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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 | 264 | 591 | 44.7% |
| Feb 2025 | 554 | 1,629 | 34.0% |
| Mar 2025 | 141 | 561 | 25.1% |
| Apr 2025 | 116 | 390 | 29.7% |
| May 2025 | 193 | 398 | 48.5% |
| Jun 2025 | 53 | 209 | 25.4% |
| Jul 2025 | 151 | 522 | 28.9% |
| Aug 2025 | 129 | 447 | 28.9% |
| Sep 2025 | 164 | 613 | 26.8% |
| Oct 2025 | 201 | 483 | 41.6% |
| Nov 2025 | 164 | 392 | 41.8% |
| Dec 2025 | 124 | 333 | 37.2% |
| Jan 2026 | 67 | 530 | 12.6% |
| Feb 2026 | 224 | 1,106 | 20.3% |
| Mar 2026 | 90 | 360 | 25.0% |
| Apr 2026 | 145 | 491 | 29.5% |
| May 2026 | 200 | 785 | 25.5% |
| Jun 2026 | 121 | 842 | 14.4% |
| Jul 2026 | 191 | 1,143 | 16.7% |
| Aug 2026 | 224 | 640 | 35.0% |
| Sep 2026 | 139 | 638 | 21.8% |
| Oct 2026 | 6 | 30 | 20.0% |
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The shortened press paragraph dated07.11.2025 describes a frustrated80-year-old Bavarian man deceived after singles-site contact, but stops before giving the travel destination or consular assistance. Retain distress/contact only; do not copy fuller Kyrgyzstan details or treat publication date as incident date.
Reported caseChinese coverage says a woman in her fifties believed she was romantically involved with Lee Jung Jae through AI impersonation and lost over KRW500 million, about TWD10.67 million. Those are one source’s equivalent loss, not two payments. Preserve alleged synthetic-media/persona context, not actual actor involvement or a verified technique.
Reported caseKinmen Jincheng man Dai proposed TWD20,000 game cards to meet an online woman; store staff alerted police and reportedly stopped the scam. A possible reward up to3,000 is not victim compensation, and the attempted card purchase is not completed loss.
Reported caseSanda 87-year-old man reportedly filed a JPY12.52 million cash loss claim after SNS contact, with a purported doctor working in Ukraine and affection in the headline. Police investigate romance fraud. Ukraine is a persona/work claim, not actual operations; September/5th do not give a year.
Reported caseTwo people were sentenced for roles in an online romance fraud taking almost EUR25,000 from a90-year-old man; headline says they avoid jail. Retain financial and sentence context, not actual imprisonment, recovered money or a precise date.
Reported caseA Bengaluru man reportedly lost INR32 lakh to a fake high-society dating service using emotional manipulation and fake fees; the headline identifies WhatsApp romance fraud. Retain financial/trust/platform context, not a proved false individual persona, actual elite membership or a full date.
Reported caseTsuchiura police report a 52-year-old male employee losing JPY14.77 million cash after app contact with persons claiming to be Japanese women. Police investigate SNS romance fraud. Persona nationality does not prove identity or locate operations; the 4th lacks a full year.
Reported caseTsuchiura police report a 52-year-old male employee losing JPY14.77 million cash after app contact with persons claiming to be Japanese women. Police investigate SNS romance fraud. Persona nationality does not prove identity or locate operations; the 4th lacks a full year.
Reported caseKagoshima police report a woman in her seventies losing about JPY28 million after SNS contact. The headline describes Facebook/LINE, an overseas-living plan, investment and a further JPY10 million withdrawal fee. Loss and requested fee are different; the warning is not evaluated prevention. May/4th lack a year and the purported Ito identity is not proved false.
Reported caseOkinawa police re-arrested a45-year-old Uruma employee suspected of concealing SNS romance-fraud proceeds. The headline states JPY25million harm and converting proceeds to crypto. Retain alleged laundering/enforcement and conversion context, not another victim crypto payment or conviction; 4th lacks a year. The title describes conversion of proceeds into crypto, not an explicit transfer of crypto from the victim. Remove that transfer subtype; the individual paragraph does explicitly describe SNS contact.
