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Living Evidence Synthesis

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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 47

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. This is a revised replacement synthesis produced after independent audit feedback. Material changes from the previous version: I preserved the protected, independently verified passages exactly as required (executive summary and listed claims) and removed an audited paragraph that asserted broad methodological heterogeneity and small/purposive samples without direct supporting evidence. I corrected the methodological-limits section to cite only syn...

    • Publications: 19 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 78 (+3)
    • Cited sources: 19 (+1)

    Sources added: Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República.

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

  2. Version 46

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

    • Publications: 18 (+2)
    • Evidence statements: 75 (+6)
    • Cited sources: 18 (+2)

    Sources added: Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

  3. Version 45

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

  4. Version 44

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 16 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 69 (-8)
    • Cited sources: 16 (-2)

    Sources removed: What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021); What Money Can Do: Examining the Effects of Rewards on Online Romance Fraudsters’ Deceptive Strategies.

  5. Version 43

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version. This synthesis reproduces the protected passages identified in the audit verbatim and attaches their exact evidence IDs. Other sections and claims are limited to content directly supported by the supplied evidence records cited above; unsupported or audit‑flagged assertions from the prior draft have been removed or narrowed.

    • Evidence statements: 77 (+6)

    Sources added: Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: a linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals.

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

  6. Version 42

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first version and consolidates findings from the supplied reviewed evidence records into a staged, evidence‑linked account of grooming and trust development in relationship‑based fraud. No prior-version evidence changes were applied.

    • Publications: 18 (-21)
    • Evidence statements: 71 (-88)
    • Cited sources: 18 (-21)

    Sources added: El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República; What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

    Sources removed: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles; and 19 more.

  7. Version 41

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 39 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 159 (-14)
    • Cited sources: 39 (-3)

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Understanding Romance Scammers Through the Lens of Their Victims: Qualitative Modeling of Risk and Protective Factors in the Online Context; “Why did I fall for it?” Exploring internet fraud susceptibility in the pig butchering scam.

  8. Version 40

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version (no prior revisions applied). This synthesis reproduces specified protected passages verbatim where required and restricts claims to those directly supported by the attached reviewed evidence. It omits or narrows statements flagged by the independent audit (for example, removing unsupported broad statements about sexual exploitation as a common outcome) and aligns methodological and gap descriptions to explicit evidence in the suppl...

    • Publications: 42 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 173 (-13)
    • Cited sources: 42 (-4)

    Sources added: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims.

    Sources removed: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; and 2 more.

  9. Version 39

    Initial version: this is the first synthesis produced for the controlled topic "Grooming and Trust Development" using the supplied reviewed evidence. No prior-version evidence changes are being reported.

    • Publications: 46 (+15)
    • Evidence statements: 186 (+59)
    • Cited sources: 46 (+15)

    Sources added: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; and 16 more.

    Sources removed: Online romance scams and victimhood; The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud; The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies; The Online Romance Scam: A Serious Cybercrime; and 1 more.

  10. Version 38

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 37.

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