Abstract: The subject of the study is the process of criminal procedural proof in cases of fraud committed in the way "Your relative got into trouble". This method of fraud is implemented, as a rule, by a group of persons, and the task of the investigator during the preliminary investigation is to collect, verify and evaluate the totality of evidence indicating a certain form of complicity in the commission of a crime. Based on the analysis of criminal cases, a typical set of ideal and material traces is investigated, which are recorded by the investigator in the appropriate types of criminal procedural evidence provided for in Part 2 of Article 74 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. This body of evidence gives the investigator grounds to assert that when committing fraud, members of a criminal group plan crimes in advance, assign roles and carry out jointly coordinated activities to implement a criminal plan. The study was conducted using general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, deduction, analogy; empirical methods: description, comparison; as well as private scientific methods: legal, sociological, formal legal. The analysis of criminal cases of fraud committed in the way "Your relative got into trouble" allowed us to identify a set of evidence that gives grounds to classify these crimes as committed by a group of persons by prior agreement. At the same time, the paper identifies the problem of inaccessibility to law enforcement agencies of information from the Telegram messenger about the planning and preparation of crimes, which makes it impossible to identify the organizers and other members of the criminal group and does not allow to qualify the actions of accomplices as committed by an organized group. The latter is important from the point of view of bringing to criminal responsibility all members of a criminal group and more precisely qualifying and determining the severity of a crime committed by a group of persons by prior agreement. The above should entail the type and amount of criminal punishment adequate to the activities of an organized criminal group. Only in this case, it is possible to effectively improve the effectiveness of the law enforcement system in preventing and combating this type of fraud.

Abstract: The subject of the study is the material and electronic-digital traces formed during the commission of fraud in the way "Your relative got into trouble". Despite the fact that the fraudster communicates with the victim by phone remotely, when committing fraud, there remains a certain set of material traces, the detection and investigation of which will allow to identify the fraudster courier and prove the event of the crime. The separation of electronic and digital traces into a separate group is associated with the use of information technology by fraudsters. During the investigation, the investigator seizes and examines such an electronic digital trace as a video recording from the victim's place of residence, from the location of the ATM used to transfer money stolen from the victim. Also, this group of traces includes information contained in the cell phones of the victim and the suspect, which confirm the latter's involvement in the crimes committed as part of a criminal group.  The study was conducted using general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, analogy; empirical methods: description, comparison, as well as private scientific methods: legal, sociological, formal legal. The novelty of the study, the conclusions. The analysis of criminal cases made it possible to establish that when committing this type of fraud, there are material traces that allow identifying the fraudulent courier, as well as proving the fact of committing a crime. Depending on the method used, specific traces remain, called in criminology as electronic-digital, which include video recordings from surveillance cameras of a fraudster courier at the moment when he came to the victim for money and transferred them to the account indicated to him through an ATM. The author's position is expressed that with the participation of a suspect during the inspection of video recordings, his testimony should be recorded in the interrogation protocol, and not in the protocol of inspection of objects. A large set of traces is contained in the memory of a cell phone seized from a fraudulent courier.