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Distinct included URLs matching these filters in each observation month. Select a point to explore its records. On small screens, scroll the chart horizontally.
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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Miaoli Houlong male TikTok false UN doctor assistant, marriage/airfare pretext; bank and family/police prevent900USD≈27000NTD transfer. Attempt not paid loss or recovery, foreign persona not operator geography.
Reported caseTelugu Eenadu OnlineDating trap guide: money in bank/social-media account and enticing lover greeting HiHoney. Financial-intimacy lure is present; general advice not actual paid loss/diagnosis or all dating fraud.
Prevention & supportUS woman with serious pre-existing illness deceived by fake JacksonWang/GOT7 virtual Romance and4000USD loss. Illness is source-stated prior circumstance, not fraud-caused physical harm or a diagnosis inferred. Distinct target/name evidence needed for other Kpop amounts. Serious illness is stated prior circumstance, not evidence offender explicitly selected her for illness; use unspecified context subtype rather than targeting strategy.
Reported casePintos&Salgado general Romance fraud guide identifies false intimacy, money/illusion theft and prevention. No actual individual paid loss, clinical diagnosis or verified efficacy.
Prevention & supportNumata49female nurse12.36millionJPY false shared retirement-fund plan/affection. Cashloss/trust, but retirement future alone not specific investment returns/crypto offer. Nurse profession not medical harm.
Reported casePintos&Salgado general Romance fraud guide identifies false intimacy, money/illusion theft and prevention. No actual individual paid loss, clinical diagnosis or verified efficacy.
Prevention & supportPongau64female17kEUR false USgeneral/blockedaccount Romance versus Flachgau40female80k task/product-review job fraud. Distinct targets/schemes;97k not Romance aggregate, crypto in task case not first-case crypto payment, US persona not actual operator country. Romance17k loss is in own headline; description80k relates separate Flachgau task victim. Bind financial code to correct Romance source field, retain mixed-scheme qualification.
Reported caseHildesheim male Romance cashloss after false online identity/feigned relationship. Prevention framing not quantified efficacy, medical harm or new arrest.
Reported caseKaohsiung elderlyChen falseonlinehusband requests collect1million, allegedlymoneycourier arrested; Liang730000NTDactualinvestmentloss/1mwithdrawal-fee nextattempt differentperson. Courierclaimedwronged notknowinglyguilty/forcedlabor, collectedfunds notChen personalRomance loss. Livingalone not automatically diagnosedisolation. Correct guide-only magnitude:73萬元=730000NTD, not73000; separate investmenttarget, no Chen personalRomance loss application.
Reported caseDordogne archivedAlainJollois fakeLord/falseidentity repeatedRomancefrauds2022, different2002JuliaRoberts appearancepromise context. Historicalreport not2025crime or actualcelebrityoffender/ownknownfinancialamount. Ownfalseidentity andRomancefraud type explicit, but wholefabricatedrelationship notstated. Retain impersonation only.
Reported caseKaohsiung elderlyChen falseonlinehusband requests collect1million, allegedlymoneycourier arrested; Liang730000NTDactualinvestmentloss/1mwithdrawal-fee nextattempt differentperson. Courierclaimedwronged notknowinglyguilty/forcedlabor, collectedfunds notChen personalRomance loss. Livingalone not automatically diagnosedisolation. Correct guide-only magnitude:73萬元=730000NTD, not73000; separate investmenttarget, no Chen personalRomance loss application.
Reported caseAll24 states/roles/dates assessed on exact own eNCA summary. Source reports28woman/24suspect, rape/beating/confinement/rescue andcharges. Not all catfish violence assumed financial Romance: explicit same-case SAPS financial purpose is outside context only, neither eNCA own paid loss nor extortion theme borrowed. No amount paid, knowing guilt/conviction, exact date from publication, clinical consequence, employer-fund theft or programme watched. Source Pretoria/Giyani geography source-attributed; no country or nationality inferred from publisher suffix. Preserved original U/current qualified A and raw hashes; source identity08423 is eNCA, never relabeled SAPS.
Reported caseShanghaiFengxianLi750000RMB onlinegirlfriend actuallytwopeople male/female, deceptionbeganFebruary2023. Allegedfinancial/emotionalharm/rhetoric not clinicaldiagnosis, policeinvestigationnotconviction, distinctJiadingYang388000case.
Reported caseCork AlidaKuiken allegedUSMarine engagement/money-laundering viaaccount, suspendedsentence not servedjail.17kproceeds not her personal Romance loss.105 ownbitcointransfer explicit; sparseversions no term/name borrowed. Source claims deceived participant/mental guilt not clinical harm; select detailed court-reporting for knowing participation versus suspended outcome. Never-metMarine engagement inshortmetadata supports exploitedromantictrust, notindependentlyestablished militaryidentity. Fuller courtaccount is separate strongerlayer.
