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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 24

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis produced as the first reviewed version under the current audit instructions; no prior-version evidence changes to report.

    • Publications: 41 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 190 (-3)
    • Cited sources: 41 (-1)

    Sources removed: “You’re not alone”: the use of peer support groups for fraud victims.

  2. Version 23

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

    • Publications: 42 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 193 (-5)
    • Cited sources: 42 (-2)

    Sources removed: Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; The prevention of online romance scams using a crime script analysis from the victim’s perspective.

  3. Version 22

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: this synthesis is the first complete replacement produced for the controlled topic. It preserves multiple previously audited, protected passages verbatim as required and restricts methodological or inferential statements to those explicitly supported by the attached evidence records. Several previously flagged or partially supported assertions were narrowed or reworded to align strictly with the provided evidence (notably: characte...

    • Publications: 44 (+2)
    • Evidence statements: 198 (+8)
    • Cited sources: 44 (+2)

    Sources added: Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization; Romance Scam Reporting and Support: Help-Seeking Timing, Trust, and Escalation; What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

    Sources removed: Expectations vs reality: Responding to online fraud across the fraud justice network.

  4. Version 21

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This is a revised synthesis produced in response to an evidence audit. Verbatim protected passages identified by the audit were retained with the exact evidence IDs requested. Other passages were corrected to remove or narrow assertions that the audit found insufficiently supported (notably claims about the breadth of methodological strengths, peer-support prevalence and demonstrated effectiveness, and explicit reviewer cautions about complaint-der...

    • Publications: 42 (+7)
    • Evidence statements: 190 (+33)
    • Cited sources: 42 (+7)

    Sources added: E-Marketing: Utilizing Social Media and Marketplaces to Start Businesses for Online Love Scam Victims in Indonesia; Expectations vs reality: Responding to online fraud across the fraud justice network; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; The prevention of online romance scams using a crime script analysis from the victim’s perspective; and 3 more.

  5. Version 20

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 35 (+18)
    • Evidence statements: 157 (+38)
    • Cited sources: 35 (+18)

    Sources added: Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; 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; and 21 more.

    Sources removed: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; E-Marketing: Utilizing Social Media and Marketplaces to Start Businesses for Online Love Scam Victims in Indonesia; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; and 3 more.

  6. Version 19

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 8 passages from synthesis version 18.

  7. Version 18

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: This is the first full synthesis produced for the controlled topic 'Psychological and Financial Harms' using the supplied reviewed evidence. No prior-version edits were applied.

    • Publications: 17 (+5)
    • Evidence statements: 119 (+27)
    • Cited sources: 17 (+5)

    Sources added: Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; E-Marketing: Utilizing Social Media and Marketplaces to Start Businesses for Online Love Scam Victims in Indonesia; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021); and 1 more.

  8. Version 17

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 12 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 92 (+7)
    • Cited sources: 12 (-1)

    Sources added: ‘Love is a powerful force and in our pursuit of it we are easily blinded’: Examining negative consequences experienced by catfishing fraud victims.

    Sources removed: Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Romance Scam: Victim Manipulation and Human Trafficking.

  9. Version 16

    Initial version: this synthesis compiles and weights evidence from the supplied reviewed corpus. No prior-version evidence changes are recorded.

    • Publications: 13 (-27)
    • Evidence statements: 85 (-108)
    • Cited sources: 13 (-27)

    Sources added: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Using artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes to deceive victims: the need to rethink current romance fraud prevention messaging.

    Sources removed: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; and 25 more.

  10. Version 15

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version (no prior synthesized revision supplied for update).

    • Publications: 40 (+3)
    • Evidence statements: 193 (+29)
    • Cited sources: 40 (+3)

    Sources added: Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Emotional and financial costs of online dating scam: A phenomenological narrative of the experiences of victims of Nigerian romance fraudsters; Factors Influencing Involvement in Cyber-Frauds in West Africa and the Implications for Policy; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; and 4 more.

    Sources removed: A Guide to Understanding Romance Fraud; An Explorative Study of Pig Butchering Scams; 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; and 1 more.

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