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- [Narrator] Yikes!
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Who would have thought politician
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was up there with drug dealer?
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Here are the 10 highest
paying illegal jobs
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in the world.
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Number 10 is a corrupt politician.
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Working in politics can be grueling work
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without much thanks.
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But it has the potential
to be pretty lucrative.
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And no, not just in post
presidency book deals.
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The biggest criminals in the world
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don't get where they are without knowing
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who to pay off.
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The same goes for big
businesses who want tax breaks
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or fewer regulations.
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And many politicians are
willing to look the other way
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for the right price.
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In 2014, a California
State Senator Leland Yee
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was arrested for taking part
in the illegal gun trade.
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And for accepting at
least $43,000 in bribes
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to influence legislation.
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In March of 2017, South
Korean President Park Geun-Hye
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was arrested and booted
from office for corruption.
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She was accused of taking bribes
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from corporations like Samsung
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to ignore questionable business practices.
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And for working with her top advisor
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Choi Soon-sil for getting
businesses to donate
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$69 million to her non-profits.
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Number nine is a drug smuggler.
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Drug smugglers are responsible
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for getting the goods across the borders
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and pass law enforcement.
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Millions of dollars worth of drugs
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can be in a single shipment.
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And if a job goes well,
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smugglers can be entitled
to a big percentage of that.
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In April of 2015,
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two smugglers Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen
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were caught off the coast of Aberdeenshire
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in a ship carrying 3.2
tons of pure cocaine.
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With a street value of
over 512 million Pounds.
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Smugglers who work alone are usually young
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and are known as mules.
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When traveling through airports,
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mules will actually swallow
small baggies of drugs
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while traveling.
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Especially through airports.
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Then use,
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laxatives to pass them.
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As a teenager in the early 2000s,
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Danny Santos began driving drugs
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across the El Paso-Juarez border
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between the United States
and Mexico for a drug cartel.
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Over four years and 20 runs,
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he made well over $50,000.
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Number eight is a panhandler.
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Do you like the outdoors,
interacting with the public?
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Do you have excellent sign making skills?
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Then a career in panhandling
might be for you.
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Of course not all panhandlers
are there by choice.
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And we can only hope that
life doesn't throw us a curve
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and put us on the street.
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But some people have
practically made it an art.
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And are making way more than minimum wage.
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Busking for cash usually requires a permit
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if you don't want to fine of course.
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And aggressive panhandling
is generally legal.
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In 2012, 45 year old Shane Speegle
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was arrested for
panhandling without a permit
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in Oklahoma City.
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When the cops asked him
why he didn't get a job,
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he made a legitimate argument
that he didn't want to
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because he was already
making $60,000 a year.
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Even crazier is in Lexington, Kentucky,
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a man named Gary Thompson
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claimed to be making up to $100,000 a year
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exploiting people's good nature
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by pretending to be mentally
and physically disabled.
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Number seven is an
illegal wildlife poacher.
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The illegal poaching of wildlife
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has been a huge problem for years.
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And largely centered around ivory.
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But that's only gotten worse
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as the business has moved online.
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Demand is still high
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for animals used in traditional medicines
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or delicacies
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like a single whale shark fin
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which can sell for up to $20,000.
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Or even animals like
monkeys or tropical birds
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that can sell as pets.
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In 2010, the Kaiser spotted newt from Iran
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became one of the first pet species
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to be on the brink of extinction
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with only about 1,000 left in the wild
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thanks to illegal online sales.
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In may of 2017,
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a 62 year old Vietnamese woman
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was caught at the Tan Son Nhat airport
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with $88,000 worth of animal parts.
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Including ivory, tiger skins
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and even elephant tails.
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In fact, the black market wildlife trade
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is estimated to be worth
at least $10 billion.
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The penalties for wildlife trafficking
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depends on the country,
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but their support from the UN
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to make it a serious international crime.
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Number six is an escort.
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Every industry runs on a
scale of low to high end.
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And the sex industry is no different.
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There's a less than flattering stereotype
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of sex workers on street corners.
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But that's a world away from the life
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of a high end escort.
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Despite the association with sex work,
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escorts don't just get down and dirty,
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they can also literally just escort
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as in accompany some rich
dude to a fancy event
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or just out for a date.
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But of course the fee goes up
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if the night ends in
you know, the bedroom.
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For their services,
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escorts can make up to $5,500 an hour.
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But that's not all just take home money.
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There's a lot that goes to
keeping up a polished appearance
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and to an agency also known as a procurer,
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AKA an equally high-end pimp
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who takes a cut.
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They're the ones who set up the meetings
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and generally keep things safe
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by vetting clients.
