新型婚恋“杀猪盘”：“相亲对象”设下“黄金”陷阱
General marriage/matchmaking gold trap identified, without individual totals or explicit offender identity.
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| Observation month | Matching URLs | All included URLs | Share |
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| Jan 2025 | 352 | 591 | 59.6% |
| Feb 2025 | 489 | 1,629 | 30.0% |
| Mar 2025 | 209 | 561 | 37.3% |
| Apr 2025 | 162 | 390 | 41.5% |
| May 2025 | 232 | 398 | 58.3% |
| Jun 2025 | 86 | 209 | 41.1% |
| Jul 2025 | 272 | 522 | 52.1% |
| Aug 2025 | 253 | 447 | 56.6% |
| Sep 2025 | 273 | 613 | 44.5% |
| Oct 2025 | 251 | 483 | 52.0% |
| Nov 2025 | 174 | 392 | 44.4% |
| Dec 2025 | 200 | 333 | 60.1% |
| Jan 2026 | 222 | 530 | 41.9% |
| Feb 2026 | 447 | 1,106 | 40.4% |
| Mar 2026 | 175 | 360 | 48.6% |
| Apr 2026 | 239 | 491 | 48.7% |
| May 2026 | 171 | 785 | 21.8% |
| Jun 2026 | 214 | 842 | 25.4% |
| Jul 2026 | 469 | 1,143 | 41.0% |
| Aug 2026 | 319 | 640 | 49.8% |
| Sep 2026 | 373 | 638 | 58.5% |
| Oct 2026 | 17 | 30 | 56.7% |
5,536 matching media records
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Police hunt ‘romance scammer’ after two women lose nearly R900,000
Police seek a person of interest in alleged Free State romance fraud involving two women, loans and nearly R900,000; not an arrest.
Reported caseFrau in Reutlingen wird Opfer von Romance Scamming und überweist fünfstelligen Geldbetrag - Blaulicht-News - Reutlinger General-Anzeiger - gea.de
Reutlingen woman reported to have transferred a five-figure amount in romance fraud; boilerplate description adds no case details.
Reported case‘I had nothing to live on’: The $60,000 romance scam that broke a B.C. senior’s heart - Prince Albert Daily Herald
Sharon Blakeborough is reported to have lost $60,000 and experienced emotional trauma and a heart attack; causal association is the source claim, not a verified clinical conclusion.
Reported caseAlleged border-hopping black widow who drugged, robbed, and killed older men she met on dating apps faces extradition: FBI | Blaze Media
Alleged Nevada dating-app offender is accused of drugging, robbing and killing older men and faces extradition. Eleven possible victims and two countries are not verified event counts.
Reported case央媒调查"杀猪盘2.0"：长辈"牵线" "相亲对象"借黄金设局-新闻中心-中国宁波网
Fake parents and prospective partners solicit physical gold. No victim count, country or total inferred.
Research & trendsGrindr Scam: Five Arrested Over Alleged Dating App Robbery Scheme | Instinct Magazine
Five arrests in an alleged Grindr dating-app robbery scheme; arrest does not establish guilt or five separate events.
Reported case新型婚恋“杀猪盘”：“相亲对象”设下“黄金”陷阱
Parents are used to establish matchmaking trust and induce physical gold purchase and delivery. General pattern, not a counted individual event.
Research & trendsPolice hunt ‘romance scammer’ after two women lose nearly R900,000
Police seek a person of interest in alleged Free State romance fraud involving two women, loans and nearly R900,000; not an arrest.
Reported case央媒调查杀猪盘2.0：长辈“牵线”，“相亲对象”借黄金设局
General marriage/matchmaking gold trap identified, without individual totals or explicit offender identity.
Research & trends£576.4m lost to authorised push payment scams in 2025 as AI manipulates victims | LBC
Mixed investment/romance push-payment fraud total cannot be assigned wholly to romance scams.
Research & trendsReal Housewives star avoids jail time in R3.2m romance scam case | News24
Kgalalelo Loveline Abinokhauno sentenced to correctional supervision in R3.2m online dating case. Avoided direct imprisonment does not mean acquittal.
Reported case'I had nothing to live on': The $60,000 romance scam that broke a B.C. senior's heart
BC senior report expressly describes debt and emotional trauma following Facebook romance scam; title amount not summed with other copies.
Reported case'I had nothing to live on': The $60,000 romance scam that broke a B.C. senior's heart - The Turtle Island News
Blakeborough report describes financial and emotional harm, heart attack and Facebook contact. Separation alone is not coded as scam-caused relationship breakdown.
Reported case£576.4m lost to authorised push payment scams in 2025 as AI manipulates victims
A 576.4 million aggregate concerns all authorized-push-payment fraud in 2025, with investment and romance named as examples. It is not a romance-only total.
Research & trendsNigerian man arrested in Turkey over $2.5m romance scam
A Nigerian suspect was reportedly arrested alongside four others in Istanbul over alleged romance fraud involving 2.5 million. The source describes five people, not four total.
Reported caseNigerian man arrested in Turkey for using marriage to scam woman $2.5m
A Nigerian suspect was reportedly arrested in Turkey over alleged marriage fraud and a 2.5 million loss. Nationality is not the operation location.
Reported caseMarried ‘pilot’ re-arrested for swindling woman out of wedding funds - TokyoReporter
Tokyo police re-arrested a married man alleged to have impersonated an airline pilot on a dating app and promised marriage to obtain over one million yen.
Reported caseNigerian-American Billionaire Arrested In Turkey Over $2.5m Romance Scam - Information Nigeria
Kingsley O. was reportedly arrested in Turkey over an alleged 2.5 million romance fraud involving a Hong Kong dentist.
Reported caseNigerian arrested in Turkey over $2.5m romance scam
A suspect was arrested in Turkey over a reported 2.5 million loss involving a Hong Kong dentist; alleged nationality does not establish offender operations.
Reported case"Ce n'est pas à moi d'avoir honte: c'est aux fraudeurs" - L’Hebdo Journal
Mario Bergeron reports losing nearly 300,000 and now shares his experience in prevention work with Trois-Rivières police. His rejection of shame is not evidence that victims deserve blame.
Reported case感情詐騙受害者不是笨 一六五勤務隊員透露真實心態 | ETtoday社會新聞 | ETtoday新聞雲
The headline rejects calling romance-scam victims stupid. The 89.3 billion total and debt discussion cover all fraud; they are not romance-only estimates.
Commentary六旬婦誤信「美軍軍醫」甜言蜜語 墮網戀詐騙失160萬元-华侨网
The title describes a woman losing 1.6 million to a purported US military doctor; the description aggregates more than ten romance reports and nearly five million. These are not unique-event counts.
Research & trends六旬婦誤信「美軍軍醫」甜言蜜語 墮網戀詐騙失160萬元
The title describes a woman losing 1.6 million to a purported US military doctor. Publisher boilerplate does not establish the victim location.
Reported case感情詐騙手法曝光！165警員嘆「受害者不是笨」 一句話揭真實心態 | 社會 | 三立新聞網 SETN.COM
The headline rejects calling romance-scam victims stupid. The 89.3 billion total and debt discussion cover all fraud; they are not romance-only estimates.
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