Fraud on the Internet and ways to protect against it

Today, technological progress does not stand still. However, with the development of scientific and technological progress, a negative phenomenon appeared - fraud on the Internet. The purpose of this paper is to identify the main problems of Internet fraud in the modern virtual world. This topic is relevant, since Internet fraud as a social phenomenon is increasingly gaining a negative effect on society. This article discusses the classification of fraud in the global Internet, based on which the analysis was conducted, measures were developed to protect users' information, as well as measures to prevent computer crime on social network sites.