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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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Headline describes Kanazawa man in his sixties losingJPY14.8million and an aurora invitation; partial paragraph only establishes city/police/SNS. Keep own loss/contact, not fuller general police investment warning or a fabricated-identity mechanism/date borrowed from another version.
Reported caseHejiang police describe29-year-old Pan hiding marriage/children and courting Cheng through social software in early2025, using rented luxury car, falsegold, fabricated identity/work and AI property certificates to take500,000. Retain reported financial/false relationship/persona/technical/document context and arrest/detention; no proved conviction, causal victim vulnerability or actual gold payment. Early2025 contact remains explicitly stated in the note pending precise date-literal annotation. The source explicitly says early2025 contact; retain that literal with year precision, not a month/day. Fake perfect-boyfriend framing and concealed marriage support only qualified fabricated-courtship interpretation, separate from actual false identity/wealth documents. No physical-harm context is present.
Reported caseMianzhu police broke a fraud case involving Zhang, rented luxury cars, a fabricated wealthy boss persona and online romantic exploitation; headline specifies500,000and AI property certificates. Keep source-attributed loss/persona/relationship/document/synthetic context and investigation. This Zhang/Mianzhu variant is not automatically Pan/Hejiang despite similar methods/amount. The fabricated wealthy-boyfriend front is qualified relationship deception; do not infer independently known emotional intent from a real relationship or fake wealth alone.
Reported caseTarnretiree reportedly deceived for sevenyears by a falsePascaline online love trap was convicted of complicity in fraud atCastres. Keep falsepersona/contact/conviction with participant-claiming-victimization role, not a laundering subtype, known loss, coercion or full event date. The quoted perfect-pigeon wording is explicit evaluative/ridicule framing under the existing codebook, with unknown speaker and no claim of journalist endorsement. Court conviction is separately an authority action; no laundering/coercion subtype is invented.
Reported caseIndonesian headline specifies AI LeeJungJae love scam andRp6.1billion loss; paragraph explicitly describes deception through an amorous relationship. Retain reported loss/identity/AI/fabricated relationship, not automatic conversion, actor involvement or precise victim/event details.
Reported caseORF film listing defines love scammers as people feigning romantic intent for financial exploitation and says it tells two real-case stories. Retain general fabricated-relationship/digital context, not details of two independently verified cases, actual amounts or a crime date from the airing24.10.2025.
CommentaryHiyama woman in her forties reportedly lostJPY2.6million in romance fraud after matching-app contact with a man claiming Japanese identity; paragraph truncates amount. Keep title amount/contact, not proof identity was false, actual nationality or a full date.
Reported caseMadou Huang proposed withdrawing1.95million for investment after a LINE contact manufactured affection; clerk/police stopped it after he gave false family/wedding and renovation reasons. Keep attempted loss/interception/contact/investment/fabricated intimacy, not completed loss, renewed demands merely from his repeat withdrawal attempts, or physical harm from pre-existing mobility limitation.
Reported caseSouthCoast man reportedly lost53,000with a dollar sign in a Tinder romance scam, sent abusive texts after betrayal and avoided conviction in a lenient court outcome. Keep attributed loss/distress/contact/legal appearance and other acts with target role; no guilty conviction, acquittal inferred from no-conviction, clinical diagnosis or amount/country filled from another source. Use the existing codebook allegation dimension; abusive texts and lenient legal outcome remain distinct from conviction or acquittal.
Reported caseItalian title states seven-million-euro fraud in a year, while paragraph describes social-media romance scams affecting hundreds and offers recognition/method information. Retain attributed aggregate financial/contact/warning context, not independently verified totals or a single seven-million victim case.
Research & trendsFullerKusatsu44-year-oldsourceaddsJune8Japanesemaleclaim,LINEintimacy,July8initial100,000banktransferanddisplayedfakeprofits. Keeploss/crypto/contact/investment/trust/repeateddemandthemesfromitsowntext,notfalseidentitysolelyfromclaimednationalityorcrimeyearinferredfrommonth/day. The fuller text supplies an initial100,000designated transfer then a fragment of a new deposit instruction. Continue-request interpretation is qualified; the unfinished instruction is not a known additional amount or executed payment.
Reported caseSouthCoast man reportedly lost53,000with a dollar sign in a Tinder romance scam, sent abusive texts after betrayal and avoided conviction in a lenient court outcome. Keep attributed loss/distress/contact/legal appearance and other acts with target role; no guilty conviction, acquittal inferred from no-conviction, clinical diagnosis or amount/country filled from another source. Use the existing codebook allegation dimension; abusive texts and lenient legal outcome remain distinct from conviction or acquittal.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman reportedly lost overJPY100million in crypto/other assets after SNS investment recommendations; fuller retained paragraph states inducing romantic feelings and initial apparent profits. Retain trust manipulation/contact/investment/financial assets, not a year, identified false persona or a crime date from22nd.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman reportedly lost overJPY100million in crypto and other assets following SNS investment contact, according to Kusatsu police. This shorter version lacks the fuller romance-feelings/fake-profit paragraph; do not borrow it or infer a year from22nd.
