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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Version 37
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.
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Version 36
Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This is the initial version.
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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.