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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 73

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 72.

  2. Version 72

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 36 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 135 (-12)
    • Cited sources: 36 (-2)

    Sources added: Unveiling the Patterns of Romance Scams in South Korea; What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

    Sources removed: Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Love scam in cyberspace; Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud; The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies.

  3. Version 71

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 38 (+15)
    • Evidence statements: 147 (+38)
    • Cited sources: 38 (+15)

    Sources added: A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República; and 16 more.

    Sources removed: Emotional and financial costs of online dating scam: A phenomenological narrative of the experiences of victims of Nigerian romance fraudsters; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; Neutralizations, Altercasting, and Online Romance Fraud Victimizations; Understanding Romance Scammers Through the Lens of Their Victims: Qualitative Modeling of Risk and Protective Factors in the Online Context; and 1 more.

  4. Version 70

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 69.

  5. Version 69

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 68.

  6. Version 68

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. Initial version.

    • Publications: 23 (+2)
    • Evidence statements: 109 (+13)
    • Cited sources: 23 (+2)

    Sources added: Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; Neutralizations, Altercasting, and Online Romance Fraud Victimizations.

  7. Version 67

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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