O ESTELIONATO VIRTUAL EM ASCENSÃO: os impactos e medidas de combate na era digital

Abstract

With the digital age, virtual crimes have increased daily, which even puts us as a society on another level of surveillance and control, the one that stands out most in terms of increase is the crime of virtual embezzlement or electronic fraud. In view of this, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of operationalization of the aforementioned crime, its main characteristics and legal classification, as well as the analysis of the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of criminal legislation when faced with the crime in practice. This research proposes to understand how the types of scams applied by criminals occur, and to identify the collaboration of the use of technology, both in terms of its use to commit crimes, as well as to investigate and locate criminals. The work uses the exploratory and descriptive research method, based on bibliographical research, scientific articles, media reports in accordance with the theme and mainly on the doctrine of Criminal Law. During the course of the work, we identified the main problem, the outdated Brazilian legislation to combat crime, and therefore, criminal legislation must be duly reviewed and updated so that it can meet current demands, penalize more rigorously and, consequently, inhibit criminal acts. cases of virtual fraud in Brazil.