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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 | 43 | 591 | 7.3% |
| Feb 2025 | 48 | 1,629 | 2.9% |
| Mar 2025 | 35 | 561 | 6.2% |
| Apr 2025 | 30 | 390 | 7.7% |
| May 2025 | 36 | 398 | 9.0% |
| Jun 2025 | 6 | 209 | 2.9% |
| Jul 2025 | 42 | 522 | 8.0% |
| Aug 2025 | 21 | 447 | 4.7% |
| Sep 2025 | 25 | 613 | 4.1% |
| Oct 2025 | 53 | 483 | 11.0% |
| Nov 2025 | 48 | 392 | 12.2% |
| Dec 2025 | 35 | 333 | 10.5% |
| Jan 2026 | 30 | 530 | 5.7% |
| Feb 2026 | 56 | 1,106 | 5.1% |
| Mar 2026 | 30 | 360 | 8.3% |
| Apr 2026 | 32 | 491 | 6.5% |
| May 2026 | 414 | 785 | 52.7% |
| Jun 2026 | 410 | 842 | 48.7% |
| Jul 2026 | 528 | 1,143 | 46.2% |
| Aug 2026 | 287 | 640 | 44.8% |
| Sep 2026 | 34 | 638 | 5.3% |
| Oct 2026 | 2 | 30 | 6.7% |
Each record represents a source web page, not a verified incident. Different URLs can describe the same event. About these records.
Kaminokawa reporting describes a 49-year-old man’s JPY2.58 million loss, police report and investigation classified as SNS romance fraud. A purported foreign woman’s identity is not a verified operation country.
Reported caseYunlin’s off-duty officer and spouse intercepted an alleged courier before a third 3-million cash handover. The description reports two earlier handovers totaling 2.7 million and a dating/investment scheme. Keep earlier completed loss, attempted new loss, interception and arrest distinct. A land loan is mentioned but its resulting debt burden is not established.
Reported caseYunlin police describe an off-duty officer and spouse arresting a courier and protecting 3 million after a dating/investment scam. The shorter report does not itself establish the earlier 2.7-million completed payments; do not transfer that amount from the richer account.
Reported casePolice reportedly recovered more than 9,000 euros from a romantic crypto-investment deception involving a purported executive and emotional manipulation. Recovered funds are not proof of victim reimbursement or the total amount lost. The saved text does not locate the jurisdiction.
Reported caseA Málaga man reportedly lost EUR9,000 in romantic crypto-investment fraud and police recovered the money. Recovery is not proof of completed reimbursement; hundreds of additional victims are a possibility, not an established count. Málaga contextualizes the police matter; the generic Policía Nacional label is not used as a globally unique country alias.
Reported caseAzumino’s man in his seventies lost JPY7.57 million after a supposed economic commentator/assistant approach. The source uses a broad investment/romance classification; do not convert the described investing pretext into confirmed courtship or merge with the other Azumino victim.
Related mentionShiojiri’s man in his sixties reportedly lost JPY1.24 million after SMS stock pitches and a claim that AI marketing predicted rising stocks, under a broad investment/romance classification. The AI claim is not evidence of an actual synthetic-media tool.
Related mentionSuzaka reporting places a man in his fifties’s JPY12.58 million crypto loss under the broad SNS-investment/romance classification. A female persona and investment request do not establish a particular romantic mechanism beyond that combined source category.
Related mentionHimeji police received a report from a woman aged 63 of about JPY 3.38 million lost after a matching-app contact promised profitable investing and living together. Police are investigating as romance fraud. Preserve promise and actual alleged loss; no proved recovery or complete procedural date.
Reported caseMacau police arrested two women in separate investment cases, one tied to online romance, with a combined MOP 26 million loss and victim complaints. Keep the two-case aggregate mixed; neither the entire amount nor both cases is romance-only.
Related mentionLigang police and bank staff reportedly blocked a TWD 1 million withdrawal for a net-contact’s stocks, classified as fake-dating investment fraud. The headline presents TWD 5,000 staff rewards as awarded, while the paragraph says police will apply for them. Preserve that status difference; neither wording is victim recovery. No specific romantic persona or sustained partnership is described. The original guide is preserved; the award wording is now explicitly source-specific rather than resolved in favour of one field.
