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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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BanqiaoWu bank withdrawal1280000NTD to purported Vietnamese girlfriend calling him husband intercepted by bank/police. Planned payment not completed loss, personaVietnam not actual perpetrator country.
Reported caseSam/Austin thought he found love online and lost80000 in fake gold investment. Financial-romantic link explicit in programme metadata, no recording listened. OnlyFans lawsuit/vacuum are unrelated; no host loss or actual synthetic-media fraud.
Related mentionAskingEric romance-scam advice headline plus separate2023 aggregate64000reports/1.14billion. Aggregate not son case sum or verified prevalence; no own confirmed paid loss or completed Brazilian travel. Specific letter plus romance-only2023 aggregate is multiple scopes, not mixed different-fraud allocation. Exact aggregate year retained separately from son case.
CommentarySam/Austin thought he found love online and lost80000 in fake gold investment. Financial-romantic link explicit in programme metadata, no recording listened. OnlyFans lawsuit/vacuum are unrelated; no host loss or actual synthetic-media fraud.
Related mentionGuardiaCivil FakeJames online romance fraud dismantling reported with70affected/1.5million. Source aggregate not individual losses, convictions or victim restitution. No own arrest count filled from another copy.
Reported caseMalayalam report alleges59 retired officer lured through matrimonial dating then stripped at gunpoint and robbed. Financial-romantic bait qualifies; UP/Gurugram wording kept as geographic discrepancy rather than normalized. Threat/forced nudity not proof injury, homicide, recorded sexual blackmail or actual arrest. Deeper context needed for precise harm code.
Reported caseFive UK romance scammers/money launderers convicted; repeated demands exhausted victims. Millions aggregate not individual amounts and conviction not sentence maximum actually served. Current qualification: Biztoc original unavailable; matched Register original actually read separately, not independent repeated convictions or newGDELTsource.40/99/3.25m distinct denominators and AI/reimbursement discussion not actual defendantAI/victimreturn. Forum comments not article evidence, September stage not April knowledge.
Reported caseNonfiction KingpinPart1 programme description: daughter learns mother conned of400000. Saved text qualifies romance-fraud topic/financial harm; programme not watched and brought to justice headline not precise conviction/penalty. Family relation alone not family distress.
Related mentionPolice seek romance-scam suspect allegedly duping victims275000. Separate Canada945 targets/50million/53000mean figures are a different aggregate, not this case sum, independently verified prevalence or inferred report year. Wanted status not arrest. Own description explicitly reports aggregate Canada losses; code attributed multiple-case financial harm without reallocating all50million to275000suspect or filling incident year.
Reported caseOwn Gate headline suspected SNS romance: Oita60 male12290000JPY cigar resale. Split from different40male6590000 case sharing publisher boilerplate. Specific source headline supports investment pretext; not actual crypto or clinical harm.
Reported caseOita60 male allegedly lost12290000JPY to SNS romance-investment cigar resale offer. Commodity pretext not actual debt, employer theft, homelessness or crypto transfer.
Reported caseYonago50 male romance crypto-investment offer and1230000JPY loss. Offer does not establish original payment was cryptocurrency or actual operator identity; relative3rd not calendar-filled.
Reported caseCoventry online-app fraud victim over100000 and police warning. Own place does not by itself identify UK rather than US Coventry, no perpetrator country, exact incident date or clinical harm guessed.
Reported caseAustralian/Sydney investigation describes Nigerian blood-cult involvement, romance scams and business-email compromise. Mixed aggregate millions transferred to Africa not each romance victim loss or actual operator nationality/location inferred from gang label.
Reported caseAustralian/Sydney investigation describes Nigerian blood-cult involvement, romance scams and business-email compromise. Mixed aggregate millions transferred to Africa not each romance victim loss or actual operator nationality/location inferred from gang label.
Reported caseOwn Gate headline Oita-city40 male SNS romance6590000JPY. Publisher boilerplate is not substantive case description; do not borrow60male/cigar1229万円 from originally collapsed neighboring article.
Reported caseAustralian/Sydney investigation describes Nigerian blood-cult involvement, romance scams and business-email compromise. Mixed aggregate millions transferred to Africa not each romance victim loss or actual operator nationality/location inferred from gang label.
Reported caseAustralian/Sydney investigation describes Nigerian blood-cult involvement, romance scams and business-email compromise. Mixed aggregate millions transferred to Africa not each romance victim loss or actual operator nationality/location inferred from gang label.
Reported caseKaruizawa/Kitasaku70 male SNS investment-romance cash59800000 via fifteen payments. Payments not fifteen victims; last November without explicit year not calendar-filled; no completed crypto transfer.
Reported caseYufu70 male approximately3290000JPY romance-investment loss with withdrawal-fee demand. Demand not proof extra fee paid beyond stated loss; no crypto transaction type or full date guessed.
Reported caseJapan report2.7fold increase via matching apps within SNS investment/romance fraud total1268億円. Mixed aggregate not all romance losses or independently validated prevalence; relativelastyear not inferred2024.
Research & trendsHitachi72 male lost32910000JPY cash to claimed individual investors met on SNS; police expressly investigate romance scam. Relative2nd not complete event date; no crypto transfer or offender country inferred.
Reported caseAkita50 male800000JPY cash loss expressly designated SNS romance fraud, job-help remuneration pretext. Incidental task wording does not negate police own intimate-fraud designation; no actual employment loss or crypto payment.
Reported caseSchwandorf/Wackersdorf68 female sent33000EUR through Facebook love deception. Own clipped text supplies age/place/payment, not clinical impairment, actual crypto or arrest.
Reported caseYame SNS romance-investment victim sent cash multiple times after dollar investment offer. Completed transfers source-attributed; no supplied amount, actual USD payment currency, calendar day/year or crypto transfer inferred.
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