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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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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 caseMixed-prefecture SNS investment/Romance Jan–September1.66billionJPY/2.5x plus one approximately15million romance example. Historical interval lacks own calendar year; not 2025 Jan–Sept or all aggregate Romance.
Research & trendsYuzawa60male18.95millionJPY SNS Romance and restaurant-reservation side-job lure. Paid loss, job promise not investment offer or evidence target committed an offence.
Reported caseSanJuan alleged false social relationship lasting two years/around7million unspecifiedcurrency; criminal proceeding formalized. Source proceeding investigated, not completed conviction, guessed AR/PR jurisdiction or cash recovery.
Reported caseMiaoli Houlong Chen TikTok Romance bank intercept attempted900USD. Truncated foreign account detail not operating country; no paidloss/returnedmoney.
Reported caseMiaoli Houlong male TikTok false UN doctor assistant, marriage/airfare pretext; bank and family/police prevent900USD≈27000NTD transfer. Attempt not paid loss or recovery, foreign persona not operator geography.
Reported caseMiaoli Houlong male TikTok false UN doctor assistant, marriage/airfare pretext; bank and family/police prevent900USD≈27000NTD transfer. Attempt not paid loss or recovery, foreign persona not operator geography.
Reported caseRudiCerne AktenzeichenXYVorsichtBetrug factual special addresses LoveScamming/shockcalls. Programme advice not unique case, new clinical harm or independent effectiveness study; mixed unrelated fraud not all Romance.
Related mentionTelugu Eenadu OnlineDating trap guide: money in bank/social-media account and enticing lover greeting HiHoney. Financial-intimacy lure is present; general advice not actual paid loss/diagnosis or all dating fraud.
Prevention & supportHusum reported affection-exploitation large cashloss and police LoveScamming warning. Danish/English language not Denmark victim location, sparse19 no age/amount filled from22. German Husum69/highfivefigure context requires individual-source geographic precision, not place-word match alone.
Reported caseUS woman with serious pre-existing illness deceived by fake JacksonWang/GOT7 virtual Romance and4000USD loss. Illness is source-stated prior circumstance, not fraud-caused physical harm or a diagnosis inferred. Distinct target/name evidence needed for other Kpop amounts. Serious illness is stated prior circumstance, not evidence offender explicitly selected her for illness; use unspecified context subtype rather than targeting strategy.
Reported caseNumata49female nurse12.36millionJPY false shared retirement-fund plan/affection. Cashloss/trust, but retirement future alone not specific investment returns/crypto offer. Nurse profession not medical harm.
Reported caseHusum reported affection-exploitation large cashloss and police LoveScamming warning. Danish/English language not Denmark victim location, sparse19 no age/amount filled from22. German Husum69/highfivefigure context requires individual-source geographic precision, not place-word match alone.
Reported caseChina embassy in Bangladesh warns online/short-video cross-border Romance and commercial-bride scams. General trafficking risk not confirmed trafficking victim, operator location, coercion or every matchmaking service a Romance scam. Nationalities not operation geography.
Prevention & supportPaderborn police investigating series of violent robberies linked to mysugardaddy dating scam, urging victims report. Reported violence/robbery is not clinical injury, proved sexual harm or homicide; no number arrested/convicted. Selective original police check requested.
Reported caseChina embassy in Bangladesh warns online/short-video cross-border Romance and commercial-bride scams. General trafficking risk not confirmed trafficking victim, operator location, coercion or every matchmaking service a Romance scam. Nationalities not operation geography.
Prevention & supportAkita50female26millionJPY SNS Romance; own investment-offer headline supports investment, not crypto payment or exact calendar year.
Reported caseChina embassy in Bangladesh warns online/short-video cross-border Romance and commercial-bride scams. General trafficking risk not confirmed trafficking victim, operator location, coercion or every matchmaking service a Romance scam. Nationalities not operation geography.
Prevention & supportPongau64female17kEUR false USgeneral/blockedaccount Romance versus Flachgau40female80k task/product-review job fraud. Distinct targets/schemes;97k not Romance aggregate, crypto in task case not first-case crypto payment, US persona not actual operator country. Romance17k loss is in own headline; description80k relates separate Flachgau task victim. Bind financial code to correct Romance source field, retain mixed-scheme qualification.
Reported caseHildesheim male Romance cashloss after false online identity/feigned relationship. Prevention framing not quantified efficacy, medical harm or new arrest.
Reported caseKaohsiung elderlyChen falseonlinehusband requests collect1million, allegedlymoneycourier arrested; Liang730000NTDactualinvestmentloss/1mwithdrawal-fee nextattempt differentperson. Courierclaimedwronged notknowinglyguilty/forcedlabor, collectedfunds notChen personalRomance loss. Livingalone not automatically diagnosedisolation. Correct guide-only magnitude:73萬元=730000NTD, not73000; separate investmenttarget, no Chen personalRomance loss application.
Reported caseKaohsiung elderlyChen falseonlinehusband requests collect1million, allegedlymoneycourier arrested; Liang730000NTDactualinvestmentloss/1mwithdrawal-fee nextattempt differentperson. Courierclaimedwronged notknowinglyguilty/forcedlabor, collectedfunds notChen personalRomance loss. Livingalone not automatically diagnosedisolation. Correct guide-only magnitude:73萬元=730000NTD, not73000; separate investmenttarget, no Chen personalRomance loss application.
Reported caseAll24 states/roles/dates assessed on exact own eNCA summary. Source reports28woman/24suspect, rape/beating/confinement/rescue andcharges. Not all catfish violence assumed financial Romance: explicit same-case SAPS financial purpose is outside context only, neither eNCA own paid loss nor extortion theme borrowed. No amount paid, knowing guilt/conviction, exact date from publication, clinical consequence, employer-fund theft or programme watched. Source Pretoria/Giyani geography source-attributed; no country or nationality inferred from publisher suffix. Preserved original U/current qualified A and raw hashes; source identity08423 is eNCA, never relabeled SAPS.
Reported caseShanghaiFengxianLi750000RMB onlinegirlfriend actuallytwopeople male/female, deceptionbeganFebruary2023. Allegedfinancial/emotionalharm/rhetoric not clinicaldiagnosis, policeinvestigationnotconviction, distinctJiadingYang388000case.
Reported caseJapanNPA finalized2024 special/SNS investment/Romance totals about2千億JPY=200billion, not2trillion/allRomance.717億special and1268億SNS combined components differ; final/provisional adjustment3.9億 not new individualcase. Explicit2024 is historicalaggregate year, sourcecopies not independentstudies. Explicit2024 source aggregate date/agencyjurisdiction, not publicationmonth or individualincidentcalendar.
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