Welcome to the forum.
Your form of research requires an ora or one-on-one interaction with attack victims. For security and confidentiality reasons, many might find it difficult to reveal their identities and cases of attack as a result of not knowing to what length those collected data will be used. Privacy actually matters a lot.

But I think it will be more of an interacting section and informative if you can throw some direct questions to the floor. Lots of members will be willing to discuss and help based on personal encounters with such victims or direct victims. And when throwing your questions, it should be specific to which coin you are referring to. If your research is a case study on Bitcoin or altcoins, they are two different forms of currency that might look like they are of the same purpose, but they are not.

I expect most of the victims don't know why they've got targeted, although I expect the reason is either them bragging about how many coins they have or other ways they've displayed their wealth, either in their neighborhood or on the internet. The few cases I've read about were either known people on the internet, either known "business people".
However, I would be surprised if people would approach you tell their stories. I expect that remembering that is painful and brings no benefit for them.

But yeah, it's just wild guesses. Good luck!

I'm quite interested in participating for this little research project of yours. I've been a victim of this once (although I don't think the attack is specifically targeted to me but is more likely a copy-pasted script that was sent to other countless people in the industry), and me being the snotty-nosed crypto newbie that I am back then, I kind of fell for it for a while, pressing on the link they sent and answering questions that they prepared for me "or else they will take control of my account" and "collect every asset I deposited there for evidence" lmao. I'd be more than happy to expound on this if you'd count me in as one of your participants as I think wrench and coordinated attacks from scammers in this industry are more common than what people are led to think, but it's talked about so little in favor of the more sensational attacks that would catch the people's eye in the headlines.

Thanks a lot everyone! This is very helpful.