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Living Evidence Synthesis

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Victim Characteristics

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 82

    Current public version

    Incremental evidence update. A small update is warranted. The Indian case series adds a male-predominant pattern outside the existing sextortion example, but its metropolitan concentration, missing gender information, and unresolved media-selection effects must remain explicit. The Malaysian survey adds a bounded finding of no significant knowledge or protective-practice differences by personal victimization history, not evidence of equivalence or protection. The central conclusion that the lite...

    • Publications: 25 (+2)
    • Evidence statements: 90 (+5)
    • Cited sources: 25 (+2)

    Sources added: Knowledge and Protective Practice Towards Love Scam Among Female Facebook Users in Malaysia; Romance Fraud in India: A Qualitative Study of Online–Offline Transitions in the Digital Dating Ecosystem.

    The approved evidence set changed while the cited-source list remained the same.

  2. Version 81

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

  3. Version 80

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This synthesis is an audited replacement of the prior draft. Preserved text passages identified by the audit were reproduced verbatim with exactly the listed evidence IDs. Other assertions were narrowed or removed where the audit found insufficient direct support. The synthesis emphasizes sample‑conditional interpretation, subtype heterogeneity, and the methodological limitations and gaps explicitly cited in the reviewed evidence records.

    • Publications: 23 (-5)
    • Evidence statements: 85 (-21)
    • Cited sources: 23 (-5)

    Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Is There a Scam for Everyone? Psychologically Profiling Cyberscam Victims; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; and 1 more.

  4. Version 79

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first compiled version for the controlled topic 'Victim Characteristics' using the supplied reviewed evidence records. No previous-version changes are being reported.

    • Publications: 28 (+8)
    • Evidence statements: 106 (+19)
    • Cited sources: 28 (+8)

    Sources added: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Is There a Scam for Everyone? Psychologically Profiling Cyberscam Victims; and 10 more.

    Sources removed: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Love scam in cyberspace; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; My Parents Expectations Were Overwhelming: Online Dating Romance Scams Targeting Minors in Iran Through Exploitation of Parental Pressure; and 2 more.

  5. Version 78

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 77.

  6. Version 77

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. Initial version.

  7. Version 76

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

  8. Version 75

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version of this synthesis.

    • Publications: 20 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 87 (-1)
    • Cited sources: 20 (-1)

    Sources removed: Pig Butchering Scams as Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime: A Scoping Review of Dimensions, Modus Operandi, and Victim-Offender Dynamics.

  9. Version 74

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

  10. Version 73

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version (first complete synthesis). This document reproduces the protected executive summary and four other protected paragraphs unchanged per the audit. Additional sections and paragraphs present synthesis statements supported only by the supplied evidence records. No external evidence was added; statements flagged by the audit were narrowed to reflect only directly supported findings and explicit recommendations present in the reviewed re...

    • Publications: 21 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 88 (-6)
    • Cited sources: 21 (-2)

    Sources removed: The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Development of a Stage Model to Explain the Online Dating Romance Scam; “Why did I fall for it?” Exploring internet fraud susceptibility in the pig butchering scam.

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