Reported caseThe headline explicitly links VajraSpy malware and12Android chat apps with romance scams; the description is only Keywords. Retain headline technology context with unspecified technique subtype, not victims, actual compromise, financial loss or a proved attack count.
Related mentionKagoshima police report a woman in her seventies losing about JPY28 million after SNS contact. The headline describes Facebook/LINE, an overseas-living plan, investment and a further JPY10 million withdrawal fee. Loss and requested fee are different; the warning is not evaluated prevention. May/4th lack a year and the purported Ito identity is not proved false.
Reported caseThe Yiwu Fang headline identifies an online-romance scam and a jewellery-shop keeper alerting police about a nervous 130-gram gold purchase. October7/app contact is reported without a year. Keep qualified prevention and online contact; buying real jewellery is not yet surrendering property to a scammer or a completed cash loss.
Reported caseHenan Zhang says he spent more than600,000 savings pursuing a female livestreamer who blocked him and asks a journalist to help recover money. This is an attributed contested romance-deception claim, not proven fraud, actual recovery or a verified denomination. October31/January do not supply a year.
Reported caseKagoshima police report a woman in her seventies losing about JPY28 million after SNS contact. The headline describes Facebook/LINE, an overseas-living plan, investment and a further JPY10 million withdrawal fee. Loss and requested fee are different; the warning is not evaluated prevention. May/4th lack a year and the purported Ito identity is not proved false.
Reported caseShorter Kagoshima coverage reports a seventies woman’s SNS romance-fraud loss of about JPY28 million and the police warning. The headline adds Facebook/LINE, an overseas-living investment plan and a JPY10 million withdrawal fee. Retain only this variant’s details; no full date or verified persona supplied.
Reported caseBanaswadi/Bengaluru resident reportedly lost INR30 lakh to a purported NRI on a matrimonial website and filed a police complaint. Retain reported financial/platform/reporting and alleged impersonation, not verified overseas residence or a specific incident date.
Reported caseThe Marathi headline explicitly describes a Tinder girlfriend deception and an engineer becoming destitute; the paragraph names Kapil in Noida and66lakh lost through a dating-app scam. Retain attributed loss/platform, not a currency ISO inferred from location, exact date or independently verified identity.
Reported caseItalianAIromance-fraud coverage names aLeeJung-jae impersonator taking350,000withadollarsign andoffersprotectionadvice. Retain reportedloss/impersonation/AI andwarning without automaticcurrencyconversion, actualactorinvolvement or exactdate.
Reported caseMiaoli76-year-old woman proposed18,000AppStorecards for a supposedHongKong boyfriend’s claimed accident/importedmedicine/transfusion costs. Store/police intervention stopped the purchase after social/LINE trust-building. Claimed medical harm is a pretext, not verified physical injury or HongKong operations; October31has no year. Only a convenience-store clerk and police are stated in this source; no bank intervention is added.
Reported caseMiaoli76-year-old woman proposed18,000AppStorecards for a supposedHongKong boyfriend’s claimed accident/importedmedicine/transfusion costs. Store/police intervention stopped the purchase after social/LINE trust-building. Claimed medical harm is a pretext, not verified physical injury or HongKong operations; October31has no year. Only a convenience-store clerk and police are stated in this source; no bank intervention is added.
Reported caseThe Hindi source labels an OnlineDatingScam: a Delhi man met a purported scammer through a dating app, saw a7,000cafe bill and left using an urgent-call excuse. This is an unverified viral account of avoided payment, not completed loss, verified false identity or a proven arrest.
Reported caseMaria70 reportedly lost over half a million euros in online romance fraud to a supposedGaz surgeon, alongside Maltese annual fraud context. Retain attributed persona/loss, not realGazaoperations, a clinicalcondition or an independently verified national total. Maltesevictimcontext is not a specificMaria residence assertion.
Reported caseA California widower reportedly lost one million with a dollar sign after a wrong-number text, fake romance and an investment approach. Retain attributed financial/relationship/platform and prior widower status, not an independently verified amount, causal vulnerability or actual crypto transfer from the crypto-scam label.
Reported caseSuzuka police report a woman in her forties losing Ethereum worth JPY13.6million after matching-app contact with a male-named person. Retain reported financial/crypto/contact, not false identity from a name alone or a year inferred from30th.
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