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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 2024 | 443 | 443 | 100.0% |
| Feb 2024 | 685 | 685 | 100.0% |
| Mar 2024 | 391 | 391 | 100.0% |
| Apr 2024 | 487 | 487 | 100.0% |
| May 2024 | 519 | 519 | 100.0% |
| Jun 2024 | 303 | 303 | 100.0% |
| Jul 2024 | 545 | 545 | 100.0% |
| Aug 2024 | 352 | 352 | 100.0% |
| Sep 2024 | 387 | 387 | 100.0% |
| Oct 2024 | 493 | 493 | 100.0% |
| Nov 2024 | 496 | 496 | 100.0% |
| Dec 2024 | 565 | 565 | 100.0% |
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Dating sites are venue only; no particular digital method or relationship manipulation sequence supplied. Pandemic references no explicit actyear. No country fromFortLiberty/USmilitary assumption, no union with other articles or criminal guilt on unsupplied counts.
Reported caseAmounts30000and400000currency-units are prior debt/recruitment context, ISOunspecified;30–50percent and several-hundred-thousand returns are promises, no actual profit/debt cancellation. Three-monthduration notactyear. No physicalviolence fromconfinementalone, romantic-investment targetsequence or digitalmethod, nationalTaiwan fromNewTaipeiproxy, provennetwork/hierarchy, actualtraffickedpersoncount beyondownparticipant or individualfinancialvictimloss.
Reported casePotential breakthrough is tentative, not completed arrest/identification/conviction. Disappearance not injury/death, noMarch23year or country fromMilano, noDuaLipa/5000euros fromotherURL/imagefilename. Document misuse not specificdigitaltech, intimate-financialsequence remainsinsufficient. No bodyfetching or factualverification fromrawbytes.
Reported caseOwn FranceBleu no detailed intimate or investment mechanism. Police Facebook post is a warning channel, not offender technology. National police/department/local resident/domain are not a national case-country proxy. No arrest/investigation inferred from complaint, refund or exact incident year beyond the explicitly dated complaint.
Reported caseOwn Zazoom title spells Due Lip; do not normalize to a real celebrity identity or assume their involvement. Bonzi is still missing, no death/injury/suicide/homicide or fraud causation established. Son attribution alone is not family-distress or victim-blame finding. March23 and almost one month lack explicit calendar year; custodian occupation is not employment harm. No amount, country from Brera/domain or precise relationship steps.
Reported caseOwn Volksstimme.ch says online-only known great love and police attribution; online venue alone is not a detailed technology function. Police statement is not proof complaint/investigation/arrest or recovery. No national country from cantonSolothurn/domain/currency, eventyear, clinical impact or investment pretext. Quote ending RomanceScam? clips and is not completed.
Reported caseOwn SudOuest impersonation clause clips se font passer pour des; do not fill the claimed persona or a specific intimate method. Beginning of week not calendar year. No national country from Landes/nationalpolice/domain, paid refund, arrest/investigation, clinical outcome or case union solely on similar title.
Reported caseHertfordshire Police reportedly pursue a suspect called Stefano Armani over morethan50,000GBP from men met on dating sites. Preserve allegation/plural-target scope and own greater-than amount.
Reported caseOwn Akita report combines SNS investment and Romance schemes with3months loss over1okuJPY and older-age concentration. Preserve mixed totals separately from explicit general Romance money-request mechanism.
Prevention & supportSparse video-news synopsis reports a Porter County man losing25K in an online dating scam. Monetary unit and exact payment route are unspecified.
Reported casePolice-station adopted kitten used to promote anti-false-love fraud awareness; fan sent cat food. Cat age and gifts are not fraud victim counts, losses or prevention effects.
Prevention & supportSource pseudonym Max M.,50 machine operator, reportedly loses nearly400,000EUR to a school pupil pretending to be a student with cancer. Claimed cancer is a persona pretext, not an actual illness.
Reported caseOwn title nearly1.2million versus description morethan1.2million dollar-symbol amount conflicts; both refer to alleged online-boyfriend extraction over16months. Keep both expressions and no normalized exact amount.
Reported caseOwn missing-custodian report has clipped relationship context and fake-profile headline. No own financial request/loss or complete exploitation procedure; financial/relationship/technical details withheld. Disappearance is not injury, diagnosis, death or causal proof. March23 lacks an explicit year; Milano/Brera and Italian outlet are not national-country evidence. No Dua Lipa or amount supplied from another URL, image filename or slug.
Reported caseEmpty description; own headline identifies a woman and online-love-fraud label only. Financial act, intimate deception and technical method remain insufficient. Kanton Solothurn/outlet .ch are not national-country proxies. No procedural action, amount, year, clinical harm or outside article content.
Reported caseDating apps identify venue only, not specific technical function or platform culpability. No own financial approach, intimate-deception steps, actual individual loss, country or calendar year. Advice availability/promise is not delivered counselling, rescue, compensation or enacted policy.
Prevention & supportAge93 is not vulnerability/clinical proof; Taiwanese nationality not country-of-target location. Almost-falls-prey does not prove police interception, rescue or refund. Online venue no technical feature. No criminal procedure, explicit calendar year, actual paid savings or currency invented.
Reported caseOwn SETN full kitten story read. Police cat伍丼么/number501 and three-month age are not people/victim counts. Donated cat food is not fraud restitution, victim support or salary in literal financial-harm terms. Searching for donor/PO post is not criminal investigation or scammer communication feature. No country from Taichung, calendar year from recent/publication, specific financial/intimacy mechanism, law passage or effect; frozen eligibility unchanged.
Prevention & supportSparse source reports a woman denying conning a vulnerable man in Romance fraud. Denial concerns alleged conduct/guilt; it does not establish denial of every harm category or an acquittal.
Reported caseOwn Bonzi account reports5,000EUR sent to a false Dua Lipa contact and disappearance since23March, with no year in that source clause. No death conclusion.
Reported caseSparse own headline reports a court appearance over alleged false medical identity used to swindle a girlfriend. Residential address is separate from operation/jurisdiction.
Reported caseOwn sparse named account alleges Mordi Collins42 used a doctor persona to swindle girlfriend Omolara Adebola of N380,000 and was docked. Separate sparse source5 supplies no name/amount for transfer.
Reported casePorter County man reportedly loses25K and a woman contact disappears; own description adds deleted dating profile. Currency and route remain unspecified.
Reported caseOwn forum request for ways to understand/cope with mother supports help-seeking context but no delivered service and no clinical diagnosis/confirmed family rupture; psychological/relational/assistance remain insufficient. Retirement one year away not employment loss/dependence. Decemberlastyear not calendar2023; do not infer country fromThai/outlet, group organization from genericgang label or complete intimate method from RomanceScam label.
Reported caseOwn ArizonaDailyIndependent two elderly Arizonans are people, not two independently counted incidents. Two years is participation duration, NOT sentence term or calendar-year bounds. Africa is a continent destination, not exact national country; states/residence do not authorize proxy country mapping. Title relatives versus description co-conspirators retained without reconciling all roles. No actual app function, amount, coercion, refund or calendar year.
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