The aim of the paper is to present the most common practice in the modus operandi of the perpetrators of the crime of credit fraud and profiles of the perpetrators. The article is based on the research conducted by the author. The study involved the criminal cases that were finally ended of an offense under the article 297 § 1 of the Criminal Code submitted to the Regional Court Poznań-Old Town in Poznań in 2010–2012. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part shows modus operandi of the perpetrators of the credit fraud. The second part shows the profile of the perpetrator of this crime. The third part presents the conclusions and the demand resulting from the analysis.