Features of the initial stage of investigating fraud with financial resources in cyberspace

Oleg Reznik; Andrii Fomenko; Andrii Melnychenko; Natalia Pavlova; Andrii Prozorov

doi:10.34069/AI/2021.41.05.14

Oleg Reznik Sumy State University, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4569-8863
Andrii Fomenko Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3517-1638
Andrii Melnychenko Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0719-2821
Natalia Pavlova Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1572-4648
Andrii Prozorov National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0905-7076

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.41.05.14

Keywords: criminal offenses, cyberspace, fraud, financial resources, investigation.

Abstract

The article aims to characterize the forensic features of the initial stage of investigating fraud with financial resources in cyberspace, its significance, analysis, and justification as a type of cybercrime that is dangerous for everyone, and prove the need for urgent measures to prevent and combat such criminal offenses. The authors used several methods of scientific cognition: logical-semantic, system-structural, analytical, formal-legal, forecasting, dialectical, interpretation, and hermeneutics. The article focuses on the general provisions of the forensic characteristics of Internet fraud with financial resources; analysis of the information model of the mechanism of committing fraud with financial resources in the field of computer information; coverage of the tactical features of individual investigative actions at the initial stage of the investigation of fraud with financial resources in cyberspace. It was concluded that the effectiveness of combating Internet fraud and the level of cybersecurity in Ukraine is very low. Therefore, the investigation of fraud with financial resources in cyberspace requires in-depth specific knowledge from the subjects of the investigation.

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Author Biographies

Oleg Reznik, Sumy State University, Ukraine.

Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Administrative, Economic Law and Financial and Economic Security, Sumy State University, Ukraine.

Andrii Fomenko, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Rector, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Andrii Melnychenko, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure, Faculty of Training for Pre-trial Investigation, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Natalia Pavlova, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Candidate of Juridical Sciences,Associate Professor of the Department of Criminalistics and Domestic Training, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Andrii Prozorov, National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ukraine.

Candidate of Juridical Sciences,Associate Professor of the Department "Organizations of information security with limited access" of the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ukraine.

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