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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 64

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

  2. Version 63

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Version 60

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

  6. Version 59

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

  7. 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.

  8. Version 57

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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