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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 41

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 7 passages from synthesis version 40.

  2. Version 40

    Initial version: this synthesis compiles and weights material from the supplied reviewed evidence set and presents a multilevel, processual account of vulnerability. No prior-version evidence changes apply.

    • Publications: 46 (+8)
    • Evidence statements: 184 (+33)
    • Cited sources: 46 (+8)

    Sources added: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud; Drug mule for love; and 13 more.

    Sources removed: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; Factors of susceptibility to online romance scam in Malaysia: unraveling the complex pathways; and 5 more.

  3. Version 39

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 38.

  4. Version 38

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 37.

  5. Version 37

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 38 (-7)
    • Evidence statements: 151 (-32)
    • Cited sources: 38 (-7)

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders; Mental Health Impacts of Cybercrime; More Than Just a “Bad” Online Experience: Risk Factors and Characteristics of Catfishing Fraud Victimization; and 3 more.

  6. Version 36

    Initial version: no prior synthesis changes reported. This document synthesizes the supplied reviewed evidence and identifies convergent findings, methodological limitations, and explicit research recommendations stated by the reviewed authors.

    • Publications: 45 (+9)
    • Evidence statements: 183 (+39)
    • Cited sources: 45 (+9)

    Sources added: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; and 12 more.

    Sources removed: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research; Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; and 3 more.

  7. Version 35

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 34.

  8. Version 34

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 33.

  9. Version 33

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 2. This is the initial version.

    • Publications: 36 (-7)
    • Evidence statements: 144 (-32)
    • Cited sources: 36 (-7)

    Sources removed: Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong; and 3 more.

  10. Version 32

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 43 (+8)
    • Evidence statements: 176 (+16)
    • Cited sources: 43 (+8)

    Sources added: Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Modelling the modus operandi of online romance fraud: Perspectives of online romance fraudsters; Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims; and 5 more.

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam.

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