The fraudulent discourse: strategy of appeal to pity

The article examines one of the most effective strategies used by fraudsters when implementing communicative scenarios of Fraudulent discourse, namely the Strategy of appeal to pity - one of the most frequent in the structure of the discourse under study. Scenarios are differentiated, as well as communicative means of manipulation used by the fraudster when influencing the victim, verbal and visual-illustrative ones. The various roles in which he can perform are described. The characteristics of the victim-mediator and the final victims of the crime and their division by function are given. The technical features used during the implementation of the fraudulent scheme are outlined. The mechanism for gaining access to the personal data of the victim-mediator is revealed. The sequence of actions by which the fraudster creates in the final victim a state of readiness to immediately help in each type of communication scenario is shown.