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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% |
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AMassachusetts religious-studies professor is accused of takingmorethan78,000dollars from a woman inromancefraud beginning on aChristian datingwebsite. Keep allegedloss/digitalcontact; profession is not proofofinstitutionaloffence, arrest or falseidentity.
Reported caseFujioka police report a58-year-old employee losingJPY11.81million in the combinedSNS investment/romance fraud classification. Headline specifiesromance, paragraph broadcategory; retain mixedscope without inventing specificcourtship or investmentreturns.
Reported caseTakanesawa police-report context describes a57-year-old man losing crypto worthJPY1,779,000 in romance fraud after SNS contact with a purported Korean woman. Nationality is the persona’s claim, not perpetratorlocation or proofidentityfabrication; no eventyear inferred from20th. The retained paragraph stops at police without stating that the man filed a report. Remove the report-action code; police proximity alone is insufficient.
Reported caseNamedMassachusettsprofessorGregoryShaw isaccused bypolice oftakingmorethan80,000dollars fromaChristian-dating-site woman. Preserve80kversusrelated78kcoverage as source-specificamounts; allegation isnotconviction, arrest or a separatelyverifiedfalseidentity.
Reported caseGermanWELT description discusses anorganizedcrime proceeding involving allegedNigerianBlackAxe members inducingwomenonline tosend thousands. Specificdefendant/proceeding identity is absent; sharedgangname doesnot identifyanotherOldenburgcase. Headlinepeinlichquestion doesnot statewhomisblamed. Verfahren is a proceeding description without an explicit trial session or outcome. Retain unclear justice stage, not an invented court date or named defendant.
Reported caseIwakuni police report a maleemployee in hisforties losingJPY6,624,000 inSNS romancefraud. The generaldefinition describes inducedaffinity, not a separatelyverifiedfalsespecificrelationship;19thdoesnot supply ayear.
Reported caseThe Chinese source reports aUS elderly woman losing USD 300,000 and divorcing, in wider romance/cryptoATM-fraud and regulatory context. Cash deposits into machines and online trust-building are explicit; retain individual harm alongside general trend claims without verified national growth, causal divorce findings or legislation actually passed.
Reported caseFormerEastDunbartonshireCouncil leaderAndrewPolson reportedly jailed in GBP 188,000romance fraud after deceiving his expartner over property-investment money. Political/formercharityroles are biography, not proofinstitutionaloffence; exactsentence and refund absent.
Reported caseNamedAndrewPolson reportedly jailed overGBP188,000 propertyromancefraud involving his72-year-oldlover. Party suspension/radiodirectorship are background; no actualsentence term, financialreturn or identitywith anotherTinderSwindler follows from thenickname.
Reported caseTsukuba police report a60-year-old male employee losing JPY 15.9million after SNS contact with persons claiming to be a female business owner, classified as romance fraud. Police investigation is stated; claimed employment/gender does not prove a false identity or locate real operations. The19th lacks a year.
Reported caseAn explicitly romance-scam-labelled reader letter describes a trusted man vanishing with bitcoin investment money in response to prior coverage. Keep attributed personal testimony and crypto-investment loss; no independently verified case identity, actual relationship detail, amount or precise date supplied.
Reported caseNamedAndrewPolson reportedly jailed for22… in a truncatedGBP188,000romance-fraud paragraph. Do not complete theunit/months from anotherarticle. Selfcomparison toTinderSwindler doesnot identifySimonLeviev.
Reported caseNamedAndrewPolson reportedly jailed22months for romance/embezzlement fraud, with a GBP 186,000 loss to a72-year-old in thetruncated paragraph. Preserve186k versusrelated188kclaims rather than silently correcting the source; embezzlement wording does not identify employerfund theft without context.
Reported caseAichi police reportedly arrested a37-year-oldNagoya woman for money taken from a dating-site man using a hospital/illness pretext. Headline suggests about20victims/JPY 4.4million with uncertainty; preserve that alleged aggregate, not20provedcases or actual illness. Suspectresidence is not operation geography.
Reported caseThe explicitlyromance-scam readerletter describes a trustedman vanishing withbitcoininvestment money, responding to earliercoverage. Preserve unverifiedtestimony and explicitinvestment/loss; no actualcryptotransfermedium, relationshipdetails or amount supplied.
Reported caseSimonLeviev saysheintends legalactionagainstNetflix overitsdocumentary; description attributes allegedmillions takenfromwomen onadatingapp. Intention is not verifiedfiling/trial outcome, newvictimization or anactualassetreturn.
Related mentionFour German metadata variants report SwissTinder deception and more than500million in pig-butchering losses since2022, alongside far-rightcrypto-anonymitycontext. Retain mixedscam/aggregateclaims, not romance-onlytotals, independentvictimcounts or confirmed extremistlink to eachvictim. CurrencyISO and preciseperiodend absent.
Research & trendsHigashiomi police report a61-year-old male executive losingJPY9.9million after a dating-app contact’s dollar-exchange profit promise, investigated as romance fraud. Conversion/investment pretext is explicit; the18th lacks a full year and no false identity is established.
Reported caseFour German metadata variants report SwissTinder deception and more than500million in pig-butchering losses since2022, alongside far-rightcrypto-anonymitycontext. Retain mixedscam/aggregateclaims, not romance-onlytotals, independentvictimcounts or confirmed extremistlink to eachvictim. CurrencyISO and preciseperiodend absent.
Research & trendsChinese reporting names ScottCole, a63-year-old California/PalmSprings tai-chi/yoga instructor whose photos allegedly fuel false romance accounts for15years; claims hundreds of women/hundreds of millions remain attributed aggregates. The real image owner is not the alleged offender; claimed losses and time spans are not independently verified or additive incidents.
Related mentionBelgian woman in herseventies reportedly paidEUR7,000 to a falsePierreGarnier whilebelieving she was in arelationship. The title’s100,000 refers to purportedperformerwealth, not herloss. No actualhelp/reimbursement or preciseeventdate supplied.
Reported caseFour German metadata variants report SwissTinder deception and more than500million in pig-butchering losses since2022, alongside far-rightcrypto-anonymitycontext. Retain mixedscam/aggregateclaims, not romance-onlytotals, independentvictimcounts or confirmed extremistlink to eachvictim. CurrencyISO and preciseperiodend absent.
Research & trendsFour German metadata variants report SwissTinder deception and more than500million in pig-butchering losses since2022, alongside far-rightcrypto-anonymitycontext. Retain mixedscam/aggregateclaims, not romance-onlytotals, independentvictimcounts or confirmed extremistlink to eachvictim. CurrencyISO and preciseperiodend absent.
Research & trendsThe headline reports a72-year-old woman losing USD 300,000 and divorcing in aUS online-romance/crypto-fraud account; the paragraph repeats only that headline. Retain reported loss/relationship outcome without borrowing ATM payments, technical medium or regulatory details from another variant. The abbreviated US wave label is not explicit victim residence. Keep country unknown for this headline-only variant rather than borrowing location from the fuller article.
Reported caseABelgian woman in herseventies reportedly sentEUR7,000 to afalsePierreGarnier onFacebook and cut familyties believing inlove. The performer is impersonated, not theperpetrator; relationalharm is source-attributed, not causalpsychologicalverification.
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