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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 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.

  2. Version 23

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 4. Initial version.

  3. Version 22

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 3. Initial version.

  4. Version 21

    Automated claim-level support repair round 3, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 20.

  5. Version 20

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 19.

  6. Version 19

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 18.

  7. Version 18

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version. This synthesis preserves multiple verbatim, audit-protected passages required by the audit (executive summary and several paragraph passages) and integrates them into a coherent replacement. Compared with the previous draft provided for comparison, this version removes unsupported specific subtype examples in the scope paragraph where audit feedback found insufficient backing, and it aligns methodological statements to only those r...

    • Publications: 16 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 62 (+1)
    • Cited sources: 16 (+1)

    Sources added: What do we know about online romance fraud studies? A systematic review of the empirical literature (2000 to 2021).

  8. Version 17

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 15 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 61 (-9)
    • Cited sources: 15 (-1)

    Sources removed: To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud.

  9. Version 16

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first version produced for the controlled topic 'Victim Characteristics' using the supplied reviewed evidence. It integrates recent systematic reviews, large complaint-dataset analyses, subtype-focused qualitative and mixed-method studies, and survivor/special-population work to describe consensus, disagreement, uncertainty, methodological patterns, evidence gaps, and future directions as explicitly reported in the supplied records.

    • Publications: 16 (-10)
    • Evidence statements: 70 (-34)
    • Cited sources: 16 (-10)

    Sources added: Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization; The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood; and 1 more.

    Sources removed: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; and 11 more.

  10. Version 15

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 14.

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