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Living Evidence Synthesis

Revision history

Reporting and Help-Seeking

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 75

    Current public version

    Incremental evidence update. A small synthesis update is needed to remove reliance on the withdrawn publication, especially the categorical claim that no recent study reliably quantifies reporting rates. The corrected Korean excerpts support reporting barriers and uncertainty about victimization totals, but distinguish abandoning reporting because recovery seems unlikely from difficulty giving a coherent statement because of distress. Recommendations for cooperation and publicity are proposals,...

    • Publications: 41 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 139 (-9)
    • Cited sources: 41 (-3)

    Sources removed: Online frauds: Learning from victims why they fall for these scams; Romance Scam Statistics 2024-2026: verified, source-attributed figures from FBI IC3, FTC, City of London Police, Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr, GASA and Chainalysis (Baromètre 2026 des...; Understanding the state of criminological scholarship on cybercrimes.

  2. Version 74

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 73.

  3. Version 73

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 72.

  4. Version 72

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 44 (-7)
    • Evidence statements: 148 (-14)
    • Cited sources: 44 (-7)

    Sources removed: 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; Facebook as a Tool of Catfishing: An Analytical Study of University Students; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; and 3 more.

  5. Version 71

    Initial version — this is the first synthesis produced for the controlled topic using the supplied reviewed evidence records.

    • Publications: 51 (+21)
    • Evidence statements: 162 (+63)
    • Cited sources: 51 (+21)

    Sources added: A Juridical Review of Love Scam Crimes from the Perspective of Criminal Law and the Electronic Information and Transactions Law in Indonesia; CHAPTER 10 The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; Deconstructing a form of hybrid investment fraud: Examining ‘pig butchering’ in the United States; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; and 21 more.

    Sources removed: Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; Meeting the Challenges of Fraud in a Digital World; Online romance scams and victimhood; “More intelligent, less emotive and more greedy”: Hierarchies of blame in online fraud.

  6. Version 70

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

    • Publications: 30 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 99 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 30 (+1)

    Sources added: Understanding Romance Scammers Through the Lens of Their Victims: Qualitative Modeling of Risk and Protective Factors in the Online Context.

  7. Version 69

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version (no prior changes applied). This synthesis reproduces and integrates the audited set of supported passages and aligns contested help‑seeking and peer‑support claims with the exact evidence items supplied by the review. No additional evidence records were added beyond those used to support the preserved and revised passages.

  8. Version 68

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 29 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 98 (-3)
    • Cited sources: 29 (-2)

    Sources added: From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud.

    Sources removed: Love scam in cyberspace; Mapping romance fraud research – a systematic review; The prevention of online romance scams using a crime script analysis from the victim’s perspective.

  9. Version 67

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first version based on the supplied reviewed evidence and therefore does not summarize changes from a prior synthesis.

    • Publications: 31 (+3)
    • Evidence statements: 101 (-7)
    • Cited sources: 31 (+3)

    Sources added: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; Love scam in cyberspace; Meeting the Challenges of Fraud in a Digital World; and 6 more.

    Sources removed: Love Scamming in the Digital Era: Legal Protection and Challenges in Handling Love Scam Cases on Dating Applications in Indonesia; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis; Online Romance Scammers; and 3 more.

  10. Version 66

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. Initial version.

    • Publications: 28 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 108 (-1)
    • Cited sources: 28 (-1)

    Sources removed: The Trajectory of Romance Scams in the U.S.

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