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| 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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Indonesian police-online-fraud heading names love-scam methods/AIevidence, with a general paragraph listing messaging/ecommerce platforms. Retain source-associated technology context, not every listed platform necessarily used in one romance case or a specific synthetic technique.
Research & trendsA 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 caseTaipei42-year-oldHuang was induced through Facebook/LINE photos, claimed divorce, caring/flirting and false love to invest in antiques; bank/police stopped one-million cash withdrawal. Retain attempted loss, trust manipulation/platform/investment and prevention, not completed loss, verified female identity or an actual divorce.
Reported casePolish generalromance-fraud discussion cites belief in BradPitt and250,000zlotypaid tobring a nonexistent Japanese doctor toPoland. Retain general loss/falsepersona/online context, not verified individualcase identities, actorinvolvement or Japaneseoperations.
Research & trendsBay Area/Brentwood widower reportedly lost one million with a dollar sign after an unknown-person text and fake-romance investment scam. Title variants preserve1M/one million wording; no financial transfer asset, exact date, clinical distress or causal effect of bereavement inferred.
Reported caseBay Area/Brentwood widower reportedly lost one million with a dollar sign after an unknown-person text and fake-romance investment scam. Title variants preserve1M/one million wording; no financial transfer asset, exact date, clinical distress or causal effect of bereavement inferred.
Reported caseTelfs44-year-old man reportedly sent hundreds-of-thousands of euros to anunknownoffender posingasawoman and feigningromance fromearlySeptember tolateOctober. Retain financial/fabricatedrelationship/impersonation/online context; yearlessperiod doesnotnormalize to2025.
Reported caseJapanese mixed SNS investment/romance coverage describes relationship/trust-building and the headline says ashamed victims could not consult anyone. Retain source-associated shame/help-seeking barrier in mixed scope, not measured vulnerability, a clinical diagnosis or a specific financial total.
Related mentionTelfs44-year-old man reportedly sent hundreds-of-thousands of euros to anunknownoffender posingasawoman and feigningromance fromearlySeptember tolateOctober. Retain financial/fabricatedrelationship/impersonation/online context; yearlessperiod doesnotnormalize to2025.
Reported caseHofu police report a man in his fifties losing crypto worth JPY1.19million in SNS romance fraud. The opening definition describes affinity, not a case-specific fabricated partner. Preserve actual asset/online context;29th has no year.
Reported caseTyrol44-year-old man reportedly lost more thanEUR100,000in online love fraud; police warn about Internet methods. No specific persona or full date supplied. This sparse variant does not borrow Telfs/place/period from a fuller source.
Reported caseNamed39-year-oldMarcelQ repeatedly sent money to37-year-oldMandyP from theInternet and borrowed fromhis mother; headline says EUR120,000and never meetingher. Retain financial/contact/repeatedpayments, not a verified falseidentity, conviction or adding borrowedmoney as another120kloss.
Reported caseA woman inherfifties believed she had aromanticrelationship withLeeJung-jae and sent anonline scammer overKRW500million, parenthetically350,000withadollarsign. Retain reported loss/impersonation/contact; this variant doesnot itself mentionAI and no actualactor involvement, preciseeventdate or countryrole inferred.
Reported caseNepali paragraph reports aSouthKoreanwoman losing overKRW500million to anAI-generatedLeeJung-jae impersonator and police investigation; headline uses300,000-plusdollars. Retain attributed loss/AI/identity/enforcement without automatically reconciling currency conversions or inferring residence from nationality.
Reported caseA local middle-agedwoman reports more thanHKD1.45million lost in suspected romance fraud after social contact with a purported mainlandChinese national living inSingapore, development of romance and an investment approach. Local and JudiciaryPolice/PJ do not themselves provide an explicit countryrole. Persona nationality/residence are not real operations; August lacks a year.
Reported caseJuleeDennis, single/livingalone inaretirementvillage for25years, reportedly fellfor anonline lovescammer. The short description gives no financial amount, medical harm or specific deceit. Livingalone isnot itself measured socialisolation or a causal riskfactor.
Related mentionThe explicitly romance-pig-butchering account describes social/dating contact, intimacy-building, fake-return investment platforms and disappearance when targets invest/withdraw. General mechanism claims are not individual losses, measured SouthKorean growth, verified offender identity or guaranteed-return promises.
Research & trendsThe romance-scam/AI headline introduces a Korean couple’s recent arrest over an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud ring, but truncates location/details. Retain arrest/network and general AI commentary, not proof this couple used a particular synthetic technique, a financial-loss total or operations inferred from nationality.
Research & trendsOverath56-year-old man reportedly transferred a five-figure sum to an online acquaintance in love fraud; police warn. No currency/precise total or falsepersona is supplied.
Reported caseOta44-year-old female employee reportedly lost crypto worth JPY8.59million in the combined SNS investment/romance category following investment offers. Retain mixed asset/contact context, not actual courtship or a full date from an undated paragraph.
Reported caseAgatsuma64-year-old man reportedly lost JPY17.91million in the combined SNS investment/romance category, with a side-job pretext in the title. Retain mixed financial/contact scope; specific investment/courtship and returns are not established.
Reported caseThe title describes400,000online-romance fraud and a police-caught collector. Paragraph gives a woman’s help request after an online boyfriend allegedly used a false identity, then truncates. Retain allegations/arrest/report/platform, not proven collector guilt, funds recovered, an exact currency or complete chronology.
Reported caseSpanish source says cybercriminals improve romance-fraud techniques using AI and labels victims in a regional variant. Retain general synthetic-technology context with unspecified technique, not named victim outcomes, measured rise, financial loss or efficacy.
Research & trendsSpanish source says cybercriminals improve romance-fraud techniques using AI and labels victims in a regional variant. Retain general synthetic-technology context with unspecified technique, not named victim outcomes, measured rise, financial loss or efficacy.
Research & trendsSpanish source says cybercriminals improve romance-fraud techniques using AI and labels victims in a regional variant. Retain general synthetic-technology context with unspecified technique, not named victim outcomes, measured rise, financial loss or efficacy.
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