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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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Kusatsu44-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 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.
CommentaryKusatsu44-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 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 caseChinese headline identifies an AI falseLeeJung-jae scam takingKRW500million; truncated paragraph describes a purported actor and a romance-fraud group targeting a woman in her fifties. Retain attributed impersonation/loss/AI/organization, not actor involvement, actual residence or details borrowed from fuller translations.
Reported caseA woman lostKRW500million in online romance fraud through LeeJungJae impersonation, AIphotos and fakeID, buildingtrust over sixmonths. Keep loss/persona/synthetic-media/document/contact/trust themes, not exact calendar dates, actualactor participation or residence copied from another report.
Reported caseHeadline describes a fake Lee Jung-jae romance scam costing350,000with a dollar sign; police reportedly investigate while the scammer still sends messages. Retain alleged loss, false persona, contact and investigation, not an actual new demand/recovery scam merely from continued messaging. Still messages does not identify the communication medium in this shorter source; do not borrow a named online platform from fuller Lee reports.
Reported caseMyanmar military raid headline reports2,000detentions and30Starlinkterminals seized; paragraph says scammers use romantic ploys online to gain confidence. Keep mixed source-associated enforcement/seizure and general trust/contact method; not2,000proved offenders, all forced participants or a verified same raid merely through counts. The headline explicitly names the military actor; hub location and name are not copied from other raid versions.
Related mentionA50-year-old woman inKelheim wasarrested/remandedforallegedlyfakinglove towarda61-year-old manfor money. Retain fabricatedrelationship/arrest, not a lossamount, onlineapproachor guiltyverdict absentinthissource.
Reported caseNiederbayern61-year-oldmanlostoverEUR150,000aftermonthsoftrustwitha falseheartlady; policearrestedwoman. Keepfinancial/trust/allegedfalsepersonaarrestandvictimplace,notactualfundsrecoveredora conviction. False heart-lady labels deceptive romantic intent, not an explicit false personal identity. Keep the relationship-front allegation qualified; other articles’ detailed persona claims are not copied.
Reported caseNiederbayern61-year-oldmanlostoverEUR150,000aftermonthsoftrustwitha falseheartlady; policearrestedwoman. Keepfinancial/trust/allegedfalsepersonaarrestandvictimplace,notactualfundsrecoveredora conviction. False heart-lady labels deceptive romantic intent, not an explicit false personal identity. Keep the relationship-front allegation qualified; other articles’ detailed persona claims are not copied.
Reported caseAnne Deneuchatel discusses a book and an alleged EUR830,000 false-Brad-Pitt romance loss, saying she thought she was saving a life. Retain source-attributed financial/impersonation/disclosure, not actual actor involvement, independently verified medical emergency, AI technique or a new loss from book publicity.
Reported caseBerlin love-fraud coverage attributes EUR5.6million, many silent victims and fake identities gaining trust; title describes false online love promises. Retain aggregate financial/persona/relationship/contact and qualified shame/silence barrier, not independent prevalence, every victim’s help-seeking behavior or clinical loneliness as causal risk. Shame and many victims staying silent do not themselves identify refusal, delay or an explicit help-seeking barrier. Retain the discussion in the source, without assigning an institutional obstacle from silence alone.
Research & trendsBerlin love-fraud coverage attributes EUR5.6million, many silent victims and fake identities gaining trust; title describes false online love promises. Retain aggregate financial/persona/relationship/contact and qualified shame/silence barrier, not independent prevalence, every victim’s help-seeking behavior or clinical loneliness as causal risk. Shame and many victims staying silent do not themselves identify refusal, delay or an explicit help-seeking barrier. Retain the discussion in the source, without assigning an institutional obstacle from silence alone.
Research & trendsHongKong81-year-old woman reportedly lostfive-millionwithadollarsign to a falsePLAofficer; paragraph adds40-plusromancescam reports in10days/nearHKD40million aggregate. Keep headlinecasefinancial/persona/place separately fromgeneral totals; currency/date/countnotborrowedintothecase andclaimedPLAisnotactualoperation.
