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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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Two GhanaWeb variants report five men jailed in the UK after conviction over a romance-fraud scheme exceeding GBP2 million. Retain aggregate loss, conviction and sentence; combined over20years is not each defendant’s duration. Nationality is a source claim, not victim or operation location.
Reported caseHanover police report a resident’s loss of more than 100,000 dollars in online romance fraud. Retain attributed loss, online contact and investigation. Hanover is geographically ambiguous in this saved metadata; do not assign a country from outlet domain alone. Seven outlets do not establish seven victims or independent corroboration. The source uses only a dollar sign. Canadian outlets/ambiguous Hanover do not establish the source currency or the victim country; leave currency/location qualification explicit.
Reported caseThames Valley police warn about romance fraud and attribute approximately GBP106 million loss to the prior year. Five variants share the opening. Retain general warning and aggregate loss claim; the relative year, geographic denominator and independent incidence remain unspecified. There are five identical-opening URLs. The loss is an attributed aggregate reported occurrence, distinct from the general warning; relative last year remains unfilled.
Prevention & supportTokushima police commend postal employee Noguchi for intercepting an intended JPY850,000transfer in SNS romance fraud. Retain attempted loss and actual financial-service intervention, not money returned or paid loss. Interception is an actual asset-protection outcome. Whole response.assets cannot be withheld while interception is reported; the note separately excludes return/recovery and any money already paid.
Prevention & supportHanover police report a resident’s loss of more than 100,000 dollars in online romance fraud. Retain attributed loss, online contact and investigation. Hanover is geographically ambiguous in this saved metadata; do not assign a country from outlet domain alone. Seven outlets do not establish seven victims or independent corroboration. The source uses only a dollar sign. Canadian outlets/ambiguous Hanover do not establish the source currency or the victim country; leave currency/location qualification explicit.
Reported caseThames Valley police warn about romance fraud and attribute approximately GBP106 million loss to the prior year. Five variants share the opening. Retain general warning and aggregate loss claim; the relative year, geographic denominator and independent incidence remain unspecified. There are five identical-opening URLs. The loss is an attributed aggregate reported occurrence, distinct from the general warning; relative last year remains unfilled.
Prevention & supportShichinohe police report a man in his fifties losing JPY1.1million after Instagram/LINE romantic courtship, marriage promise and Ripple investment-site/Telegram side-job charges. WatanabeYoshiko and ShiratoriTsuki are asserted personas, not verified identities or a proven organized group. Retain loss, platform, investment and false-relationship/trust mechanism; yearless months remain unfilled.
Reported caseGreater Manchester/Bolton police support a national romance-fraud awareness campaign and attribute GBP1million loss to victims. Retain warning plus aggregate headline loss, not one victim, independently verified prevalence or crime reduction.
Prevention & supportA woman reportedly lost money to a Facebook romance scam and could not afford adequate food. Retain source-associated financial/material deprivation and platform, not a borrowed GBP130,000 amount, named Staffordshire identity or starvation death.
Reported caseSurrey police-linked coverage reports a romance-fraud gang with99identified victims and GBP1.8 million loss. Retain attributed aggregate loss/network, not99independently verified cases, a sentence or an exact date.
Reported caseWatford source reports one GBP5,000loss within Hertfordshire coverage of more than1,000affected people and GBP1.14million. Retain attributed local/aggregate context; hundreds versus1,000 remains source-specific and does not establish one gang or a fixed denominator.
Research & trendsThe source says five men, including three Ghanaians, were jailed for a GBP2million-plus romance/money-laundering operation; headline quotes terrible emotional distress. Retain aggregate loss, facilitation, sentence and attributed distress, not every defendant Ghanaian or a diagnosis.