Reported caseThis source explicitly reports FIVEbillionKRW lost by a woman in her fifties to AI images of LeeJung-jae and says his agency vows action. Preserve its tenfold difference from500million variants, rather than silently correct/conversion. Keep reported loss/AI/persona and proposed institutional prevention; no actual prevention outcome or actor involvement.
Reported caseKusatsu police report a Shiga/Kusatsu44-year-old woman losing overJPY100million in crypto and other assets after an SNS contact recommended investment; headline identifies romance fraud. Retain investment/contact/financial assets, not an unproved false romantic persona or a year from the22nd.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman lostoverJPY100million in crypto/otherassets afterSNSinvestmentapproach; fullerparagraph specifies romancefeelings, displayedinitialprofits and requestsforlargerdeposits. Keep trust/contact/investment/repeateddemands/assets, no fakepersona or fullcrimeyearfrom22nd. Apparent initial profits followed by a large-deposit instruction do not explicitly establish repeated demands in this shorter paragraph. Preserve possible continued requests unresolved rather than borrowing the fuller first-deposit passage.
Reported caseSingTao reporter spentnearlytwomonths engaging with a purportedfemale neighbour/Shanghaiworker inHongKong throughWhatsAppafterbuildingcomplainttexts. Titleexplicitlydescribesseduction/heart-stealingandvirtualcurrencyfraud; paragraph characterizescourtingtactics. Retain attributedfalsepersona/trust/contact investigation, notactualreportedvictimloss, realpersona residence, reporteridentityclaimor a calendarincidentdate.
CommentaryKusatsu44-year-old woman reportedly lost overJPY100million in crypto/other assets after SNS investment recommendations; fuller retained paragraph states inducing romantic feelings and initial apparent profits. Retain trust manipulation/contact/investment/financial assets, not a year, identified false persona or a crime date from22nd.
Reported caseSingTao reporter spentnearlytwomonths engaging with a purportedfemale neighbour/Shanghaiworker inHongKong throughWhatsAppafterbuildingcomplainttexts. Titleexplicitlydescribesseduction/heart-stealingandvirtualcurrencyfraud; paragraph characterizescourtingtactics. Retain attributedfalsepersona/trust/contact investigation, notactualreportedvictimloss, realpersona residence, reporteridentityclaimor a calendarincidentdate.
CommentaryTottori man in his thirties reportedly lostJPY13,846,565after matching-app contact asking him to assist an online shop. Keep financial/contact and a broad unspecified financial-opportunity pretext, not a securities-trading subtype, fakefemaleidentity or crimeyear fromAugust.
Reported caseTottori thirties man reportedly lostaboutJPY13.85million in cash/electronicmoney in SNSromancefraud; headline describes funds for an Internetjob. Preserve rounding against13,846,565onlyinitsownsource, broad unspecifiedfinancial-opportunity/contact, not cryptoasset or fullAugust5year. The paragraph identifies a man within the prefecture in the same Tottori-police sentence; retain that contextual victim place mapping rather than infer it from the publisher.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman reportedly lost overJPY100million in crypto/other assets after SNS investment recommendations; fuller retained paragraph states inducing romantic feelings and initial apparent profits. Retain trust manipulation/contact/investment/financial assets, not a year, identified false persona or a crime date from22nd.
Reported caseSouthCoast man reportedly lost53,000with a dollar sign in a Tinder romance scam, sent abusive texts after betrayal and avoided conviction in a lenient court outcome. Keep attributed loss/distress/contact/legal appearance and other acts with target role; no guilty conviction, acquittal inferred from no-conviction, clinical diagnosis or amount/country filled from another source. Use the existing codebook allegation dimension; abusive texts and lenient legal outcome remain distinct from conviction or acquittal.
Reported caseKusatsu44-year-old woman lostoverJPY100million in crypto/otherassets afterSNSinvestmentapproach; fullerparagraph specifies romancefeelings, displayedinitialprofits and requestsforlargerdeposits. Keep trust/contact/investment/repeateddemands/assets, no fakepersona or fullcrimeyearfrom22nd. Apparent initial profits followed by a large-deposit instruction do not explicitly establish repeated demands in this shorter paragraph. Preserve possible continued requests unresolved rather than borrowing the fuller first-deposit passage.
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