Remote Fraud: Problems of Prevention, Investigation and Law Enforcement

Purpose: to study the problems of prevention, investigation and enforcement of criminal liability for remote fraud. Conclusions: to combat remote fraud, it is necessary to: use all possible ways to disseminate information about the types of fraud being committed, including new methods of remote fraud; strengthen control over the sale of SIM cards in unauthorized places, on the Internet; tighten control over the issuance of bank cards, the appearance of various fictitious organizations that issue such maps; to tighten registration in social networks; to carry out proper supervision of correctional institutions in order to prevent the entry of prohibited means of communication into their territory or the receipt of cell phones, SIM cards in parcels, transfers, during a personal meeting; to complete the transition to electronic document management; to establish prompt receipt of information required for the investigation of a criminal case; it is necessary to entrust the investigation of fraud cases to those investigators who have such experience, or to create separate investigative units that would specialize in this type of crime; it is necessary to generalize judicial practice on remote fraud; it is necessary to amend the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (to introduce responsibility for a number of new socially dangerous acts, to supplement art. 63 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with a new aggravating circumstance: «the commission of a crime by remote means», to introduce a qualifying feature for a number of criminal law norms: «commission using mobile communications or the Internet»).