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| 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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Oizumi police report a63-year-old employee losingJPY23,509,000 cash/other amounts in combinedSNS investment/romance fraud. Specificrelationship and investmentpretext are absent;12th supplies no year.
Reported caseOsaka60sman gold/otherassets440million report explicitly says police suspect exploit ofromanticfeelings, withemail/phone contact and aclaimedHongKong female persona. Keep reportedassets/investment/contact distinct from verifiedidentity or realHongKong operations;July/13thgive noyear. This individual paragraph explicitly says police suspect exploitation of romantic feelings and are investigating. Retain alleged trust manipulation here; shorter variants do not borrow it.
Reported caseHeadline-only romance-fraud report says loss exceededJPY400million. No retained paragraph identifies Osaka, victim profile, payment asset or incident date. Keep this sparse amount claim without borrowing a fuller gold-investment report. The loss headline does not identify a cash or property payment asset; retain unspecified financial harm.
Reported caseA63-year-old male healthcare worker inShimotsuke reportedly filed a loss claim forJPY18,290,160, with headline suspected SNS romance fraud. The truncated police-report passage supplies no full date or verified false persona.
Reported caseDCI reportedly arrested two suspects in a Mombasa/Nyali dating-site honey-trap syndicate that tookKSh800,000 from a British tourist using fake police IDs. British nationality is not victim residence; local operation place is explicit. No physical injury, conviction, recovery or full date supplied.
Reported caseGunma police establish a unit addressing combinedSNS investment/romance fraud; headline says losses exceedJPY900million and paragraph contrasts anotherfraud category’s341million. Keep categories and totals separate; a newunit is not legislation passed or an evaluated intervention.
Research & trendsOta police describe a57-year-old employee losingJPY7.3million cash/e-money in thecombinedSNS investment/romance category after a guaranteed-profit solicitation. Keep mixed scope without inventing courtship or an actualcrypto transfer.
Reported caseThis headline describes a 50-year-old woman losing 90 million-equivalent in romance fraud, using a dating app and funds for living together. Publisher boilerplate does not establish geography, actual marriage, the payment asset or a bridge to the other 36.4 million crypto-loss headline. Preserve the separate source identity and platform detail.
Reported caseToronto Chinese woman’s romance-scam headline gives200,000 without a currency label; description explicitly dates the reporter’s first contact to2025年7月6日 and mentions chat/transaction records and a four-month account. Reporter contact is procedural context, not offence date or independent verification.
Reported caseThe Arabic account describes multiple women’s large financial losses after social-network contact developed into flirting/love and false relationships/marriage promises. Retain attributed financial/relationship mechanisms, not specific totals, country, precise dates or verified marriage events.
Reported caseSarahKuttner says she losthermother to anonline lovescammer who financiallyruined her. Financialdisruption is explicit; losthermother doesnotitself identify suicide, homicide, clinicaldistress or a causal deathmechanism. Keep source-associatedseriousharm uncertainty.
Related mentionNorthWestHawks seek aUgandan man accused ofR800,000romance fraud against hisgirlfriend usingR15million-return/blessingritual promises. Ontherun since2022 is anattributedstatusperiod, not crimeyear or actualarrest; returnpromise isnot actualprofit.
Reported caseOdatepolice report a man inhisforties losingJPY9.5million inSNS romancefraud; headline refers toaffection, investment and a ring-makingproposal. No completedmarriage or fullincidentdate from10th supplied.
Reported caseGuardianheadlinerefers to aGBP100,000romance scam; description adds over55UKfraud-growth/selfblame/grooming claims. Keep article-level caseamount andbroadreportedframing separate; no particularvictimidentity or verified52percenttrend supplied.
Research & trendsHitachinaka police report a55-year-old male employee losingJPY11million after SNS contact with a purported Japanese woman, investigating romance fraud. Persona nationality does not locate operations or independently prove a false identity.10th supplies no full date.
Reported caseAshikaga62-year-old woman reportscrypto loss worthJPY25.81million after a foreignmalecontact expressingaffection encouragedinvestment. Police investigateSNS romancefraud. Foreignnationality isnot a countryrole;10th lacks a full date.
Reported caseA Matsuyama woman in herseventies reportedly filed a romance-fraud loss report forJPY6.65million afterSNS contact with a purported Korean man.10th/September5lack a year; nationality is a persona claim, not actual residence or independently proved identity.
Reported caseMito police report a53-year-old male civil servant losing aboutJPY12.86million after dating-site contact with a purported Japanese woman, investigated as romance fraud. Preserve the source amount against a later53-year-old/13.27million variant; no automatic identity or corrected total assumed.
Reported caseTomioka police report a46-year-old employee losing JPY2,177,366 in the combined SNS investment/romance category, with an online-shop increased-income pretext in the headline. No specific partner identity, actual relationship or guaranteed return is supplied. The pretext is operating an online shop, not explicitly securities trading. Keep the broad financial-opportunity theme with unspecified subtype rather than invent trading mechanics.
Reported caseTakasaki police report a55-year-old male employee losing crypto worth JPY7.35 million in the combined SNS investment/romance category. The general affection/familiarity definition is not a specific courtship claim for this target. Preserve mixed scope and exact asset; 7th lacks a year.
Reported caseThe Arabic headline identifies false relationships/marriage promises ending in money theft in the UAE, while the partial paragraph names women and electronic emotional fraud. Retain attributed harm/fabricated relationships and headline place, not exact totals, dates or a communication platform borrowed from the fuller original.
Reported caseThe Mark Caltagirone/Eliana Michelazzo Verissimo headline and description discuss a ten-year romantic deception, psychological harm and economic difficulties. Retain attributed distress/financial disruption without clinical diagnosis, an exact monetary loss or actual perpetrator identity verified independently. TV appearance is not the fraud’s contact channel.
Related mentionThe Spanish headline describes Asian prosecutors seizing yachts/cars/money from an unnamed alleged cyber-fraud leader. The paragraph gives UN-attributed worldwide annual totals across false investment and romance scams. Retain mixed seizure/aggregate context, not one romance-only case or verified individual financial loss. The annual UN-attributed worldwide estimate is general commentary, not completed personal loss in the unnamed seizure proceeding.
Related mentionAwara police investigate a sixties man’s app-contact online-shop scheme, describing trust-building romance fraud and crypto taken worth JPY16.5 million. The shop-running pretext is retained without promised returns, false persona or a full year for November7. The pretext is operating an online shop, not explicitly securities trading. Keep the broad financial-opportunity theme with unspecified subtype rather than invent trading mechanics.
Reported caseTwo saved versions describe a 76-year-old woman from Germany repeatedly sending money and giving up her apartment to move to an Austrian entertainer. The fuller version names a false Gottfried Würcher persona and the real singer seeing her at his house. Retain payments, housing disruption and impersonation with source-version precision; the real performer is not an offender and no financial total or full date is supplied.
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