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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 16

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version (no prior synthesis replacement changes were applied).

    • Publications: 26 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 120 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 26 (-1)

    Sources added: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; Policing cross-border fraud ‘Above and below the surface’: mapping actions and developing a more effective global response; Waspada Cinta Maya: Membangun Kesadaran Bahaya Online Love Scam Masyarakat Desa 'Damai' Nglinggi, Kabupaten Klaten.

    Sources removed: Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; The dark side of Artificial Intelligence – Risks arising in dating applications; To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud.

  2. Version 15

    Initial version: synthesises the supplied reviewed evidence on prevention and intervention for romance-linked scams and pig‑butchering. No prior-version evidence changes were provided.

    • Publications: 27 (-9)
    • Evidence statements: 119 (-26)
    • Cited sources: 27 (-9)

    Sources added: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; Romance Scams: Romantic Imagery and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation; and 3 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; Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; Contextualised Cyber Security Awareness Approach for Online Romance Fraud; and 12 more.

  3. Version 14

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 36 (-7)
    • Evidence statements: 145 (-31)
    • Cited sources: 36 (-7)

    Sources added: An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; Crypto Romance Scams and Pig Butchering; Pig Butchering Scams as Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime: A Scoping Review of Dimensions, Modus Operandi, and Victim-Offender Dynamics; The Trajectory of Romance Scams in the U.S.

    Sources removed: Expectations vs reality: Responding to online fraud across the fraud justice network; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; Paradoks Hukum Rekayasa Sosial Pig Butchering Scam Dalam Investasi Digital Aset Kripto; and 7 more.

  4. Version 13

    Initial version: this is the first synthesized version created for the controlled topic 'Prevention and Intervention' using only the supplied reviewed evidence records. No prior-version evidence changes apply.

    • Publications: 43 (+10)
    • Evidence statements: 176 (+50)
    • Cited sources: 43 (+10)

    Sources added: 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; Expectations vs reality: Responding to online fraud across the fraud justice network; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; and 15 more.

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Factors of susceptibility to online romance scam in Malaysia: unraveling the complex pathways; From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; and 5 more.

  5. Version 12

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 11.

  6. Version 11

    Automated claim-level support repair of 4 passages from synthesis version 10.

  7. Version 10

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version

    • Publications: 33 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 126 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 33 (+1)

    Sources added: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; “Why did I fall for it?” Exploring internet fraud susceptibility in the pig butchering scam.

    Sources removed: Policing cross-border fraud ‘Above and below the surface’: mapping actions and developing a more effective global response.

  8. Version 9

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version (no prior evidence changes to report).

    • Publications: 32 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 125 (-8)
    • Cited sources: 32 (-3)

    Sources added: Contextualised Cyber Security Awareness Approach for Online Romance Fraud.

    Sources removed: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Open Access: The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes; 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; The Gamification of Online Romance Fraud through Offenders’ Cards.

  9. Version 8

    Initial version: synthesizes the supplied evidence on prevention and intervention for romance-related online scams, mapping consensus recommendations, methodological limitations, and prioritized research directions directly to reviewed records.

    • Publications: 35 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 133 (-24)
    • Cited sources: 35 (-4)

    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; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; and 11 more.

    Sources removed: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; and 15 more.

  10. Version 7

    Automated claim-level support repair of 2 passages from synthesis version 6.

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