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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 352 | 591 | 59.6% |
| Feb 2025 | 489 | 1,629 | 30.0% |
| Mar 2025 | 209 | 561 | 37.3% |
| Apr 2025 | 162 | 390 | 41.5% |
| May 2025 | 232 | 398 | 58.3% |
| Jun 2025 | 86 | 209 | 41.1% |
| Jul 2025 | 272 | 522 | 52.1% |
| Aug 2025 | 253 | 447 | 56.6% |
| Sep 2025 | 273 | 613 | 44.5% |
| Oct 2025 | 251 | 483 | 52.0% |
| Nov 2025 | 174 | 392 | 44.4% |
| Dec 2025 | 200 | 333 | 60.1% |
| Jan 2026 | 222 | 530 | 41.9% |
| Feb 2026 | 447 | 1,106 | 40.4% |
| Mar 2026 | 175 | 360 | 48.6% |
| Apr 2026 | 239 | 491 | 48.7% |
| May 2026 | 171 | 785 | 21.8% |
| Jun 2026 | 214 | 842 | 25.4% |
| Jul 2026 | 469 | 1,143 | 41.0% |
| Aug 2026 | 319 | 640 | 49.8% |
| Sep 2026 | 373 | 638 | 58.5% |
| Oct 2026 | 17 | 30 | 56.7% |
Each record represents a source web page, not a verified incident. Different URLs can describe the same event. About these records.
Hachinohe police report an Aomori man in his sixties losing about JPY 1.5 million in SNS romance fraud involving a purported woman Son-a. The retained short source does not detail the online-store mechanism shown by a richer variant; no incident year or nationality is inferred.
Reported caseZhunan police/store staff stopped a woman in her seventies paying TWD 90,000 customs fees for a purported retired US military officer’s gift parcel. Daily caring messages and a false gift establish the relational lure; claimed US identity and airport/customs pretext do not locate offenders or prove real parcel contents. Store difficulty triggered practical help and police warning.
Reported caseTottori police report a local man in his sixties losing JPY 2.09 million through SNS romance fraud, following SNS and messaging contact. The medical/bone-related tail is truncated, so no health emergency or participant motive is supplied; September 14 has no year.
Reported caseHachinohe police report an Aomori man in his sixties losing JPY 1.5 million through a supposed Son-a woman’s online-shop inducement. A small initial payment/profit precedes further supplier-payment requests; these are not proof of genuine trading. Keep source-specific shop mechanism and no presumed perpetrator nationality or full incident date. The described profit pretext is an online shop and supplier-payment scheme, not explicitly securities trading or a promised return rate. Keep the subtype unspecified; initial received funds do not independently prove a promised return.
Reported caseSwiss Italian commentary lists online sale, investment and love scams, vague thousands of francs and a prosecutor’s pessimistic recovery quotation. This is mixed reporting, not an established failure to recover in every romantic case or a quantified total.
Related mentionThe identical retained text across two German URLs reports a woman losing EUR 47,000 in love scamming after social-media contact. One shared coding assessment preserves both original guide notes and URLs. Location, victim identity, exact date and independent verification remain unknown. All code dimensions agree; only original URL-specific reviewer prose differed. The saved draft-conflicts file preserves both notes.
Reported caseKagoshima police describe a man in his fifties losing crypto worth JPY 45.3 million after a dating-app woman offered investment and moved contact to Line. The police announcement says the 26th and the account begins late August without a full year; neither observation date nor persona gender establishes an incident date or nationality.
Reported caseChanghua reporting describes a man in his seventies planning to borrow TWD 40,000 to help a purported Korean-American female contact, which bank/police staff identified as romance fraud. The borrowing/intercepted transfer is attempted, not completed debt or loss; persona nationality is not a victim/operation country. The sparse source says staff questioned a proposed borrowing payment, but does not explicitly describe a completed interception. Neither a self-described female contact nor nationality proves a false identity; richer variants remain separate.
Reported caseThe identical retained text across two German URLs reports a woman losing EUR 47,000 in love scamming after social-media contact. One shared coding assessment preserves both original guide notes and URLs. Location, victim identity, exact date and independent verification remain unknown. All code dimensions agree; only original URL-specific reviewer prose differed. The saved draft-conflicts file preserves both notes.
Reported caseFreudenstadt reporting describes a woman losing a high five-figure sum in crypto after a dating-app love fraud. The precise amount, victim age, incident date and police action are absent.
