Criminalistic Characteristics of Organized Forms of Fraud

The article presents the criminalistic characteristics of organized forms of fraud. The author’s own definition of organized forms of fraud is presented, the elements of criminalistic characteristics are described, the structure of organized groups is given, and the personal characteristics of a participant in such a group are defined. The novelty of the article’s topic consists in viewing the problem through the prism of the author’s analysis of his own law enforcement experience and research publications. It is an attempt to present not just a standard criminalistics description of such crimes, but also to define different relevant organized forms of fraud from the standpoint of the elements of committing them. The goal of the publication is to single out the specifics of the criminalistic characteristics of organized forms of fraud. The author uses the normative legal regulation analysis, the formal legal and the comparative legal method. The theory and law enforcement practice allowed the author to identify key elements of the criminalistic characteristics of the crimes under consideration, to single out ten methods of the organized forms of fraud, to identify five typical groups of persons who commit such crimes, and to describe the diversity structure of organized groups.