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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 | 591 | 591 | 100.0% |
| Feb 2025 | 1,629 | 1,629 | 100.0% |
| Mar 2025 | 561 | 561 | 100.0% |
| Apr 2025 | 390 | 390 | 100.0% |
| May 2025 | 398 | 398 | 100.0% |
| Jun 2025 | 209 | 209 | 100.0% |
| Jul 2025 | 522 | 522 | 100.0% |
| Aug 2025 | 447 | 447 | 100.0% |
| Sep 2025 | 613 | 613 | 100.0% |
| Oct 2025 | 483 | 483 | 100.0% |
| Nov 2025 | 392 | 392 | 100.0% |
| Dec 2025 | 333 | 333 | 100.0% |
| Jan 2026 | 530 | 530 | 100.0% |
| Feb 2026 | 1,106 | 1,106 | 100.0% |
| Mar 2026 | 360 | 360 | 100.0% |
| Apr 2026 | 491 | 491 | 100.0% |
| May 2026 | 785 | 785 | 100.0% |
| Jun 2026 | 842 | 842 | 100.0% |
| Jul 2026 | 1,143 | 1,143 | 100.0% |
| Aug 2026 | 640 | 640 | 100.0% |
| Sep 2026 | 638 | 638 | 100.0% |
| Oct 2026 | 30 | 30 | 100.0% |
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Sunshine Coast110000 woman/Saskatchewan53/MapleCreek reported romance-fraud arrest, named MichaelPaulSnow only own fuller variant. Own reported financial/arrest scope retained, not precise charge/June24year/2026trial status borrowed. Later originalRCMP receipt supports separate source qualification.
Reported caseSunshine Coast110000 woman/Saskatchewan53/MapleCreek reported romance-fraud arrest, named MichaelPaulSnow only own fuller variant. Own reported financial/arrest scope retained, not precise charge/June24year/2026trial status borrowed. Later originalRCMP receipt supports separate source qualification.
Reported casePortuguese report says suspected love-fraud man arrested and used false profiles/marriage promises to obtain money. Alleged bait and reported arrest, no actual conviction or quantified completed transfer.
Reported caseYanai40 male healthworker SNS-affinity romance fraud80000JPY electronic-money rights. Loss reported; job not clinical capacity/risk cause, separate70Yanai100000 from age/amount/persona.
Reported caseKorean FSS consumer caution describes false foreign persona/SNS-dating contacts inducing crypto investment and money extraction. General warning and authority initiative, not measured efficacy or foreign-national operator location. No count or clinical harm established.
Prevention & supportNamedJosephBaduBoateng/DadaJoeRemix USextradition attributed with100million estimate. Separate originalArizona receipt contradicts broadloss allocation and identifies specificcase23-CR-00695; preserve own rawclaim, do not mergeKofiBoat/VanYeboah enterprise or turn extradition into conviction.
Reported caseGailAstin report combines scammer family-breakup threat, reconciliation with husband and subsequent brain-tumour diagnosis/death. Temporal sequence is not romance-caused illness, homicide or suicide; exact mechanism/financial amounts absent. Selective deeper reading required for serious-harm qualifiers and identity, preserve uncertainty meanwhile.
Reported caseMansfield business front/boss reported laundering over1millionGBP romance-fraud funds. Proceeds processed not net target loss, offence title not independent conviction or all laundering knowingly proved.
Reported caseEmbassy announced namedJosephBaduBoateng/DadaJoeRemix extradition toface fraudcharges. Ownreportactualextradition/charges butno conviction/lossfigure; originalArizona dates/plea qualify separately later.
Reported caseBunschoten-Spakenburg33 datingfraud arrest after end2024firstcomplaint/fivereports bundled. No own45000amount in thisversion or actual guilty finding.
Reported caseNamedJosephBaduBoateng/DadaJoeRemix USextradition attributed with100million estimate. Separate originalArizona receipt contradicts broadloss allocation and identifies specificcase23-CR-00695; preserve own rawclaim, do not mergeKofiBoat/VanYeboah enterprise or turn extradition into conviction.
