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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 71

    Current public version

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 70.

  2. Version 70

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. This revision preserves a set of protected, verbatim passages and their exact evidence links required by the audit. Other sections were revised to ensure every substantive claim is attached only to evidence records that directly support it; partially supported or inferential claims flagged by the audit were narrowed or reworded to match explicit evidence. The synthesis adds explicit paragraph-level evidence citations and removes or softened broader...

  3. Version 69

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

    • Publications: 30 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 93 (-2)
    • Cited sources: 30 (-1)

    Sources removed: Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims.

  4. Version 68

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

    • Publications: 31 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 95 (-4)
    • Cited sources: 31 (-1)

    Sources removed: “Why did I fall for it?” Exploring internet fraud susceptibility in the pig butchering scam.

  5. Version 67

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version (no prior changes to apply).

    • Publications: 32 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 99 (+4)
    • Cited sources: 32 (+1)

    Sources added: “Why did I fall for it?” Exploring internet fraud susceptibility in the pig butchering scam.

  6. Version 66

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 31 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 95 (-1)
    • Cited sources: 31 (-2)

    Sources added: Romance Scam as one of the main Challenges of cybercrime.

    Sources removed: A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; Factors of susceptibility to online romance scam in Malaysia: unraveling the complex pathways; ‘Should’ve known better’: Using Lerner’s Belief in a Just World to understand how the Fraud Justice Network observe victims of online romance and investment frauds.

  7. Version 65

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 33 (+7)
    • Evidence statements: 96 (-17)
    • Cited sources: 33 (+7)

    Sources added: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Beyond Dollars: Unveiling the Deeper Layers of Online Romance Scams Introducing “Body Scam”; and 16 more.

    Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; and 9 more.

  8. Version 64

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 63.

  9. Version 63

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 8 passages from synthesis version 62.

  10. Version 62

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: this synthesis replaces the prior draft and preserves several audit‑protected passages verbatim (executive summary and specified paragraphs) while aligning remaining content strictly to reviewed evidence. No external or unreviewed sources were added.

    • Publications: 26 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 113 (-14)
    • Cited sources: 26 (-4)

    Sources added: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams.

    Sources removed: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; COVID-19 and cyber fraud: emerging threats during the pandemic; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Understanding the Nature of the Transnational Scam-Related Fraud: Challenges and Solutions from Vietnam’s Perspective; and 1 more.

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