The article aims to characterize the forensic features of the initial stage of investigating fraud with financial resources in cyberspace, its significance, analysis, and justification as a type of cybercrime that is dangerous for everyone, and prove the need for urgent measures to prevent and combat such criminal offenses. The authors used several methods of scientific cognition: logical-semantic, system-structural, analytical, formal-legal, forecasting, dialectical, interpretation, and hermeneutics. The article focuses on the general provisions of the forensic characteristics of Internet fraud with financial resources; analysis of the information model of the mechanism of committing fraud with financial resources in the field of computer information; coverage of the tactical features of individual investigative actions at the initial stage of the investigation of fraud with financial resources in cyberspace. It was concluded that the effectiveness of combating Internet fraud and the level of cybersecurity in Ukraine is very low. Therefore, the investigation of fraud with financial resources in cyberspace requires in-depth specific knowledge from the subjects of the investigation.
Cimes in the field of computer information have become pressing issue in society today. Its relevance is evidenced by news from around the world, criminal statistics, problematic issues in the science of criminal law, as well as problems in criminal proceedings. All this is due to the fact that as a phenomenon, crimes in the field of computer information belong to the very specific category that is constantly evolves technological progress.
The purpose of the article is to study the phenomenon of crimes in the field of computer information, to define the concept of crimes in the field of computer information and types of these crimes, to provide general characteristics of crimes in the field of computer information, as well as to identify their classification.
Various methods of scientific knowledge were used as a methodological basis for writing this article. In particular, comparison methods, analogies and generalization methods were used.
In our time, cybercrime has spiraled out of the control of one state's law enforcement agencies and has become a significant interstate and transnational problem.
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