I have never researched this so I’m going off a former teacher’s statement so take this as you will.
I was once told that the most successful criminal was a man who made counterfeit $1, $5, and $10 bills. After working in retail, I could see this being possible. As a retail worker, we were constantly reminded (and sometimes required per store policy) to use the magic fraud detection marker on bills of $50 or higher, sometimes even $20 bills. But how often does anyone think to check a 1, 5, or 10? Unless it looks obviously suspicious, no one does. It would be silly to do so, especially with a $1 bill, but that is the rub. No one is checking because it would be ridiculous to check and it would slow the check out process to a crawl.
Again, I can’t guarantee this to be an absolute fact, but in a way it does make sense. Some criminals be smart and shit.
White collar crime, usually because it can be done slowly for many years. Some government officials in my county got busted I think last year for skimming something like $2.5 million from the county over the course of 3 years.
Then there’s Bernie Madoff…that lasted forever before he was eventually discovered.
White collar criminals in general, but especially the ones that are already filthy rich, because they typically escape accountability even if they’re caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
>”When the rich rob the poor it’s called Business. When the poor fight back it’s called Violence.” – Mark Twain
>”The law, in its majestic equality, punishes the rich and poor alike for stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.”
>“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?” – Sir Terry Pratchett
Depends on country a place like Brazil you can pretty much get away with anything great place to be a gangster or drug lord. 90 percent of the countries homicides go unsolved. Countries the US or the UK your probably better off doing some kind of cyber crime everything else you pretty much have a very good chance of getting caught.
“You know, if you news people would stop checking my facts, we wouldn’t have these awkward situations. Ask me a real question like,’How was the President’s golf game?’”
Low weight single sale drug dealers. If you’re not pushing major weight then you’re only likely to get bugged if you’re obvious about it or just plain stupid
Without a doubt wage theft is the most profitable and unpunished form or theft in the US. $15 billion are taken from workers in the form of wage theft by employers annually. It basically never results in any form of criminal punishment. Only fines and fees.
If you’re good at it getting caught is hard and the payouts can be in the millions. It also can provide career opportunities. Banks, insurance companies and hospitals/health care will pay big bucks for your services. Think locksmiths on steriods.
As for the illegal part, there are criminal organizations that pay tons of money. If you’re really really good. Governments will pay millions for your services.
Getting caught is hard but the bigger the breach the bigger the investigation to find you.
Insider trading. You know CEO’s are spilling the tea to friends and family before any big move. You know for sure When the Chipotle CEP left for Starbucks there was plenty of buying and selling goin on behind the scenes from people he knows
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The kind that are already rich AF. Nobody steals more than the wealthy.
I don’t have any stats, but I’m guessing drug dealers. There are a lot of them out there.
career move?
Phone scammers targeting elderly. We’ve had people get 100s of thousands and little to no chance in getting caught cause they are overseas
Online Scammers
con men
Hacker in China
Wage theft is pretty safe, but unfortunately it benefits the company, not the manager.
Criminals operating outside the west. Probably some government official in a relatively corrupt nation.
Wage theft
In Germany: Not paying taxes.
President of the United States of America, hands down.
Companies.
They are already in the business of making money. Any law they break is towards that goal.
Wage theft. Regulatory violations.
Even if the company breaks the law and found guilty – nobody goes to jail. They pay a fine and move on. Which is still most likely profitable.
And to be clear – I’m talking about companies at every level. The only difference is scale.
Tax evasion.
Politicians
Politicians
Politicians.
politicians
CEOs of almost all companies 🙂
Politician
the D.B. Cooper kind.
Hedge fund managers
Politicians. We all know they’re crooked, but none of are willing to do anything meaningful about it
Fines are how the rich live by separate laws than the rest of us.
Wall street traders ?
Are you looking for a change of career?
Churches / Evangelists.
Without getting caught or without getting penalized?
Money laundering
Politician
Politicians
Politician.
Politicians. The government is a crime syndicate. 90% of them don’t get caught or are never brought to justice
when the rich steal from the poor
“What type of criminal generally has the most success rate in making money without getting caught?”
A politician, judge or cop
politicians
President of the 🇺🇸
Politicians.
US Politicians
The super rich / white collar crimes.
Fraudsters. All the richest criminals did the fraud.
Banks
Looking for ideas?
I have never researched this so I’m going off a former teacher’s statement so take this as you will.
I was once told that the most successful criminal was a man who made counterfeit $1, $5, and $10 bills. After working in retail, I could see this being possible. As a retail worker, we were constantly reminded (and sometimes required per store policy) to use the magic fraud detection marker on bills of $50 or higher, sometimes even $20 bills. But how often does anyone think to check a 1, 5, or 10? Unless it looks obviously suspicious, no one does. It would be silly to do so, especially with a $1 bill, but that is the rub. No one is checking because it would be ridiculous to check and it would slow the check out process to a crawl.
