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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 83

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis created to conform to the audit and to reproduce all protected, pre‑verified passages verbatim where required. This version embeds the protected passages and attaches only the evidence records explicitly required for those passages; it narrows or omits earlier unsupported assertions flagged by the audit and includes explicit methodological-gap statements that are directly supported by the supplied evi...

    • Publications: 30 (-9)
    • Evidence statements: 137 (-26)
    • Cited sources: 30 (-9)

    Sources added: “Falling into a Black Hole”: A Qualitative Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Cyberscam Victim-Survivors and Their Social Support Networks.

    Sources removed: Browsers and phone girls: the intricate socialities of friendship, trust and cyberlove in Nima (Accra); Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; and 6 more.

  2. Version 82

    Initial version. This synthesis assembles and weights the reviewed evidence records listed in the supplied corpus (systematic reviews, qualitative analyses, offender-facing studies, corpus/linguistic work, and forensic/police-derived case analyses). No prior‑version evidence changes were reported for comparison.

    • Publications: 39 (+15)
    • Evidence statements: 163 (+55)
    • Cited sources: 39 (+15)

    Sources added: Browsers and phone girls: the intricate socialities of friendship, trust and cyberlove in Nima (Accra); Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; and 17 more.

    Sources removed: Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República; Neutralizations, Altercasting, and Online Romance Fraud Victimizations; Online frauds: Learning from victims why they fall for these scams; and 2 more.

  3. Version 81

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 80.

  4. Version 80

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 79.

  5. Version 79

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 24 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 108 (-15)
    • Cited sources: 24 (-3)

    Sources added: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization.

    Sources removed: How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; LOVE SCAMS ISSUES IN MALAYSIA: HOW TO OVERCOME IT FROM AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Romance Scam: Victim Manipulation and Human Trafficking; and 1 more.

  6. Version 78

    Initial version: this synthesis was constructed from the supplied reviewed evidence and consolidates stage-based models, linguistic and interactional mechanisms, platform-migration and isolation tactics, subtype distinctions (affection-focused vs investment-focused/pig-butchering), victim harms, methodological limitations, and explicitly stated future research needs. No prior-version evidence additions or removals apply.

    • Publications: 27 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 123 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 27 (-3)

    Sources added: Hyperpersonal feedback and online romance fraud: an empirical examination; LOVE SCAMS ISSUES IN MALAYSIA: HOW TO OVERCOME IT FROM AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE; Online frauds: Learning from victims why they fall for these scams; Online romance scams and victimhood; and 5 more.

    Sources removed: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Developing online deception literacy while looking for love; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; and 8 more.

  7. Version 77

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 76.

  8. Version 76

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 75.

  9. Version 75

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis created to conform with the independent audit. Protected verbatim passages required by the audit were reproduced exactly and attached to their specified evidence IDs. Broader claims were narrowed or removed where the audit identified unsupported elements; methodological limitations and future directions are stated only where the cited evidence explicitly indicates them. Evidence attachments were selec...

    • Evidence statements: 125 (+7)

    Sources added: Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims.

    Sources removed: Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud.

  10. Version 74

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 30 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 118 (-17)
    • Cited sources: 30 (-6)

    Sources added: Developing online deception literacy while looking for love; HeartGuard VR: Immersive Romance Scam Education; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; and 5 more.

    Sources removed: Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Hyperpersonal feedback and online romance fraud: an empirical examination; and 11 more.

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