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Grooming and Trust Development

Approved public versions are listed newest first. Drafts, unsuccessful generation attempts, and versions not yet published through this Research Insight are excluded.

Approved public versions

  1. Version 112

    Current public version

    Incremental evidence update. A small update is sufficient. Remove the withdrawn synthetic-dialogue citations and reassess the claims they supported, particularly the presentation of scripted behavior as interactional evidence. Add the narrowly stated research priority concerning offline encounters without implying that the excerpt reports findings about those encounters. Retain the central grooming-and-trust conclusion and the existing timing account: the fuller Kim and Seo excerpt supports rela...

  2. Version 111

    Incremental evidence update. A small update is sufficient. Remove the withdrawn synthetic-dialogue citations and reassess the claims they supported, particularly the presentation of scripted behavior as interactional evidence. Add the narrowly stated research priority concerning offline encounters without implying that the excerpt reports findings about those encounters. Retain the central grooming-and-trust conclusion and the existing timing account: the fuller Kim and Seo excerpt supports rela...

  3. Version 110

    Incremental evidence update. A small update is sufficient. Remove the withdrawn synthetic-dialogue citations and reassess the claims they supported, particularly the presentation of scripted behavior as interactional evidence. Add the narrowly stated research priority concerning offline encounters without implying that the excerpt reports findings about those encounters. Retain the central grooming-and-trust conclusion and the existing timing account: the fuller Kim and Seo excerpt supports rela...

    • Publications: 41 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 151 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 41 (+1)

    Sources added: Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders.

  4. Version 109

    Incremental evidence update. A small update is sufficient. Remove the withdrawn synthetic-dialogue citations and reassess the claims they supported, particularly the presentation of scripted behavior as interactional evidence. Add the narrowly stated research priority concerning offline encounters without implying that the excerpt reports findings about those encounters. Retain the central grooming-and-trust conclusion and the existing timing account: the fuller Kim and Seo excerpt supports rela...

    • Evidence statements: 150 (-1)

    Sources added: Romance Fraud in India: A Qualitative Study of Online–Offline Transitions in the Digital Dating Ecosystem.

    Sources removed: Synthetic Dialogue Dataset for Romance Scam Detection.

  5. Version 108

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 107.

  6. Version 107

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 40 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 151 (-11)
    • Cited sources: 40 (-6)

    Sources added: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; “You’re not alone”: the use of peer support groups for fraud victims.

    Sources removed: (Mis)Understanding the Impact of Online Fraud: Implications for Victim Assistance Schemes; Developments in the Law Governing Online Activity: The Criminalisation of Catfishing and Civil Relief in Cases of Image-Based Sexual Abuse; Media Presentation of Online Romance Fraud in the Czech Republic: Visibility, Victim-Offender Framing, and Sentiment; Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis; and 4 more.

  7. Version 106

    Initial version: this is the first synthesized, evidence‑linked rendering of the reviewed corpus for the controlled topic 'Grooming and Trust Development'. It consolidates cross‑study descriptive patterns, methodological limitations, and evidence‑supported future directions identified explicitly in the reviewed records; no prior-version changes applied.

    • Publications: 46 (+19)
    • Evidence statements: 162 (+43)
    • Cited sources: 46 (+19)

    Sources added: (Mis)Understanding the Impact of Online Fraud: Implications for Victim Assistance Schemes; Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; An exploration of the motivations of catfish perpetrators and the emotions and feelings expressed by catfish victims using automated linguistic analysis and thematic analysis; Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; and 24 more.

    Sources removed: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Emotional and financial costs of online dating scam: A phenomenological narrative of the experiences of victims of Nigerian romance fraudsters; Language, Psychology, and New New Media: The Hyperpersonal Model of Mediated Communication at Twenty-Five Years; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; and 5 more.

  8. Version 105

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages and removing 1 wholly unsupported passage from synthesis version 104.

  9. Version 104

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version. This synthesis reproduces specified protected passages verbatim and integrates additional supported material from the supplied evidence. Audit-flagged claims were revised to remove or soften unsupported timing or wording where the provided evidence did not supply the exact detail; every paragraph is attached only to evidence records that directly support its material clauses.

    • Publications: 27 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 119 (-5)
    • Cited sources: 27 (-2)

    Sources removed: How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; ‘Should’ve known better’: Using Lerner’s Belief in a Just World to understand how the Fraud Justice Network observe victims of online romance and investment frauds.

  10. Version 103

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version. This synthesis reproduces the audited protected passages verbatim where required and limits other claims to statements directly supported by the supplied evidence records. It narrows or omits prior meta‑claims and recommendations that were not explicitly documented in the provided evidence and highlights evidence gaps and methodological limits only where the attached records explicitly identify them.

    • Publications: 29 (+3)
    • Evidence statements: 124 (+2)
    • Cited sources: 29 (+3)

    Sources added: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; Exploring the roles played by trust and technology in the online investment fraud victimisation process; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; and 4 more.

    Sources removed: Hyperpersonal feedback and online romance fraud: an empirical examination; The Emerging Trends of Online Romance Fraud in the Era of Artificial Intelligence; The Role of Love stories in Romance Scams: A Qualitative Analysis of Fraudulent Profiles; Understanding Romance Fraud: Insights From Domestic Violence Research; and 1 more.

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