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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 26

    Initial version created from the supplied reviewed evidence. No prior-version evidence changes apply.

    • Publications: 19 (-14)
    • Evidence statements: 95 (-56)
    • Cited sources: 19 (-14)

    Sources added: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19.

    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; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; and 12 more.

  2. Version 25

    Automated claim-level support repair round 3, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 24.

  3. Version 24

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 23.

  4. Version 23

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 22.

  5. Version 22

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version of this synthesis.

    • Publications: 33 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 151 (+4)
    • Cited sources: 33 (-4)

    Sources added: More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; Pig Butchering Scams as Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime: A Scoping Review of Dimensions, Modus Operandi, and Victim-Offender Dynamics; “I Suspect That the Pictures Are Stolen”: Romance Fraud, Identity Crime, and Responding to Suspicions of Inauthentic Identities; “This is a lifesaver”: co-designing a novel cyberscam psychosocial recovery intervention framework for people with acquired brain injury.

    Sources removed: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; and 4 more.

  6. Version 21

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 37 (+8)
    • Evidence statements: 147 (+28)
    • Cited sources: 37 (+8)

    Sources added: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; 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; Contextualised Cyber Security Awareness Approach for Online Romance Fraud; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; Legal Protection for Victims of Love Scam Crimes; and 7 more.

  7. Version 20

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 29 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 119 (-23)
    • Cited sources: 29 (-3)

    Sources added: Contextualised Cyber Security Awareness Approach for Online Romance Fraud; Problems and Solutions of Telecommunications and Internet Fraud Crimes of the Type of "Pig Butchering Scams" in Criminal Law Regulation Based on Criminal Law Elements Analysis.

    Sources removed: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; and 1 more.

  8. Version 19

    Initial version: this synthesis is based on the supplied reviewed evidence corpus. It integrates systematic reviews, administrative-report studies, qualitative corpora, prototype education evaluations (including VR), platform‑ and finance‑sector detection proposals, and population‑specific guidance (older adults, ABI). No prior synthesis version was provided for comparison.

    • Publications: 32 (+5)
    • Evidence statements: 142 (+23)
    • Cited sources: 32 (+5)

    Sources added: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; and 11 more.

    Sources removed: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Persuasive Schemes for Financial Exploitation in Online Romance Scam: An Anatomy on Sha Zhu Pan (杀猪盘) in China; Policing cross-border fraud ‘Above and below the surface’: mapping actions and developing a more effective global response; Romance Scams: Romantic Imagery and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation; and 6 more.

  9. Version 18

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 17.

  10. Version 17

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 27 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 119 (-1)
    • Cited sources: 27 (+1)

    Sources added: The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; Understanding Romance Scammers Through the Lens of Their Victims: Qualitative Modeling of Risk and Protective Factors in the Online Context.

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

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