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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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All24 states/roles assessed. Preserve existing own metadata and exact bounded22-word interpretation within25 allowance, without added publisher facts. Other unsupported offenses/outcomes, identity, country and event dates remain unknown or unreported. PriorU/raw evidence retained; no inferred true person, forensic certainty, unseen materials or case linkage.
Reported caseChengdu man stole friend-circle pictures to pose as goddess, online-romance fraud over10000 and caught. Own title supports financial, impersonation/platform/arrest claims; no actual gender/person identity or criminal conviction independently verified.
Reported caseLimJianQiang bankfundmovement forunmet purportedfiancée hopingmarriage, jailed despitemisgivingsscammer. Sourceintimatefinancialfacilitation, notownlostamount/fakeactualfemaleidentity orinnocentcourtclassification. Current source-specific layer: All24 codes assessed with explicit successful-original reexamination. Lim's admitted suspected illegality/account role is operation participation, not an assumed claim of victimization or independently innocent money mule. Preserve source romance confidence and four-week sentence separately from maximum penalty or time actually served.177270.86 receipts,9075 email-fraud payment/9000 transfer and79.38 returned participant balance have separate scopes; no all-crypto177270.86, personal Romance loss or restitution to outside victims. Tenancy/email-fraud victims are separate from the intermediary's marriage inducement. Original reviewer Mar27,2025 attribution remains preserved, but reopened body provides Mar27 without its own year: normalized sentencing year held under strict date rule. Dubai claim/Philippine company do not locate Latifa or verify a woman/operator identity. No clinical/material/family harm, coercion, formal forged identity, investment return or victim recovery inferred.
Reported caseSpokeo catfishing-to-phishing educational/syndicated guide links romantic deception to identity and possible bank harm. Promotional claim not empirically verified evolution or actual financial loss of a named victim; maybe bank harm remains hypothetical. Explanatory evolution headline is not itself a warning or an explicit platform used by an actual offender; those dimensions remain unassigned.
Related mentionTeacher reports escaping romance scam and warns others; unsettling prayer-room voice context without actual money amount, injury, confinement or psychiatric diagnosis. Precise financial/coercive harm remains unknown pending selected body. Whole original article read as separate qualified layer: initial metadata states prayer-room atmosphere only; current financial solicitation/distress/roles require evidence-bound revision before export, not silently added here. Current source-specific layer: All24 codes assessed. Current teacher is anonymous; demanded bank loan was only pretended, no new loan or teacher payment established. Prior debt review is not new scam-caused debt; separate pension-loss police example is not her loss. Shame/fear of judgment is personal reluctance, not organizational refusal. Reported trauma is not medical diagnosis, and her separate car accident not scam-caused injury. Actual in-person first encounter and subsequent aunt WhatsApp role corrected after targeted original check. Claimed Burundi/royal/lecturer identities not actual origins or verified university role. October7 lastyear remains yearless. No formal forged documents, extortion, investment returns, actual court/arrest event, housing/employment harm, coerced scam work or refunded assets inferred. Warning/disclosure not measured prevention or professional service use.
Reported caseOxfordMichigan woman nearly500000 life savings loss to supposed NCIS actor/expected marriage. Personal loss not completed repayment; life savings wording not specific housing/clinical outcome in this short version.
Reported caseAomori70female158000JPY electronic-money rights loss in SNS romance involving TokyoSkaParadisepersona. Celebrity-name persona not actual celebrity perpetrator; no syntheticAI or actual Januarycalendar year assumed.
Reported caseSandySelvan/NCISMarkHarmon imposter and indescribable loss testimony. Exact loss amount or house/car sale not supplied in this saved version; source emotional distress/titlelife-savings supports attributed harm without diagnosis. Indescribableloss maydescribe financialseverity and ruinedlifehead doesnot establish a distinct explicit mentalstate; preserve distress unknown rather than inferclinical harm from large loss.
Reported caseSandySelvan/NCISMarkHarmon imposter and indescribable loss testimony. Exact loss amount or house/car sale not supplied in this saved version; source emotional distress/titlelife-savings supports attributed harm without diagnosis. Indescribableloss maydescribe financialseverity and ruinedlifehead doesnot establish a distinct explicit mentalstate; preserve distress unknown rather than inferclinical harm from large loss.
