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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 14

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version: complete synthesis created from the supplied reviewed evidence. This version reproduces all protected, audit‑passed passages verbatim where required and otherwise restricts assertions to material explicitly supported by the attached evidence records. Audited unsupported elements (claims about the general absence of longitudinal designs and specific unreferenced methodological prescriptions) were removed or narrowed to statements th...

  2. Version 13

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete synthesis prepared from the supplied reviewed evidence. This version preserves verbatim several protected passages and attaches the exact evidence IDs required by the audit. No prior-version changes were applied because this is the first submitted synthesis replacement.

  3. Version 12

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first version produced for the controlled topic 'Victim Characteristics' and compiles material from the supplied reviewed evidence records. No prior-version evidence changes are being reported.

    • Publications: 26 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 104 (+13)
    • Cited sources: 26 (-1)

    Sources added: Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Paradoks Hukum Rekayasa Sosial Pig Butchering Scam Dalam Investasi Digital Aset Kripto; The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial; To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud; and 1 more.

    Sources removed: A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Induced erotomania by online romance fraud - a novel form of de Clérambault’s syndrome; Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization; and 2 more.

  4. Version 11

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

  5. Version 10

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

  6. 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.

  7. Version 8

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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