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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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Sapporo60male SNS false-woman Romance and crypto-investment offer. Actual reported cashloss and investigation only where own snippet states it. Offer of crypto trading is not cryptocurrency payment: designated bank transfers remain cash; 10transfers not10victims or proof repeated requests. Own thresholds/406million/relative lastNovember–May20 differ; no exact amount, year or procedural fact supplied to a sparser version.
Reported caseAkita50female26millionJPY SNS Romance; own investment-offer headline supports investment, not crypto payment or exact calendar year.
Reported caseOita50maleSNSRomance39500000JPY-equivalentcrypto/investmentoffer explicitheadline; genericpublisherdesc supplies no localdetail. DistinctOita60ordinaryinvestment17.5m/Nakatsu40female14.4m, no case bypublisheronly.
Reported caseTaipei antique-coin investment warning explicitly from romanticheat tofinancialruin/Line group. General narrative not current individual quantifiedloss/clinicaldiagnosis or all cointradesRomance.
Prevention & supportTakizawa40male1400000JPYcrypto lost sourcecombinedSNSinvestment/Romance label, anonymousbrokenJapaneseBitcoinquickprofitcall. Individualromanticmechanism notestablished byumbrella; Mscope, nofalsefullrelationship/personanationality oralllocalcases same. ExplicitOctober2024–January25 interval retained; no standalone25year conversionfilled.
Reported caseChanghua64Zeng falseartistLinSha Instagram/marriage/buyhome investmentpromise;1000000USD offered not paid. Bankpolice stop40000NTD currency/remittance attempt; successful interception not recovered loss, proposal not homeforeclosure.
Reported caseChanghua64Zeng falseartistLinSha Instagram/marriage/buyhome investmentpromise;1000000USD offered not paid. Bankpolice stop40000NTD currency/remittance attempt; successful interception not recovered loss, proposal not homeforeclosure.
Reported caseNamedLiaoChengchieh36/Huang passportrentalUSaccounts/falsefriendshipinvestment5328855USD≈170520000NTD; airportapprehension/remand/indictment10yrLiao5yrHuangREQUESTED. Requestsnotimposedsentence/courtguilt/paidreturnedfunds. Passportpurchaseaccountuse notvictimidentitiesstolenwithoutconsentautomatically. USaccountuse/sourceillegalproceeds actualcriminalrole not automaticallyvictimfacilitator; passportpurchase doesnotestablishnonconsensualidentitytheft.
Reported caseBai online claimedmilitaryboyfriend romantic relationship, allegedly800000RMB loss after profitable investmentwebsite flaw story. Offeredreturns/investment actualsource; not country from militarypersona or true technical websitebug.
Reported caseRetiredTexasman allegedly500000USD/401kcryptoloss fakeinvestmentgrowth, housesalepending/jobseeking. Offeredhouse notcompletedhomelessness/houseforeclosure; retirement-savingslossnotbusiness-theft and jobseekingnotestablishedemploymentloss. Correction: housing is a material-harm subtype under codebook1.1.0, not a separatecode; retain harm.material withheld for offerednotcompletedhouse-sale/job-seeking. Failedbuild wrote no frozenrelease.
Reported caseAll24 themes/roles/dates assessed. This is mixed investment advice with an explicit romantic emotional-bond financial pathway, not all five scams Romance or a verified named crime. Fake crypto-investment solicitation does not prove completed transfer, repayment, loss, court outcome, clinical disorder or measured prevention. Loneliness described as targeting circumstance rather than post-scam diagnosis. Stacker/CheapInsurance named work remains source-attributed; other41 headline copies not full-body read or automatically accepted. FBI2023 all-fraud and FTC2024 age medians retain mixed denominators, not Romance trends. Observation/publication dates not incident dates; countries unknown. Current qualification: Correct the general-warning scope field to general as required by the existing publication dimension contract. Mixed friendship/intimate-financial purpose remains qualified in source context/scam linkage; this is not an observed individual incident or a new source reading. Existing all24 states, own raw/body references and original capsule remain unchanged/preserved.
