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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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Named formerNFLBusterSkrine is arrested/accused of romance schemes against women using formercareer status. Hundreds-of-thousands is not the source's exact independentlyverified total; no conviction, originalcourtproof or allCanadianbankfraudautomaticallyromance.
Reported caseNamed RalfKohlbrink sent tens-of-thousands euros to a falseEmmaWatson persona before discovering lovefraud. Retain reported financial/impersonation/discovery, not the actual actress implicated, exact currency total/actorbase, clinical diagnosis or funds returned. Actress persona and realized fraud are supplied by the description; the title username alone is not proof of impersonation.
Reported caseLosAngelesSteveBurtonfalsepersonaromanceaccount reportsAIvideos,firepretext andbankruptcy. HeadlineUSD80kversusfamilyclaimover430kdiffers;retain source conflict,notnormalizeoraddfigures,actualactorculpabilityorforensicAIverification. Financial/housing consequencesneedseparateoriginal-sourcecomparison. Source actor and harm-stage distinctions retained: suspect escape injury is not suicidal intent or target injury; housing/bankruptcy/AI claims are attributed; falseidentity/coercion and trafficked-target accounts need selective deeper context without automatic guilt or clinical diagnosis.
Reported caseCriminalInvestigationBureauaccount explicitly sayswealthy-women werecourtedwithrichhandsomepersona theninvestment;23targetsoverNTD173.44million,onewoman100million. Retain sourceallegations/loss/fabricatedrelationship/investment/explicit targeting; notallrelatedHermes/LINEsourcesintimatebyassumption, nofiguressummed orgenericrichwomenvulnerability.
Reported caseNilai police report five foreign/African suspects in a social-media love-scam network with nearly/overRM1million; different variants supplyFacebook/from2023/two women. Retain own arrest/network/loss details, not allAfrica criminality, verified guilt or one victim's net loss. Suspect residence/nationality not a victim country. NearlyRM1million is a scheme amount in this truncated text, not independently verified net loss for each target.
Reported caseNilai police report five foreign/African suspects in a social-media love-scam network with nearly/overRM1million; different variants supplyFacebook/from2023/two women. Retain own arrest/network/loss details, not allAfrica criminality, verified guilt or one victim's net loss. Suspect residence/nationality not a victim country. Five people arrested does not itself establish an explicitly coordinated syndicate in this short source. Preserve network detail only in the variants that actually say syndicate/group. The money figure is in the description, not the generic arrest title.
Reported caseRamsey caller Sarah from Jacksonville describes widowed father's retirement losses over five years, with romance loss80,000–90,000 distinct from the90,000 broad headline and late-wife medical expenses. Retain attributed financial/bereavement and family practical-advice context; neither prior medical cost nor mounting debt is automatically romance-caused harm. June/five-years supply no exact incident year.
Reported caseBergischGladbachwoman74 reportedlylostalmost/exactEUR40,000inlovescam;fullervariantfalseoil-platformworker,policewarning. Keepownloss/persona/warning androundedamounts;notrealoffenderworksite,currencyconverteddiagnosis orfundsreturned.
Reported caseNamed AbigailRuvalcaba66 reportedlylosthome/lifesavingsinromancefraudviaFacebookpersonposingasSteveBurton withclaimedAIdeepfake. Retainattributedfinancial/housing/persona/AI/platform; noactualactorculpability, independentforensics, exactyearfromoverayear orclinicalharm. Seriousmaterialharmneedsdeeperoriginalsourcecomparison. Source actor and harm-stage distinctions retained: suspect escape injury is not suicidal intent or target injury; housing/bankruptcy/AI claims are attributed; falseidentity/coercion and trafficked-target accounts need selective deeper context without automatic guilt or clinical diagnosis.
Reported caseTitle alone reports Bando male romance-scam target andJPY7.08million-equivalent loss. No payment method, age, persona, arrest or exact year is supplied.
Reported caseBergischGladbachwoman74 reportedlylostalmost/exactEUR40,000inlovescam;fullervariantfalseoil-platformworker,policewarning. Keepownloss/persona/warning androundedamounts;notrealoffenderworksite,currencyconverteddiagnosis orfundsreturned.
Reported caseTsu woman50s reportedly lostJPY16.1million-equivalent crypto to anSNS contact claiming Korean male identity; police investigate fraud. Keep sourcefinancial/crypto/persona/platform/investigation, not verifiedKoreanoperatorlocation or exact year from announcement27.
