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Living Evidence Synthesis

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Prevention and Intervention

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 66

    Current public version

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

  2. Version 65

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version. This synthesis reproduces a set of previously verified, protected passages verbatim where required and integrates additional supported statements from the reviewed evidence. Audit-flagged assertions were moderated: claims about operationalized automated screening inputs and about dataset-description/validation shortcomings were adjusted to reflect only the specific limitations explicitly described in the supplied evidence. Unsuppor...

    • Publications: 23 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 89 (-8)
    • Cited sources: 23 (-1)

    Sources removed: Waspada Cinta Maya: Membangun Kesadaran Bahaya Online Love Scam Masyarakat Desa 'Damai' Nglinggi, Kabupaten Klaten.

  3. Version 64

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This is the initial version of this evidence synthesis. It reproduces several protected, previously audited passages verbatim where required and limits or omits other previously asserted elements that the audit found unsupported (for example, treating blockchain tracing as an established operational mitigation or asserting empirically tested, tailored support pathways for explicitly named groups beyond the evidence). The synthesis narrows statement...

    • Publications: 24 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 97 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 24 (-2)

    Sources added: Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles; Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: a linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals; “This is a lifesaver”: co-designing a novel cyberscam psychosocial recovery intervention framework for people with acquired brain injury.

    Sources removed: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Detecting Romance Scams; Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis; Pig Butchering in Cybersecurity: A Modern Social Engineering Threat; Reality Counseling Approach to Increasing Career Woman Awareness (Case Study Love Scam); and 2 more.

  4. Version 63

    Initial version: synthesizes the provided reviewed evidence into a staged, layered prevention framework; identifies consensus on stage‑linked recognition triggers, prototype educational approaches with limited outcomes evidence, platform/financial mitigations as necessary complements, documented detection limitations, and prioritized future research areas explicitly noted in the supplied studies.

    • Publications: 26 (-12)
    • Evidence statements: 99 (-54)
    • Cited sources: 26 (-12)

    Sources added: Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; Love scam in cyberspace; Reality Counseling Approach to Increasing Career Woman Awareness (Case Study Love Scam); The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial; and 3 more.

    Sources removed: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Dating hot spot to fraud hot spot: Targeting the social characteristics of romance fraud victims in England and Wales; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; and 15 more.

  5. Version 62

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 61.

  6. Version 61

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 38 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 153 (-3)
    • Cited sources: 38 (-2)

    Sources added: Using artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes to deceive victims: the need to rethink current romance fraud prevention messaging.

    Sources removed: Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; Unravelling the organisation of ivorian cyberfraudsters: Criminal networks or organised crime?; Waspada Cinta Maya: Membangun Kesadaran Bahaya Online Love Scam Masyarakat Desa 'Damai' Nglinggi, Kabupaten Klaten.

  7. Version 60

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: this is the first complete replacement synthesis produced for the controlled topic. It preserves verbatim several audited protected passages and limits or removes previously overstated elements identified by the independent audit. Material changes from the earlier draft used for comparison: (1) retained verbatim the evidence-based recognition-trigger sentence and the linguistic-marker sentence and attached their exact evidence IDs...

    • Publications: 40 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 156 (+11)
    • Cited sources: 40 (+1)

    Sources added: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Detecting Romance Scams; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; The charade of discreetness: Exploring the paradoxical lifestyles of romance fraudsters; and 3 more.

    Sources removed: Explore the Causes of Crime and Social Impact of Romance Fraud in Mainland China from 2019–2021; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes; and 2 more.

  8. Version 59

    Initial version; no prior-version evidence changes to report.

    • Publications: 39 (+15)
    • Evidence statements: 145 (+57)
    • Cited sources: 39 (+15)

    Sources added: Dating hot spot to fraud hot spot: Targeting the social characteristics of romance fraud victims in England and Wales; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; and 20 more.

    Sources removed: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Detecting Romance Scams; E-Marketing: Utilizing Social Media and Marketplaces to Start Businesses for Online Love Scam Victims in Indonesia; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders; and 5 more.

  9. Version 58

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 57.

  10. Version 57

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. Initial version.

    • Publications: 24 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 88 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 24 (-1)

    Sources removed: The Trajectory of Romance Scams in the U.S.

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