Scammers and fraudulent behavior style in the socio-psychological dimension

Fraud is a complex socio-legal and socio-psychological phenomenon that permanently accompanies the history of human relationships, not outliving itself for centuries, and in recent years has been on the rise. The author considers the fraud in a socio-psychological context as a type of deviant human behavior, acting as a kind of criminal activity, and the scammers themselves as a kind of conditional community, whose representatives are similar primarily in the nature of their activities. At the same time, fraudulent activity is analyzed primarily as a kind of negative social activity that can take place in various spheres of public relations, but always has a parasitic character and is aimed at satisfying the selfish material needs of the fraudster at the expense of the persons deceived by him. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that fraudulent deception as the main feature of fraudulent activity includes: 1) the location of the victim; 2) misleading him about the property side of the issue of interaction between them and 3) encouraging the victim to voluntarily transfer property or property rights to a fraudster. Thus, in this case we are talking not just about deception, but about deception as an element of a complex manipulative mental influence on the victim, as a result of which the latter transfers property in favor of the fraudster.