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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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Marathi source warns of hotel/bar dating traps and its saved English opening reports a Mumbai bar date and Rs24,000bill, with dating apps listed. Retain alleged attempted financial billing exploitation and online-dating context, not proof the bill was paid, a fabricated long-term romance or threatened payment. GDELT bh label is unverified; saved text is Marathi.
Reported caseWoman reportedly lost EUR291,000, thought a dating-site man loved her and was left with substantial debt. Retain loss/debt, fabricated romantic relationship and dating medium; no name, actual residence, exact date, depression/suicide or case bridge inferred. The quoted belief that he loved her supports trust exploitation; it does not independently establish his internal intent or a fabricated entire relationship. Debt and loss remain her attributed financial outcomes.
Reported caseThe Aisle/ThanePaabloBarandUpvanLakeaccountreportsthemanpressuredtopayRs24,000forpremiumdrinksorderedbyawomandatingcontact. Retainattributedpaidloss/pressureandplatform, notprovedphysicallycoercedextortion or long-termfalseaffection. Sharedsocialmediawarningsarenotindependentcorroboration.
Reported caseNumatapolice report53-year-old femaleorganizationemployee lostJPY18.8millionin crypto toSNSinvestment/romancefraud. Retain attributedloss/cryptocommunication, notbroaderotherNumata ages/amounts, a matched persona orclaimallcrypto wasinvestmentreturns.
Reported caseGurugram man’s73lakh loss is explicitly tied to Bumble romantic trust and fake crypto groups despite the investment-only headline. Retain attributed loss, trust manipulation, trading and platform; crypto group does not prove a crypto transfer or specific forged identity.
Reported caseMaebashiEastpolice report78-year-old woman lostJPY4.31million to SNSinvestment/romancefraud exploiting romanticfeelings. Retain mixedclassification, loss and onlinecontext; no exact eventyear, offender orspecificinvestmentdetailinthisshortversion. The paragraph explicitly binds exploiting romantic feelings for money to the described method. Retain trust manipulation, without inventing a fabricated identity or promise.
Reported caseTwoSpanishheadlines/onesource explicitlynameIkechukwuNdubuisi,Nigerianfugitive,Tinder/Facebook andArgentinaINTERPOLarrest concerning allegedUSD8millionmulti-countrylovefraud. Retain allegations/arrest/network/platform; firstsilvernoticecaptureis asourceclaim, notindependentlyverified. Do notinferguilt orcurrency beyondliteral$unlessfinalsourcecontextsettlesit. Leading or orchestrating multiple scams alone does not explicitly identify a multi-person network in this variant. The fuller network article cannot supply this missing organization detail.
Reported caseTokyo Metropolitan Police reportedly arrested a15-year-old Sendai high-school student accused of pretending to be a woman online and taking men’s money. He reportedly admits allegations. Gambling/game-account motive in headline is attributed, not all victims’ motive; keep source-specific arrest/persona/platform and unspecified loss, no conviction.
Reported caseAn Utsunomiya51-year-old worker reportedly lost24.4millionyen after a matching-app acquaintance suggested a side business; headline explicitly classifies SNSromance fraud. Retain reported loss/platform/opportunity lure, not a proved promise of returns or named offender borrowed from other regional cases.
Reported caseMother describes losingGBP85,000to an online romance fraudster. Retain attributed loss/platform and personal disclosure. No NorthYorkshire/Kirstyname or90,000identity is supplied; bravely wording does not establish a clinicalcondition or explicit blaming.
Reported caseSagaSouthpolice reportmaninhis30s paidaboutJPY2.19millionin161cash/e-moneytransfers toawomanpersona allegingutilitybills/bikeinjury/skin-graftcosts. Familyquestionedscamandhereportedtopolice. Retainloss, repeatedrequests, claimedmedicalpersona/supportpretexts andreporting, notactualskin-graft injurytoavictim oratimeyearfilledfromlastyear.
Reported caseSpanish reporting discusses Argentina’s dating-app use and increasing risk of online romantic scams in a broader relationship discussion. Retain general digital context, not verified second-place ranking, victim count or an actual specific harm. Two Nova URLs may repeat a media work, not two incidents.
