Criminological counteraction to economic crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies

Abstract

The article analyzes new means and methods of committing economic crimes in the digital era. The author examines new ways of committing crimes when buying and selling goods on marketplaces and comes to the conclusion that the main measures to prevent economic crimes in the digital economy are making payments on Internet resources from a separate bank card with a small amount of money; ignoring third-party links by the user when making purchases on the marketplace website. At the same time, in the event of a technical failure on the marketplace, as a result of which the user purchases goods without payment, the person is subject to criminal liability. The article draws attention to the widespread use of deepfake technology in theft of funds, and proposes to support the bill in order to prevent such crimes, according to which it is necessary to establish qualifying features in Art. 158 and Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which involve committing a crime using the substitution of personality traits. The author concludes that the introduction of the digital ruble into civil circulation and amendments to certain Resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in terms of recognizing cryptocurrency as an object of theft will help reduce the level of certain economic crimes.