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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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Jiaxing XiaoTang had a purported online girlfriend introduced by colleague XiaoChen, repeated demands and avoided meetings, then reported it; police found receipts in Chen’s wife Xiong’s name. Title alleges a man posing as a woman and8,000fraud. Retain allegation/false relationship/payments/platform/report/inquiry, not verified sexual identity, arrest or guilt of every recipient.
Reported caseA region reports overEUR1.5million yearly losses through false online love promises and numerous current cases includingLindau; police give advice. Keep attributed aggregate financial/relationship/contact/warning, not unique incident counts, a full year or exact Lindau-case amount. This headline and paragraph omit an online medium; remove wording/coding borrowed from other false-love-promise headlines.
Research & trendsFrench source locates a woman in her fifties in South Korea losing aboutEUR300,000to romance fraud through LeeJung-jae identity misuse. Retain explicit place/loss/persona, not assuming agency action, AI or currency equivalence from another article.
Reported caseHeadline/media-indexcopysayslovescammersposeasJudithRakersandhavechatsex. Keepimpersonation/onlinecommunicationtopic,notrealpresenterparticipation,financialloss,sexualviolenceorextortionwithoutsourceevidence.
CommentaryJudith 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 caseJudithRakers receives unsolicited love letters after identity misuse; one man claims Telegram sex chat with her. Keep impersonation/fabricated relationship/platform context, not actual presenter participation, financial loss or sexual violence.
Reported caseCarlaHolman48befriendedRobertNewmaninapub and entered a relationship; headline alleges made-up funeral/inheritance pretexts funding her lifestyle. Keep trust/relationship exploitation, not actual loss amount, a false identity, verdict or treating lavish lifestyle as the victim’s quantified loss.
Reported caseCarlaHolman48befriendedRobertNewmaninapub and entered a relationship; headline alleges made-up funeral/inheritance pretexts funding her lifestyle. Keep trust/relationship exploitation, not actual loss amount, a false identity, verdict or treating lavish lifestyle as the victim’s quantified loss.
Reported caseHejiang police describe29-year-old Pan hiding marriage/children and courting Cheng through social software in early2025, using rented luxury car, falsegold, fabricated identity/work and AI property certificates to take500,000. Retain reported financial/false relationship/persona/technical/document context and arrest/detention; no proved conviction, causal victim vulnerability or actual gold payment. Early2025 contact remains explicitly stated in the note pending precise date-literal annotation. The source explicitly says early2025 contact; retain that literal with year precision, not a month/day. Fake perfect-boyfriend framing and concealed marriage support only qualified fabricated-courtship interpretation, separate from actual false identity/wealth documents. No physical-harm context is present.
Reported caseKanagawa police arrested a35-year-old Gifu man alleged to exploit a female teacher’s romantic feelings and take nearlyJPY1million; title says his feelings were faked. Retain financial/fabricated-romance/arrest, not a false name/persona, guilty verdict or actual operation in his home prefecture.
Reported caseTrue-crime ORFdocumentary discussion names AlexandraVenier/ShariqReza and RainhardFendrich/RolandKaiser as lures. Keep general impersonation/media commentary, not proof these real performers offended, named victim outcomes or measured viewer awareness.
CommentaryMianzhu police broke a fraud case involving Zhang, rented luxury cars, a fabricated wealthy boss persona and online romantic exploitation; headline specifies500,000and AI property certificates. Keep source-attributed loss/persona/relationship/document/synthetic context and investigation. This Zhang/Mianzhu variant is not automatically Pan/Hejiang despite similar methods/amount. The fabricated wealthy-boyfriend front is qualified relationship deception; do not infer independently known emotional intent from a real relationship or fake wealth alone.
Reported caseTarnretiree reportedly deceived for sevenyears by a falsePascaline online love trap was convicted of complicity in fraud atCastres. Keep falsepersona/contact/conviction with participant-claiming-victimization role, not a laundering subtype, known loss, coercion or full event date. The quoted perfect-pigeon wording is explicit evaluative/ridicule framing under the existing codebook, with unknown speaker and no claim of journalist endorsement. Court conviction is separately an authority action; no laundering/coercion subtype is invented.
