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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 17

    Initial version: this synthesis consolidates the supplied reviewed evidence into a multi‑section summary. No prior-version evidence changes were applied because this is the first generated synthesis.

    • Publications: 33 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 130 (-7)
    • Cited sources: 33 (-1)

    Sources added: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República; Emotional and financial costs of online dating scam: A phenomenological narrative of the experiences of victims of Nigerian romance fraudsters; and 7 more.

    Sources removed: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud; and 8 more.

  2. Version 16

    Automated claim-level support repair of 3 passages from synthesis version 15.

  3. Version 15

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis produced to meet audit constraints and to preserve specified protected passages verbatim with the exact evidence IDs provided. No prior-version unsupported passages were reintroduced; recommendations and methodological gap statements are drawn only from records that explicitly state them.

    • Publications: 34 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 137 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 34 (-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.

  4. Version 14

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This is the initial version.

    • Publications: 35 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 139 (-25)
    • Cited sources: 35 (-6)

    Sources removed: Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Digital Desires, Real Losses: The Complex World of Online Romance Fraud; Service, game and livelihood, the new dimensions of neutralization techniques in Internet Romance Fraud: Extending the Neutralization Theory in Modern Internet crimes.; The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud; and 2 more.

  5. Version 13

    Initial version: this synthesis consolidates findings from the supplied reviewed evidence on grooming and trust development in romance‑related fraud. No prior version was provided for comparison.

    • Publications: 41 (+16)
    • Evidence statements: 164 (+64)
    • Cited sources: 41 (+16)

    Sources added: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud; and 19 more.

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; Pig Butchering in Cybersecurity: A Modern Social Engineering Threat; The Online Romance Scam: A Serious Cybercrime; and 3 more.

  6. Version 12

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis created to incorporate preserved, audited passages and to remove or narrow assertions flagged by the audit. Preserved passages reproduced verbatim with their required evidence IDs. Adjustments made to avoid unsupported claims from the audit: removed explicit statement that offender‑side ethnographic research is broadly limited (not directly evidenced), removed any methodological prescription asserting...

    • Publications: 25 (+2)
    • Evidence statements: 100 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 25 (+2)

    Sources added: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Pig Butchering in Cybersecurity: A Modern Social Engineering Threat; The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud; “Why did I fall for it?” Exploring internet fraud susceptibility in the pig butchering scam.

    Sources removed: Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; “They just say how stupid I was for being conned”. Cyberscams and acquired brain injury: A qualitative exploration of the lived experience of survivors and close others.

  7. Version 11

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 23 (+4)
    • Evidence statements: 99 (+18)
    • Cited sources: 23 (+4)

    Sources added: Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; Neutralizations, Altercasting, and Online Romance Fraud Victimizations; Unveiling the Patterns of Romance Scams in South Korea; “They just say how stupid I was for being conned”. Cyberscams and acquired brain injury: A qualitative exploration of the lived experience of survivors and close others.

  8. Version 10

    Initial version: synthesizes the reviewed evidence corpus on grooming and trust development in online romance fraud, drawing on qualitative stage models, corpus linguistics, offender and victim studies, and recent systematic and scoping reviews. No prior version comparisons are available.

    • Publications: 19 (-8)
    • Evidence statements: 81 (-37)
    • Cited sources: 19 (-8)

    Sources added: Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood; “I knew it was a scam”: Understanding the triggers for recognizing romance fraud.

    Sources removed: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; Leveraging Naive Bayesian Machine Learning for Detecting Pig Butchering Scams: A Cybersecurity Social Engineering Perspective in Africa; and 7 more.

  9. Version 9

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 27 (-14)
    • Evidence statements: 118 (-46)
    • Cited sources: 27 (-14)

    Sources removed: Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Law Enforcement Against Perpetrators Of Romance Fraud In Cyberspace; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; and 10 more.

  10. Version 8

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete synthesis compiled from the supplied reviewed evidence records. No prior-version edits were applied; this is the first version produced from the provided evidence.

    • Publications: 41 (+2)
    • Evidence statements: 164 (+12)
    • Cited sources: 41 (+2)

    Sources added: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; Law Enforcement Against Perpetrators Of Romance Fraud In Cyberspace; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; and 5 more.

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República; Individual differences in susceptibility to online influence: A theoretical review; and 3 more.

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