Criminal practices against women masquerading as romance. Рart 1

The relevance. The article is the first part of the presentation of the results of a study of criminal schemes based on "false romance" as a tool for committing crimes. Monitoring of judicial practice, the media and the global network shows that fraudsters in elite dating clubs, scammers in social networks and applications, as well as other criminals, including members of terrorist organizations and convicts, use the deep psychological needs of victims for illegal purposes. This category of crimes includes deception "on the basis of love", when attackers from a fake account (catfishing) or in real life play the role of "in love" for the sake of self-interest or for other reasons. Most of the victims of swindlers and recruiters who believe in idealized romantic relationships are women – they make up the target audience of criminals. The purpose of the study is to supplement the theory of criminology with new knowledge of criminal schemes based on the exploitation of the romantic attachment of women. Objectives: tо include identifying and describing all scenarios for committing crimes disguised as romantic relationships – from extortion and fraud, to involving women through virtual relationships with convicts or members of terrorist organizations in committing serious crimes; development of a typology of the criminal mechanism of encroachments «on the basis of love» and the classification of victims from them. Methodology . A set of methods is used in the work: formal-legal, formal-logical and method of sociopsychological analysis. The results are applied in nature and include the development for law enforcement of a criminological classification of female victims based on the criterion of «trust» victimhood. This part of the article proposes a typology of criminal combinations with mercenary motivation under the guise of romantic relationships used by intruders, which reflects their psychologically determined nature. Conclusion. The main tool of the fraudster is an artificially created illusion of intimacy, which allows you to gain absolute trust. This manipulation targets the victim's romantic expectations, which inevitably leads to her financial loss and psychological trauma.