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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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Former 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 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 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 caseAn alleged55-year-old love fraudster is due before a Bergedorf court Wednesday, with EUR14,000 alleged proceeds/loss in the headline. Keep financial allegation and planned court appearance, not a conviction, imposed sentence or full year from a weekday.
Reported caseTitle explicitly describes a love/pig-butchering scam; an anonymous Mexican woman reports220,000pesos lost. Keep attributed loss and uncertainty about case identity, not a quantified rise, precise date or mechanism supplied through the pig-butchering label alone.
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 caseChinese headline identifies an AI falseLeeJung-jae scam takingKRW500million; truncated paragraph describes a purported actor and a romance-fraud group targeting a woman in her fifties. Retain attributed impersonation/loss/AI/organization, not actor involvement, actual residence or details borrowed from fuller translations.
Reported caseAndrewPolson53was convicted after duping loverAnnKelly72ofGBP188,000in a property scam betweenMay2021andMarch2022. Keep financial/property-investment/conviction and explicit source-month endpoints, not a new2025crime, clinical vulnerability from age or fabricated love not independently stated.
Reported caseA woman lostKRW500million in online romance fraud through LeeJungJae impersonation, AIphotos and fakeID, buildingtrust over sixmonths. Keep loss/persona/synthetic-media/document/contact/trust themes, not exact calendar dates, actualactor participation or residence copied from another report.
Reported caseKirstyBelmontfromNorthYorkshire says a dating-app conman tookGBP90,000and left her financially/emotionallydepleted; paragraph describes a purported charmingbusinessman and a dating-site approach. Keep attributed financial/distress/contact/place, not a verified falsejob/identity, clinical diagnosis or full date.
Reported caseHeadline describes a fake Lee Jung-jae romance scam costing350,000with a dollar sign; police reportedly investigate while the scammer still sends messages. Retain alleged loss, false persona, contact and investigation, not an actual new demand/recovery scam merely from continued messaging. Still messages does not identify the communication medium in this shorter source; do not borrow a named online platform from fuller Lee reports.
Reported caseFürstenwalde pensioner reportedly lost thousands-of-euros in lovefraud; police give advice. Keep ownfinancial/warning/place, not exactamount, fakeidentity or a date/othercity’scase borrowed from a similarheadline.
Reported caseSuspected female love-fraudster allegedly receivedEUR150,000after online contact and actual meetings, then demands for money. Keep allegation/loss/contact, not false identity, arrest or conviction absent in this version; in-person meetings do not disqualify romance fraud.
Reported caseOdate man in his forties reportedly lostJPY2.74million in crypto after affinity for an appcontact and investmentrecommendations. Keep attributedfinancial/crypto/contact/investment, not falseidentity or fullincidentdatefrom20th.
Reported caseSuspected female love-fraudster allegedly receivedEUR150,000after online contact and actual meetings, then demands for money. Keep allegation/loss/contact, not false identity, arrest or conviction absent in this version; in-person meetings do not disqualify romance fraud.
Reported caseAbensbergparagraphstatesa suspectedlove-fraudster arrested at cashhandover; headlineallegesEUR150,000. Keep allegation/loss/arrest, not amountrecovered, exactvictimage, onlinecontactorfinalverdictfromstrongervariants.
Reported caseHeadline-onlysuspectedfemale love-fraudsterreceivedEUR150,000. Retainfinancialallegationwithunknownperson/place/mechanism,notarrestorvictimageborrowedfromricherAbensbergcoverage.
Reported caseSuspected female love-fraudster allegedly receivedEUR150,000after online contact and actual meetings, then demands for money. Keep allegation/loss/contact, not false identity, arrest or conviction absent in this version; in-person meetings do not disqualify romance fraud.
Reported caseNiederbayern61-year-oldmanlostoverEUR150,000aftermonthsoftrustwitha falseheartlady; policearrestedwoman. Keepfinancial/trust/allegedfalsepersonaarrestandvictimplace,notactualfundsrecoveredora conviction. False heart-lady labels deceptive romantic intent, not an explicit false personal identity. Keep the relationship-front allegation qualified; other articles’ detailed persona claims are not copied.
Reported caseKelheim61-year-old man reportedlylostoverEUR150,000inlovefraudandwomanarrested; paragraphtruncatesatsummer. Keep financial/arrest/victimplace, notyear, falseidentityorfabricatedcourtshipdetailborrowedfromanotherheadline.
Reported caseHeadline/media-indexcopyidentifiessuspectedfemale love-fraudsterEUR150,000and arrestathandover. Keepallegedfinancial/legalstagefromheading,notage,place,fundrecoveryorverdictfromotherarticles.
Reported caseNiederbayern61-year-oldmanlostoverEUR150,000aftermonthsoftrustwitha falseheartlady; policearrestedwoman. Keepfinancial/trust/allegedfalsepersonaarrestandvictimplace,notactualfundsrecoveredora conviction. False heart-lady labels deceptive romantic intent, not an explicit false personal identity. Keep the relationship-front allegation qualified; other articles’ detailed persona claims are not copied.
Reported caseAnne Deneuchatel discusses a book and an alleged EUR830,000 false-Brad-Pitt romance loss, saying she thought she was saving a life. Retain source-attributed financial/impersonation/disclosure, not actual actor involvement, independently verified medical emergency, AI technique or a new loss from book publicity.
Reported caseSparseheadlineattributesGBP100millionannualromancescamlossandFCAbankvigilance. Keepgeneralfinancialestimate/warning,notactualreviewfindings,yearorindependentlyverifiedtotal.
Research & trendsA20-year-old Taichung influencer reportedly had romancefraud lastyear and investmentproblems thisyear; media/insiders allege she diverted her mother’s surgeryfunds and her mother deteriorated/died. Keep MIXED source-associated allegedthird-partyfinancial/careharm and otherfundstheft. Do not establish causaldeath, homicide, suicide, actualmedicalviolence or howmuch was spent on romance ratherthan investments. This phrase explicitly locates the previously romantically targeted daughter; it does not independently locate her mother or prove the cause of the mother’s death. Alleged care/fund harm remains source-associated in mixed scope.
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