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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 31

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 30.

  2. Version 30

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 29.

  3. Version 29

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis produced. This is the first version of this evidence synthesis compared with the prior draft; protected verbatim passages from the audit were reproduced exactly where required. Two audit-flagged elements were narrowed: the socioeconomic paragraph was adjusted to avoid asserting unsupported claims about income/economic marginality and omitted one previously cited item judged irrelevant; the listed futu...

    • Evidence statements: 130 (+1)

    Sources added: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud.

    Sources removed: ROMANCE AND RUIN: THE INTERPLAY OF FINANCIAL LOSS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AMONG LOVE SCAM VICTIMS IN THE PHILIPPINES.

  4. Version 28

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This is the initial version of this evidence synthesis for the controlled topic "Victim Characteristics." The synthesis reproduces verbatim the protected summary passages identified by the audit and limits recommendations and methodological prescriptions to priorities explicitly supported by the attached reviewed evidence records.

    • Publications: 33 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 129 (-15)
    • Cited sources: 33 (-4)

    Sources removed: Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis; Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: a linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals; The prevention of online romance scams using a crime script analysis from the victim’s perspective.

  5. Version 27

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first compiled evidence synthesis for the controlled topic "Victim Characteristics" using only the supplied reviewed evidence. It organises and weights findings according to the contribution notes, methodological rigor, and direct support recorded in the evidence inventory; no prior synthesis changes are tracked.

    • Publications: 37 (+9)
    • Evidence statements: 144 (+21)
    • Cited sources: 37 (+9)

    Sources added: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; 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; and 12 more.

    Sources removed: Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; 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; and 3 more.

  6. Version 26

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 25.

  7. Version 25

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 28 (-5)
    • Evidence statements: 123 (-14)
    • Cited sources: 28 (-5)

    Sources added: Online Dating Scam Victims Psychological Impact Analysis; “They just say how stupid I was for being conned”. Cyberscams and acquired brain injury: A qualitative exploration of the lived experience of survivors and close others.

    Sources removed: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; and 3 more.

  8. Version 24

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 33 (+17)
    • Evidence statements: 137 (+75)
    • Cited sources: 33 (+17)

    Sources added: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; and 15 more.

    Sources removed: Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; “They just say how stupid I was for being conned”. Cyberscams and acquired brain injury: A qualitative exploration of the lived experience of survivors and close others.

  9. Version 23

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

  10. Version 22

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

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