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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.
Kochipolice report combined SNS investment and romance losses exceedingJPY500million, comparedwith lastyear650million. Retain attributed mixedaggregate loss/warning, not romance-only totals, casecounts, inferredexactyear in source-relativewording or a nationallyrepresentative incidence rate. Statisticaldenominators, mixedschemeamounts and observation/sourceperiods remain distinct. Neither policereporting totals nor article counts are independentvictimincidence or measuredcausalawareness. Individualphonefraudexamples are not automatically romance.
Chinese account describes a married woman posing as a drug lord's daughter in an online romantic relationship with entrepreneur Xiaoma29, who reportedly spent RMB3.3-million over more than two years. Contact began in explicit2021. Persona, financial and relationship claims are alleged; the drug-lord persona is not evidence of actual trafficking, and the two-year duration is not a calculated exact act date. Only explicit2021contact/startyear is structured. The false drug-lord-daughter persona does not establish actual drugs, a real criminal relative or where the perpetrator operated. The exact numeric substring2021 in original2021年 supplies the already supported explicit year format; no month/day is inferred. Preserve the prior literal-format draft and complete original source. The complete original2021年 literal is retained with explicit year-only precision using the tested new adapter. Prior failed literal-format attempts and initial code are preserved; no missing month/day or source qualifier is filled.
SponichiHiroyukitelevisioncommentaryexplicitlydiscussesromancefraudandanoxygen-pretextmillion-yenstory. Retainattributedtitleloss/example;age48iscommentator, broadcastdateisnotcrimeact, commentquotationdoesnotestablishclinicalvulnerabilityorcausality. Commentator48-year-oldHiroyuki is not the80sSapporotarget. Oxygenreturn/emergency narratives may differ; relatedtopic andJPY1millionalone do not establish sharedcase. Broadcasting date is not a legalact.
KBC second title reports overJPY40million SNSromance-fraudlossafter shared-futurepitch. Broadcasterboilerplate supplies no target identity, specific product or police action;notcombinedwithJPY74.28millionheadline. These distinctKBCsources were explicitly split beforeimport. Identicalbroadcasterboilerplate establishes no commoncase or productinvestment;different74.28million/over40millionandpitches stay separate.
Sedgwickjudge reportedlysentencedmansevenmonthsforromancefraudandordered15,000dollarstoWichitawoman. Retain sentence/compensationorderandunspecifiedthousandsreportedloss; orderisnotreturnedfunds orproofexact15,000originalvictimloss. Sentence and restitutionorder are reported, not originalcourt-verified or actualcashreturned. No actdate is inferred from Netflixpremiere, articleURL or observationdate; namedmedia subject requires contextualidentity review.
Kochipolice report combined SNS investment and romance losses exceedingJPY500million, comparedwith lastyear650million. Retain attributed mixedaggregate loss/warning, not romance-only totals, casecounts, inferredexactyear in source-relativewording or a nationallyrepresentative incidence rate. Statisticaldenominators, mixedschemeamounts and observation/sourceperiods remain distinct. Neither policereporting totals nor article counts are independentvictimincidence or measuredcausalawareness. Individualphonefraudexamples are not automatically romance.
Yamaguchiself-employedman in his sixties reportedlylostJPY18.4millioncashthroughSNSromancefraud. Ownsource givespoliceannouncement anddefinition; retainloss/platform, notspecificpersona, exactpaymentdate or arrest.
Sourceattributes17,910romancecomplaintsandmorethanUSD672millionlosses in2024toFBI/IC3. Retainreportednationalcomplaint/lossaggregatewithitsperiod;notallworldwideincidents,independentvictimsorprovenlonelinesscausalvulnerability. Statisticaldenominators, mixedschemeamounts and observation/sourceperiods remain distinct. Neither policereporting totals nor article counts are independentvictimincidence or measuredcausalawareness. Individualphonefraudexamples are not automatically romance.
Japanese television-commentary report explicitly discusses romance fraud and a million-yen spaceship-oxygen narrative. Retain a commentary/source-example layer; the commentator's age48 is not the victim's age, and a September10 broadcast is not the scam act or an observed causal psychological finding. Commentator48-year-oldHiroyuki is not the80sSapporotarget. Oxygenreturn/emergency narratives may differ; relatedtopic andJPY1millionalone do not establish sharedcase. Broadcasting date is not a legalact.
Chinese headline explicitly describes an infatuated man buying game credits for an online wife and then being accused of romantic fraud. Saved description names Mr Xie and a dating-app contact Xiaoxuan. Retain the title-bound payment/threat narrative; do not silently import 72,000 total, lawyer details or stages from a fuller Ltn source.
KBC first title reports JPY74.28million SNSromance-fraudlossafter jointcompanypitch. Broadcasterboilerplate provides noothercasefacts;notcombinedwiththeotherover40millionheadline. These distinctKBCsources were explicitly split beforeimport. Identicalbroadcasterboilerplate establishes no commoncase or productinvestment;different74.28million/over40millionandpitches stay separate.
Headline reports USimmigration arrest after an earlier1.2million-dollar romance conviction. Retain title arrest/priorconviction/attributedamount, not a newfraud verdict, deportation completed, personname borrowed or unqualified equivalence to1.1million-restitution variant. ICEimmigrationarrest followspriorfraudconviction;itdoesnotprove newfraudconviction orcompletedremoval. 1.2millionclaimedloss,1.1millionorderedrestitution andmulti-milliondescriptions remain different source scopes.
Ownsource says RickyMorissey was sentenced afterswindlingex-girlfriendBridgetPhilipsoutofthousands, alongsideNetflixrelease. Retainattributedfinancial/sentenceclaim, nottime/durationfromprogrammedate, name-spellingnormalization, returnedfunds or originalcourtverification. Sentence and restitutionorder are reported, not originalcourt-verified or actualcashreturned. No actdate is inferred from Netflixpremiere, articleURL or observationdate; namedmedia subject requires contextualidentity review.