Reported case7NewsSpotlight May25 factualprogramme investigates grandmothers converted drugmules through Romance. Programme topic/portrayal not actual everygrandmother offence/guilt/forcedwork or newcrime onbroadcastday; selectoriginalnetwork investigation context. Current source-specific layer: All24 states/roles/dates assessed on exact published programme publicity text, not watched episode/audio/transcript or original judgment. Separate DonnaNelson Japan6-year/2kgmeth versus VeronicaWatson Brazil1.5kgcocaine/Decemberarrest, no combining cases/quantities, universal guilty knowledge or forced work. Existing multiple-case drug-transport portrayal retained as attributed, not independently verified conviction/awareness. Relationship duration not exactcalendar, Kelly persona not operator nationality. Source publicity is marked by assessment note; no housing/clinical/prison-solitary effects copied from separate Network synopsis. Broadcastday not crime/courtdate, December no year, no normalized dates or countries borrowed from descent/home nationality. Current qualification: Separate network shortvisual story text is publicity, not fullvideo/audio watched. DonnaJapan andVeronicaBrazil cases distinct; two-year solitary/appearance not independent clinicalassessment/calendar-derived duration or borrowed into ownTVTonightthemes. No allcouriers knowinglyguilty/forcedwork or measuredawareness.
Related mentionCork AlidaKuiken allegedUSMarine engagement/money-laundering viaaccount, suspendedsentence not servedjail.17kproceeds not her personal Romance loss.105 ownbitcointransfer explicit; sparseversions no term/name borrowed. Source claims deceived participant/mental guilt not clinical harm; select detailed court-reporting for knowing participation versus suspended outcome. Never-metMarine engagement inshortmetadata supports exploitedromantictrust, notindependentlyestablished militaryidentity. Fuller courtaccount is separate strongerlayer.
Reported caseUsedom79female20000EURLoveScam falselyonlinepartner andmultiplemoneytransfers. Repeatedpayments alone notproof repeatedrequest/revictimization, suspicionnotarrest/conviction/returnedfunds.
Reported caseCork AlidaKuiken allegedUSMarine engagement/money-laundering viaaccount, suspendedsentence not servedjail.17kproceeds not her personal Romance loss.105 ownbitcointransfer explicit; sparseversions no term/name borrowed. Source claims deceived participant/mental guilt not clinical harm; select detailed court-reporting for knowing participation versus suspended outcome. Never-metMarine engagement inshortmetadata supports exploitedromantictrust, notindependentlyestablished militaryidentity. Fuller courtaccount is separate strongerlayer.
Reported caseShanxiJinzhongPingyao report of600000RMB recovered after Jia-son online falseZhangJiayi dating. Militaryservice is claimedsoncircumstance, not offendercountry. Criminaldetention reported not conviction; fundsrecovered not necessarily already delivered tovictim. ExplicitOctober2024start retained, not observationdate. Source self-givenname doesnot prove stolen/falseidentity. TrustwithinreportedRomance context retained without automaticimpersonation.
Reported caseCork AlidaKuiken allegedUSMarine engagement/money-laundering viaaccount, suspendedsentence not servedjail.17kproceeds not her personal Romance loss.105 ownbitcointransfer explicit; sparseversions no term/name borrowed. Source claims deceived participant/mental guilt not clinical harm; select detailed court-reporting for knowing participation versus suspended outcome. Never-metMarine engagement inshortmetadata supports exploitedromantictrust, notindependentlyestablished militaryidentity. Fuller courtaccount is separate strongerlayer. Current source-specific layer: All24 states/roles/dates assessed. AlidaKuiken50 own reported reckless guiltyplea16997 invoice proceeds differs claimed50k personal payments, latter disputed/documentary qualification. Existing account/laundering/romantic-trust and suspended sentence retained; one-year fully suspended not acquitted or time served.7000 gathered/proposed repayment not paid. Shame/self-description and judicial naivety are attributed framing, no clinical diagnosis or researcher endorsement. Claim manipulated participant not independent innocence; no company employer-theft inference from third-party invoice fraud. Sep27–28,2022 routed funds explicit interval, not sentence/publication dates. Failed CrimeWorld excerpt cannot prove actor-photo bridge/name inotherarticle; no JustinMelnick/StolenUSmarine facts borrowed. Original judgment uninspected, other serious harms/digital routes/actual recovery not invented.
Reported caseTaipei antique-coin investment warning explicitly from romanticheat tofinancialruin/Line group. General narrative not current individual quantifiedloss/clinicaldiagnosis or all cointradesRomance.
Prevention & supportShanghaiJiading Wen hid marriage/datingappYang388000RMB≈1.64mNTDbrideprice/weddingcosts; fakefuturemother-in-law persona aftertakingpayments breakups andcountercomplaint. Nothertrueoffenderconviction/multipleindependentlosses/actualtherapeuticpsychharm.
Reported caseZhaoqingwoman falselyromanticcontact attempts couriership5millionRMB toHongKonghome, bank/police prevent. Requestedpropertypurchase not provedownhome forfeited/crypto or foreignoperatorlocation;153Lin pseudonym notrealidentity. Plannedcashshipment not completedloss or recoveredpayment.
Reported caseNikko30male465944JPY-equivalentcrypto aftermarriage promise/SNSRomance, police complaint/full150investigation. Actualcrypto payment not automaticinvestment;61doesnotstatecompletedinvestigation, partialdaynotyear.
Reported caseZhaoqingwoman falselyromanticcontact attempts couriership5millionRMB toHongKonghome, bank/police prevent. Requestedpropertypurchase not provedownhome forfeited/crypto or foreignoperatorlocation;153Lin pseudonym notrealidentity. Plannedcashshipment not completedloss or recoveredpayment.
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