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
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Version 37
Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 36.
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Version 36
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.
- Publications: 31 (-1)
- Evidence statements: 127 (-3)
- Cited sources: 31 (-1)
Sources removed: More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime.
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Version 35
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.
- Publications: 32 (-1)
- Evidence statements: 130 (-7)
- Cited sources: 32 (-1)
Sources added: More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime.
Sources removed: Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; HeartGuard VR: Immersive Romance Scam Education.
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Version 34
Initial version.
- Publications: 33 (+11)
- Evidence statements: 137 (+41)
- Cited sources: 33 (+11)
Sources added: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; and 15 more.
Sources removed: From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Scam Techniques in Pig Butchering Scams: Case Study; and 4 more.
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Version 33
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. This is the initial revised synthesis produced in response to the audit directives. Protected (verified) passages from the previous version were preserved verbatim and attached to the exact evidence IDs specified by the audit. Other paragraphs were constrained to statements directly supported by the supplied evidence records; audited overstatements flagged in the previous draft (for example, unsupported timing details, unsupported causal claims abo...
- Publications: 22 (+2)
- Evidence statements: 96 (+5)
- Cited sources: 22 (+2)
Sources added: The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud; The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood.
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Version 32
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.
- Publications: 20 (-5)
- Evidence statements: 91 (-15)
- Cited sources: 20 (-5)
Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud; Understanding Romance Fraud: Insights From Domestic Violence Research; and 1 more.
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Version 31
Initial version: consolidates and synthesizes the supplied reviewed evidence on grooming, trust development, linguistic tactics, pig‑butchering variants, victim experience, methodological patterns, and explicit research recommendations. No prior‑version evidence changes were applied because this is the first generated synthesis.
- Publications: 25 (+2)
- Evidence statements: 106 (+5)
- Cited sources: 25 (+2)
Sources added: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; and 8 more.
Sources removed: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; 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; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; and 6 more.
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Version 30
Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 29.
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Version 29
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version. This synthesis reproduces the protected, audit‑verified passages verbatim where required and limits or removes previously overstated or unsupported claims (for example, it does not assert that intimate‑image exchange/sextortion is a typical conversion outcome unless directly supported). Added explicit linkage to methodological-gap findings that are present in the reviewed evidence (notably the shortage of empirical studies of ongoi...
- Publications: 23 (-5)
- Evidence statements: 101 (-23)
- Cited sources: 23 (-5)
Sources removed: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; and 1 more.
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Version 28
Initial version.
- Publications: 28 (-1)
- Evidence statements: 124 (+22)
- Cited sources: 28 (-1)
Sources added: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; and 6 more.
Sources removed: Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis; Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud; and 7 more.