MODERN FORMS OF HIGH-TECH FRAUD IN THE FUNCTION OF MONEY LAUNDERING
MODERN FORMS OF HIGH-TECH FRAUD IN THE FUNCTION OF MONEY LAUNDERING

Summary/Abstract: Modern technological resources, availability of modern technology and rapid progress in the field of high technology, have enabled its wide distribution and usability. Today almost no households exist in almost all parts of the world, where there is not even one PC, as well as other related technological equipment. Consequently, given these facts, there are more and more cases of abuse of modern technological tools, which are becoming more and more popular with criminal organizations, which recognize the advantages of this modern equipment. Technical and technological frauds, which are the subject of this paper, are used to secure unlawfully acquired material benefits, which then, through money laundering, invest in various legal affairs. Many cases of computer fraud, money theft, the abuse of plastic money, bank fraud, which resulted in huge material losses from one, and the acquisition of unlawful property gain on the other side, have been discovered. Prewar are mainly used by younger and technically literate people from the poorer parts of the world, who are highly ranked by education. Their profile is not characteristic of the perpetrator of the crime, because they have their high knowledge in the field of modern technologies materializing through computer fraud and hacking.

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