MEANS OF CRIMINAL PREVENTION IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS REGARDING FRAUD IN THE SPHERE OF E-COMMERCE

Abstract

Preventive measures directly carried out by the investigator are highlighted, in particular in the process
of ensuring criminal proceedings, carrying out individual investigative (search) actions, as well as tactical operations.
Emphasis is placed on the importance of expert prevention, as well as preventive measures of an informational,
educational and victimological nature, etc. Emphasis is placed on the urgent need to create a mechanism for prompt
response to fraud in the field of commercial activity by blocking the assets of fraudulent companies and stopping
their activities. During the study, the following research methods were applied: formal-logical, functional, systemic,
statistical, synthesis method. The scientific novelty consists in justifying the need to introduce a single automated
system, which in case of suspicious actions automatically sends a request to banking institutions, where the fact of
the transaction is established and the further movement of funds to the final account / bank card to which the funds
were transferred is tracked, with simultaneous blocking of accounts. In addition, special forensic prevention measures
are proposed. A component of the online fraud prevention concept is singled out – the systematic activity of cyber
police units monitoring social networks and media. Attention is focused on the use of the information resources of
the National Police of Ukraine, which has created and has been operating for a long time a system of communication
departments that cooperate with regional and all-Ukrainian media, have their own websites, web pages in social
networks, produce their own audiovisual content and are highly active in other media, including social networks and
electronic media. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the developed proposals can become the
basis of methodological recommendations for the application of forensic prevention measures during the investigation
of fraud in e-commerce.