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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 74

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

  2. 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.

  3. Version 72

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 23 (-7)
    • Evidence statements: 94 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 23 (-7)

    Sources added: A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; Romance Scam Statistics 2024-2026: verified, source-attributed figures from FBI IC3, FTC, City of London Police, Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr, GASA and Chainalysis (Baromètre 2026 des...; and 2 more.

    Sources removed: Beyond Dollars: Unveiling the Deeper Layers of Online Romance Scams Introducing “Body Scam”; Catfish: Exploring the Individual Predictors and Interpersonal Characteristics of Deceptive Online Romantic Relationships; Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; and 9 more.

  4. Version 71

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

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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