FRAUD USING INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AS A THREAT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Abstract

Currently fraud using information and telecommunication technologies is becoming a very
popular area in the criminal environment. First of all, the attractiveness of this area for crime is explained by the potential for fraudsters to receive excess profits from criminal activities. The number of crimes in this area is steadily increasing. The peculiarities of the modern geopolitical situation, as well as the scale of this type of crime are determined, necessitate of the consideration of the latter from the standpoint of ensuring the national security of the Russian state. The purpose of the study is to identify the characteristics of persons who commit fraud using information and telecommunication technologies, taking into account the relationship of their characteristics with the methods of preparation, implementation and concealment of this particular type of fraud. A separate task is to provide a forensic analysis of such phenomena as fraudulent call center, droppery. The methodological basis of the research is a set of various methodological techniques, means of cognition and empirical research. Thus, general and private scientific methods of cognition were applied and used: formal-logical, system-structural, analysis; situational; generalization and description; statistical; comparison and other methods. The article provides recommendations on the prevention of this type of crime, taking into account current legislation and law enforcement practice.