Procedural Features of Documenting Cybercrime in the Russian Federation

The aim of the research is to develop a scientifically based criminological concept of fraud on the global Internet, and on this basis to put forward practical proposals to prevent this phenomenon, forming a unified system.

The objectives of the research are to study crimes on the global Internet, as a specific illegal phenomenon, and the special forms of social reaction to it, emerging as social relations.

Conclusions: cybercrime is any act, by its nature, involving the alteration of computer data, or interference with a computer system, resulting in the dispossession of another person. Hence, the main direct target of the fraud is protected by criminal law social relations in the sphere of property, and the objects of infringement should include property, including non-cash and electronic money.

In order to effectively prevent fraud committed using the information and telecommunications environment, effective application of criminal laws is required.