Reported caseKanagawa police arrested a35-year-old Gifu man alleged to exploit a female teacher’s romantic feelings and take nearlyJPY1million; title says his feelings were faked. Retain financial/fabricated-romance/arrest, not a false name/persona, guilty verdict or actual operation in his home prefecture.
Reported caseIndonesian headline specifies AI LeeJungJae love scam andRp6.1billion loss; paragraph explicitly describes deception through an amorous relationship. Retain reported loss/identity/AI/fabricated relationship, not automatic conversion, actor involvement or precise victim/event details.
Reported caseORF film listing defines love scammers as people feigning romantic intent for financial exploitation and says it tells two real-case stories. Retain general fabricated-relationship/digital context, not details of two independently verified cases, actual amounts or a crime date from the airing24.10.2025.
CommentaryMadou Huang proposed withdrawing1.95million for investment after a LINE contact manufactured affection; clerk/police stopped it after he gave false family/wedding and renovation reasons. Keep attempted loss/interception/contact/investment/fabricated intimacy, not completed loss, renewed demands merely from his repeat withdrawal attempts, or physical harm from pre-existing mobility limitation.
Reported caseFullerKusatsu44-year-oldsourceaddsJune8Japanesemaleclaim,LINEintimacy,July8initial100,000banktransferanddisplayedfakeprofits. Keeploss/crypto/contact/investment/trust/repeateddemandthemesfromitsowntext,notfalseidentitysolelyfromclaimednationalityorcrimeyearinferredfrommonth/day. The fuller text supplies an initial100,000designated transfer then a fragment of a new deposit instruction. Continue-request interpretation is qualified; the unfinished instruction is not a known additional amount or executed payment.
Reported caseHeadline reports nearly100million with an Rs denomination lost to a false SquidGame actor; paragraph identifies a woman in her fifties, romance fraud and LeeJungJae, then truncates. Retain loss/impersonation without reconciling this currency with other variants or assuming AI/residence.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman reportedly lost overJPY100million in crypto/other assets after SNS investment recommendations; fuller retained paragraph states inducing romantic feelings and initial apparent profits. Retain trust manipulation/contact/investment/financial assets, not a year, identified false persona or a crime date from22nd.
Reported caseThis source explicitly reports FIVEbillionKRW lost by a woman in her fifties to AI images of LeeJung-jae and says his agency vows action. Preserve its tenfold difference from500million variants, rather than silently correct/conversion. Keep reported loss/AI/persona and proposed institutional prevention; no actual prevention outcome or actor involvement.
Reported caseA womaninSouthKorealostKRW500milliontosource-describedscammersposingasLeeJung-jaeinaRomancefraud. Keepexplicitvictimlocation/persona/loss; noAItechnique,ageorconversiondetailsborrowedfromothersources.
Reported caseHeadline identifies falseLeeJungJae romantic impersonation andKRW500million/USD350,000parenthesis; description attributes the report to JTBC October21then truncates. Retain loss/persona, not event date/year, AI or country inferred from a reporting dateline.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman lostoverJPY100million in crypto/otherassets afterSNSinvestmentapproach; fullerparagraph specifies romancefeelings, displayedinitialprofits and requestsforlargerdeposits. Keep trust/contact/investment/repeateddemands/assets, no fakepersona or fullcrimeyearfrom22nd. Apparent initial profits followed by a large-deposit instruction do not explicitly establish repeated demands in this shorter paragraph. Preserve possible continued requests unresolved rather than borrowing the fuller first-deposit passage.
Reported caseSingTao reporter spentnearlytwomonths engaging with a purportedfemale neighbour/Shanghaiworker inHongKong throughWhatsAppafterbuildingcomplainttexts. Titleexplicitlydescribesseduction/heart-stealingandvirtualcurrencyfraud; paragraph characterizescourtingtactics. Retain attributedfalsepersona/trust/contact investigation, notactualreportedvictimloss, realpersona residence, reporteridentityclaimor a calendarincidentdate.
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