The article is devoted to identification of markers of lying and truth in written text messages. The author discusses the main directions of studies of lying written text and emphasizes that this problem is poorly researched in Russia. The foreign researchers look into descriptors of the lie in the speech and ones of nonverbal signs of the deception. It shows that usage of the self-reference word as a index of lying/true message. The article gives results of the first stage of the research. The aim of the stage is verification of a hypothesis.
