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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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Spanish 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.
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.
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.
Research & trendsFrenchcomedianMarcTourneboeuf describes a woman believing in avirtualrelationship withhim, a scammerbehindthescreen and false socialprofiles; hewarns publicly. Retain impersonation/fabricatedrelationship/platform/warning, not actualmoneylosstoartist orwoman, performercrime or independentcaseverification.
Related mentionSpanish 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 & trendsNumata64-year-old employee reportedly lost JPY24,472,240in combined SNS investment/romance fraud following investment offers. Retain mixed scheme/financial/contact; general category label does not specify a romantic relationship.21st lacks a full year.
Reported caseSarahKuttner describes her mother’s experience alongside general falsecelebrity/wealthy-person romanticdeception. Retain generalpersona/fabricatedrelationship/online mechanism, not a proven specificamount, suicide/causaldeath or stigma coded from a rhetoricalheadline without clear speakercontext. The headline’s can one be so stupid question is explicit evaluative victim-blame framing. Its rhetorical or critical stance remains unclear; this does not show a named victim actually ridiculed or prove author endorsement. This follows the unchanged codebook instruction to retain unclear stance.
CommentaryMadouHuang’s proposedNTD1.95million, parentheticalMYR267,000, was stopped by police/bank after falseLINEaffection and investmentinstructions. Keep attemptedloss/interception/contact/trust/investment, not executedloss, a suicide, realfemaleidentity or a full date from23rd.
Reported caseSpaceXclaims disabling over2,000Starlinkkits in Myanmar after fraud/trafficking scrutiny; source describes crypto and romance scammers and dishes at a raidedsite. Keep mixed attributed disruption/technical infrastructure, not2,000offenders/victims, independent verification or every participant trafficked. This source explicitly places disabled fraud-linked Starlink kits in Myanmar; no further terminal-seizure or raid chronology is inferred.
Related mentionFuqing police prevented360,000in an online-romance plus fake-investment scam where a purported successful caring finance expert built trust. Retain attempted loss, investment/contact/trust and interception; no completed loss, independently verified persona or full date.
Reported caseHeadline says a man paidEUR10,000believing he had sex with aTVpersonality; paragraph has JudithRakers warning of identity fraud involvingAI/socialmedia. Keep source-associated loss, impersonation/AI/contact/warning, not real presenter involvement, actual sexual assault or a specific synthetic technique in the man’s case.
Research & trendsA43-year-old Zhang is drawn through a matchmaking-video comment to a matchmaker and wealthy successful contact, topping up over23,000in a pig-butchering trap; Beijing railway police received her report and the prevention sentence truncates. Retain proposed loss/report/online contact. Charged funds are not necessarily final unrecovered loss, and the exact interception outcome/persona authenticity remains qualified.
Reported caseChineseKoreancoverageattributesoverKRW100billion, parentheticalNTD2.144billion, romance/emotionalfraudlosses inJan–Sep2025anddiscussescreatingromanticatmosphereonline. Keep attributedaggregateloss/trust/contact, notindividualcaseloss,independentlyverifiedgrowthorpriorlonelinessascausalrisk. Statisticalperiodisnotanindividualincidentdate.
Research & trendsSpanish report describes a SouthKorean50-year-old woman believing a falseLeeJung-jae account, losingKRW500million/EUR300,000; title explicitly names AI. Keep attributed loss/persona/AI; nationality alone does not establish residence and no currency discrepancy is silently reconciled.
Reported caseA43-year-old Zhang is drawn through a matchmaking-video comment to a matchmaker and wealthy successful contact, topping up over23,000in a pig-butchering trap; Beijing railway police received her report and the prevention sentence truncates. Retain proposed loss/report/online contact. Charged funds are not necessarily final unrecovered loss, and the exact interception outcome/persona authenticity remains qualified.
Reported caseJiaxing XiaoTang had a purported online girlfriend introduced by colleague XiaoChen, repeated demands and avoided meetings, then reported it; police found receipts in Chen’s wife Xiong’s name. Title alleges a man posing as a woman and8,000fraud. Retain allegation/false relationship/payments/platform/report/inquiry, not verified sexual identity, arrest or guilt of every recipient.
Reported caseKaga woman in her thirties reportedly lostJPY700,000in SNSromance fraud and recognized it through a generative-AI answer. Keep financial/contact and practical help from the tool, not AI-generated criminal impersonation, recovery or a full date inferred from24th.
Reported caseHeadline/media-indexcopysayslovescammersposeasJudithRakersandhavechatsex. Keepimpersonation/onlinecommunicationtopic,notrealpresenterparticipation,financialloss,sexualviolenceorextortionwithoutsourceevidence.
CommentaryKanazawa man in his sixties reportedly lostJPY14.8million in SNS romance fraud; aurora-trip invitation is in the title and police warn about investment/profit approaches. Retain financial/contact/warning, not a verified future trip, false identity, full date or investment mechanism borrowed from generic advice.
Reported caseJudithRakers receives unsolicited love letters after identity misuse; one man claims Telegram sex chat with her. Keep impersonation/fabricated relationship/platform context, not actual presenter participation, financial loss or sexual violence.
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