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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 81

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version of this synthesis. No prior version comparison changes apply.

    • Publications: 30 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 129 (-26)
    • Cited sources: 30 (-6)

    Sources removed: Digital Desire and the Cyber Imposter: A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Catfishing; Exploring the roles played by trust and technology in the online investment fraud victimisation process; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; and 2 more.

  2. Version 80

    Initial version: there is no prior synthesized version attached for comparison; this synthesis is the initial compiled evidence synthesis for the controlled topic “Victim Vulnerabilities” using only the supplied reviewed evidence.

    • Publications: 36 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 155 (-42)
    • Cited sources: 36 (-3)

    Sources added: A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud; Exploring the roles played by trust and technology in the online investment fraud victimisation process; Love and Technology; and 10 more.

    Sources removed: (Mis)Understanding the Impact of Online Fraud: Implications for Victim Assistance Schemes; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Developing online deception literacy while looking for love; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; and 13 more.

  3. Version 79

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 78.

  4. Version 78

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. Initial version.

    • Publications: 39 (-1)
    • Evidence statements: 197 (-5)
    • Cited sources: 39 (-1)

    Sources removed: The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial.

  5. Version 77

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. This replacement synthesis was prepared as an audited revision of the supplied corpus. Material adjustments were made to remove or narrow assertions flagged by the audit and to retain only claims directly supported by the supplied evidence records. Protected passages listed in the audit were reproduced verbatim with their exact evidence attachments. Unsupported or overstated elements identified by the audit were omitted or reworded to match the evi...

    • Publications: 40 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 202 (-5)
    • Cited sources: 40 (-2)

    Sources removed: Safeguarding Retirement in the Age of Scams; To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud.

  6. Version 76

    Initial version: this is the first synthesized version of the supplied evidence for the controlled topic 'Victim Vulnerabilities'.

    • Publications: 42 (+9)
    • Evidence statements: 207 (+50)
    • Cited sources: 42 (+9)

    Sources added: (Mis)Understanding the Impact of Online Fraud: Implications for Victim Assistance Schemes; An exploration of the motivations of catfish perpetrators and the emotions and feelings expressed by catfish victims using automated linguistic analysis and thematic analysis; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations; and 18 more.

    Sources removed: Adult attachment and online dating deception: a theory modernized; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Mapping romance fraud research – a systematic review; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; and 9 more.

  7. Version 75

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 74.

  8. Version 74

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete synthesis produced from the supplied reviewed evidence. This is the first revision; no prior-version changes applied.

    • Publications: 33 (-13)
    • Evidence statements: 157 (-33)
    • Cited sources: 33 (-13)

    Sources added: Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud.

    Sources removed: An exploration of the motivations of catfish perpetrators and the emotions and feelings expressed by catfish victims using automated linguistic analysis and thematic analysis; Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; and 10 more.

  9. Version 73

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first version produced for the controlled topic 'Victim Vulnerabilities' using the supplied reviewed evidence records. No prior‑version evidence changes apply.

    • Publications: 46 (+13)
    • Evidence statements: 190 (+56)
    • Cited sources: 46 (+13)

    Sources added: Adult attachment and online dating deception: a theory modernized; An exploration of the motivations of catfish perpetrators and the emotions and feelings expressed by catfish victims using automated linguistic analysis and thematic analysis; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; and 19 more.

    Sources removed: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Catfishing: a conduta de assumir uma identidade falsa nas plataformas de mídia social e suas consequências jurídico-penais; Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles; and 6 more.

  10. Version 72

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 71.

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