Reported caseFive men were reportedly jailed in a romance-fraud money-laundering operation exceeding GBP2million. Retain financial loss, facilitation and sentence as reported; descent is not victim location or proof of where funds operated. Current source-specific layer: All24 themes/country/date roles assessed. Own fuller BBC-attributed MyJoy source same five named Guildford defendants,40confirmed/99suspected/2017–2024, different quoted target harms. One actual home-loss account not universal housing harm; shame/distrust do not prove medical diagnosis or independent causality. Withdraw unsupported physical-cash subtype to unspecified source monetary harm; routes/denominators not additive. Existing laundering/sentence retained, neither paid restitution nor five equal penalties. UK majority transactions maps operationGB; overseas US/Australia victims separate from Ghanaian descent and continentEurope unspecified countries. Own courtTuesday has no year/month/day; official September30,2025 remains a separately attributed layer, not observation-filled. No episode/audio heard, source truth/case identity independently verified or stronger later2026 source overwritten. Current qualification: April40confirmedRomance/99suspectedallfraud/3.25mlaundered differs later2.37mfraud/1.8mRomance; no added victimloss totals. OwnTuesday not date-filled; officialSeptember30,2025 separately attributed, defendant ages/DOB conflict and different terms retained. Orders not paid, source-home loss one target not universal; Surrey99 remains uncertain without ownrare identity bridge.
Reported caseSaga police report two women in their fifties/sixties each losing approximately JPY40million to SNS romance/investment fraud; one received exclusive-love messages from a foreign-man persona after June19. Retain attributed loss, investment, digital contact and trust manipulation, not true nationality or event year supplied from observation. An explicitly quoted exclusive-love, developing-relationship or shared-future passage supports trust manipulation. Impersonation and true foreign nationality remain unestablished. Whole-code withholding cannot coexist with this source-bound mechanism application.
Reported casePennsylvania State Police at Meadville report a Woodcock Township resident’s approximately USD130,000 loss to a social-media romance scam. Retain attributed loss and platform; no age, gender, persona or procedural result invented.
Reported caseGraz woman reportedly lost EUR35,000 to Facebook love fraud, described as money for her disabled son. Retain loss/platform and warning; earmarked care funds do not establish actual deprivation of treatment, a diagnosis, offender targeting disability or physical harm.
Reported caseThe short Ibaraki title explicitly identifies a Hitachinaka man’sJPY9.1million-equivalent romance-fraud loss. Description is absent. Retain reported headline loss and target place only, not age, mechanism, offender, platform, police stage or exact date.
Reported caseFrench headline explicitly reports an international romance-fraud network disrupted in Senegal,22arrests,120victims and19millionCFAfranc loss. Retain attributed arrest/network/financial claims from the title, not independently verified totals, recovery, conviction or automatic identity with the broader14-country260-suspect operation.
Reported caseMiaoli police statistics list investment, online shopping, false-dating investment, payment and false-marriage/escort fraud among the leading local methods. The approximately NTD260million three-month total is broader investment/fraud coverage, not romance alone. Retain mixed aggregate financial/prevention context without ranking romance incidence, true criminal identities or observation-year dates. Correct numeric interpretation: 2.6餘億元 is approximately NTD260million, not2.6billion. The statistic concerns investment fraud broadly; five listed methods and demographic concentrations are not five verified romance incidents.
Research & trendsA purported Emmerdale star reportedly obtained GBP20,000 from a woman using court-cost pretext. The opening discusses romance fraud’s general emotional/financial impact. Retain title-bound loss and celebrity persona, not a verified actual actor, diagnosis or legal proceeding involving the victim.
Reported caseHertfordshire residents reportedly lost GBP1.14 million with hundreds of romance-fraud reports this year. Retain attributed aggregate loss and victim place, not observed incidence or an explicit event year from publication/observation alone.
Research & trendsColorado headline explicitly identifies USD1.4million loss in a crypto romance scam; description is only Keywords. Retain headline financial/crypto topic without investment or transfer detail borrowed from a longer source.
Reported caseHertfordshire residents reportedly lost GBP1.14 million with hundreds of romance-fraud reports this year. Retain attributed aggregate loss and victim place, not observed incidence or an explicit event year from publication/observation alone.
Research & trendsHertfordshire residents reportedly lost GBP1.14 million with hundreds of romance-fraud reports this year. Retain attributed aggregate loss and victim place, not observed incidence or an explicit event year from publication/observation alone.
Research & trendsColorado man reports USD1.4 million romance-fraud loss during marital difficulties and attributes it to greed/loneliness. Retain loss, his quoted self-blame and explicitly reported prior loneliness, not a diagnosis, true causal explanation or proof that the scam created the marital problems.
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