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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 11

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 10.

  2. Version 10

    Automated claim-level support repair of 2 passages from synthesis version 9.

  3. Version 9

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: this synthesis is the first consolidated evidence‑synthesis output for the controlled topic and reproduces protected, previously audited passages verbatim where required. No prior version changes are reported.

    • Publications: 27 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 91 (-7)
    • Cited sources: 27 (-3)

    Sources removed: Romance Scam: Victim Manipulation and Human Trafficking; Romance Through Digital Avatars: Online Courtship, Representation and “Catfishing” Amongst Irregular Female Migrants in Sabah; The victimology of online fraud: A focus on romance fraud victimisation.

  4. Version 8

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version (no prior revision changes to report).

  5. Version 7

    Initial version.

    • Evidence statements: 98 (-20)

    Sources added: Anatomy of the online dating romance scam; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Factors of susceptibility to online romance scam in Malaysia: unraveling the complex pathways; and 5 more.

    Sources removed: A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; My Parents Expectations Were Overwhelming: Online Dating Romance Scams Targeting Minors in Iran Through Exploitation of Parental Pressure; and 5 more.

  6. Version 6

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 30 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 118 (-14)
    • Cited sources: 30 (-3)

    Sources removed: Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; “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.

  7. Version 5

    Initial version.

    • Evidence statements: 132 (-1)

    Sources added: A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; Induced erotomania by online romance fraud - a novel form of de Clérambault’s syndrome; My Parents Expectations Were Overwhelming: Online Dating Romance Scams Targeting Minors in Iran Through Exploitation of Parental Pressure; Open Access: The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes; and 5 more.

    Sources removed: Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; Explore the Causes of Crime and Social Impact of Romance Fraud in Mainland China from 2019–2021; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; and 5 more.

  8. Version 4

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 33 (+1)
    • Evidence statements: 133 (+3)
    • Cited sources: 33 (+1)

    Sources added: Relationship fraud: Romance, friendship and family frauds.

  9. Version 3

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete replacement synthesis produced. This version preserves and reproduces verbatim several previously audited, evidence-backed passages (age concentration, younger-age findings for some subtypes, correlational design cautions, subtype-data provenance and reporting-channel effects, hot-spot geographic findings, and methodological-quality statements) with the exact evidence IDs required by the audit. Other sections were construc...

    • Publications: 32 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 130 (-8)
    • Cited sources: 32 (-2)

    Sources removed: Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; “Why did I fall for it?” Exploring internet fraud susceptibility in the pig butchering scam.

  10. Version 2

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first compiled version for the controlled topic 'Victim Characteristics' using the supplied reviewed evidence. It integrates multiple complaint-series, qualitative interviews, corpus analyses, and systematic reviews from the provided corpus and explicitly describes areas of agreement, disagreement, methodological limitations, and evidence gaps as reflected in those records.

    • Publications: 34 (+7)
    • Evidence statements: 138 (+29)
    • Cited sources: 34 (+7)

    Sources added: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; and 17 more.

    Sources removed: A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; and 10 more.

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