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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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Bay Area/Brentwood widower reportedly lost one million with a dollar sign after an unknown-person text and fake-romance investment scam. Title variants preserve1M/one million wording; no financial transfer asset, exact date, clinical distress or causal effect of bereavement inferred.
Reported caseChinese headline describes890,000lost in online romance fraud, later discovery that the contact was the same gender and a final ten-and-a-half-year sentence. Baoji intermediatecourt is explicit; a precise currency/full date and actual victim sexual orientation are not inferred. Keep alleged persona deception and source-attributed legal outcome.
Reported caseTelfs44-year-old man reportedly sent hundreds-of-thousands of euros to anunknownoffender posingasawoman and feigningromance fromearlySeptember tolateOctober. Retain financial/fabricatedrelationship/impersonation/online context; yearlessperiod doesnotnormalize to2025.
Reported caseLawmakers urge dating sites to improve romance-fraud safeguards amid a reported annual1.3billion-dollar loss headline. General aggregate claims/pressure are not independently verified incidence, a named case, prevention effectiveness or legislation enacted.
Research & trendsAustrian mixed-fraud warning includes a92-year-oldKlagenfurt grandparent-emergency victim and a73-year-oldwoman sending a five-figure amount in love fraud. Retain mixed reported financial/warning context, not combining the two targets, assigning the granddaughter pretext to romance or treating their ages as quantified risk.
Related mentionKanazawa seventies woman reportedly experienced romance fraud twice, with JPY880,000loss and affection/flowers gaining trust in the headline. Two experiences do not themselves identify continued requests, the same offender or a recovery scam. The partial paragraph supplies no full year.
Reported caseTelfs44-year-old man reportedly sent hundreds-of-thousands of euros to anunknownoffender posingasawoman and feigningromance fromearlySeptember tolateOctober. Retain financial/fabricatedrelationship/impersonation/online context; yearlessperiod doesnotnormalize to2025.
Reported caseHofu police report a man in his fifties losing crypto worth JPY1.19million in SNS romance fraud. The opening definition describes affinity, not a case-specific fabricated partner. Preserve actual asset/online context;29th has no year.
Reported caseOberfranken elderly woman allegedly lost EUR18,000to a falseElonMusk romance persona/urgentoperation pretext. No realperformer involvement, actualmedical injury or explicitinterception outcome follows from a question about furtherloss.
Reported caseXiaosha reportedly sent eightaccount cards/passwords while claiming online-romance victimization, with22otherpeople losing over1.36million and her money emptied. Headline reports acquittal; paragraph truncates the court reasoning. Preserve alleged facilitation/own-loss and claimant role, not innocent coercion inferred independently or a proved romance-only total for all22people.
Reported caseTyrol44-year-old man reportedly lost more thanEUR100,000in online love fraud; police warn about Internet methods. No specific persona or full date supplied. This sparse variant does not borrow Telfs/place/period from a fuller source.
Reported caseKulmbachsenior allegedlytrustedafalseElonMuskpersona and lostmoney; policeinvestigate. Retain reportedimpersonation/trust/loss/investigation, not anamount copiedfrom18kvariant, realmedical emergency or interception.
Reported caseNamed39-year-oldMarcelQ repeatedly sent money to37-year-oldMandyP from theInternet and borrowed fromhis mother; headline says EUR120,000and never meetingher. Retain financial/contact/repeatedpayments, not a verified falseidentity, conviction or adding borrowedmoney as another120kloss.
Reported caseA woman inherfifties believed she had aromanticrelationship withLeeJung-jae and sent anonline scammer overKRW500million, parenthetically350,000withadollarsign. Retain reported loss/impersonation/contact; this variant doesnot itself mentionAI and no actualactor involvement, preciseeventdate or countryrole inferred.
Reported caseNepali paragraph reports aSouthKoreanwoman losing overKRW500million to anAI-generatedLeeJung-jae impersonator and police investigation; headline uses300,000-plusdollars. Retain attributed loss/AI/identity/enforcement without automatically reconciling currency conversions or inferring residence from nationality.
Reported caseHeadline-only suspected online romance-fraud loss exceedsHKD1.45million. No paragraph supplies victim location, persona, payment method, investigative action or date; HKD is a denomination, not HongKong residence.
Reported caseA local middle-agedwoman reports more thanHKD1.45million lost in suspected romance fraud after social contact with a purported mainlandChinese national living inSingapore, development of romance and an investment approach. Local and JudiciaryPolice/PJ do not themselves provide an explicit countryrole. Persona nationality/residence are not real operations; August lacks a year.
Reported caseChanghua Chen sent eightaccount cards/passwords after alleged HongKong ChenBin/fakeFSAofficial persuasion to help remit funds, with22others losing1.36million and her own57,093emptied. Court reportedly found her also victimized and acquitted her. Retain facilitation and financial/court roles; same claimant is not independently proved coerced or intentionally complicit. Generic court wording does not identify a jurisdiction. Changhua explicitly identifies the woman; retain victim location only, without borrowing a court name from another variant.
Reported caseOverath56-year-old man reportedly transferred a five-figure sum to an online acquaintance in love fraud; police warn. No currency/precise total or falsepersona is supplied.
Reported caseOta44-year-old female employee reportedly lost crypto worth JPY8.59million in the combined SNS investment/romance category following investment offers. Retain mixed asset/contact context, not actual courtship or a full date from an undated paragraph.
Reported caseAgatsuma64-year-old man reportedly lost JPY17.91million in the combined SNS investment/romance category, with a side-job pretext in the title. Retain mixed financial/contact scope; specific investment/courtship and returns are not established.
Reported caseNakahara police arrested a33-year-old Ashikaga employee suspected of using a female persona/medical-cost pretext to take JPY2.17million from a Kawasaki man without meeting. The paragraph explicitly dates an alleged offence to2023年3月23日; October28lacks a year and is not inferred. Claimed hospitalization is not actual injury.
Reported caseThe title describes400,000online-romance fraud and a police-caught collector. Paragraph gives a woman’s help request after an online boyfriend allegedly used a false identity, then truncates. Retain allegations/arrest/report/platform, not proven collector guilt, funds recovered, an exact currency or complete chronology.
Reported caseSpanish reporting describes a50-year-old SouthKorean woman believing a false LeeJung-jae relationship and a EUR300,000headline loss. Nationality does not establish victim residence; preserve the publication’s amount and omissions without silently converting KRW/other-language versions or assuming actual actor involvement.
Reported caseAn anonymous bereaved father urges better bank safeguards after his son died shortly after discovering more than GBP50,000romance-fraud loss. Keep reported money harm and the father’s grief separately attributed. Temporal proximity does not establish suicide, homicide or fraud causing death; a request for bank changes is not a policy enacted.
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