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Living Evidence Synthesis

Revision history

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 46

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

  2. Version 45

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: This is the first complete replacement synthesis produced in response to the audit instructions. The synthesis reproduces all protected passages verbatim with their exact evidence IDs and aligns related sections to those passages. Where audit-flagged claims required correction, the presented paragraphs limit scope to statements directly supported by the attached reviewed evidence records and include future-work and gap notes only w...

  3. Version 44

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 21 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 101 (-6)
    • Cited sources: 21 (-3)

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

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; “This is a lifesaver”: co-designing a novel cyberscam psychosocial recovery intervention framework for people with acquired brain injury.

  4. Version 43

    Initial version: this synthesis integrates the reviewed evidence records provided for the controlled topic "Prevention and Intervention" and identifies areas of agreement, disagreement, methodological limitations, evidence gaps, and prioritized research directions as explicitly stated in the reviewed corpus.

    • Publications: 24 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 107 (-14)
    • Cited sources: 24 (-6)

    Sources added: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders; Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; and 4 more.

    Sources removed: A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Hyperpersonal feedback and online romance fraud: an empirical examination; Online frauds: Learning from victims why they fall for these scams; and 10 more.

  5. Version 42

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 30 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 121 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 30 (-1)

    Sources removed: Explore the Causes of Crime and Social Impact of Romance Fraud in Mainland China from 2019–2021.

  6. Version 41

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: comprehensive synthesis produced from the supplied reviewed evidence. All protected, audit‑approved passages were preserved verbatim with their exact evidence IDs. Overstated or unsupported elements flagged by the audit (for example, unsupported quantitative claims about when victims recognize deception, or unsupported generalizations about platform‑level evidence in a limited subset) were removed or reworded to align only with exp...

    • Publications: 31 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 123 (-22)
    • Cited sources: 31 (-6)

    Sources added: A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Explore the Causes of Crime and Social Impact of Romance Fraud in Mainland China from 2019–2021; “You’re not alone”: the use of peer support groups for fraud victims.

    Sources removed: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; Online romance scams and victimhood; Open Access: The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes; and 5 more.

  7. Version 40

    Initial version: synthesizes the supplied reviewed evidence on prevention and intervention for romance‑linked online fraud. No previous‑version evidence changes were reported for this synthesis.

    • Publications: 37 (+14)
    • Evidence statements: 145 (+32)
    • Cited sources: 37 (+14)

    Sources added: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; Hyperpersonal feedback and online romance fraud: an empirical examination; and 15 more.

    Sources removed: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; Dating hot spot to fraud hot spot: Targeting the social characteristics of romance fraud victims in England and Wales; The Deceptive Allure: Understanding and Combating Cryptocurrency Pig Butchering Scams; Who can spot an online romance scam?; and 1 more.

  8. Version 39

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 38.

  9. Version 38

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This is a complete replacement of the prior draft. The synthesis preserves the audited, independently verified passages listed as protected in the revision instructions; those exact passages appear verbatim in this version and are attached to their specified evidence IDs. Unsupported or audit‑flagged elements from the previous draft were narrowed or removed where the supplied evidence did not directly support them. Preserved protected passages: Cla...

    • Publications: 23 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 113 (-19)
    • Cited sources: 23 (-6)

    Sources removed: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; and 2 more.

  10. Version 37

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 29 (+5)
    • Evidence statements: 132 (+10)
    • Cited sources: 29 (+5)

    Sources added: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; and 8 more.

    Sources removed: Hyperpersonal feedback and online romance fraud: an empirical examination; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis; Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: a linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals; and 3 more.

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