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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 22

    Initial version: This is the first synthesised evidence summary for the controlled topic 'Grooming and Trust Development' using the supplied reviewed evidence records.

    • Publications: 43 (+11)
    • Evidence statements: 170 (+42)
    • Cited sources: 43 (+11)

    Sources added: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud; Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles; and 15 more.

    Sources removed: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Explore the Causes of Crime and Social Impact of Romance Fraud in Mainland China from 2019–2021; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; and 4 more.

  2. Version 21

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 20.

  3. Version 20

    Automated claim-level support repair of 2 passages from synthesis version 19.

  4. Version 19

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis produced. This document reproduces verbatim the protected summary and specified claim passages and restricts other assertions to content supported by the supplied evidence records. No previously included unsupported or audit-flagged assertions were reintroduced. Evidence selection and paragraph-level citations were limited to the exact reviewed records that directly support each material clause.

  5. Version 18

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 32 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 128 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 32 (-1)

    Sources added: “If U Don't Pay they will Share the Pics”: Exploring Sextortion in the Context of Romance Fraud.

    Sources removed: Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; Romance Scam: Victim Manipulation and Human Trafficking.

  6. Version 17

    Initial version: this synthesis consolidates the supplied reviewed evidence into a multi‑section summary. No prior-version evidence changes were applied because this is the first generated synthesis.

    • Publications: 33 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 130 (-7)
    • Cited sources: 33 (-1)

    Sources added: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República; Emotional and financial costs of online dating scam: A phenomenological narrative of the experiences of victims of Nigerian romance fraudsters; and 7 more.

    Sources removed: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud; and 8 more.

  7. Version 16

    Automated claim-level support repair of 3 passages from synthesis version 15.

  8. Version 15

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis produced to meet audit constraints and to preserve specified protected passages verbatim with the exact evidence IDs provided. No prior-version unsupported passages were reintroduced; recommendations and methodological gap statements are drawn only from records that explicitly state them.

    • Publications: 34 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 137 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 34 (-1)

    Sources removed: El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República.

  9. Version 14

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This is the initial version.

    • Publications: 35 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 139 (-25)
    • Cited sources: 35 (-6)

    Sources removed: Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Digital Desires, Real Losses: The Complex World of Online Romance Fraud; Service, game and livelihood, the new dimensions of neutralization techniques in Internet Romance Fraud: Extending the Neutralization Theory in Modern Internet crimes.; The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud; and 2 more.

  10. Version 13

    Initial version: this synthesis consolidates findings from the supplied reviewed evidence on grooming and trust development in romance‑related fraud. No prior version was provided for comparison.

    • Publications: 41 (+16)
    • Evidence statements: 164 (+64)
    • Cited sources: 41 (+16)

    Sources added: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud; and 19 more.

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; Pig Butchering in Cybersecurity: A Modern Social Engineering Threat; The Online Romance Scam: A Serious Cybercrime; and 3 more.

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