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Living Evidence Synthesis

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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 84

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 83.

  2. Version 83

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version of this evidence synthesis. No prior-version changes applied.

    • Publications: 47 (+5)
    • Evidence statements: 186 (+7)
    • Cited sources: 47 (+5)

    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 Guide to Understanding Romance Fraud; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; E-Marketing: Utilizing Social Media and Marketplaces to Start Businesses for Online Love Scam Victims in Indonesia; and 5 more.

    Sources removed: Double, triple or quadruple hits? Exploring the impact of cybercrime on victims in the Netherlands; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization; Understanding Romance Fraud: Insights From Domestic Violence Research.

  3. Version 82

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 42 (-15)
    • Evidence statements: 179 (-64)
    • Cited sources: 42 (-15)

    Sources added: Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman.

    Sources removed: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Cyberfraud and the implications for effective risk-based responses: themes from UK research; and 12 more.

  4. Version 81

    Initial version: this is the first evidence‑synthesis version for the controlled topic “Psychological and Financial Harms” using the supplied reviewed evidence. No prior changes applied.

    • Publications: 57 (+18)
    • Evidence statements: 243 (+71)
    • Cited sources: 57 (+18)

    Sources added: (Mis)Understanding the Impact of Online Fraud: Implications for Victim Assistance Schemes; Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Analysis of the Romance Scam Phenomenon in Interpersonal Communication of Love Scammer & Victim; An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives; and 32 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; Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; Beyond Dollars: Unveiling the Deeper Layers of Online Romance Scams Introducing “Body Scam”; CATFISHING DALAM PENIPUAN ASMARA ONLINE di FILM SWEET BOBBY: MY CATFISHING NIGHTMARE; and 14 more.

  5. Version 80

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 5 passages from synthesis version 79.

  6. Version 79

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version. This synthesis is the first complete replacement produced for the controlled topic “Psychological and Financial Harms.” It reproduces verbatim the audit‑protected paragraphs identified by the previous‑version audit (the preserved passages are included exactly and annotated with their approved evidence_ids). The synthesis narrows or omits assertions the audit flagged as unsupported or overstated and limits methodological and recomme...

    • Publications: 39 (-10)
    • Evidence statements: 172 (-17)
    • Cited sources: 39 (-10)

    Sources added: Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud.

    Sources removed: Analysis of the Romance Scam Phenomenon in Interpersonal Communication of Love Scammer & Victim; Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; Digital Desires, Real Losses: The Complex World of Online Romance Fraud; Educating students on the behavioral and psychological aspects of romance scam victimization via a social engineering competition; and 7 more.

  7. Version 78

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 49 (+21)
    • Evidence statements: 189 (+54)
    • Cited sources: 49 (+21)

    Sources added: Analysis of the Romance Scam Phenomenon in Interpersonal Communication of Love Scammer & Victim; A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; CATFISHING DALAM PENIPUAN ASMARA ONLINE di FILM SWEET BOBBY: MY CATFISHING NIGHTMARE; and 27 more.

    Sources removed: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Connecting Chinese and American Scam Victims; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; and 6 more.

  8. Version 77

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

    • Publications: 28 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 135 (-1)
    • Cited sources: 28 (-1)

    Sources removed: What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

  9. Version 76

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version (no prior revision supplied). This synthesis reproduces and preserves all required protected passages verbatim with the listed evidence IDs, integrates additional reviewed evidence where explicitly attached to claims, and limits statements about interventions, prevalence, and causality to what the supplied evidence directly supports.

    • Publications: 29 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 136 (-14)
    • Cited sources: 29 (-2)

    Sources removed: Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; “You’re not alone”: the use of peer support groups for fraud victims.

  10. Version 75

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version — this synthesis is the first complete evidence-grounded version produced for the controlled topic 'Psychological and Financial Harms' and uses only the supplied reviewed evidence records listed in the attached evidence_ids.

    • Publications: 31 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 150 (-13)
    • Cited sources: 31 (-6)

    Sources added: Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

    Sources removed: Educating students on the behavioral and psychological aspects of romance scam victimization via a social engineering competition; Factors Influencing Involvement in Cyber-Frauds in West Africa and the Implications for Policy; HeartGuard VR: Immersive Romance Scam Education; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; and 4 more.

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