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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 41

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. This synthesis reproduces protected, independently verified passages verbatim where required and integrates the supplied reviewed evidence records only. It is a replacement synthesis using the provided evidence set; no external evidence was added. Material claims preserved from the previous draft were reproduced exactly with the specified evidence IDs. No new evidence records were incorporated beyond those supplied for this task.

    • Publications: 26 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 97 (-1)
    • Cited sources: 26 (-1)

    Sources removed: Pig Butchering Scams as Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime: A Scoping Review of Dimensions, Modus Operandi, and Victim-Offender Dynamics.

  2. Version 40

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. This synthesis reproduces all protected passages identified in the audit verbatim and preserves their exact evidence attachments. Passages flagged by the independent audit were narrowed or removed where the audit found unsupported clauses: specifically, assertions that sextortion subtype findings 'coexist with larger complaint streams where women are the majority of reporters' were not asserted without direct support; claims that victims’ movement...

    • Publications: 27 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 98 (-8)
    • Cited sources: 27 (-2)

    Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood.

  3. Version 39

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 29 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 106 (+2)
    • Cited sources: 29 (+1)

    Sources added: Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood.

    Sources removed: The prevention of online romance scams using a crime script analysis from the victim’s perspective.

  4. Version 38

    Initial version based on the supplied reviewed evidence records. No prior‑version evidence changes to report.

    • Publications: 28 (-8)
    • Evidence statements: 104 (-12)
    • Cited sources: 28 (-8)

    Sources added: A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; My Parents Expectations Were Overwhelming: Online Dating Romance Scams Targeting Minors in Iran Through Exploitation of Parental Pressure; 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; and 2 more.

    Sources removed: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; and 10 more.

  5. Version 37

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

  6. Version 36

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This is the initial version.

  7. Version 35

    Initial version: synthesis assembled from the supplied reviewed evidence. No prior-version evidence changes were provided to the editor, so this is the first synthesized version and identifies the main methodological limitations and research priorities explicitly stated within the reviewed records.

    • Publications: 36 (+7)
    • Evidence statements: 116 (-5)
    • Cited sources: 36 (+7)

    Sources added: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; and 9 more.

    Sources removed: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; and 2 more.

  8. Version 34

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 6 passages from synthesis version 33.

  9. Version 33

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 29 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 121 (-9)
    • Cited sources: 29 (-4)

    Sources added: Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Mapping romance fraud research – a systematic review; 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; and 3 more.

    Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Factors of susceptibility to online romance scam in Malaysia: unraveling the complex pathways; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; and 7 more.

  10. Version 32

    Automated claim-level support repair round 3, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 31.

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