Living Evidence Synthesis
Revision history
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
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Version 23
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version; no prior synthesis changes to record.
- Publications: 33 (-5)
- Evidence statements: 210 (-43)
- Cited sources: 33 (-5)
Sources added: Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; “You’re not alone”: the use of peer support groups for fraud victims.
Sources removed: Análisis Jurídico del Catfishing en Transacciones de Comercio Telemático en Ecuador: Desafíos y Soluciones en el Contexto de la Seguridad Cibernética; Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; Dating hot spot to fraud hot spot: Targeting the social characteristics of romance fraud victims in England and Wales; Evaluating Privacy & Security of Online Dating Applications with a Focus on Older Adults; and 4 more.
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Version 22
Initial version: synthesized the supplied reviewed evidence into a structured, multi‑section evidence synthesis. No prior-version evidence changes to report.
- Publications: 38 (+6)
- Evidence statements: 253 (+15)
- Cited sources: 38 (+6)
Sources added: An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; Crypto Romance Scams and Pig Butchering; and 12 more.
Sources removed: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; 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; and 6 more.
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Version 21
Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 20.
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Version 20
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.
- Publications: 32 (-4)
- Evidence statements: 238 (-4)
- Cited sources: 32 (-4)
Sources added: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi.
Sources removed: An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis; Open Access: The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes; and 2 more.
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Version 19
Initial version.
- Publications: 36 (+8)
- Evidence statements: 242 (+48)
- Cited sources: 36 (+8)
Sources added: Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; 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 8 more.
Sources removed: More Than Just a “Bad” Online Experience: Risk Factors and Characteristics of Catfishing Fraud Victimization; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Persuasive Schemes for Financial Exploitation in Online Romance Scam: An Anatomy on Sha Zhu Pan (杀猪盘) in China; Romance Scam: Victim Manipulation and Human Trafficking.
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Version 18
Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 17.
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Version 17
Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 16.
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Version 16
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.
- Publications: 28 (+1)
- Evidence statements: 194 (+15)
- Cited sources: 28 (+1)
Sources added: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming.
Sources removed: Romance Scams and Older Adults: A Health and Social Care Perspective.
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Version 15
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: this is the first complete replacement synthesis produced for the topic using the supplied reviewed evidence. No prior-version evidence changes are being tracked in this document.
- Publications: 27 (-1)
- Evidence statements: 179 (-3)
- Cited sources: 27 (-1)
Sources added: Understanding the Nature of the Transnational Scam-Related Fraud: Challenges and Solutions from Vietnam’s Perspective.
Sources removed: Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers.
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Version 14
Initial version.
- Publications: 28 (-3)
- Evidence statements: 182 (-21)
- Cited sources: 28 (-3)
Sources added: Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; More Than Just a “Bad” Online Experience: Risk Factors and Characteristics of Catfishing Fraud Victimization; and 5 more.
Sources removed: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; 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); Catfishing, Is it Unregulated Crime in Indonesia?; and 8 more.