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Living Evidence Synthesis

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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 30

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

  2. Version 29

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

  3. Version 28

    Initial version: this is the first synthesis for the controlled topic 'Reporting and Help‑Seeking' using the supplied reviewed evidence.

    • Publications: 38 (+5)
    • Evidence statements: 116 (+4)
    • Cited sources: 38 (+5)

    Sources added: 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; From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; Mapping Computer Mediated Communication Theories and Persuasive Strategies in Analysing Online Dating Romance Scam; and 10 more.

    Sources removed: Expectations vs reality: Responding to online fraud across the fraud justice network; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; More Than Just a “Bad” Online Experience: Risk Factors and Characteristics of Catfishing Fraud Victimization; The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Development of a Stage Model to Explain the Online Dating Romance Scam; and 5 more.

  4. Version 27

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 26.

  5. Version 26

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. This is the initial version of this evidence-grounded synthesis replacement produced under the audit constraints. All preserved, verbatim protected passages from the reviewed corpus are included and attached only to their specified evidence records; other paragraphs are supported by the listed evidence records.

  6. Version 25

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. This synthesis replaces the prior draft and preserves independently verified protected passages verbatim where required. In response to the audit, one institutional‑response paragraph was narrowed to include only claims explicitly supported by supplied evidence (retaining that private-channel communication reduces reporting and that embarrassment deters reporting) and omitting an unsupported specific claim about small losses discouraging police con...

    • Publications: 33 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 112 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 33 (+1)

    Sources added: Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm.

  7. Version 24

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

  8. Version 23

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 32 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 111 (-4)
    • Cited sources: 32 (-1)

    Sources removed: Romance Fraud: Its Repercussions on Victims’ Wellbeing.

  9. Version 22

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This synthesis is a revised replacement produced to address independent audit feedback from the prior draft. Material adjustments include: (1) preserving previously audited, supported summary passages verbatim where required; (2) removing or not repeating assertions that the audit found unsupported in the supplied evidence (notably claims that clinicians and anti‑fraud volunteers were specifically documented as third‑party reporters in the audited...

    • Publications: 33 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 115 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 33 (-1)

    Sources removed: Online Romance Scams: Relational Dynamics and Psychological Characteristics of the Victims and Scammers. A Scoping Review.

  10. Version 21

    Initial version: this is the first synthesis prepared from the provided reviewed evidence records.

    • Publications: 34 (+13)
    • Evidence statements: 117 (+42)
    • Cited sources: 34 (+13)

    Sources added: Deconstructing a form of hybrid investment fraud: Examining ‘pig butchering’ in the United States; Law Enforcement Against Perpetrators Of Romance Fraud In Cyberspace; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; More Than Just a “Bad” Online Experience: Risk Factors and Characteristics of Catfishing Fraud Victimization; and 13 more.

    Sources removed: Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; Romance Scam and Legal Interpreting/Translation; The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial.

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