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 27
Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 26.
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Version 26
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version (no prior-version evidence changes).
- Publications: 29 (-4)
- Evidence statements: 102 (-20)
- Cited sources: 29 (-4)
Sources added: The victimology of online fraud: A focus on romance fraud victimisation.
Sources removed: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; HeartGuard VR: Immersive Romance Scam Education; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; and 1 more.
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Version 25
Initial version: integrates and weights direct evidence across the reviewed corpus to synthesize how grooming creates trust in romance-related online fraud, summarize operational variants (including pig-butchering), describe victim harms and organizational dynamics, and identify major methodological limitations and explicit evidence gaps as reported by the sources.
- Publications: 33 (-8)
- Evidence statements: 122 (-38)
- Cited sources: 33 (-8)
Sources added: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; and 9 more.
Sources removed: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; and 17 more.
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Version 24
Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 23.
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Version 23
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version. This synthesis reproduces required protected passages verbatim and limits claims to those directly supported by the supplied evidence set. Where the audit flagged unsupported or overstated elements (for example, specific examples of fabricated biographies such as 'military identity' as a general claim, explicit assertions about sexual-extraction frequency, or staged small-test payments when not directly evidenced by the cited items...
- Publications: 41 (-2)
- Evidence statements: 160 (-10)
- Cited sources: 41 (-2)
Sources added: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Understanding Romance Scammers Through the Lens of Their Victims: Qualitative Modeling of Risk and Protective Factors in the Online Context; What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).
Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; and 2 more.
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Version 22
Initial version: This is the first synthesised evidence summary for the controlled topic 'Grooming and Trust Development' using the supplied reviewed evidence records.
- Publications: 43 (+11)
- Evidence statements: 170 (+42)
- Cited sources: 43 (+11)
Sources added: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud; Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles; and 15 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; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Explore the Causes of Crime and Social Impact of Romance Fraud in Mainland China from 2019–2021; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; and 4 more.
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Version 21
Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 20.
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Version 20
Automated claim-level support repair of 2 passages from synthesis version 19.
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Version 19
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis produced. This document reproduces verbatim the protected summary and specified claim passages and restricts other assertions to content supported by the supplied evidence records. No previously included unsupported or audit-flagged assertions were reintroduced. Evidence selection and paragraph-level citations were limited to the exact reviewed records that directly support each material clause.
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Version 18
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.
- Publications: 32 (-1)
- Evidence statements: 128 (-2)
- Cited sources: 32 (-1)
Sources added: “If U Don't Pay they will Share the Pics”: Exploring Sextortion in the Context of Romance Fraud.
Sources removed: Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; Romance Scam: Victim Manipulation and Human Trafficking.