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 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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Version 51
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: this synthesis is the first complete replacement produced in response to the audit. It preserves all audited protected passages verbatim with their exact evidence IDs, removes or narrows unsupported assertions flagged by the audit (for example, claims about corruption or broad prosecution‑practice generalizations where not directly evidenced), and aligns each paragraph with the exact evidence records that directly support all mater...
- Publications: 44 (-1)
- Evidence statements: 300 (-3)
- Cited sources: 44 (-1)
Sources removed: Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders.
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Version 50
Initial version: synthesis drafted from the supplied reviewed evidence corpus. No prior version supplied for comparison.
- Publications: 45 (+11)
- Evidence statements: 303 (+97)
- Cited sources: 45 (+11)
Sources added: 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); A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Digital Desires, Real Losses: The Complex World of Online Romance Fraud; and 13 more.
Sources removed: Cybercrime through love scams: what women should know?; Love Scamming in the Digital Era: Legal Protection and Challenges in Handling Love Scam Cases on Dating Applications in Indonesia; Meeting the Challenges of Fraud in a Digital World; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; and 2 more.
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Version 49
Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 48.
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Version 48
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version (no prior-version evidence changes to report).
- Publications: 34 (-8)
- Evidence statements: 206 (-39)
- Cited sources: 34 (-8)
Sources added: Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Meeting the Challenges of Fraud in a Digital World; The charade of discreetness: Exploring the paradoxical lifestyles of romance fraudsters.
Sources removed: Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; 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; and 7 more.
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Version 47
Initial version: no prior changes to compare. This is the first synthesis produced for the controlled topic using the supplied reviewed evidence. The synthesis consolidates and weights findings from the provided corpus and explicitly reflects methodological caveats, disagreements, and evidence gaps signaled in the source materials.
- Publications: 42 (+6)
- Evidence statements: 245 (+8)
- Cited sources: 42 (+6)
Sources added: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; and 12 more.
Sources removed: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; Legal Protection for Victims of Love Scam Crimes; Leveraging Naive Bayesian Machine Learning for Detecting Pig Butchering Scams: A Cybersecurity Social Engineering Perspective in Africa; and 6 more.
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Version 46
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.
- Publications: 36 (-1)
- Evidence statements: 237 (-5)
- Cited sources: 36 (-1)
Sources removed: Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women.
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Version 45
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.
- Publications: 37 (-6)
- Evidence statements: 242 (-29)
- Cited sources: 37 (-6)
Sources removed: 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; Dating hot spot to fraud hot spot: Targeting the social characteristics of romance fraud victims in England and Wales; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; and 2 more.
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Version 44
Initial version based on the supplied reviewed evidence corpus; no prior version changes to report.
- Publications: 43 (+16)
- Evidence statements: 271 (+115)
- Cited sources: 43 (+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; Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; and 16 more.
Sources removed: Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Love Scamming in the Digital Era: Legal Protection and Challenges in Handling Love Scam Cases on Dating Applications in Indonesia; Pig Butchering Scams as Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime: A Scoping Review of Dimensions, Modus Operandi, and Victim-Offender Dynamics; The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies.
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Version 43
Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 42.