taking over $100m. Facing up to 20 years is not an imposed sentence.
Reported caseA US report describes a guilty plea in a mixed romance and business-email-compromise organization. The headline mentions a $10m individual role and the description a $100m group total. The brief version does not name the defendant; the amounts cannot be summed.
Reported caseA digital-violence article lists romance scams among ten kinds of attacks on women. Its general AI and sextortion discussion does not establish those mechanisms in a particular romance case.
CommentaryA US court headline describes a scammer posing as a romantic partner and taking over $10m. This short version gives no plea or sentence; other versions are not silently substituted.
Reported caseReports describe Van Yeboah’s guilty plea in a $100m organization involving romance fraud and business-email compromise. The combined figure cannot be assigned entirely to romance cases.
Reported caseReports describe Van Yeboah’s guilty plea in a $100m organization involving romance fraud and business-email compromise. The combined figure cannot be assigned entirely to romance cases.
Reported caseA report alleges a romantic swindler took 60,000 from a woman described as autistic. Conflicting broad wealth language in the description is not a second loss figure or proof of targeted disability.
Reported caseA Triangle-area man reportedly lost nearly $800,000. The headline’s regional growth claim is not supported by a denominator in the retained excerpt.
Reported caseAustralia’s fusion-cell report covers July–December 2025, hundreds of suspected operations and over 1,000 transactions referred for investigation. Transactions are not victims or confirmed crimes, and referrals are not completed prosecutions.
Research & trendsFive US banks reportedly contest reimbursement of a 72-year-old dementia patient’s $337,000 romance loss. The lawyer’s claim about consumer protections remains attributed; litigation is not a settled legal violation.
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