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Living Evidence Synthesis

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Technology and AI

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 79

    Current public version

    Incremental evidence update. The new evidence leaves the reader explanation unchanged. Fresh technical-source review repairs older conflations of scam-baiting research with offender automation, labeling agreement with detection scores, and separate blockchain studies; corrected publication metadata is retained.

    • Publications: 38 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 139 (-13)
    • Cited sources: 38 (-4)

    Sources removed: Fraudsters target the elderly: Behavioural evidence from randomised controlled scam-baiting experiments; Romance Scam: Victim Manipulation and Human Trafficking; The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies; What Money Can Do: Examining the Effects of Rewards on Online Romance Fraudsters’ Deceptive Strategies.

  2. Version 78

    Incremental evidence update. A small revision is required to claim 19 because two cited dataset limitations have been removed. Remove those citations and narrow any dependence on synthetic benchmarks, label validity, or platform metadata to what retained evidence actually supports. The added convicted-case excerpts support fabricated identities but do not establish AI use, automation, or population prevalence. The corrected excerpt on changing scam scenarios supports the existing emphasis on evo...

    • Publications: 42 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 152 (-11)
    • Cited sources: 42 (-1)

    Sources removed: Synthetic Dialogue Dataset for Romance Scam Detection.

  3. Version 77

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 76.

  4. Version 76

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 75.

  5. Version 75

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 43 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 163 (-8)
    • Cited sources: 43 (-3)

    Sources removed: Follow Me, What’s the Harm? Considerations of Catfishing and Utilizing Fake Online Personas on Social Media; HeartGuard VR: Immersive Romance Scam Education; Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization.

  6. Version 74

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first assembled evidence synthesis for the controlled topic using the supplied reviewed evidence. It compiles reported findings, areas of agreement, uncertainty, methodological patterns, limitations, and future directions directly tied to the reviewed evidence records listed in the evidence_ids fields.

    • Publications: 46 (+3)
    • Evidence statements: 171 (+2)
    • Cited sources: 46 (+3)

    Sources added: An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; Beyond Dollars: Unveiling the Deeper Layers of Online Romance Scams Introducing “Body Scam”; Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations; Dating with Scambots: Understanding the Ecosystem of Fraudulent Dating Applications; and 13 more.

    Sources removed: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; CHAPTER 10 The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; Connecting Chinese and American Scam Victims; Developments in the Law Governing Online Activity: The Criminalisation of Catfishing and Civil Relief in Cases of Image-Based Sexual Abuse; and 10 more.

  7. Version 73

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version. No prior version comparison changes to report.

    • Publications: 43 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 169 (-3)
    • Cited sources: 43 (-1)

    Sources removed: Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19.

  8. Version 72

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Evidence statements: 172 (+3)

    Sources added: Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; Understanding the Nature of the Transnational Scam-Related Fraud: Challenges and Solutions from Vietnam’s Perspective.

    Sources removed: Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations; The charade of discreetness: Exploring the paradoxical lifestyles of romance fraudsters.

  9. Version 71

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 44 (+16)
    • Evidence statements: 169 (+48)
    • Cited sources: 44 (+16)

    Sources added: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; CHAPTER 10 The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; Connecting Chinese and American Scam Victims; and 17 more.

    Sources removed: Dating with Scambots: Understanding the Ecosystem of Fraudulent Dating Applications; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; Online Romance Scammers; Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: a linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals; and 1 more.

  10. Version 70

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 69.

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