Material and electronic-digital traces as an element of the forensic characteristics of frauds committed in the way "Your relative got into trouble"

The subject of the study is the material and electronic-digital traces formed during the commission of fraud in the way "Your relative got into trouble". Despite the fact that the fraudster communicates with the victim by phone remotely, when committing fraud, there remains a certain set of material traces, the detection and investigation of which will allow to identify the fraudster courier and prove the event of the crime. The separation of electronic and digital traces into a separate group is associated with the use of information technology by fraudsters. During the investigation, the investigator seizes and examines such an electronic digital trace as a video recording from the victim's place of residence, from the location of the ATM used to transfer money stolen from the victim. Also, this group of traces includes information contained in the cell phones of the victim and the suspect, which confirm the latter's involvement in the crimes committed as part of a criminal group.  The study was conducted using general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, analogy; empirical methods: description, comparison, as well as private scientific methods: legal, sociological, formal legal. The novelty of the study, the conclusions. The analysis of criminal cases made it possible to establish that when committing this type of fraud, there are material traces that allow identifying the fraudulent courier, as well as proving the fact of committing a crime. Depending on the method used, specific traces remain, called in criminology as electronic-digital, which include video recordings from surveillance cameras of a fraudster courier at the moment when he came to the victim for money and transferred them to the account indicated to him through an ATM. The author's position is expressed that with the participation of a suspect during the inspection of video recordings, his testimony should be recorded in the interrogation protocol, and not in the protocol of inspection of objects. A large set of traces is contained in the memory of a cell phone seized from a fraudulent courier.

fraud, cheater, the victim, material traces, digital footprints, forensic characteristics, Information technology, telephone, video recording, the mechanism of trace formation