We found that romance fraud was rising year-on-year across every region in England and Wales, increasing 55% during the 3 years between October 2018 and October 2021. Fifty percent of all the romance fraud victims in the period resided in 17% of the places where romance fraud had occurred. A total of 439 locations (outward postcode areas) were identified as the “power few” in the first year of the data set. Of these 439 locations, 162 of them recurred in both of the following years, becoming chronic “hot spot” locations containing more than one in six of all reported romance fraud victims. The demography of victims in repeat locations differed considerably, but hot spots were more frequently predominantly populated by less affluent populations.

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约会热点到诈骗热点：针对英格兰和威尔士恋爱诈骗受害者的社会特征

我们发现，英格兰和威尔士各个地区的爱情诈骗都在逐年上升，2018 年 10 月至 2021 年 10 月的三年间增加了 55%。该时期所有爱情诈骗受害者中，有 50% 居住在 17% 的地区。发生爱情诈骗的地方。数据集第一年，共有 439 个地点（外发邮政编码区域）被确定为“少数势力”。在这 439 个地点中，其中 162 个地点在接下来的两年中再次出现，成为长期“热点”地点，其中超过六分之一的已报告的浪漫诈骗受害者。重复地点的受害者人口统计差异很大，但热点地区往往主要由不太富裕的人口组成。