OJK: "Love scam" jadi tren kejahatan finansial yang sedang meningkat
OJK describes love or romance scams as a growing financial-crime concern. The brief account does not provide comparable population prevalence.
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| Observation month | Matching URLs | All included URLs | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 263 | 591 | 44.5% |
| Feb 2025 | 405 | 1,629 | 24.9% |
| Mar 2025 | 291 | 561 | 51.9% |
| Apr 2025 | 121 | 390 | 31.0% |
| May 2025 | 113 | 398 | 28.4% |
| Jun 2025 | 82 | 209 | 39.2% |
| Jul 2025 | 132 | 522 | 25.3% |
| Aug 2025 | 129 | 447 | 28.9% |
| Sep 2025 | 161 | 613 | 26.3% |
| Oct 2025 | 128 | 483 | 26.5% |
| Nov 2025 | 118 | 392 | 30.1% |
| Dec 2025 | 91 | 333 | 27.3% |
| Jan 2026 | 523 | 530 | 98.7% |
| Feb 2026 | 1,101 | 1,106 | 99.5% |
| Mar 2026 | 358 | 360 | 99.4% |
| Apr 2026 | 485 | 491 | 98.8% |
| May 2026 | 779 | 785 | 99.2% |
| Jun 2026 | 594 | 842 | 70.5% |
| Jul 2026 | 658 | 1,143 | 57.6% |
| Aug 2026 | 272 | 640 | 42.5% |
| Sep 2026 | 147 | 638 | 23.0% |
| Oct 2026 | 8 | 30 | 26.7% |
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OJK describes love or romance scams as a growing financial-crime concern. The brief account does not provide comparable population prevalence.
Research & trendsTaichung bank staff and police stop a proposed dollar transfer for a fake-dating gold-index investment offer. No completed loss or exact proposed amount is given.
Reported caseDonggang police explain fabricated dating personas, trust-building and payment requests in a radio warning. These are described tactics, not evaluated prevention results.
Prevention & supportIndonesian regulator reporting attributes roughly Rp49.19bn to love-scam losses in 2025. Repeated articles are not additional losses; report counts are not necessarily distinct victims.
Research & trendsTaichung bank staff and police stop a proposed dollar transfer for a fake-dating gold-index investment offer. No completed loss or exact proposed amount is given.
Reported caseA thirty-two-year-old man allegedly supplied an account to offenders and was arrested in Rome and handed to Stuttgart police. The report does not specify the legal mechanism of transfer.
Reported caseAn economic-news headline lists love scams alongside illegal lending and other financial threats. Their totals and mechanisms must not be combined as romance-only.
Related mentionA thirty-two-year-old man allegedly supplied an account to offenders and was arrested in Rome and handed to Stuttgart police. The report does not specify the legal mechanism of transfer.
Reported caseIndonesian regulator reporting attributes roughly Rp49–50bn to love-scam losses. Repeated coverage is not additional loss, and the brief text does not supply a fully comparable statistical definition.
Research & trendsA thirty-two-year-old man allegedly supplied an account to offenders and was arrested in Rome and handed to Stuttgart police. The report does not specify the legal mechanism of transfer.
Reported casePolice report uncovering an international love-scamming operation. Employee recollections and organizational allegations are not independently verified.
Reported caseOfunato police report arresting a man over alleged female impersonation and money taken from a Rikuzentakata man in September 2024. Observation in January does not date the underlying alleged offense.
Reported caseMatsusaka police report a man in his fifties losing around ¥1.2m in electronic-money rights through SNS romance fraud.
Reported caseA Yogya love-scam operation reportedly used cloned applications and employed dozens. Targeted foreign nationality does not establish victim residence.
Reported caseA report links romance fraud with trafficking people from East Africa into Southeast Asian cyberfraud. Nationality does not establish residence, and the brief description does not tie each role to a specific incident.
Reported caseReporting says a tycoon accused of an international romantic-fraud operation was arrested in Cambodia and extradited to China. The allegation is not a conviction.
Reported caseA Sleman love-scam office is reportedly raided; employee wages and bonuses are described. Those figures are not victims’ losses.
Reported caseA Sukoharjo woman reportedly loses tens of millions of rupiah after sweet promises through online contact.
Reported caseTaiwan police report twenty-two suspects linked to a local collection network and a Cambodian operation using romance and investment fraud. Mixed schemes are not converted into romance-only counts.
Reported caseA French-language report describes a 38-month sentence for attempts to defraud up to 71 people romantically. Attempts are not completed losses, and nationality does not locate victims.
Reported casePolice report uncovering an international love-scamming operation. Employee recollections and organizational allegations are not independently verified.
Reported caseMiri police report a local woman in her forties losing over RM270,000 after a supposed British romantic contact and a customs-official pretext. Claimed nationality and airport problems are not established facts.
Reported caseA Yogyakarta police account describes love-scam users in four countries, without naming their locations in the excerpt.
Reported caseMiri police report a woman in her forties losing around RM270,800 after repeated payment demands and a customs-official impersonation. Repeated demands are distinguished from money recovered.
Reported caseA former employee describes a love-scamming operation in Sleman. The short report says police uncovered the network but does not establish a completed shutdown.
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