Reported caseAomori police launch heightened bank/ATM warnings through the 10th amid mixed special/investment/romance fraud statistics. JPY 1.3 billion combines categories; 104 SNS investment/romance reports is not romance-only. The scheme is warning activity, not measured prevention effectiveness; relative year labels stay unnormalized.
Research & trendsThe substantive quoted headline reports a woman losing EUR 47,000 through love scamming, with listing-like publisher description. Qualified headline-only inclusion does not supply the location, contact channel or a distinct victim.
Reported casePenang reporting explicitly labels five 2023–2025 cases as pig-butchering or romantic-investment fraud, with RM 1,993,848.50 in losses. These are attributed three-year figures, not a 2025-only case census; no incident count inferred from multiple descriptions.
Research & trendsThe WELT variant repeats the explicit EUR 47,000 love-scam account and social-media contact. Keep source facts and missing identity/location separate.
Reported caseChanghua reporting describes a man in his seventies planning to borrow TWD 40,000 to help a purported Korean-American female contact, which bank/police staff identified as romance fraud. The borrowing/intercepted transfer is attempted, not completed debt or loss; persona nationality is not a victim/operation country. The sparse source says staff questioned a proposed borrowing payment, but does not explicitly describe a completed interception. Neither a self-described female contact nor nationality proves a false identity; richer variants remain separate.
Reported caseFrench reporting describes fabricated Ukrainian-soldier identities, prolonged emotional relationships and thousands of euros sent. Preserve general/multiple-case mechanism claims and source-specific French victims where explicit; soldier nationality is a persona, not a verified military or operation location.
Research & trendsShimotsuke police investigate a 51-year-old employee’s crypto loss of JPY 12,034,930 as SNS romance fraud after a Japanese-female-name account moved contact to another service. Persona name is not verified nationality; May 14 lacks a year and there is no arrest in the excerpt. Repeated claims of earning money do not specify an investment/trading scheme. The victim’s report to police is explicit and separate from investigation.
Reported caseAsahi police rearrested a 68-year-old woman in an alleged SNS romance fraud involving Iraqi military personas, parcel fees and a Yokohama woman in her seventies losing about JPY 3.53 million. Persona nationality is not the offender base; rearrest differs from conviction and a yearless December 1 is not normalized into an incident date.
Reported caseLeipzig reporting describes a 68-year-old woman deceived by fabricated affection and losing several thousand euros. Keep age, location and vague amount source-specific; no perpetrator identity, diagnosis or full date established.
Reported caseRossana Tescaroli describes a false social-media lover damaging her marriage and her Acta support role; the article also mentions a psychologist/Bono persona, a retiree selling her home and an ex-general losing EUR 230,000. Keep distinct people and outcomes; selling a house is not automatically involuntary housing loss or all victims’ aggregate total.
Related mentionZibo reporting explicitly dates Wang’s report about an online-game girlfriend/loss above CNY4,000 toJune2025; investigators describe a man using a voice changer and stolen photos with an organized group and July arrests. Voice changing is not automatically AI/deepfake. July has no explicit year and is not normalized from collection. The voice changer is an explicit technical device, not automatically synthetic AI. The victim report has explicit June 2025 month precision; July arrests have no separately stated year.
Reported caseThe Spanish source attributes a British woman’s loss of approximately625,000dollars to a false Jason Momoa, citing the Daily Mail. Keep the source dollar wording; nationality is not explicit victim residence, the currency ISO is unstated and the real actor is an impersonated person.
Reported caseAkita Rinko police report a woman in her forties losing crypto worth JPY 5.02million in romance fraud, with an affinity/crypto-investment headline. Date27has noyear; police announcement is not an arrest or formal charge.
Reported caseCNN variants explicitly name Joe Novak, Facebook contact, crypto romance fraud and USD 280,000 loss in the headline. Life-torn-apart wording is nonspecific adversity, not a clinical diagnosis or suicide. Last year is not normalized into an incident year. Crypto-romance classification alone does not explicitly describe an actual cryptocurrency transfer; retain Facebook contact and reported cash loss without inferring payment medium.
Reported caseCNN variants explicitly name Joe Novak, Facebook contact, crypto romance fraud and USD 280,000 loss in the headline. Life-torn-apart wording is nonspecific adversity, not a clinical diagnosis or suicide. Last year is not normalized into an incident year. Crypto-romance classification alone does not explicitly describe an actual cryptocurrency transfer; retain Facebook contact and reported cash loss without inferring payment medium.
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