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
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Version 51
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.
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Version 50
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.
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Version 49
Initial version.
- Publications: 21 (+3)
- Evidence statements: 80 (+8)
- Cited sources: 21 (+3)
Sources added: Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Online Romance Scams: Relational Dynamics and Psychological Characteristics of the Victims and Scammers. A Scoping Review; Persuasive Schemes for Financial Exploitation in Online Romance Scam: An Anatomy on Sha Zhu Pan (杀猪盘) in China; and 4 more.
Sources removed: Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Relationship fraud: Romance, friendship and family frauds; The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial; and 1 more.
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Version 48
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: no prior synthesized-version changes to report; this is the first complete replacement synthesis prepared under the current audited constraints.
- Publications: 18 (-4)
- Evidence statements: 72 (-13)
- Cited sources: 18 (-4)
Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; Pig Butchering Scams as Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime: A Scoping Review of Dimensions, Modus Operandi, and Victim-Offender Dynamics.
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Version 47
Initial version. This synthesis compiles and weights material from recent systematic reviews, administrative complaint analyses, mixed‑methods and qualitative studies, and subtype‑focused research included in the supplied evidence set. It follows prior cautious conclusions that current evidence is heterogeneous and not sufficient to assert a single, population‑general victim profile; it identifies consistent descriptive patterns within reporting channels, documented subtype differences, recurrin...
- Publications: 22 (+1)
- Evidence statements: 85 (-13)
- Cited sources: 22 (+1)
Sources added: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; and 2 more.
Sources removed: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Online Romance Scams: Relational Dynamics and Psychological Characteristics of the Victims and Scammers. A Scoping Review; Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization; and 1 more.
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Version 46
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.
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Version 45
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version: no prior synthesis changes supplied; this is the initial version produced for the controlled topic using the supplied reviewed evidence.
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Version 44
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version (no prior-audit changes applied). This synthesis reproduces key protected passages verbatim where required by the audit and uses only the supplied reviewed evidence records to support all material claims. The audit flagged partial support for some earlier passages; in response the synthesis: (1) reports FTC age‑trend findings using only the FTC analysis method and finding records (evidence 6781, 6786) and does not attribute unsuppor...
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Version 43
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.
- Publications: 21 (-3)
- Evidence statements: 98 (-3)
- Cited sources: 21 (-3)
Sources added: Online Romance Scams: Relational Dynamics and Psychological Characteristics of the Victims and Scammers. A Scoping Review.
Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Romance Scams and Older Adults: A Health and Social Care Perspective; Romance Through Digital Avatars: Online Courtship, Representation and “Catfishing” Amongst Irregular Female Migrants in Sabah; The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial.
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Version 42
Initial version: this synthesis is the first version produced for the controlled topic "Victim Characteristics" using the supplied reviewed evidence records. No prior-version evidence changes are reported.
- Publications: 24 (-2)
- Evidence statements: 101 (+4)
- Cited sources: 24 (-2)
Sources added: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Pig Butchering Scams as Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime: A Scoping Review of Dimensions, Modus Operandi, and Victim-Offender Dynamics; and 4 more.
Sources removed: 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; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; and 6 more.