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Living Evidence Synthesis

Revision history

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 61

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 30 (+9)
    • Evidence statements: 127 (+51)
    • Cited sources: 30 (+9)

    Sources added: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; COVID-19 and cyber fraud: emerging threats during the pandemic; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; and 10 more.

    Sources removed: Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Persuasive Schemes for Financial Exploitation in Online Romance Scam: An Anatomy on Sha Zhu Pan (杀猪盘) in China; Relationship fraud: Romance, friendship and family frauds; The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes; and 1 more.

  2. Version 60

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 59.

  3. Version 59

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 5. Initial version (no prior evidence changes applied).

  4. Version 58

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

    • Publications: 21 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 76 (-5)
    • Cited sources: 21 (-1)

    Sources removed: Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: a linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals.

  5. Version 57

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

  6. Version 56

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Replacement synthesis produced after audit feedback. This version reproduces the protected, audit‑validated passages verbatim and restructures other sections to remove or narrow unsupported interpretive claims identified by the audit. It does not add new evidence records beyond the supplied corpus.

  7. Version 55

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version. This synthesis reproduces multiple previously audited protected passages verbatim with their required evidence IDs and integrates additional directly supported material from the reviewed evidence. No prior-version claims were removed except where audit feedback identified unsupported psychosocial-theme wording; I retained only psychosocial-theme statements directly supported by Wang & Topalli (evidence 2588) and other cited sources...

    • Publications: 22 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 81 (-9)
    • Cited sources: 22 (-2)

    Sources removed: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime.

  8. Version 54

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 24 (+3)
    • Evidence statements: 90 (+10)
    • Cited sources: 24 (+3)

    Sources added: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; Relationship fraud: Romance, friendship and family frauds; Romance Scam Victimization: A Survey-Based Examination of Financial, Psychological, and Reporting Factors; and 2 more.

    Sources removed: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud.

  9. Version 53

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. This synthesis replaces the prior draft and preserves verbatim the auditor‑protected executive summary and other audited passages. Protected passages were reproduced exactly and retain their original attached evidence IDs. The revision aligned one audited future‑work formulation to the explicit content of reviewed gap records and removed any wording that the audit found unsupported. No newly supplied evidence records were added beyond those already...

  10. Version 52

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

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