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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 | 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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Kanazawa seventies woman reportedly experienced romance fraud twice, with JPY880,000loss and affection/flowers gaining trust in the headline. Two experiences do not themselves identify continued requests, the same offender or a recovery scam. The partial paragraph supplies no full year.
Reported caseJapanese mixed SNS investment/romance coverage describes relationship/trust-building and the headline says ashamed victims could not consult anyone. Retain source-associated shame/help-seeking barrier in mixed scope, not measured vulnerability, a clinical diagnosis or a specific financial total.
Related mentionTelfs44-year-old man reportedly sent hundreds-of-thousands of euros to anunknownoffender posingasawoman and feigningromance fromearlySeptember tolateOctober. Retain financial/fabricatedrelationship/impersonation/online context; yearlessperiod doesnotnormalize to2025.
Reported caseOberfranken elderly woman allegedly lost EUR18,000to a falseElonMusk romance persona/urgentoperation pretext. No realperformer involvement, actualmedical injury or explicitinterception outcome follows from a question about furtherloss.
Reported caseKulmbachsenior allegedlytrustedafalseElonMuskpersona and lostmoney; policeinvestigate. Retain reportedimpersonation/trust/loss/investigation, not anamount copiedfrom18kvariant, realmedical emergency or interception.
Reported caseFormer Russian sexpionage trainee Aliia Roza or unnamed variants warn that manufactured intimacy/romance approaches target Silicon Valley trade secrets. Retain attributed general relational-manipulation claims and advice, not verified espionage, actual information losses, sexual assault or operations inferred from nationality. Named Aliia appears only in its own variant.
CommentaryA woman inherfifties believed she had aromanticrelationship withLeeJung-jae and sent anonline scammer overKRW500million, parenthetically350,000withadollarsign. Retain reported loss/impersonation/contact; this variant doesnot itself mentionAI and no actualactor involvement, preciseeventdate or countryrole inferred.
Reported caseNepali paragraph reports aSouthKoreanwoman losing overKRW500million to anAI-generatedLeeJung-jae impersonator and police investigation; headline uses300,000-plusdollars. Retain attributed loss/AI/identity/enforcement without automatically reconciling currency conversions or inferring residence from nationality.
Reported caseFormer Russian sexpionage trainee Aliia Roza or unnamed variants warn that manufactured intimacy/romance approaches target Silicon Valley trade secrets. Retain attributed general relational-manipulation claims and advice, not verified espionage, actual information losses, sexual assault or operations inferred from nationality. Named Aliia appears only in its own variant.
CommentaryThe explicitly romance-pig-butchering account describes social/dating contact, intimacy-building, fake-return investment platforms and disappearance when targets invest/withdraw. General mechanism claims are not individual losses, measured SouthKorean growth, verified offender identity or guaranteed-return promises.
Research & trendsFormer Russian sexpionage trainee Aliia Roza or unnamed variants warn that manufactured intimacy/romance approaches target Silicon Valley trade secrets. Retain attributed general relational-manipulation claims and advice, not verified espionage, actual information losses, sexual assault or operations inferred from nationality. Named Aliia appears only in its own variant.
CommentaryNakahara police arrested a33-year-old Ashikaga employee suspected of using a female persona/medical-cost pretext to take JPY2.17million from a Kawasaki man without meeting. The paragraph explicitly dates an alleged offence to2023年3月23日; October28lacks a year and is not inferred. Claimed hospitalization is not actual injury.
Reported caseThe title describes400,000online-romance fraud and a police-caught collector. Paragraph gives a woman’s help request after an online boyfriend allegedly used a false identity, then truncates. Retain allegations/arrest/report/platform, not proven collector guilt, funds recovered, an exact currency or complete chronology.
Reported caseSpanish reporting describes a50-year-old SouthKorean woman believing a false LeeJung-jae relationship and a EUR300,000headline loss. Nationality does not establish victim residence; preserve the publication’s amount and omissions without silently converting KRW/other-language versions or assuming actual actor involvement.
Reported caseFrenchcomedianMarcTourneboeuf describes a woman believing in avirtualrelationship withhim, a scammerbehindthescreen and false socialprofiles; hewarns publicly. Retain impersonation/fabricatedrelationship/platform/warning, not actualmoneylosstoartist orwoman, performercrime or independentcaseverification.
Related mentionNamedCarlaHolman48andRobertNewman met inapub andentered aromanticrelationship; headline alleges made-upfuneral/inheritance-pretexts fundingalavish lifestyle. Retain reported relationship-based manipulation, not actualvictim amount, moneyreturned, falseidentity or a verdict. Offenderlifestyle isnot a victimloss total.
Reported caseSarahKuttner describes her mother’s experience alongside general falsecelebrity/wealthy-person romanticdeception. Retain generalpersona/fabricatedrelationship/online mechanism, not a proven specificamount, suicide/causaldeath or stigma coded from a rhetoricalheadline without clear speakercontext. The headline’s can one be so stupid question is explicit evaluative victim-blame framing. Its rhetorical or critical stance remains unclear; this does not show a named victim actually ridiculed or prove author endorsement. This follows the unchanged codebook instruction to retain unclear stance.
CommentaryMadouHuang’s proposedNTD1.95million, parentheticalMYR267,000, was stopped by police/bank after falseLINEaffection and investmentinstructions. Keep attemptedloss/interception/contact/trust/investment, not executedloss, a suicide, realfemaleidentity or a full date from23rd.
Reported caseA woman in her fifties reportedly lost KRW500million, parenthetically USD350,000, to a group impersonating Lee Jung Jae in romance fraud. Keep attributed loss, impersonation and collaboration; police reports do not themselves specify arrest or conviction, and no residence or AI technique is stated.
Reported caseKorean explanation explicitly frames pig-butchering as romance-scam evolution with relationship-building then taking money. Retain general trust-manipulation account, not named cases, measured evolution or a financial aggregate established by the short excerpt.
Research & trendsFuqing police prevented360,000in an online-romance plus fake-investment scam where a purported successful caring finance expert built trust. Retain attempted loss, investment/contact/trust and interception; no completed loss, independently verified persona or full date.
Reported caseJudith Rakers receives love letters from strangers believing they have a relationship with her; source calls her an indirect love-scam victim. Retain attributed impersonation/fabricated relationship context, not actual presenter participation, a financial loss or a particular platform absent here.
Reported caseHeadline says a man paidEUR10,000believing he had sex with aTVpersonality; paragraph has JudithRakers warning of identity fraud involvingAI/socialmedia. Keep source-associated loss, impersonation/AI/contact/warning, not real presenter involvement, actual sexual assault or a specific synthetic technique in the man’s case.
Research & trendsChineseKoreancoverageattributesoverKRW100billion, parentheticalNTD2.144billion, romance/emotionalfraudlosses inJan–Sep2025anddiscussescreatingromanticatmosphereonline. Keep attributedaggregateloss/trust/contact, notindividualcaseloss,independentlyverifiedgrowthorpriorlonelinessascausalrisk. Statisticalperiodisnotanindividualincidentdate.
Research & trendsSpanish report describes a SouthKorean50-year-old woman believing a falseLeeJung-jae account, losingKRW500million/EUR300,000; title explicitly names AI. Keep attributed loss/persona/AI; nationality alone does not establish residence and no currency discrepancy is silently reconciled.
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