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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 2024 | 443 | 443 | 100.0% |
| Feb 2024 | 685 | 685 | 100.0% |
| Mar 2024 | 391 | 391 | 100.0% |
| Apr 2024 | 487 | 487 | 100.0% |
| May 2024 | 519 | 519 | 100.0% |
| Jun 2024 | 303 | 303 | 100.0% |
| Jul 2024 | 545 | 545 | 100.0% |
| Aug 2024 | 352 | 352 | 100.0% |
| Sep 2024 | 387 | 387 | 100.0% |
| Oct 2024 | 493 | 493 | 100.0% |
| Nov 2024 | 496 | 496 | 100.0% |
| Dec 2024 | 565 | 565 | 100.0% |
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The Liu woman intended a postal remittance after a false affectionate emergency request. Staff and police exposed it before a paid loss is established; the forty-wan amount remains a request.
Reported caseOwn Meppel report states240hours community service, a suspended one-year prison sentence, repayment requirement and gambling prohibition across dating/Marktplaats fraud. Code sentence and compensation order with mixed scope; suspended imprisonment is not service, an order is not refund, gambling dependence is not victim psychological harm.
Reported caseOwn report describes an actual Kawamoto poster-distribution initiative covering both SNS investment and romance fraud. Keep the warning general/not-applicable and practical distribution a completed mixed-scheme activity. No victim loss, specific relationship/digital mechanism, measured effect or policy enactment is stated. Day25 lacks a calendar year; no publicity count is a case count.
Prevention & supportOwn report describes Britzl collecting information for investigators across love scams, sex/identity/crypto/financial crime and propaganda. Code reported practical support in mixed coverage; it is not a police investigation, proven effectiveness or a distinct-victim count. Hundreds of phone numbers are his own claim, not a study or verified offenders. Research chat and phone-country labels do not establish offender technical methods or case geography; three years is relative.
Prevention & supportOwn sparse man-wanted-for-love-scam headline reports arrest after reporting another crime. Retain arrest only, without borrowing the fuller46-year-old identity, detailed romantic method, amount or charge/conviction from another URL.
Reported caseThe unnamed Australian grandmother is arrested and held in Japan; lawyers assert scam victimization, while early-release hopes have not been realized. No name or alleged transport offence is imported from the URL.
Reported caseOwn Online Alerto Facebook-community title describes a Romance-scam support/prevention service; description places the topic among victims in the Philippines. Service availability is not use/effect, a surge claim is not measured incidence, and Facebook’s support setting is not a deception mechanism.
Prevention & supportOwn report describes arrest of an unnamed46-year-old local man wanted in a Love Scam matter after he reported another crime. Code the arrest only; that unrelated report is not Romance-victim help-seeking, and no loss, court outcome, intimacy detail or event year is given.
Reported caseBoth exact own copies report a detained Australian’s Tokyo love-scam trial delayed while Donna Nelson’s family travelled to Japan. Code a planned/postponed trial and reported institutional delay, not a completed trial, new arrest, charge, conviction or proven misconduct. Detention does not supply a formal arrest stage. Do not borrow drug transport, forced work, financial loss, victim status or clinical/family harm; family travel alone is not relational injury.
Reported caseBoth exact own copies report a detained Australian’s Tokyo love-scam trial delayed while Donna Nelson’s family travelled to Japan. Code a planned/postponed trial and reported institutional delay, not a completed trial, new arrest, charge, conviction or proven misconduct. Detention does not supply a formal arrest stage. Do not borrow drug transport, forced work, financial loss, victim status or clinical/family harm; family travel alone is not relational injury.
Reported caseOwn title/description credit bank staff with persuading a hurried woman and preventing romance-fraud harm; police gave two staff letters of thanks. Code practical assistance, not two cases or measured prevention effectiveness. No transfer amount/interception method, fabricated persona or actual diagnosis is stated; hurried behaviour alone does not establish psychological harm. Branch/award geography is not target residence or criminal jurisdiction.
