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Living Evidence Synthesis

Revision history

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 67

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

  2. Version 66

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

    • Publications: 21 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 96 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 21 (-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.

  3. Version 65

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 22 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 98 (-13)
    • Cited sources: 22 (-3)

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Understanding Cybercrime in Developing Economies: Insights from Agona Swedru, Ghana; What Money Can Do: Examining the Effects of Rewards on Online Romance Fraudsters’ Deceptive Strategies.

  4. Version 64

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: this synthesis is the first replacement version produced under the audit constraints. It reproduces the required protected passages verbatim and adjusts tempo, escalation, organizational-role, and methodological-claim wording to match direct support in the supplied evidence. No previously reviewed evidence was removed from the protected passages; other claims were narrowed where audit feedback indicated overstatement or unsupported...

    • Publications: 25 (-5)
    • Cited sources: 25 (-5)

    Sources added: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam.

    Sources removed: Digital Desires, Real Losses: The Complex World of Online Romance Fraud; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; HeartGuard VR: Immersive Romance Scam Education; Online Romance Scammers; and 3 more.

  5. Version 63

    Initial version synthesizing the reviewed corpus. This version consolidates stage‑based descriptions, persona and messaging mechanisms, trust/isolation processes, pig‑butchering escalation patterns, methodological strengths and weaknesses, and explicit evidence‑identified gaps and recommendations. No previous-version evidence was removed; all material conclusions are drawn from the supplied reviewed evidence and structured to reflect methodological limitations and uncertainties identified within...

    • Publications: 30 (-14)
    • Evidence statements: 111 (-60)
    • Cited sources: 30 (-14)

    Sources added: Digital Desires, Real Losses: The Complex World of Online Romance Fraud; 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; Hyperpersonal feedback and online romance fraud: an empirical examination; and 7 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; Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; and 21 more.

  6. Version 62

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 61.

  7. Version 61

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version. This synthesis reproduces pre‑approved core claims verbatim where required and organizes related evidence into seven topical sections. No prior‑version evidence changes were requested for this iteration.

    • Publications: 44 (+4)
    • Evidence statements: 171 (+24)
    • Cited sources: 44 (+4)

    Sources added: Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; Online romance scams and victimhood; Scam Techniques in Pig Butchering Scams: Case Study; and 1 more.

    Sources removed: What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

  8. Version 60

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 40 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 40 (+1)

    Sources added: More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud; What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

    Sources removed: El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República; Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud.

  9. Version 59

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first compiled evidence synthesis for the controlled topic using only the supplied reviewed evidence records and condensing their reported findings, explicit methodological cautions, and identified gaps.

    • Evidence statements: 147 (-3)

    Sources added: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; and 10 more.

    Sources removed: Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; LOVE SCAMS ISSUES IN MALAYSIA: HOW TO OVERCOME IT FROM AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE; Mapping romance fraud research – a systematic review; and 10 more.

  10. Version 58

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 57.

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