Sustainability of the fraud mechanism committed by a group of persons

Introduction: At the same time, as our research shows, in the case of an attempt to commit digital fraud, only every 150 people turn to the bank’s security service or law enforcement agencies. The stability of the mechanism of fraud committed by a group of persons, as a natural phenomenon of objective reality, with the growth and qualitative changes of such crimes, is an urgent scientific problem for the science of criminology and practice. The object of the article is criminal activity aimed at committing fraud. The subject is sustainability as a regularity of the mechanism of fraud committed by a group of persons. Materials and Methods: the legal framework of the study was the Constitution of the Russian Federation, criminal legislation, criminal procedure legislation regulating the solution, investigation and prevention of fraud committed by a group of persons, official statistics for the last five years, the results of the analysis of criminal cases of fraud committed by a group of persons. Within the framework of this article, the activity and situational approach has become the method of cognition of frauds committed by a group of persons. Results of the Study: the essence and content of the stability of the mechanism of fraud committed by a group of persons are revealed. Findings and Conclusions: The issues of the stability of the mechanism of fraud committed by a group of persons, as a property of repetition, are considered in relation to: the elements of the mechanism of crime; the methods of fraud and related crimes; the formation and functioning of the group. The study of the stability of the mechanism of fraud committed by a group of persons allows us to fully disclose the content of the formed basic methodology for their solution and investigation, as well as to improve the quality of law enforcement activities.