Prevention & supportFujiShizuoka60smaleSNSRomance11000000JPYcash afterclaimedfemale travel-savinginvestmentoffer. ApriltoMay sourcepartialnotfullcalendar, no cryptocurrencyactualtransfer/opcountry. Ownfemale-impersonating-personheadline explicitclaimedfalsepersona, actualoperatorsex/country notfilled.
Reported caseMisawa50sfemale17990000JPYcryptoRomance allegedKoreanmale TikTokevan45504→LINEKangMyeongHyeok. December2024earlycontact, Januaryshort25year eightpurchases13170000JPY distinctoverall17990000notextraallloss; purchasesnotalltargettransfersactualbodycutafter. PersonaKorean notoperations; fullavailableyearretainedonly. Use actualexplicitDecember2024 monthprecision supportedbyexistingparser; source上旬ごろ qualifier retained innotes. Do notforceyearprefixinsideChinesefullmonth orfillshort25年January.
Reported caseLinkou twofemale45Liu2550000NTD+69Wang17000000NTD mixedRomancecryptoinvestment losses19550000total. HiSong/Tiktok respectivecontactsnotalloneperson, ninecashface-to-face paymentsnotactualcryptoalreadytransferred. Twoarrestedcouriers nottargetconvictions, sourcefamilyreporthelpsLiu.
Reported caseLinkou twofemale45Liu2550000NTD+69Wang17000000NTD mixedRomancecryptoinvestment losses19550000total. HiSong/Tiktok respectivecontactsnotalloneperson, ninecashface-to-face paymentsnotactualcryptoalreadytransferred. Twoarrestedcouriers nottargetconvictions, sourcefamilyreporthelpsLiu.
Reported caseKuwana30male dating-app woman Ethereum31200000JPY worth paidRomance loss. Investmentofferheadline and actualcryptoassetstolen separate from nominalcurrency, no doubledtargetsum/courtsentence.
Reported caseTaipeiLiu56mother1600000NTDRomance theninvestment; daughter intenseconflict/abnormaloutflows, policefivecourier arrests after cooperation. Actual reportedfamilyconflict not clinician diagnosis/sourceblame automaticallyendorsed; transfersnotthreevictims.
Reported caseSaiki60male2370000JPY dating-app Romance saving-systemdailyinterest offer. Own policewarning and cashloss; dailyreturn not verifiedinvestment. No paidcrypto/incidentyear fromrelative day.
Reported caseOtake70sfemale gold-buying offer Romance attempt stopped; bank commended. No paidloss/amount/restitution established from prevention headline; genericsource no diagnosis. Own description explicitlySNS medium, not genericprevention audience inferred as platform.
Prevention & supportTaipei marriedwoman sweetromance/fakeFacebookstockinvestment1600000NTD; marriedpersonmaytargetnotcriminalgenuinepartner. Multiplemanager/assistant roles and emotionalrapport explicitbody; allegednetworknotindependentguilt. Ownheadline explicitly policecatching andfamilydispute. Fivecount/motherage absentthisversion; retainown broad enforcement andconflict without borrowed quantities.
Reported caseTaipeiLiu50s single mother online love-lure asks daughter >million then investment request and policearrest headline. Borrowed funds not independently all completed scam payment, family-restoration headline no clinical proof. Stronger related own reports assessed separately.
Reported caseTaipei56female onlineRomance followed investment platform1600000NTDthreepayments, children disagreement and policefivecourier/monitor arrests. Three payments not threevictims, familyconflict not psychiatricdiagnosis/confirmedknowingmuling.
Reported caseAomori40female total1200000JPY composed100000cash plus1100000crypto, InstagramWangclaimedHongKong/aicryptoex.com trading. Personaaddress not actualoperation; cashpluscrypto not doubledtotal. Lastyear/thisyear dates lack fullcalendar, not filled.
Reported caseMalaysia38deliveryworker150000MYR fake-tradingRomance loss afterfatherdeath; ownlovebomb/dailymessages. Bereavement context not clinicaldiagnosis or all vulnerablepeople actualvictims.
Reported caseAkita40s male634440JPY SNS Romance cash-loss report. Own headline explicitly states affection and investment solicitation, supporting trust-manipulation and investment codes in that title only. No false-face/AI format, promised realized return or inferred year.
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