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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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Plön woman reportedly lostEUR30,000to purportedPeter/car-dealer-in-Africa lovefraud; endingtears are explicitly described. Retain allegedpersona/loss andsourcebound distress, notconfirmedoffender residence orclinicaldiagnosis. Twoheadlines supportpossible sharedcontent, nottwovictims.
Reported casePlön woman reportedly lostEUR30,000to purportedPeter/car-dealer-in-Africa lovefraud; endingtears are explicitly described. Retain allegedpersona/loss andsourcebound distress, notconfirmedoffender residence orclinicaldiagnosis. Twoheadlines supportpossible sharedcontent, nottwovictims.
Reported caseVorpommern37-year-oldmanreportedlylostoverEUR40,000overfourweeks toan allegedEnglishwoman’s falsepictures/lovefraud. Retainpersona/loss, notactualoffendernationality, videodeepfakeor exactdate.
Reported caseMother describes losingGBP85,000to an online romance fraudster. Retain attributed loss/platform and personal disclosure. No NorthYorkshire/Kirstyname or90,000identity is supplied; bravely wording does not establish a clinicalcondition or explicit blaming.
Reported caseSagaSouthpolice reportmaninhis30s paidaboutJPY2.19millionin161cash/e-moneytransfers toawomanpersona allegingutilitybills/bikeinjury/skin-graftcosts. Familyquestionedscamandhereportedtopolice. Retainloss, repeatedrequests, claimedmedicalpersona/supportpretexts andreporting, notactualskin-graft injurytoavictim oratimeyearfilledfromlastyear.
Reported caseMan toldClayCountysheriffdeputies hemayhavelostUSD120,000inonline romancefraud. Retain allegedloss,onlinecontact andreporting, withsourcecertainty preserved. Lastweekhasnoexactdate; neithercryptoATMnorTikTokcanbeborrowedfromlongercoverage.
Reported caseClayCountysheriff reports localman lostUSD120,000in TikTokromancefraud and discusses encryptedapps/cryptoATMs. Retain attributedindividual loss and platform. Warning aboutcryptoATMs does notprove thisman usedone or showacompleted cryptocurrencytransfer.
Reported caseNorthYorkshire romance-fraud victim reportsGBP85,000loss and shares her story to help others. Two headline variants describe disclosure/awareness, not necessarily KirstyBelmontGBP90,000 without a named bridge or an actual recovery.
Reported caseNorthYorkshire romance-fraud victim reportsGBP85,000loss and shares her story to help others. Two headline variants describe disclosure/awareness, not necessarily KirstyBelmontGBP90,000 without a named bridge or an actual recovery.
Reported caseA26-year-old at Vienna regionalcourt reportedly received a finaltwoyearsentence, eightmonthsunconditional, for aggravated commercial lovefraud over a datingplatform andEUR147,000. Retain attributed loss/platform/sentence; suspended versus immediate duration remains original. No victim identity or external case merger.
Reported caseNikko43-year-oldfemaleemployeereportedcryptoJPY4.33millionlost;policeinvestigateSNSromancefraudbeginningwithamatchingapp. Retainloss/crypto/platform/reportandprobe. No actualromanticpersona,investmentreturns orexactincidentdateadded.
Reported caseA26-year-oldman reportedly standsbeforecourt after obtainingEUR160,000fromtwelvewomenoverfouryears by pretendingfeelingsonline. Retain attributed loss/fabricatedrelationships/trial andplatform. Todayisnotastatedactdate; no finalsentence orsameamountas147,000source assumed.
Reported caseToday.at reports lovefraudjudgment against aRomanianman who targetedTinderwomen, notablya deafViennese woman, withEUR160,000andtwoyearsprison. Retain attributed loss/platform/sentence and disability context as explicittargeting only if laterqualitypassbindsit. Nationalitynottruevictimresidence; no12/147,000normalization. Wienerin identifies the harmed woman as Viennese. It does not name a court jurisdiction; correct only that role, retaining the source and actual judicial outcome.
Reported caseChinese guide explicitly describes cultivating affection for months in emotional pig-butchering, alongside official impersonation and AIvoice kidnapping. General financial loss, debt and long-lived psychological effects are discussed. Keep mixed fraud/general warning and source-associated broad harm, not every AIattack romantic or an actual individual harmed/trafficked.
Prevention & supportA26-year-oldViennaman receivedtwoyearsforcommercialdatingfraud allegedlytakingEUR147,000fromtwelvewomento fundgambling. Retainattributedloss/platform/sentence, noactualguiltofotherpersonsor160,000sourceconflation.
Reported caseStaffordshirewomanreportedlylostGBP130,000toFacebookromancefraudandwasleftwithoutfoodintheheadline. Retainloss/platformandmaterialdeprivation, not actualstarvationdeath, homelessness,clinicalcondition orrecovery. No food is an explicit basic-needs deprivation claim in this headline. It is not homelessness, clinical starvation, self-harm or a causal death finding.
Reported caseTaichung/Xitun woman in her60s met a purported wealthy warm-hearted man online, who demandedNTD100,000as meeting sincerity money. Police stopped the cash delivery. Retain attempted financial deception, platform, persona and interception. No loss alreadypaid, actual rich identity, withdrawal recovery oryearless date inferred. Shorter variant does notborrow fullerpoliceunit details. Sweet conversation followed by a fraudulent meeting deposit supports an attributed trust-confidence lure. A claimed wealthy persona is not itself a demonstrated stolen identity; do not code impersonation without that evidence. The place is the woman’s location, not an offshore scam operator location.