Reported caseBerlin love-fraud coverage attributes EUR5.6million, many silent victims and fake identities gaining trust; title describes false online love promises. Retain aggregate financial/persona/relationship/contact and qualified shame/silence barrier, not independent prevalence, every victim’s help-seeking behavior or clinical loneliness as causal risk. Shame and many victims staying silent do not themselves identify refusal, delay or an explicit help-seeking barrier. Retain the discussion in the source, without assigning an institutional obstacle from silence alone.
Research & trendsNiger State police arrested18-year-old VictorUgwu accused of posing as a woman on social media to defraud; retained paragraph truncates target/details. Keep arrest/alleged persona/platform, not conviction, completed loss amount or victim gender/location.
Reported caseNiger State police report arresting18-year-old Victor Ugwu over an alleged female persona used to lure Facebook/TikTok contacts into romantic relationships and defraud a friend. Retain alleged impersonation, platform and arrest; no completed loss amount or convicted guilt. Name/place are source-bound recurrence leads, not automatic case identity.
Reported caseA56-year-old man reportedly faced fabricated love from a purported female US doctor. Retain explicit false relationship and qualified persona; truncated inducement clause does not establish completed money transfer, crypto, threat, medium or the US as a real operation site.
Reported caseItalian source describes Swiss online sentimental fraud, soulmate seeking, false profiles and protection advice. Retain general online/impersonation/warning mechanisms, not every profile false, an individual loss, actual Switzerland operation location or measured prevention effectiveness.
Prevention & supportMary Chater’s Facebook/online love-scam account includes a headline saying love-bombing by a doctor and being forced into a blood oath. Retain attributed trust manipulation and qualified unspecified coercion from the stronger headline, plus her warning. No amount, actual threat method, proof doctor credentials were false, physical assault or financial payment is stated.
Reported caseInnsbruck56-year-old reportedly lost more thanEUR10,000after a social-media purported US female doctor feigned love. Retain money, false persona/bond and medium; the US is a persona claim, not actual operation site or victim nationality. No exact date, threat or court finding.
Reported caseBBB reminds Michigan readers about online friendship/romance contacts asking money or promoting cryptocurrency following a federal bust. Retain general preventive relationship/trust/investment/online context. The bust headline alone does not establish case identity, seizure sum, real victim transfer or independent prosecution facts; friends and romances remain differentiated.
Prevention & supportTaiwan prosecutors describe Liao36, Taiwan/US romantic fraud, stolen passports/bank accounts, small-profit bait, large repeated demands and US-national targets, yielding USD5,328,855/NTD170.52million attributed aggregate proceeds. Reported airport arrest,50million watch seizure and pending criminal charges remain allegations; bail denied and two-month custody extension fromOctober21 are not conviction or sentence. Passport-owner death by unrelated sedation is not romance-caused homicide. Nationality does not prove victim residence. Stolen passports for bank accounts are document fraud/account facilitation, not evidence of a romantic profile identity or online communication medium. Small initial investment profits are not an explicit future-return promise. False-friendship/sweet-word relationship interpretation remains qualified; custody extension is not a sentence and the passport owner’s unrelated death is not romance homicide. Translate the provisional document-fraud shorthand Oo to the existing codebook builder alias Doc with the same document_identity_fraud subtype. The strict alias preflight caught the shorthand before saving/building; original draft and failed helper are preserved, with no codebook change.
Reported casePrahova61-year-old woman reportedly lost EUR170,000in a virtual love-scam relationship with a Nigerian man said to reside in Ilfov and claim illness. Retain money/online relationship/medical-pretext attribution; no actual sickness, Nigerian operation location, victim health injury, conviction or repeated demands inferred. Alleged offender residence is not automatically an operation-country assertion. The virtual-love fraud framing supports only qualified false-courtship interpretation. Claimed illness is not proved physical harm or a false nationality; offender residence is not automatically an operation location.
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