Related mentionThe source explicitly describes a romance-and-investment rare-oil scheme using fake female dating profiles and a girlfriend’s photograph, allegedly taking Rs 1.90 lakh (190,000 rupees) from an AIIMS researcher. AIIMS is not evidence of an AI tool; Ugandan nationality does not locate the operation. Keep the source rupee wording; neither the currency abbreviation nor the offender’s nationality assigns an operation or victim country.
Reported caseYurihonjo police report a man in his fifties losing JPY 700,000 to romance fraud after a person he liked suggested gold trading. Keep the relationship-affinity and investment pretext, without an inferred false identity, country of the contact or incident year.
Reported caseNasushiobara police describe a 46-year-old woman losing crypto worth JPY 11,919,139 after a supposed Japanese man’s contact developed into intimate conversations and investment urged to build trust. Persona nationality is not a geographic role; do not turn relative/yearless dates into full dates. The victim explicitly reported the loss to police; do not infer an arrest from that filing.
Reported caseKuroishi police report an Aomori man in his twenties losing JPY 2.45 million after dating-app Momoko, Line and JHYD crypto-investment contact. Initial displayed/received profits and later increased payments are attributed; no verified identity, nationality or full year for October/November dates inferred. Small displayed/received profits are described, but a separate explicit return promise is absent. Keep the investment solicitation and omit a duplicate promised-returns subtype.
Reported caseGerman guidance describes an exciting online acquaintance talking about investments and warns of costly love scams. General warning is not a completed victim loss or evaluated advice; access/paywall label does not license full-body retention.
Prevention & supportTaiwan police publish mixed Xiaohongshu fraud statistics and a network-access restriction, explicitly describing fake dating leading to Line investment groups. Retain the 43 fake-dating category as attributed and separate from the 1,706 two-year and other subtype counts. Investment AI videos do not prove AI-assisted romantic impersonation; paid-sex fraud is a separate category. The mixed-fraud paragraph explicitly reports AI-made financial-analysis videos. Code that attributed technique only in mixed scope; it does not establish romantic face/voice impersonation.
Related mentionHachinohe police report an Aomori man in his sixties losing JPY 1.5 million through a supposed Son-a woman’s online-shop inducement. A small initial payment/profit precedes further supplier-payment requests; these are not proof of genuine trading. Keep source-specific shop mechanism and no presumed perpetrator nationality or full incident date. The described profit pretext is an online shop and supplier-payment scheme, not explicitly securities trading or a promised return rate. Keep the subtype unspecified; initial received funds do not independently prove a promised return.
Reported caseKagoshima police describe a man in his fifties losing crypto worth JPY 45.3 million after a dating-app woman offered investment and moved contact to Line. The police announcement says the 26th and the account begins late August without a full year; neither observation date nor persona gender establishes an incident date or nationality.
Reported caseFreudenstadt reporting describes a woman losing a high five-figure sum in crypto after a dating-app love fraud. The precise amount, victim age, incident date and police action are absent.
Reported casePenang reporting explicitly labels five 2023–2025 cases as pig-butchering or romantic-investment fraud, with RM 1,993,848.50 in losses. These are attributed three-year figures, not a 2025-only case census; no incident count inferred from multiple descriptions.
Research & trendsAkita Rinko police report a woman in her forties losing crypto worth JPY 5.02million in romance fraud, with an affinity/crypto-investment headline. Date27has noyear; police announcement is not an arrest or formal charge.
Reported caseMinamiuonuma police report arrest of a 20-year-old Malaysian national over gold bullion worth about JPY 25 million, investigated as SNS romance fraud with a supposed economist uncle investment story. Gold is property, not the same cash loss; nationality is not an operation/victim location.
Reported caseTainan police and doctor influencer Li Peishuo filmed a fake-love-scam warning using a staged UN-official persona and describe gift/customs/marriage/investment lures. These are general methods and prevention claims, not real UN participation, measured effect or an actual victim loss; audience/follower figures are not victim counts.
Prevention & supportCNMV’s crypto-world romance-scam warning refers to investor social-network use and prevention. This is general regulatory/pretext context, not measured uptake/effect or a completed individual crypto payment.
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