Reported caseAomori statistics explicitly cover combinedSNSinvestment/romance and compare2024withcurrent totals. The individual woman'sJPY61.4million case is specifically investment, not established romantic. Keep mixed statistical context with attributed financial figures; no entireaggregate romance-only, current incident date from agency publication or largest-case claim independently verified. Mixed category statistics include romance but the particular woman-loss is explicitly investment. No aggregate or individual amount is recoded as romance-only loss, and2024statistics-start year is not an incident date.
Research & trendsUshiku male employee47 reportedly lostJPY24.4million-equivalent crypto to SNS contacts claiming to be Japanese women. Police investigate romance fraud. Retain each own loss/persona/platform/crypto/investigation; nationality of a claimed persona not verified operator country, no actual returns/repayment or calendar year from announcement27.
Reported caseUshiku male employee47 reportedly lostJPY24.4million-equivalent crypto to SNS contacts claiming to be Japanese women. Police investigate romance fraud. Retain each own loss/persona/platform/crypto/investigation; nationality of a claimed persona not verified operator country, no actual returns/repayment or calendar year from announcement27.
Reported caseMyVoice charity reports older dementia patients losing hundreds of thousands in romance scams and urges safeguards. Retain attributed loss/prior condition, existing assistance service and warning; not independently diagnosed patients, measured prevalence or dementia caused by the fraud.
Research & trendsRetired Liu68 in Fengyuan met a woman through social media/Telegram and bought overNTD20,000stored-value cards for a paid high-quality dating club. Clerk/police intervened. Purchase is not proof the cards were delivered to scammers or money irretrievably lost. Keep attempted financial/platform/interception, no missing investment or sexual-coercion mechanism. Stored-value card purchase and intercepted scam delivery are different financial stages. Do not record all purchasedcards as a completed fraud loss or money returned.
Prevention & supportAomori statistics explicitly cover combinedSNSinvestment/romance and compare2024withcurrent totals. The individual woman'sJPY61.4million case is specifically investment, not established romantic. Keep mixed statistical context with attributed financial figures; no entireaggregate romance-only, current incident date from agency publication or largest-case claim independently verified. Mixed category statistics include romance but the particular woman-loss is explicitly investment. No aggregate or individual amount is recoded as romance-only loss, and2024statistics-start year is not an incident date.
Research & trendsRetired Liu68 in Fengyuan met a woman through social media/Telegram and bought overNTD20,000stored-value cards for a paid high-quality dating club. Clerk/police intervened. Purchase is not proof the cards were delivered to scammers or money irretrievably lost. Keep attempted financial/platform/interception, no missing investment or sexual-coercion mechanism. Stored-value card purchase and intercepted scam delivery are different financial stages. Do not record all purchasedcards as a completed fraud loss or money returned.
Prevention & supportChineseaccountdescribes30wanflash-marriage/brideprice deceptionandorganizedmatchmakerindustry. Retain allegedfinancial/fabricatedmarriage/network;generalmentionsdrugs/otherfraudnotactualromance-targetdrug-muleoffending,allmarriagesfraud orverifiedcasecount.
Reported caseRetired Liu68 in Fengyuan met a woman through social media/Telegram and bought overNTD20,000stored-value cards for a paid high-quality dating club. Clerk/police intervened. Purchase is not proof the cards were delivered to scammers or money irretrievably lost. Keep attempted financial/platform/interception, no missing investment or sexual-coercion mechanism. Stored-value card purchase and intercepted scam delivery are different financial stages. Do not record all purchasedcards as a completed fraud loss or money returned.
Prevention & supportShort Chifeng opening/title reports two online-boyfriend scams stopped and million-money preserved, one intended500,000cash gift. Retain attempted financial/interception and separate two-case scope; do not sum500,000andmillion or infer delivered funds, actual boyfriend identity or clinical injury.
Prevention & supportGerman advice mentions a man fromMunden losing over10,000euros years earlier and repeatedlovescams, plus protection ofolderrelatives. Keep own attributed financial/warning, not exactcrimeyear, diagnosis or evaluatedintervention.
Prevention & supportAomori man40s developedaffectionforMiyamaChinatsu throughvideoapp/LINE, thenherclaimed sisterMatsushimaAki offeredantiquecoin purchase/auction mediation. Title10万円loss differsfrom31万円fee demanded; preservefinancial/platform/trust/investment pitch, notactualsisteridentity, verifiedBeijingoperatorlocation orJPY310,000loss.
Reported caseGerman advice mentions a man fromMunden losing over10,000euros years earlier and repeatedlovescams, plus protection ofolderrelatives. Keep own attributed financial/warning, not exactcrimeyear, diagnosis or evaluatedintervention.
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