Prevention & supportOwn Oita report links378万円 to future-together promises and SNS romance fraud. Preserve the exchange/fund-management pretext without inferring a performed currency exchange, an investment return, foreign offender country or cryptocurrency transfer. Police announcement alone is not investigation; publisher boilerplate supplies no case facts.
Reported caseOwn Nelson Counne lonely-hearts-scammer description reports a sentence of up to eight years. Preserve the upper-bound sentence and attributed offender epithet, without actual time served, loss amount or fuller deceptive-courtship facts. Grifter/worst-boyfriend evaluates the offender, not a harmed target.
Reported caseOwn Grindr report distinguishes a prior scamming conviction from the current finding of probation violation after professor impersonation. Code the legal finding, false persona and platform use; no new payment, renewed financial targeting, precise sentence, real academic affiliation or country is inferred.
Reported caseOwn Nelson Counne description reports deceptive jet-setting persona and prosecutors’$1.8million girlfriends-loss allegation. Code financial harm and persona deception with attribution; the headline says headed to prison but supplies no precise imposed sentence, conviction text, served term or refund.
Reported caseOwn Dutch report combines dating fraud and Marktplaats fraud in a sentence of240hours community service and a one-year conditional prison term. Preserve the mixed-offence scope: the full penalty is not allocated to romance alone. Imposed community work/conditional imprisonment is not completed work or served custody. Bare platform/offence labels add no financial loss or fabricated relationship detail; resident wording is not a court location.
Reported caseOwn Donna Nelson notice reports trial delay and continued Tokyo detention, with a clipped description. Code a planned/delayed trial and procedural delay, without drug details, a fresh arrest, conviction, sentence, served term, coercion or innocence claims borrowed from fuller sources.
Reported caseOwn sparse headline reports an Oita woman in her40s and378万円 under a suspected SNS-romance-fraud classification. Preserve the suspicion; generic SNS-type wording supplies no specific communication sequence or fabricated persona. The description is publisher boilerplate; do not borrow another URL’s promises, route or legal action, or a year from the URL.
Reported caseOwn warning specifically says Romance scammers use Facebook/X and dating apps to target older adults. Code warning, platform communication and explicit targeting as general statements; no personal loss, fabricated-persona detail, incidence increase, platform culpability or prevention effect is established.
Prevention & supportOwn report explicitly describes an attempted170万円 loss avoided by a Kitaakita woman in her60s and a purported Paris surgeon. Code attempted extraction and source-alleged impersonation; Paris is a claimed persona location, not actual offender country. Avoided loss does not itself identify interception, refund, who helped or a police investigation. Day24 has no explicit calendar year.
Reported caseBoth own identical-text URLs describe three youths using an online dating lure and blackmail to obtain a car and hundreds of pounds in cash. Preserve property/cash surrender and coordinated reported conduct, without specifying an ISO currency, sexual material, actual charges, physical violence or independent-case count.
Reported caseOwn all-capital headline reports an unnamed man wanted in a Love Scam matter arrested after reporting a crime; description is keywords only. Code arrest without borrowing age, place, financial/romantic method, victim report role or later court outcome.
Reported caseBoth own identical-text URLs describe three youths using an online dating lure and blackmail to obtain a car and hundreds of pounds in cash. Preserve property/cash surrender and coordinated reported conduct, without specifying an ISO currency, sexual material, actual charges, physical violence or independent-case count.
Reported caseOwn headline describes a general deepfake-nude money-demand method, while the description gives pseudonymous John’s OkCupid contact and a friend’s message about a purported nude photo. Keep monetary demands requested/general, not a paid loss, and do not attach every headline demand to John individually. Deepfake is a source claim, not independent technical verification; an image is not physical sexual violence. Dating contact alone does not establish a fabricated romantic relationship or clinical/reputational harm.
Reported caseOwn report says a man wanted over a Love Scam case was arrested after reporting a different crime at the police station. Code the arrest, not guilt, a new charge, sentence or a romance-target help-seeking report. No own loss, fabricated relationship or financial role is described. June23 lacks a calendar year; Kota Bharu is the reported arrest location.
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