This article presents a crime script perspective on online romance fraud, focusing on how fraudulent schemes are initiated, sustained, and completed in digital environments. Grounded in crime-script analysis, it maps entry pathways such as initial contact and trust-building, followed by continuation stages characterized by manipulation, emotional engagement, and value extraction, and finally exit routes that conclude the scheme through disengagement, detection, or countermeasures. The discussion situates these pathways within online dating settings, cross-border interaction, and platform mediation, with attention to how each stage shapes offender choices and victim vulnerability and how digital affordances influence sequencing. This work surveys existing literature on romance scams and criminal justice responses to digital deception, and offers a structured schematic for cross-national comparison. Through a stage-based mapping, it identifies actor