Again, I can’t guarantee this to be an absolute fact, but in a way it does make sense. Some criminals be smart and shit.
Politicians
Are you asking for a friend?
If you steal from the poor – you’ll be OK
If you steal from the rich – you’re going to jail
Politician
Billionaires
Congress
Money launderers
You need to be very greedy and/or stupid to get caught
Successful ones
Trump
Salesmen. And women.
The president
White collar crime, usually because it can be done slowly for many years. Some government officials in my county got busted I think last year for skimming something like $2.5 million from the county over the course of 3 years.
Then there’s Bernie Madoff…that lasted forever before he was eventually discovered.
Business men – specifically financial sector
lol, “asking for a friend,” right?
Oligarchs.
White collar criminals in general, but especially the ones that are already filthy rich, because they typically escape accountability even if they’re caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
>”When the rich rob the poor it’s called Business. When the poor fight back it’s called Violence.” – Mark Twain
>”The law, in its majestic equality, punishes the rich and poor alike for stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.”
>“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?” – Sir Terry Pratchett
Wage theft is the most expensive crime.
Managers stealing from employees.
Because you get fired.
“asking for a friend”
My guess would be Russian credit card scammers.
see ‘time theft’ or ‘wage theft’ (they should be the same thing)
Pickpockets, especially those that target tourists in busy cities
CEO
Wage theft is real, estimated at iro $50Bn a year in the US
Me. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Trump is doing a pretty good job
Prosperity gospel preachers.
Depends on country a place like Brazil you can pretty much get away with anything great place to be a gangster or drug lord. 90 percent of the countries homicides go unsolved. Countries the US or the UK your probably better off doing some kind of cyber crime everything else you pretty much have a very good chance of getting caught.
Snitches and criminals that have corrupt law enforcement agents to watch their backs and get them out of trouble if they get caught.
White collar crime.
Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: take underwear. Step 2: . Step 3: Profit.
the white (collar) type of criminal
Online/Phone Scamming
If they haven’t been caught, how would we know?
Executives
White collar crime
CEO
Police offers
Priests and Evangelists.
White collar
Looking for a change of career?
The Trump family.
Pharmaceutical CEO
“You know, if you news people would stop checking my facts, we wouldn’t have these awkward situations. Ask me a real question like,’How was the President’s golf game?’”
Ah, that would be a “smooth” criminal.
Not the ones that end up getting made into movies.
Personal injury lawyers. Some are legit, but more than a few are running what are essentially insurance fraud rings.
politicians
Bankers.
a member of congress
CEOs
Medical professionals
Anything that doesn’t fuck with rich people’s money.
Politician and Union boss
Mega church leader
Criminals like Trump and other heads of state.
A smart one. The dumb ones get caught.
Asking for a “friend”? lol
Central bankster
Developers
White collar, embezzlement
Hedge fund managers.
Online bookstores, electric vehicles, emerald mines.
White collar
Wire Fraud.
Low weight single sale drug dealers. If you’re not pushing major weight then you’re only likely to get bugged if you’re obvious about it or just plain stupid
Smooth ones. Annie, are you okay?
Billionaires.
CEO’s of multinational corporations
Without a doubt wage theft is the most profitable and unpunished form or theft in the US. $15 billion are taken from workers in the form of wage theft by employers annually. It basically never results in any form of criminal punishment. Only fines and fees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
Shell companies.
Presidential type
Politicians
Large businesses regularly get off with no penalty at all even when stealing millions from their employees.
Billionaires,millionaires.
Hacking.
If you’re good at it getting caught is hard and the payouts can be in the millions. It also can provide career opportunities. Banks, insurance companies and hospitals/health care will pay big bucks for your services. Think locksmiths on steriods.
As for the illegal part, there are criminal organizations that pay tons of money. If you’re really really good. Governments will pay millions for your services.
Getting caught is hard but the bigger the breach the bigger the investigation to find you.
Politicians and millionaires/billionaires.
Orange POTUS
Politicians on committees. Its not even close.
IMO ransomware people in Russia. No way they will get caught if they target US people and people are paying the random way more now
none. period…
Insider trading. You know CEO’s are spilling the tea to friends and family before any big move. You know for sure When the Chipotle CEP left for Starbucks there was plenty of buying and selling goin on behind the scenes from people he knows
Most white collar ones and one day they could even be president
Illiterate obese balding NYC real estate developers with a compulsion for lying & penchant for grifting
The successful kind
Wall Street bankers/investment companies
Asking for a friend?
A smooth one….
nice try FBI
Just look at the White House.
A smooth one of course.
without getting caught or getting away with it with no consequences?
Presidents
Pimps
Wage theft.
A republican
Cyber
Medical malpractitioners
Hedge fund manager