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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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Indonesian headline specifies AI LeeJungJae love scam andRp6.1billion loss; paragraph explicitly describes deception through an amorous relationship. Retain reported loss/identity/AI/fabricated relationship, not automatic conversion, actor involvement or precise victim/event details.
Reported caseHiyama woman in her forties reportedly lostJPY2.6million in romance fraud after matching-app contact with a man claiming Japanese identity; paragraph truncates amount. Keep title amount/contact, not proof identity was false, actual nationality or a full date.
Reported caseMadou Huang proposed withdrawing1.95million for investment after a LINE contact manufactured affection; clerk/police stopped it after he gave false family/wedding and renovation reasons. Keep attempted loss/interception/contact/investment/fabricated intimacy, not completed loss, renewed demands merely from his repeat withdrawal attempts, or physical harm from pre-existing mobility limitation.
Reported caseMadou Huang reportedly proposed1.95million for investment after romance fraud; a police officer’s oath persuaded him to abandon withdrawal. Keep attempted loss/interception/investment, not a death/suicide threat acted upon, completed loss or fullerLINE/persona detail absent here.
Reported caseMadou Huang reportedly proposed1.95million for investment after romance fraud; a police officer’s oath persuaded him to abandon withdrawal. Keep attempted loss/interception/investment, not a death/suicide threat acted upon, completed loss or fullerLINE/persona detail absent here.
Reported caseSouthCoast man reportedly lost53,000with a dollar sign in a Tinder romance scam, sent abusive texts after betrayal and avoided conviction in a lenient court outcome. Keep attributed loss/distress/contact/legal appearance and other acts with target role; no guilty conviction, acquittal inferred from no-conviction, clinical diagnosis or amount/country filled from another source. Use the existing codebook allegation dimension; abusive texts and lenient legal outcome remain distinct from conviction or acquittal.
Reported caseItalian title states seven-million-euro fraud in a year, while paragraph describes social-media romance scams affecting hundreds and offers recognition/method information. Retain attributed aggregate financial/contact/warning context, not independently verified totals or a single seven-million victim case.
Research & trendsFormer Scottish council leader who compared himself with the TinderSwindler was convicted in GBP188,000romance fraud. Keep amount/conviction, not a named identity, actual jail sentence or a link to SimonLeviev merely through nickname.
Reported caseTinderlaunchesmandatoryFaceCheckscanningforprofileduplicates; paragraphmentionsromancefraudandbillionsoveradecade. Keeppreventiveservice/attributedgeneralfinancialcontext,notverifiedeffectiveness,actualprivacyharmorAIcriminalimpersonation.
Prevention & supportFullerKusatsu44-year-oldsourceaddsJune8Japanesemaleclaim,LINEintimacy,July8initial100,000banktransferanddisplayedfakeprofits. Keeploss/crypto/contact/investment/trust/repeateddemandthemesfromitsowntext,notfalseidentitysolelyfromclaimednationalityorcrimeyearinferredfrommonth/day. The fuller text supplies an initial100,000designated transfer then a fragment of a new deposit instruction. Continue-request interpretation is qualified; the unfinished instruction is not a known additional amount or executed payment.
Reported caseHeadline reports nearly100million with an Rs denomination lost to a false SquidGame actor; paragraph identifies a woman in her fifties, romance fraud and LeeJungJae, then truncates. Retain loss/impersonation without reconciling this currency with other variants or assuming AI/residence.
Reported caseSouthCoast man reportedly lost53,000with a dollar sign in a Tinder romance scam, sent abusive texts after betrayal and avoided conviction in a lenient court outcome. Keep attributed loss/distress/contact/legal appearance and other acts with target role; no guilty conviction, acquittal inferred from no-conviction, clinical diagnosis or amount/country filled from another source. Use the existing codebook allegation dimension; abusive texts and lenient legal outcome remain distinct from conviction or acquittal.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman reportedly lost overJPY100million in crypto/other assets after SNS investment recommendations; fuller retained paragraph states inducing romantic feelings and initial apparent profits. Retain trust manipulation/contact/investment/financial assets, not a year, identified false persona or a crime date from22nd.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman reportedly lost overJPY100million in crypto and other assets following SNS investment contact, according to Kusatsu police. This shorter version lacks the fuller romance-feelings/fake-profit paragraph; do not borrow it or infer a year from22nd.
Reported caseThis source explicitly reports FIVEbillionKRW lost by a woman in her fifties to AI images of LeeJung-jae and says his agency vows action. Preserve its tenfold difference from500million variants, rather than silently correct/conversion. Keep reported loss/AI/persona and proposed institutional prevention; no actual prevention outcome or actor involvement.
Reported caseAndrewPolsonconvictedofGBP188,000romancefraudpersuadedAnnKellytofundhomesforrefurbishing/selling/rentingprofit. Keepfinancial/propertyopportunity/conviction,not fabricated love byitself,actualimprisonmentorfullperioddatescopiedfromanotherreport.
Reported caseBerlin romance-fraud coverage attributes EUR5.6million and false hopes to multiple cases. Retain general aggregate financial reporting, not independently verified incidence, a single victim, year or exact mechanism inferred from the broad term.
Research & trendsA womaninSouthKorealostKRW500milliontosource-describedscammersposingasLeeJung-jaeinaRomancefraud. Keepexplicitvictimlocation/persona/loss; noAItechnique,ageorconversiondetailsborrowedfromothersources.
Reported caseKusatsu police report a Shiga/Kusatsu44-year-old woman losing overJPY100million in crypto and other assets after an SNS contact recommended investment; headline identifies romance fraud. Retain investment/contact/financial assets, not an unproved false romantic persona or a year from the22nd.
Reported caseHeadline reports an ex-council leader convicted in GBP188,000romance fraud; paragraph says facing jail. Keep financial allegation and conviction, not an imposed prison sentence, named perpetrator/victim or property pretext borrowed from stronger variants.
Reported caseHeadline identifies falseLeeJungJae romantic impersonation andKRW500million/USD350,000parenthesis; description attributes the report to JTBC October21then truncates. Retain loss/persona, not event date/year, AI or country inferred from a reporting dateline.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman lostoverJPY100million in crypto/otherassets afterSNSinvestmentapproach; fullerparagraph specifies romancefeelings, displayedinitialprofits and requestsforlargerdeposits. Keep trust/contact/investment/repeateddemands/assets, no fakepersona or fullcrimeyearfrom22nd. Apparent initial profits followed by a large-deposit instruction do not explicitly establish repeated demands in this shorter paragraph. Preserve possible continued requests unresolved rather than borrowing the fuller first-deposit passage.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman reportedly lost overJPY100million in crypto/other assets after SNS investment recommendations; fuller retained paragraph states inducing romantic feelings and initial apparent profits. Retain trust manipulation/contact/investment/financial assets, not a year, identified false persona or a crime date from22nd.
Reported caseTottori man in his thirties reportedly lostJPY13,846,565after matching-app contact asking him to assist an online shop. Keep financial/contact and a broad unspecified financial-opportunity pretext, not a securities-trading subtype, fakefemaleidentity or crimeyear fromAugust.
Reported caseTottori thirties man reportedly lostaboutJPY13.85million in cash/electronicmoney in SNSromancefraud; headline describes funds for an Internetjob. Preserve rounding against13,846,565onlyinitsownsource, broad unspecifiedfinancial-opportunity/contact, not cryptoasset or fullAugust5year. The paragraph identifies a man within the prefecture in the same Tottori-police sentence; retain that contextual victim place mapping rather than infer it from the publisher.
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