CYBERFRAUD PREVENTION: VICTIMOLOGIC ASPECT
Rubrics: CRIMINAL LAW, CRIMINOLOGY, PENAL LAW
Authors:
1.
Volgograd Academy of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
(kafedra kriminalistiki uchebno-nauchnogo kompleksa po predvaritel'nomu sledstviyu v organah vnutrennih del, docent)
employee
Volgograd, Russian Federation
employee
Volgograd, Russian Federation
Type:
Article
Pages:
from 31
to 36
Status:
Published
Received:
02.10.2025
Accepted:
11.10.2025
Published:
23.12.2025
Subject area:
VAK Russia 5.1.4
UDC 343.9
UDC 343.9
Language:
Russian
Keywords:
cybercrime, fraud, a victim, victim behavior, subjective victimization factors, devictimization
Abstract:
This article deals with the latest statistic data related to the situation with cybercrime in Russia in 2022—2024 time period. The author of the article notes that for the recent several years remote (telephone and computer) fraud has accounted for the largest share of cybercrime. There is an average profile of a victimized person. The author pays a great attention to the analysis of subjective victimogenic factors, i. e. personal and behavioral human qualifications that let a person become a victim of the mentioned crime. These factors include low digital literacy, gullibility, naive optimism, greed for profit, responsibility and a tendency to oversharing. The author also notes that the latter is the basis for fraud applying Deepfake technology as it gives criminals an opportunity to create realistic images from those ones posted publicly on social media and then to use them for criminal purposes. The author concludes that the primary tool to prevent cybercrime should be dealing with subjective victimogenic factors aimed at developing critical thinking, emotional intelligence of potential victims as well as forming skills to recognize manipulations and counteract them.
This article deals with the latest statistic data related to the situation with cybercrime in Russia in 2022—2024 time period. The author of the article notes that for the recent several years remote (telephone and computer) fraud has accounted for the largest share of cybercrime. There is an average profile of a victimized person. The author pays a great attention to the analysis of subjective victimogenic factors, i. e. personal and behavioral human qualifications that let a person become a victim of the mentioned crime. These factors include low digital literacy, gullibility, naive optimism, greed for profit, responsibility and a tendency to oversharing. The author also notes that the latter is the basis for fraud applying Deepfake technology as it gives criminals an opportunity to create realistic images from those ones posted publicly on social media and then to use them for criminal purposes. The author concludes that the primary tool to prevent cybercrime should be dealing with subjective victimogenic factors aimed at developing critical thinking, emotional intelligence of potential victims as well as forming skills to recognize manipulations and counteract them.
Keywords:
cybercrime, fraud, a victim, victim behavior, subjective victimization factors, devictimization
cybercrime, fraud, a victim, victim behavior, subjective victimization factors, devictimization
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