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The article is devoted to the study and research of such element of criminalistic characteristic of fraud committed on the Internet, as a criminal personality. Indicate fraud committed on the Internet more often, but the study of individual Internet fraudster given enough attention, which undoubtedly makes it difficult to investigate these crimes. In view of the priority research in criminology is to develop scientific statements about the offender as part of criminological characteristics of fraud committed over the Internet.

It is noted that since personality is formed during the activity, the person of the offender – a person's identity, not individual has committed an offense and the system of criminal acts, that criminal activities. The study features a rogue person demonstrates his ability to work on the Internet and narrowly focused, as do things with computers to commit fraud may be limited circle of people. Personal characteristics portrait of internet fraud is active life, non-standard thinking and behavior, care, attention.

On the basis of the analysis of views, expressed in scientific literature, and provisions of the Criminal and Criminal Procedural codes of Ukraine, the authors made an attempt to identify criminalistic signs of internet-fraudsters and classificate the types of theirs criminal personality. Taking into consideration that essence of a criminal personality of internet-fraudsters was not developed by scientists, authors worked out their criminalistic signs and based on them typical portrait.

The authors have paid a considerable attention to investigation of connections of criminal personality with other elements of criminalistic characteristic of fraud committed on the Internet. Authors came to a conclusion that criminal personality of internet-fraudsters as a basic element of its criminalistic characteristic is closely related with such other elements as subject of criminal abuse, modus operandi, typical traces.

Keywords: fraud committed on the Internet, criminalistic characteristic, criminal personality of internet-fraudster, investigation, criminal procedure.