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Platform and Law-Enforcement Responses

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 33

    Current public version

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 32.

  2. Version 32

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 31.

  3. Version 31

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 39 (+4)
    • Evidence statements: 246 (+16)
    • Cited sources: 39 (+4)

    Sources added: An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; Are fraud victims nothing more than animals? Critiquing the propagation of “pig butchering” (Sha Zhu Pan, 杀猪盘); Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; The charade of discreetness: Exploring the paradoxical lifestyles of romance fraudsters; and 1 more.

    Sources removed: Hello Pretty, Hello Handsome!: Exploring the Menace of Online Dating and Romance Scam in Africa.

  4. Version 30

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 35 (+3)
    • Evidence statements: 230 (+13)
    • Cited sources: 35 (+3)

    Sources added: Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Catfishing, Is it Unregulated Crime in Indonesia?; Catfishing: a conduta de assumir uma identidade falsa nas plataformas de mídia social e suas consequências jurídico-penais; and 12 more.

    Sources removed: Análisis Jurídico del Catfishing en Transacciones de Comercio Telemático en Ecuador: Desafíos y Soluciones en el Contexto de la Seguridad Cibernética; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; Catfishing – jako przejaw przestępstwa kradzieży tożsamości; and 9 more.

  5. Version 29

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 7 passages from synthesis version 28.

  6. Version 28

    Initial version for the controlled topic 'Platform and Law‑Enforcement Responses'. This synthesis is based solely on the supplied reviewed evidence records and summarizes material changes only insofar as they appear within that corpus.

    • Publications: 32 (+5)
    • Evidence statements: 217 (+49)
    • Cited sources: 32 (+5)

    Sources added: Catfishing – jako przejaw przestępstwa kradzieży tożsamości; Developments in the Law Governing Online Activity: The Criminalisation of Catfishing and Civil Relief in Cases of Image-Based Sexual Abuse; Expectations vs reality: Responding to online fraud across the fraud justice network; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; and 9 more.

    Sources removed: An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; Catfishing, Is it Unregulated Crime in Indonesia?; Crypto Romance Scams and Pig Butchering; and 4 more.

  7. Version 27

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 26.

  8. Version 26

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 27 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 168 (+16)
    • Cited sources: 27 (-2)

    Sources added: Análisis Jurídico del Catfishing en Transacciones de Comercio Telemático en Ecuador: Desafíos y Soluciones en el Contexto de la Seguridad Cibernética; Catfishing, Is it Unregulated Crime in Indonesia?; Understanding the Nature of the Transnational Scam-Related Fraud: Challenges and Solutions from Vietnam’s Perspective.

    Sources removed: Factors Influencing Involvement in Cyber-Frauds in West Africa and the Implications for Policy; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; Open Access: The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes; The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood; and 1 more.

  9. Version 25

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 29 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 152 (-58)
    • Cited sources: 29 (-4)

    Sources added: A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China; Factors Influencing Involvement in Cyber-Frauds in West Africa and the Implications for Policy; and 4 more.

    Sources removed: Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; Catfishing – jako przejaw przestępstwa kradzieży tożsamości; and 8 more.

  10. Version 24

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 23.

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