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| 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% |
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Utsunomiya54-year-old woman reported JPY1.5million crypto loss; SNS contact claimed Korean nationality, called her wife and recommended investment to live together. Retain false romantic bond, online investment/crypto/loss/report/inquiry. August16/14thhave no stated year; Korean persona is not actual operation country or proven stolen identity.
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 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 caseChanghua56-year-old Xu’s online-dating investment losses and repeat supposed-lawyer recovery fraud appear in title/description. Headline explicitly attributes suicide to the scheme; retain alleged suicide-death extension, not a clinical or forensic finding. Truncated ten-million-plus total and property borrowing are not an exact currency-normalized figure. Preserve repeat-targeting and debt without borrowing details from other variants. Suicide is an attributed source claim. Separate deeper CNA reporting says identity and cause required DNA/forensic examination at that time. No original final forensic result was obtained; the media code is not a confirmed death-cause finding. Fuller source comparisons, amounts, family identification and investigative uncertainty remain a separate deeper layer. This record keeps its own romance classification, reported amount and harm wording; investment-only or ambiguous dating-investment variants remain excluded/unresolved rather than upgraded by shared identity. Changhua describes the targeted man’s place, not the criminal network’s operating country. Preserve the source location but correct that country role to victim.
Reported caseChanghua56-year-old ice-shop owner allegedly lost11.68million in seductive crypto-investment fraud, sold property, left with debts and was found as remains after14months. Foundation reportedly covered funeral costs after relatives sought help. Retain attributed loss/debt/crypto and support for relatives, not proven suicide/homicide or forensic identity. The phrase describes virtual-currency investment fraud/loss, without an explicit completed crypto payment. Retain the investment lure; a cryptocurrency product or quoted loss is not proof of cryptocurrency transfer. Fuller source comparisons, amounts, family identification and investigative uncertainty remain a separate deeper layer. This record keeps its own romance classification, reported amount and harm wording; investment-only or ambiguous dating-investment variants remain excluded/unresolved rather than upgraded by shared identity. Changhua describes the targeted man’s place, not the criminal network’s operating country. Preserve the source location but correct that country role to victim.
Reported caseChanghua56-year-oldXuisreportedtargetedbyonline-datingcrypto-investmentfraud, property-backedborrowingandfake-lawyerrecoveryfollow-up. Sourceexplicitlydescribessuicideatownfarmandremainsdiscovery. Retainallegedsuicidedeath,repeat-targeting,losstrading,debtandimpersonatedlawyer, notverifiedforensicfinding orobservation-as-deathdate. The false-lawyer persona belongs to the subsequent recovery fraud. It does not establish impersonation in the romantic relationship mechanism; retain repeat targeting and the lawyer context in notes. Suicide is an attributed source claim. Separate deeper CNA reporting says identity and cause required DNA/forensic examination at that time. No original final forensic result was obtained; the media code is not a confirmed death-cause finding. Fuller source comparisons, amounts, family identification and investigative uncertainty remain a separate deeper layer. This record keeps its own romance classification, reported amount and harm wording; investment-only or ambiguous dating-investment variants remain excluded/unresolved rather than upgraded by shared identity. Changhua describes the targeted man’s place, not the criminal network’s operating country. Preserve the source location but correct that country role to victim.
Reported caseNamed EastDunbartonshire former council leader AndrewPolson is on trial for alleged romance fraud and coercing a woman into a property scheme. Retain attributed trial/investment pretext, not proven guilt, money already lost or punitive trafficking inferred from the wordcoercing. Named recurrence requires preserved case comparison.
Reported caseThe Changhua orchard-remains report attributes an initial emotional scam followed by investment fraud to the missing man’s wife; his brother blames fraud for death. Retain associated attributed financial/investment narrative, not a verified cause of death, homicide or suicide.14months missing is duration, not an exact event date. Identification by clothing and suspected remains need selective verification. The place describes family remains discovery; keep victim country unknown in this shorter variant instead of inferring the criminal operating location.
Reported caseChanghua56-year-old man allegedly lost millions after online dating deception led into stock/virtual-currency investment and property-backed underground borrowing. Headline reports skeletal remains; the paragraph is truncated. Retain mixed dating/investment, debt and alleged material/property collateral, not a verified causal suicide, forced death or precise amount. Fuller source comparisons, amounts, family identification and investigative uncertainty remain a separate deeper layer. This record keeps its own romance classification, reported amount and harm wording; investment-only or ambiguous dating-investment variants remain excluded/unresolved rather than upgraded by shared identity. Changhua describes the targeted man’s place, not the criminal network’s operating country. Preserve the source location but correct that country role to victim.
Reported caseFuller Kagawa source reports SNS partner’s investment suggestion, approximately JPY110million loss, police investigation, Facebook-to-LINE contact and August confession. Retain source-specific relationship/trading/platform/loss; the truncated dating detail is not stolen identity or an explicit incident year. An explicitly quoted exclusive-love, developing-relationship or shared-future passage supports trust manipulation. Impersonation and true foreign nationality remain unestablished. Whole-code withholding cannot coexist with this source-bound mechanism application.