Reported caseSouthamptonPaulDavies believes falseJenniferAniston contact, source deepfake romance-scam headline. Reported synthetic/impersonation claim not independently examined media-forensic evidence; no own amount/medical injury.
Reported case52 people/six Chinese nationals arrested in online-dating/illegal-crypto case; fake call centre/dating lure and unauthorized crypto transactions explicitly stated. Coordinated group allegation, not all52Chinese, allvictims, crypto investment or verified guilt.
Reported caseChudeJideonwo released factualdocumentaryTheTikTokScammer onRomancefraud. Qualifiedmediawork, not fictionalplot promotion, newincidentdate/casecounts or titleIwasinLove actualloss/diagnosis. No article statisticflag fromdocumentarygenre.
Research & trendsArizona courtroom appearance after Africa extradition for romance-fraud suspect targeting elderly. Own text no name/date/amount; appearance and extradition reported, not conviction or actual risk cause age.
Reported caseKagoshima police adult-ika-no-osushi prevention campaign includes mixed telephone/SNS-investment/romance220reports and937millionJPY by May end. Different mixed count/financial denominator, not all romance; no independent prevention efficacy. Partial lastOctober/thisFebruary not calendar-dated from observation. Source-specific mixed aggregate campaign statistics explicitly reviewed; not all220romance incidents.
Prevention & supportYahooBoys Nigeria romance-fraud industry feature cites falseBradPitt relationship as example. Broadagency/wealth reputationalclaims not independentoperatoridentity/countrycausation/unique incidents or allBradPittcases samefamily.
Research & trendsOdate50s woman SNS romance/investment fraud7000000JPY, sourcecashloss. Returns beforemorepayments arefictitious display? Owntitleprofitsquoted anddepositrepeated, actualnetloss sourceclaimed. No exactperson/date/medicalcause.
Reported caseKorean FSS warns about rising crypto scams including explicitRomance mechanism under attractive foreign dating-app headline. Generic warning/context not measured trend, actualpersonforeignnationality or confirmed financial outcome.
Prevention & supportKorean FSS consumer caution describes false foreign persona/SNS-dating contacts inducing crypto investment and money extraction. General warning and authority initiative, not measured efficacy or foreign-national operator location. No count or clinical harm established.
Prevention & supportGailAstin46 mum love-scammers threateneddisclosureofaffair afterpics, laterdies. Blackmailthreat sourcecontext, no actuallysexualpicturecontent orpaidblackmailsum stated; tumour/deathnotcausallyestablishedRomance harm. Selective deeperreading selected, retainoriginalshortmetadata. Separate full secondary/reportorial readings establish sexual blackmail and reported suicidal feelings in historical context, but own short metadata does not support sexual subtype or suicide death. Current deeper qualifier required before export; tumour death causality remains unestablished.
Reported caseYonago40 male romance-fraud200000JPY from onlinedatingwoman/hobbyrapport andpartial internetshopoffer. Actualloss/platform, no explicitinvestment site or fabricatednationality from truncatedshopproposal.
Reported caseWoman390000 crypto-dating loss headline with first-person messed-up-life framing; historical2021global7.7billion crypto report in generic body is separate mixed context. No incident2021 automatically, amount/clinical harm verified or global aggregate allocated to her. Generic body historical2021crypto report is mixed background distinct from main woman390000headline; reviewed statistical context, no incident-year borrowing.
Reported caseBunschoten33 suspected five-woman datingfraud45000EUR arrested. Ownactualreported loss/accusation, no guilty finding or preciseJune19year fromothermetadata.
Reported caseBritish male loses hundredsUSD to fakeJenniferAniston AI-video/Apple-subscription pretext. Romancecounterfeit persona/source syntheticclaim, not genuinecelebrityneed/operatornationality or independentvideoauthenticity.
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