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Living Evidence Synthesis

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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 61

    Current public version

    Incremental evidence update. A limited revision is warranted. Add the Nigerian platform-use finding with its single-command, conviction-only sampling limits, and incorporate the dated Korean measurement limitation without generalizing it globally. Correct synthesis claim 7 to describe the U.S. outcome as imprisonment length, retaining the accurate reader explanation. The central distinction between enforcement activity and demonstrated prevention remains intact. Several corrected Korean excerpts...

  2. Version 60

    Incremental evidence update. A limited revision is warranted. Add the Nigerian platform-use finding with its single-command, conviction-only sampling limits, and incorporate the dated Korean measurement limitation without generalizing it globally. Correct synthesis claim 7 to describe the U.S. outcome as imprisonment length, retaining the accurate reader explanation. The central distinction between enforcement activity and demonstrated prevention remains intact. Several corrected Korean excerpts...

    • Publications: 30 (+2)
    • Evidence statements: 189 (+8)
    • Cited sources: 30 (+2)

    Sources added: A Study on Romance Scam: The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders.

    The approved evidence set changed while the cited-source list remained the same.

  3. Version 59

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 58.

  4. Version 58

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 57.

  5. Version 57

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first authored evidence synthesis for the controlled topic using the supplied reviewed evidence. No prior‑version evidence changes to report.

    • Publications: 28 (-9)
    • Evidence statements: 181 (-53)
    • Cited sources: 28 (-9)

    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 Legal Analysis on Online Fraud Using Fake Identity; Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; and 7 more.

    Sources removed: An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Behind the Mask: The Devastating Emotional Fallout of Catfishing; CHAPTER 10 The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; and 16 more.

  6. Version 56

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 55.

  7. Version 55

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 37 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 234 (-52)
    • Cited sources: 37 (-4)

    Sources added: CHAPTER 10 The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; Pig Butchering in Cybersecurity: A Modern Social Engineering Threat; The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; Three-Tier On-Chain Transaction Architecture in a Sanctions-Linked Pig-Butchering Network: A Blockchain-Forensics Case Study; and 1 more.

    Sources removed: (Mis)Understanding the Impact of Online Fraud: Implications for Victim Assistance Schemes; A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; and 5 more.

  8. Version 54

    Initial version: this synthesis is the initial version and consolidates the supplied reviewed evidence into a structured synthesis. No prior‑version evidence changes apply.

    • Evidence statements: 286 (+5)

    Sources added: (Mis)Understanding the Impact of Online Fraud: Implications for Victim Assistance Schemes; A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; and 10 more.

    Sources removed: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; Are fraud victims nothing more than animals? Critiquing the propagation of “pig butchering” (Sha Zhu Pan, 杀猪盘); Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Digital Desires, Real Losses: The Complex World of Online Romance Fraud; and 10 more.

  9. Version 53

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 52.

  10. Version 52

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 41 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 281 (-19)
    • Cited sources: 41 (-3)

    Sources removed: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis.

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