Reported caseThe Kagawa title explicitly classifies a woman in her seventies’ approximately JPY110 million loss as SNS romance fraud. Retain title-bound loss and online contact only; no platform, exact incident year or persona borrowed from fuller variants. The actually reread description supplies investment, SNS and exact110million loss. Correct the provisional title-only digital application because SNS is not in this title; no LINE or investigation imported from longer variants.
Reported caseKagawa police report a woman in her seventies losing approximately JPY110million to an SNS romantic partner’s investment proposition. Retain loss, investment, LINE and investigation. Do not silently normalize the amount from a rounded headline or infer incident year. This shortened Kagawa description ends with romance-fraud-case wording, without an explicit investigation verb. Do not borrow the probe from the longer wire version.
Reported caseKagawa police report a woman in her70s lost approximatelyJPY110million after an SNS romantic contact suggested investment. LINE appears in the headline. Retain attributed loss, trading and platform, not an exact year inferred from the3rd, a stolen identity or named recurrence.
Reported caseKagawa police report approximately JPY110 million lost by a woman in her seventies to an SNS romantic partner proposing investment. The title also supplies LINE. Retain attributed loss, trading and platform, not a known offender, exact event year or claim of independently verified total.
Reported caseKagawa police report approximately JPY110 million lost by a woman in her seventies to an SNS romantic partner proposing investment. The title also supplies LINE. Retain attributed loss, trading and platform, not a known offender, exact event year or claim of independently verified total.
Reported caseTomakomai police suspect romance fraud after a woman in her fifties sent approximately JPY74 million in crypto following a matching-app contact and investment invitation. Retain allegations, loss, crypto transfer and investment/platform. The yearless second day and actual identity of the contact remain unfilled.
Reported caseAomori police report a woman in her forties losing JPY550,000 after a matching-app/LINE romantic contact proposed an online shop for their future and promised30percent returns. Retain loss, trading/return pretext and trust manipulation. ShimizuDaisuke is an asserted persona; no verified identity, crypto payment or explicit year supplied. An explicitly quoted exclusive-love, developing-relationship or shared-future passage supports trust manipulation. Impersonation and true foreign nationality remain unestablished. Whole-code withholding cannot coexist with this source-bound mechanism application.
Reported caseShichinohe police report a man in his fifties losing JPY1.1million after Instagram/LINE romantic courtship, marriage promise and Ripple investment-site/Telegram side-job charges. WatanabeYoshiko and ShiratoriTsuki are asserted personas, not verified identities or a proven organized group. Retain loss, platform, investment and false-relationship/trust mechanism; yearless months remain unfilled.
Reported caseSaga police report two women in their fifties/sixties each losing approximately JPY40million to SNS romance/investment fraud; one received exclusive-love messages from a foreign-man persona after June19. Retain attributed loss, investment, digital contact and trust manipulation, not true nationality or event year supplied from observation. An explicitly quoted exclusive-love, developing-relationship or shared-future passage supports trust manipulation. Impersonation and true foreign nationality remain unestablished. Whole-code withholding cannot coexist with this source-bound mechanism application.
Reported caseThe programme synopsis names Jackie Crenshaw and a purported blue-eyed Brandon who charmed her into a bogus investment. It presents a factual scam account, not a fictional character plot. Retain the title’s million-dollar claim, investment and relationship persuasion as reported; the listing is not independent case verification.
Reported caseMassachusettstherapistplansguiltypleaaftersecretlyinvesting600,000dollarsofpatientfundsinacrypticinvestmenttrapwithafabricatedonlinepartner. Retain allegedemployer/entrustedfundstheft,falseaffection,trading/platformandplannedplea.600kispatientloss,nottherapistpersonalretirementlossorprovedcoercion;nochosenpleaalreadyentered. Patientfunds are entrustedthird-party assets, not employerfunds or therapist’sown savings. Allegedtheft/participant-victimrole and plannedplea remain separate. No paid600kpersonalromanceloss inferred.
Reported caseKusatsupolice report39-year-oldwoman lostapproximatelyJPY3.3millioncash plus4.6millioncrypto in anSNSromanceinvestment scenario withclaimedKoreanman. Retain allegedloss, actualcrypto, investment/platform and trustcontact; trueKoreannationality, stolenidentity andsourceyear unknown.
Reported caseTaichung55-year-oldLin reportedly thought he had found true love online and nearly mortgaged property in an investment trap. Retain attempted financial/property risk, trading and digital romantic-trustlure, not actual mortgage/loss, debt alreadyincurred or verifiedoffender identity.
Reported caseUtsunomiya57-year-oldcompanyemployeereportsJPY9.293millioncryptolossafterdatingappcontactclaimedJapanesewomanandproposedourromancefundinvestment. Retain loss/paidcrypto/platform/trading/report/probe,nottruepersonaidentityor yearfromJune12withoutsourceyear.
Reported caseNaganohara police classify70-year-oldAgatsumaman’sJPY7.24millionlossunderSNSinvestment/romancefraud. Retain mixedclassifierloss/platform/trading, notprovedfalseintimacy or alltaxonomycasesromance-only.
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