FRAUD – CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
FRAUD – CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

Summary/Abstract: The author’s main attention is focused on the manifestations of fraud, which are the predominant ways of committing modern criminal activities in today’s social and economic trends. The paper will first present a wide range of such illicit activities, which will be dichotomously classified into modernized classical forms and completely new types, most often in the predominantly online environment. Among other types of this type of criminal activity, the author especially emphasizes card fraud and identity theft, emphasizing such a high degree of damage they cause to damaging legal and natural persons. The author presents the trends of fraudulent activities according to the experiences of economically developed countries, whose economic systems are stable and whose standard of living is high. In addition to the theoretical and practical approach of experts in this field, the paper will list concrete examples of modern fraud as a kind of indicator of their presence and the degree of social danger, which determine them. The key intention of the author is to point out with this paper the necessity of changing the perception of citizens towards the seemingly harmless threats of these illegal activities, to which they are continuously exposed every day in a professional and private, primarily online, environment.

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