Reported caseChanghua56-year-old Xu’s online-dating investment losses and repeat supposed-lawyer recovery fraud appear in title/description. Headline explicitly attributes suicide to the scheme; retain alleged suicide-death extension, not a clinical or forensic finding. Truncated ten-million-plus total and property borrowing are not an exact currency-normalized figure. Preserve repeat-targeting and debt without borrowing details from other variants. Suicide is an attributed source claim. Separate deeper CNA reporting says identity and cause required DNA/forensic examination at that time. No original final forensic result was obtained; the media code is not a confirmed death-cause finding. Fuller source comparisons, amounts, family identification and investigative uncertainty remain a separate deeper layer. This record keeps its own romance classification, reported amount and harm wording; investment-only or ambiguous dating-investment variants remain excluded/unresolved rather than upgraded by shared identity. Changhua describes the targeted man’s place, not the criminal network’s operating country. Preserve the source location but correct that country role to victim.
Reported caseTaichung/Xitun woman in her60s met a purported wealthy warm-hearted man online, who demandedNTD100,000as meeting sincerity money. Police stopped the cash delivery. Retain attempted financial deception, platform, persona and interception. No loss alreadypaid, actual rich identity, withdrawal recovery oryearless date inferred. Shorter variant does notborrow fullerpoliceunit details. Sweet conversation followed by a fraudulent meeting deposit supports an attributed trust-confidence lure. A claimed wealthy persona is not itself a demonstrated stolen identity; do not code impersonation without that evidence. The place is the woman’s location, not an offshore scam operator location.
Reported caseChanghua56-year-old ice-shop owner allegedly lost11.68million in seductive crypto-investment fraud, sold property, left with debts and was found as remains after14months. Foundation reportedly covered funeral costs after relatives sought help. Retain attributed loss/debt/crypto and support for relatives, not proven suicide/homicide or forensic identity. The phrase describes virtual-currency investment fraud/loss, without an explicit completed crypto payment. Retain the investment lure; a cryptocurrency product or quoted loss is not proof of cryptocurrency transfer. Fuller source comparisons, amounts, family identification and investigative uncertainty remain a separate deeper layer. This record keeps its own romance classification, reported amount and harm wording; investment-only or ambiguous dating-investment variants remain excluded/unresolved rather than upgraded by shared identity. Changhua describes the targeted man’s place, not the criminal network’s operating country. Preserve the source location but correct that country role to victim.
Reported caseBrotherfoundclothedremainsbelievedtobelongtomissingChanghuaman,withattributedromance-loss/ruin/guiltandpossiblesuicide. CourierChenreportedarrestedandsentencedtwoyears; elevenvictimsintheheadlineconflictswithanother11offencesvariant. Retainattributedloss, financialdisruption, allegedselfharm andarrest/sentenceforcourier. Noallfactsconfirmed orvictim/courierrole conflation. Suicide is an attributed source claim. Separate deeper CNA reporting says identity and cause required DNA/forensic examination at that time. No original final forensic result was obtained; the media code is not a confirmed death-cause finding. The brother’s grief/emotional collapse is explicit relative distress, distinct from the target’s attributed guilt toward wife/children. Self-blaming language is source-reported, not researcher endorsement or a clinical diagnosis. Fuller source comparisons, amounts, family identification and investigative uncertainty remain a separate deeper layer. This record keeps its own romance classification, reported amount and harm wording; investment-only or ambiguous dating-investment variants remain excluded/unresolved rather than upgraded by shared identity. Changhua describes the targeted man’s place, not the criminal network’s operating country. Preserve the source location but correct that country role to victim.
Reported caseChanghua56-year-oldXuisreportedtargetedbyonline-datingcrypto-investmentfraud, property-backedborrowingandfake-lawyerrecoveryfollow-up. Sourceexplicitlydescribessuicideatownfarmandremainsdiscovery. Retainallegedsuicidedeath,repeat-targeting,losstrading,debtandimpersonatedlawyer, notverifiedforensicfinding orobservation-as-deathdate. The false-lawyer persona belongs to the subsequent recovery fraud. It does not establish impersonation in the romantic relationship mechanism; retain repeat targeting and the lawyer context in notes. Suicide is an attributed source claim. Separate deeper CNA reporting says identity and cause required DNA/forensic examination at that time. No original final forensic result was obtained; the media code is not a confirmed death-cause finding. Fuller source comparisons, amounts, family identification and investigative uncertainty remain a separate deeper layer. This record keeps its own romance classification, reported amount and harm wording; investment-only or ambiguous dating-investment variants remain excluded/unresolved rather than upgraded by shared identity. Changhua describes the targeted man’s place, not the criminal network’s operating country. Preserve the source location but correct that country role to victim.
Reported caseTaichung/Xitun woman in her60s met a purported wealthy warm-hearted man online, who demandedNTD100,000as meeting sincerity money. Police stopped the cash delivery. Retain attempted financial deception, platform, persona and interception. No loss alreadypaid, actual rich identity, withdrawal recovery oryearless date inferred. Shorter variant does notborrow fullerpoliceunit details. Sweet conversation followed by a fraudulent meeting deposit supports an attributed trust-confidence lure. A claimed wealthy persona is not itself a demonstrated stolen identity; do not code impersonation without that evidence. The place is the woman’s location, not an offshore scam operator location.
Reported caseIwakuni police report a man in his60s lost100,000yen cash and5,527,000yen crypto in SNS romantic fraud, rounded5.62millionheadline. Retain attributed loss/crypto communication, not multiple independent losses, actual offender identity or yearless7th filled from observation.
Reported caseThe Changhua orchard-remains report attributes an initial emotional scam followed by investment fraud to the missing man’s wife; his brother blames fraud for death. Retain associated attributed financial/investment narrative, not a verified cause of death, homicide or suicide.14months missing is duration, not an exact event date. Identification by clothing and suspected remains need selective verification. The place describes family remains discovery; keep victim country unknown in this shorter variant instead of inferring the criminal operating location.
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