Research & trendsMan toldClayCountysheriffdeputies hemayhavelostUSD120,000inonline romancefraud. Retain allegedloss,onlinecontact andreporting, withsourcecertainty preserved. Lastweekhasnoexactdate; neithercryptoATMnorTikTokcanbeborrowedfromlongercoverage.
Reported caseClayCountysheriff reports localman lostUSD120,000in TikTokromancefraud and discusses encryptedapps/cryptoATMs. Retain attributedindividual loss and platform. Warning aboutcryptoATMs does notprove thisman usedone or showacompleted cryptocurrencytransfer.
Reported caseTwoLKAwarningvariants explicitlymentionAI-assistedshockcalls,lovefraudandextortionandprecautions. Retainmixedgeneralwarning andAIcontext; noindividualperpetrator,diagnosisorprovedincrease. GenericLKAdoesnotidentifywhichregionaljurisdiction.
Prevention & supportA26-year-old at Vienna regionalcourt reportedly received a finaltwoyearsentence, eightmonthsunconditional, for aggravated commercial lovefraud over a datingplatform andEUR147,000. Retain attributed loss/platform/sentence; suspended versus immediate duration remains original. No victim identity or external case merger.
Reported caseTwoLKAwarningvariants explicitlymentionAI-assistedshockcalls,lovefraudandextortionandprecautions. Retainmixedgeneralwarning andAIcontext; noindividualperpetrator,diagnosisorprovedincrease. GenericLKAdoesnotidentifywhichregionaljurisdiction.
Prevention & supportNikko43-year-oldfemaleemployeereportedcryptoJPY4.33millionlost;policeinvestigateSNSromancefraudbeginningwithamatchingapp. Retainloss/crypto/platform/reportandprobe. No actualromanticpersona,investmentreturns orexactincidentdateadded.
Reported caseTinderFaceCheck mandatoryvideoselfie featureisreported rolledoutinIndia tocombatbots/romancefraud. Retain reportedpreventiveinitiative/digitalfeature, notindependent effectiveness/safety, actualcrime reductionorimplementedlaw.
Prevention & supportA26-year-oldman reportedly standsbeforecourt after obtainingEUR160,000fromtwelvewomenoverfouryears by pretendingfeelingsonline. Retain attributed loss/fabricatedrelationships/trial andplatform. Todayisnotastatedactdate; no finalsentence orsameamountas147,000source assumed.
Reported caseToday.at reports lovefraudjudgment against aRomanianman who targetedTinderwomen, notablya deafViennese woman, withEUR160,000andtwoyearsprison. Retain attributed loss/platform/sentence and disability context as explicittargeting only if laterqualitypassbindsit. Nationalitynottruevictimresidence; no12/147,000normalization. Wienerin identifies the harmed woman as Viennese. It does not name a court jurisdiction; correct only that role, retaining the source and actual judicial outcome.
Reported caseA26-year-oldViennaman receivedtwoyearsforcommercialdatingfraud allegedlytakingEUR147,000fromtwelvewomento fundgambling. Retainattributedloss/platform/sentence, noactualguiltofotherpersonsor160,000sourceconflation.
Reported caseViennaTinderfraudreport describesman pretendingrelationshipsfor years toborrowmoneyfromwomen, statingagamblingproblem. Retain allegedfalsecourtship/platform; noamount,moneysalreadyreceivedfromeach oractualclinicaldiagnosis. Two-yearjailsentence occurs inheadline, withqualifications retained.
Reported caseBern woman transferred hundreds of thousands of francs in Bitcoin for an online acquaintance and received a15,000franc monetary penalty. Romance/laundering headlines identify the associated scenario. Retain financial facilitation, crypto transfer and sentence; transferred proceeds and judicial fine are not automatically personal romance-loss totals. Three source variants are possible shared reporting, not independent findings.
Reported caseStaffordshirewomanreportedlylostGBP130,000toFacebookromancefraudandwasleftwithoutfoodintheheadline. Retainloss/platformandmaterialdeprivation, not actualstarvationdeath, homelessness,clinicalcondition orrecovery. No food is an explicit basic-needs deprivation claim in this headline. It is not homelessness, clinical starvation, self-harm or a causal death finding.
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