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Living Evidence Synthesis

Revision history

Psychological and Financial Harms

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 12

    Automated claim-level support repair of 3 passages from synthesis version 11.

  2. Version 11

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: full synthesis produced based on the provided reviewed evidence. This version reproduces all auditor‑protected verbatim passages and attaches only the exact evidence IDs specified for those passages. Where the independent audit had flagged unsupported meta‑level claims, I avoided asserting those beyond what the reviewed records explicitly state; future‑work and limitation statements are included only where evidence records explicit...

    • Publications: 33 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 139 (-26)
    • Cited sources: 33 (-4)

    Sources removed: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; Romance Scam as one of the main Challenges of cybercrime; To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud.

  3. Version 10

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 37 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 165 (-11)
    • Cited sources: 37 (-2)

    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 a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering.

    Sources removed: Analysis of the Romance Scam Phenomenon in Interpersonal Communication of Love Scammer & Victim; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization; Romance Scam: Victim Manipulation and Human Trafficking.

  4. Version 9

    Initial version based on the supplied reviewed evidence records. No prior‑version evidence changes to report.

    • Publications: 39 (+2)
    • Evidence statements: 176 (-5)
    • Cited sources: 39 (+2)

    Sources added: A Guide to Understanding Romance Fraud; Analysis of the Romance Scam Phenomenon in Interpersonal Communication of Love Scammer & Victim; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Contextualised Cyber Security Awareness Approach for Online Romance Fraud; and 8 more.

    Sources removed: Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; and 6 more.

  5. Version 8

    Automated claim-level support repair of 1 passage from synthesis version 7.

  6. Version 7

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 37 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 181 (-4)
    • Cited sources: 37 (-3)

    Sources removed: Contextualised Cyber Security Awareness Approach for Online Romance Fraud; Educating students on the behavioral and psychological aspects of romance scam victimization via a social engineering competition; HeartGuard VR: Immersive Romance Scam Education.

  7. Version 6

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis produced for the controlled topic. This is the initial synthesized version for this evidence set; no prior edited synthesis changes are being applied here.

    • Publications: 40 (-5)
    • Evidence statements: 185 (-27)
    • Cited sources: 40 (-5)

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

    Sources removed: Analysis of the Romance Scam Phenomenon in Interpersonal Communication of Love Scammer & Victim; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; and 2 more.

  8. Version 5

    Initial version: synthesizes the supplied reviewed evidence for the controlled topic "Psychological and Financial Harms". This version integrates primary qualitative studies, complaint/dataset analyses, forensic and blockchain tracing reports, scoping/systematic reviews, and intervention prototypes included in the supplied corpus. No prior-version evidence changes apply because this is the first generated synthesis.

    • Publications: 45 (-9)
    • Evidence statements: 212 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 45 (-9)

    Sources added: Analysis of the Romance Scam Phenomenon in Interpersonal Communication of Love Scammer & Victim; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; and 11 more.

    Sources removed: A Guide to Understanding Romance Fraud; Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; and 20 more.

  9. Version 4

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 54 (-5)
    • Evidence statements: 211 (+7)
    • Cited sources: 54 (-5)

    Sources added: A Guide to Understanding Romance Fraud; An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; Beyond Dollars: Unveiling the Deeper Layers of Online Romance Scams Introducing “Body Scam”; and 24 more.

    Sources removed: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; An Explorative Study of Pig Butchering Scams; Análisis Jurídico del Catfishing en Transacciones de Comercio Telemático en Ecuador: Desafíos y Soluciones en el Contexto de la Seguridad Cibernética; and 29 more.

  10. Version 3

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. This is the initial integrated executive summary and framing, drawing on a broad base of evidence about multi-domain harms and the common co-occurrence of financial losses with psychosocial distress.

    • Publications: 59 (-7)
    • Evidence statements: 204 (-9)
    • Cited sources: 59 (-7)

    Sources added: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Contextualised Cyber Security Awareness Approach for Online Romance Fraud; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Hello Pretty, Hello Handsome!: Exploring the Menace of Online Dating and Romance Scam in Africa; and 10 more.

    Sources removed: A Guide to Understanding Romance Fraud; Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; Analysis of the Romance Scam Phenomenon in Interpersonal Communication of Love Scammer & Victim; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; and 17 more.

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