Public Danger and Problems of Qualifying the Creation and Operation of Fraudulent Call-Centers

Relevance. The use of technological progress by criminals for criminal purposes is one of the pressing problems today. In this context, modern information and communication technologies deserve special attention, providing the possibility of global communication, exchange and storage of information, learning and knowledge acquisition, optimization and anonymization of financial transactions. Manipulating people's consciousness through the use of information and cognitive technologies is today a common way of committing various types of fraud. These opportunities are fully and actively used in the implementation of such a group form of fraud as the activities of fraudulent call centers. 

The purpose of the study is to assess the public danger and identify problems in qualifying the creation and operation of fraudulent call centers. 

Objectives: to identify compliance with the essence of the criminal activity of fraudulent call centers and assess the public danger of this criminal activity;identify problems in classifying such acts and suggest ways to eliminate them. 

Methodology. When writing the work, the tools of dialectical, systemic and activity-based approaches were used, as well as general logical thinking techniques, general scientific and special scientific methods.

Results. It has been established that the underestimation of the public danger of the activities of fraudulent call centers, and, accordingly, the insufficient effectiveness of measures taken today to counter them, are due to ignorance of the fact that the joint criminal activities of fraudsters in this case form a criminal community. 

Conclusions. This type of criminal activity corresponds to all the characteristics of a criminal community (struct redness; unified leadership; the purpose of creation is to commit one or more serious or especially serious crimes to obtain directly or indirectly financial or other material benefits).In addition, the qualification of the activities of fraudulent call centers under Art.210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation will allow the court to ensure the possibility of confiscation of property obtained as a result of criminal activity.

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