Новые способы мошеннических действий в период пандемии COVID-19 и их классификация

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Purpose. Consideration of the method of committing crimes as a key element of the characteristics of crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies during the period of current restrictions in Russia COVID-19; empirical analysis of the views of criminologists on the way of committing fraud; classification of methods of computer fraud during a pandemic. Methodology: when writing the article, the author used the methods of empirical (observation of the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the country and the state of crime) and theoretical research, through observation, monitoring and comparison — data from the media; information provided by the official websites of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the General Prosecutor’s Office. Conclusions. An analysis of the established views of domestic and foreign criminologists on the method of committing cyber fraud allows us to draw conclusions about the lack of special knowledge about the method of committing a crime, criminological classification of fraudulent actions and the presence of differences in understanding the method of committing fraud in the sciences of criminology, criminal law and forensics. The use of the classification proposed by the author of the ways of committing fraud in the future, in our opinion, will allow to reflect in detail the online reality in the mind of the subject, reduce the process of victimization of the individual and minimize virtual risks. Scientific and practical significance. The conclusions and proposals contained in the article can be used in the process of improving legislation in order to prevent fraud on the global Internet and through telephone communications, serve as material for further scientific research in the field of information and telecommunications crime. The conclusions and suggestions made can be taken into account when creating special programs aimed at preventing fraud. The conclusions and results of the article may be of practical importance for the development of separate programs for control over the crime of victimization of the population and in lawmaking activities while improving the Russian legislation.