graduate student
Ministry of Internal Affairs Belgorod legal institute of Russia (kafedra operativno-razysknoy deyatel'nosti, prepodavatel')
employee
Russian Federation
UDC 343.9
Currently, by using new information technologies, it is possible to quickly and conveniently perform various financial transactions in cashless form, and therefore large cash flows have moved into the virtual environment. However, these manipulations with financial resources still do not have a high degree of legal, organizational and technical protection. Consequently, not only ordinary citizens are actively exploring the information space every year, but also professional criminals, whose activity is precisely focused on continuous gaining profit from committing crimes. As a result, the issues of criminological assessing activities of certain categories of criminals-professionals working in the virtual sphere are becoming particularly relevant. Based on mentioned above, the purpose of the study is to determine the features of professional criminal activity of computer fraudsters in the context of the information space developing. The article considers the main specializations of modern computer fraudsters (phishers and carders), identi-fies their inherent signs of criminal professionalism. It is established that they are becoming more professional every day. To counteract this criminal activity, we consider it necessary to: a) improve criminal legislation in sphere of clarifying the categorical and conceptual framework used while qualifying computer fraud; providing for criminal liability commensurate with the nature and degree of public danger for committing computer fraud on a systematic basis; b) modernize the work of law enforcement agencies engaged in combating computer fraud; c) strengthen the technical protection of cashless financial storage systems on bank accounts; d) increase the general level of public digital literacy.
computer fraud, professional criminal, criminal law, carders, phishers, criminal professionalism, cybercriminals
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