Reported caseSpokeo catfishing-to-phishing educational/syndicated guide links romantic deception to identity and possible bank harm. Promotional claim not empirically verified evolution or actual financial loss of a named victim; maybe bank harm remains hypothetical. Explanatory evolution headline is not itself a warning or an explicit platform used by an actual offender; those dimensions remain unassigned.
Related mentionRappler programme love-scam syndicates with onlinebefriending/trust thenlifesavings theft. Specifictheme, not watchedvideo or quantifiedactualvictims, independentlyverifiednetwork/clinicaldiagnosis.
CommentarySpokeo catfishing-to-phishing educational/syndicated guide links romantic deception to identity and possible bank harm. Promotional claim not empirically verified evolution or actual financial loss of a named victim; maybe bank harm remains hypothetical. Explanatory evolution headline is not itself a warning or an explicit platform used by an actual offender; those dimensions remain unassigned.
Related mentionTainan mall security/police prevent100000NTD request from supposed American officer/online lover. Attempted transfer distinct from municipal132interceptions/9936万元/177staff aggregate. US persona not operating country.
Reported caseSandySelvan/NCISMarkHarmon imposter and indescribable loss testimony. Exact loss amount or house/car sale not supplied in this saved version; source emotional distress/titlelife-savings supports attributed harm without diagnosis. Indescribableloss maydescribe financialseverity and ruinedlifehead doesnot establish a distinct explicit mentalstate; preserve distress unknown rather than inferclinical harm from large loss.
Reported caseHairdresser53 buys romance fraudster Porsche; man46takes almost90000EUR from plural women through falselove/wealth. Property transfer versus other cash aggregate not summed twice; no conviction, actualhousingloss or sourceclinicaldiagnosis.
Reported caseTainan mall security/police prevent100000NTD request from supposed American officer/online lover. Attempted transfer distinct from municipal132interceptions/9936万元/177staff aggregate. US persona not operating country.
Reported caseVirginiaBeach man convicted19charges afterdeceivingwomen withromanticrelationships forfinancialadvantage andbankfraud. Chargescount not19uniquevictims/convictionsof19Romancecounts; unspecifiedamountpaid/recovered andpunishmentnotintext. Own headline explicitly hundreds-of-thousands defrauded in romance/bankmixedscheme. Retain attributedaggregate financialharm, not entirely romance-only precise loss or all19charges19victims.
Reported caseXuchang69 bachelorChang reportedly loses house to woman17younger claiming shared life. Deliberate romantic financial deception can occur offline; purchased home/prior300000 savings not cash fraud total, property loss not proven homelessness.
Reported caseYamanashiHokuto40female likesgentlemanclaimTaiwan gymowner, crypto11320000JPY(~2500000NTDconversion) lost. Currencyconversion notsecondloss; Taiwanpersona notoperatororigin, titleemotionalcollapse sourceattributed distressnotclinical.
Reported caseTexas34 Desiree source18,000-loss headline and own description of false MorganWallen romantic relationship. Loss does not itself establish that cash was sent, its payment route, loan/clinical outcome or AI generation. Catfished episode not watched; separate actually read body qualification remains pending.
Related mentionTracy receivedvideoofpolicearrestHamishMcLaren andMaxfalsepersona romanticfinancialexploitation;60millionmultiple-targetaggregate notTracyindividualpaidloss. No video watched, sourcelegalstagearrestnotconviction/penaltyorcurrentincidentdate.
Reported caseSpecific educational catphishing romantic/identity deception article; short text says heart-to-identity transition. No actual money loss, criminal identity charge or validated trend from promotional headline. Explanatory evolution headline is not itself a warning or an explicit platform used by an actual offender; those dimensions remain unassigned.
Related mentionSyndicatedcatphishing explanation50URLs:romanticheart-to-identity mechanism. Not50events/actualfinancialloss or everyidentitytheft proven; generalpromotionalwork sourceattributed.
Related mentionSyndicatedcatphishing explanation50URLs:romanticheart-to-identity mechanism. Not50events/actualfinancialloss or everyidentitytheft proven; generalpromotionalwork sourceattributed.
Related mentionSyndicatedcatphishing explanation50URLs:romanticheart-to-identity mechanism. Not50events/actualfinancialloss or everyidentitytheft proven; generalpromotionalwork sourceattributed.
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