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
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Version 15
Initial version synthesising the supplied evidence records; no prior-version evidence changes to report.
- Publications: 36 (+4)
- Evidence statements: 130 (+8)
- Cited sources: 36 (+4)
Sources added: Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; Deconstructing a form of hybrid investment fraud: Examining ‘pig butchering’ in the United States; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization; and 8 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; From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; More Than Just a “Bad” Online Experience: Risk Factors and Characteristics of Catfishing Fraud Victimization; Romance Scamming: Uncovering the Transnational Crime and Legal Challenges; and 4 more.
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Version 14
Automated claim-level support repair of 1 passage from synthesis version 13.
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Version 13
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.
- Publications: 32 (+1)
- Evidence statements: 122 (+6)
- Cited sources: 32 (+1)
Sources added: Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud.
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Version 12
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This synthesis is a replacement document prepared to align with the independent verification audit. Protected passages identified by the audit were preserved verbatim with their required evidence IDs. Other passages were retained, narrowed, or removed to reflect only claims that the supplied evidence directly supports; unsupported or over‑stated assertions noted by the audit were removed or reformulated to match available records. This is the first...
- Publications: 31 (-3)
- Evidence statements: 116 (-4)
- Cited sources: 31 (-3)
Sources removed: Romance Scam and Legal Interpreting/Translation; The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Development of a Stage Model to Explain the Online Dating Romance Scam; “Falling into a Black Hole”: A Qualitative Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Cyberscam Victim-Survivors and Their Social Support Networks.
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Version 11
Initial version (no prior-version evidence changes to report).
- Publications: 34 (+13)
- Evidence statements: 120 (+41)
- Cited sources: 34 (+13)
Sources added: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; and 14 more.
Sources removed: Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; Mapping Computer Mediated Communication Theories and Persuasive Strategies in Analysing Online Dating Romance Scam; Romance Scam as one of the main Challenges of cybercrime; The prevention of online romance scams using a crime script analysis from the victim’s perspective; and 1 more.
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Version 10
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.
- Publications: 21 (-1)
- Evidence statements: 79 (-3)
- Cited sources: 21 (-1)
Sources removed: Relationship fraud: Romance, friendship and family frauds.
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Version 9
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.
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Version 8
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete synthesis produced from the supplied reviewed evidence. This is the first revision and incorporates the protected, independently verified passages exactly as required. No external or unreviewed sources were added. The synthesis narrows or omits previously audit-flagged overstatements: statements lacking direct support (for example, broad claims about the consistent presence of empathetic institutional contacts, or that eva...
- Publications: 22 (+2)
- Evidence statements: 82 (+1)
- Cited sources: 22 (+2)
Sources added: Romance Scam as one of the main Challenges of cybercrime; Romance Scam Reporting and Support: Help-Seeking Timing, Trust, and Escalation; Romance Scam Victimization: A Survey-Based Examination of Financial, Psychological, and Reporting Factors; The prevention of online romance scams using a crime script analysis from the victim’s perspective.
Sources removed: Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; The effect of true crime docuseries on romance fraud reporting to the police.
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Version 7
Initial version.
- Publications: 20 (-48)
- Evidence statements: 81 (-118)
- Cited sources: 20 (-48)
Sources added: Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Development of a Stage Model to Explain the Online Dating Romance Scam.
Sources removed: Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives; 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; Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; and 46 more.
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Version 6
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. Initial version of this synthesis; no prior-version evidence changes to report.