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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 21

    Initial version: synthesizes the supplied reviewed evidence on psychosocial drivers, offender grooming and profiling, cognitive mechanisms sustaining engagement and repeat victimization, contextual moderators and special populations, methodological patterns/limitations, and prioritized future research directions. No prior-version evidence changes are applicable because this is the first generated synthesis provided to the user.

    • Publications: 33 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 143 (-7)
    • Cited sources: 33 (-3)

    Sources added: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; and 9 more.

    Sources removed: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; Catfishing – jako przejaw przestępstwa kradzieży tożsamości; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; and 12 more.

  2. Version 20

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 19.

  3. Version 19

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 4 passages from synthesis version 18.

  4. Version 18

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 36 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 150 (-15)
    • Cited sources: 36 (-4)

    Sources added: Beyond Dollars: Unveiling the Deeper Layers of Online Romance Scams Introducing “Body Scam”.

    Sources removed: A Research on False Pragmatic Identity Construction in Telecom Network Dating Scam; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; and 1 more.

  5. Version 17

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 40 (+6)
    • Evidence statements: 165 (+13)
    • Cited sources: 40 (+6)

    Sources added: Amor, dependencia y aislamiento: El impacto psicológico del romance scam; Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; Catfishing – jako przejaw przestępstwa kradzieży tożsamości; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; and 12 more.

    Sources removed: Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; Grooming in online dating romance frauds and scams: A scoping review; Law Enforcement Against Perpetrators Of Romance Fraud In Cyberspace; Reality Counseling Approach to Increasing Career Woman Awareness (Case Study Love Scam); and 6 more.

  6. Version 16

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 1 passage from synthesis version 15.

  7. Version 15

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 14.

  8. Version 14

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: full synthesis produced from the supplied reviewed evidence. This version reproduces specified protected passages verbatim where required and integrates the audited methodological cautions. No previous-version evidence additions or deletions were made beyond the audit-driven corrections to unsupported moderator claims in the executive summary and synthesis text.

    • Publications: 34 (-4)
    • Evidence statements: 152 (-20)
    • Cited sources: 34 (-4)

    Sources added: Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; The Electronic Spanish Prisoner; Victimization Analysis Based On Routine Activitiy Theory for Cyber-Love Scam in Malaysia.

    Sources removed: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Explore the Causes of Crime and Social Impact of Romance Fraud in Mainland China from 2019–2021; Factors of susceptibility to online romance scam in Malaysia: unraveling the complex pathways; and 3 more.

  9. Version 13

    Initial version.

    • Publications: 38 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 172 (-29)
    • Cited sources: 38 (-6)

    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; Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters; Do we need to know about cyberscams in neurorehabilitation? A cross-sectional scoping survey of Australasian clinicians and service providers; and 8 more.

    Sources removed: 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; Catfishing – jako przejaw przestępstwa kradzieży tożsamości; and 14 more.

  10. Version 12

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: complete synthesis produced from the reviewed evidence. No prior-version material was altered except where audit-directed removals or restrictions were necessary; preserved protected passages were reproduced verbatim with their required evidence IDs.

    • Publications: 44 (-8)
    • Evidence statements: 201 (-19)
    • Cited sources: 44 (-8)

    Sources added: ‘Love is a powerful force and in our pursuit of it we are easily blinded’: Examining negative consequences experienced by catfishing fraud victims.

    Sources removed: Analysis of "Pig-Butchering Scam" Type of Network Fraud from the Legal Perspective; 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; Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime; and 5 more.

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