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Living Evidence Synthesis

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Victim Vulnerabilities

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 51

    Current public version

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 50.

  2. Version 50

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 49.

  3. Version 49

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. This document is a revised replacement synthesis produced in response to an independent audit. Protected passages identified by the audit were reproduced verbatim with the exact evidence IDs listed. Other passages were narrowed or rephrased to remove unsupported or overstated claims and to align claims exactly with the evidence records judged relevant by the audit. The revision emphasizes explicit methodological limitations and future‑work statemen...

    • Publications: 45 (+3)
    • Evidence statements: 172 (+17)
    • Cited sources: 45 (+3)

    Sources added: Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Therapeutic but toxic spaces: Romance fraud victimization from a psychosocial perspective; “Why did I fall for it?” Exploring internet fraud susceptibility in the pig butchering scam.

    Sources removed: The Mental Health Impacts of Internet Scams.

  4. Version 48

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 42 (-20)
    • Evidence statements: 155 (-105)
    • Cited sources: 42 (-20)

    Sources added: The Mental Health Impacts of Internet Scams.

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; and 17 more.

  5. Version 47

    Initial version; no prior-version evidence changes to report.

    • Publications: 62 (+18)
    • Evidence statements: 260 (+62)
    • Cited sources: 62 (+18)

    Sources added: Análisis Jurídico del Catfishing en Transacciones de Comercio Telemático en Ecuador: Desafíos y Soluciones en el Contexto de la Seguridad Cibernética; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Catfishing: a conduta de assumir uma identidade falsa nas plataformas de mídia social e suas consequências jurídico-penais; and 21 more.

    Sources removed: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; How does Victim Precipitation Theory explain Deviant Behaviours of Internet Romance Offenders? Gamer’s Perspective of Victim Precipitation; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; and 3 more.

  6. Version 46

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 45.

  7. Version 45

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 44 (-9)
    • Evidence statements: 198 (-31)
    • Cited sources: 44 (-9)

    Sources added: Beyond Dollars: Unveiling the Deeper Layers of Online Romance Scams Introducing “Body Scam”; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims.

    Sources removed: El timo del amor. Estafas eróticas realizadas por mujeres en Costa Rica entre 1970 y 1990 publicadas en el periódico La República; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; and 7 more.

  8. Version 44

    This version integrates recently reviewed offender‑perspective and pig‑butchering studies, authenticated chat corpora analyses, and scoping/systematic reviews that were not cited in earlier drafts. New material informing changes includes offender ethnographies and experiments showing active screening and tactic adaptation (e.g., evidence IDs 9111, 2769, 3989, 10), pig‑butchering victim–perpetrator triangulated findings on social‑support, self‑esteem, and early‑profit near‑win dynamics (1002, 100...

    • Publications: 53 (+7)
    • Evidence statements: 229 (+45)
    • Cited sources: 53 (+7)

    Sources added: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; and 15 more.

    Sources removed: A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Drug mule for love; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; and 8 more.

  9. Version 43

    Automated claim-level support repair round 3, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 42.

  10. Version 42

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 41.

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