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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 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.

  2. 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...

  3. Version 52

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

  4. Version 51

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

  5. Version 50

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Version 46

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

  10. 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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