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While also less than legal procurers
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can make up to $33,000 a week.
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The punishments for sex work
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can vary in range from fines to jail time.
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Number five is an assassin.
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Assassins have been around for centuries.
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Carrying out surprise
murders on unlucky targets.
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They're usually associated
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with undercover military operations.
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But since there are people
willing to pay good money
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to get rid of their enemies,
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some assassins have gone into
the business for themselves.
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Becoming hitmen for hire.
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In Britain, researchers found
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that contracting a killer costs
an average of 15,000 pounds.
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But can go as low as a couple hundred.
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Depending on the target and who's paying,
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the price can go way way up.
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Gary Johnson, a Texas undercover hitman
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once had his services solicited
by a wealthy socialite
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gave him $200,000 worth of jewelry
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just as a down payment
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for the murder of her husband.
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The internet providing
access to the dark web
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or even ads on Craigslist
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has made it even easier to hire a hitman.
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But getting caught is very
bad news for both parties
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and will likely end up with
lengthy prison sentences.
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Number four is embezzlement.
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Embezzlement is financial fraud and theft
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that can take many different forms.
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The most infamous cases are Ponzi schemes.
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Like the one run by Bernie Madoff.
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But embezzlement isn't always so flashy
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and can even happen in small businesses.
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Typically, an employee will steal funds
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little by little over years.
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The idea is by only taking small amounts
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that theft won't be noticed.
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But overtime, it adds
up to stacks on stacks.
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Marquet International, a
security consulting firm
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in the United States,
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profiled the typical thief
as a respectable woman
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in her early 40s
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with a good job including
health care and paid vacation
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and likely working with
the company's finances.
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And people with gambling problems
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were more likely to start stealing.
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But on average, men stole
two and a half times
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more than women.
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In 2013, the average loss
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was $1.1 million.
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But since it was a white collar crime,
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the average prison sentence
is only four years.
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Number three is weapons trafficking.
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The weapons trade, both legal and illegal
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is a massive industry.
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A big part of the illegal trade
is the smuggling of weapons
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that had been outlawed
in certain countries.
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The global weapons market
has an estimated annual value
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of $60 billion.
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And black market deals can
make up to 20% of that.
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In the 1990s, the Russian
arms dealer Viktor Bout
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also known as The Merchant of Death
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was estimated to be making
$50 million a year illegally
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selling weapons to terrorist
groups like the Taliban,
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Al Qaeda and militant groups in Africa.
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It's gotten easier to
get into the market too.
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Thanks to the internet.
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Especially in the United States
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where it's legal to buy guns online.
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It's ideal for sellers
like Michael Andrew Ryan
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AKA Gun Runner from Kansas
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who up until he was arrested in 2016
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was using the dark web to
illegally sell and ship
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semi-automatic weapons and ammunitions
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to countries like Ireland,
England and Australia.
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Number two is a hacker.
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Cyber crime is big business.
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And if you're a hacker with loose morals,
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it could mean big bucks.
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Nowadays, hackers work
within highly organized gangs
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that are arguably as powerful as nations.
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And are responsible for
80% of all cyber crimes.
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Cyber crime is pretty diverse
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and can include everything
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from stealing social security numbers
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to haking into state security systems.
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2008, the Russian mafia,
considered to be one of the biggest
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cybercrime gangs in the world
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hacked in to ATMS
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and stole nine million
dollars from people's accounts
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without breaking a sweat.
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Another tactic is holding data for ransom.
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In September of 2013, the
ransomware Cryptolocker
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attacked thousands of computers
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by blocking access to files
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and threatening to delete them
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if a $400 ransom wasn't paid.
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It's estimated that the hackers behind it
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extorted a cool three million bucks.
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The estimated cost to
the economy from hacking
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is anywhere from $445 billion
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up to $2.1 trillion by 2019.
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And number is a drug lord.
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Drug lords are the head honchos
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in control of huge networks of people
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working in the illegal drug trade.
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That means everyone from
growers to producers
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to dealers on the street.
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But running such a massive
underground operation
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isn't without it's payoffs.
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The Bolivian drug lord
Roberto Suarez Gomez
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reportedly made $400 million a year.
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And he definitely had money lying around
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when in 1983,
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he offered to pay off
Bolivia's foreign debt
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of $3.8 billion.
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Just to have his son
released from US custody.
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And probably the most
infamous drug lord in history
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was Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar
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who was responsible for
up to 80% of the cocaine
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that was being smuggled
into the United States
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in the 1980s and 90s.
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And was reportedly worth $30 billion.
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Of course, it's not all
swimming in pools of cash
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like Scrooge McDuck,
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drug lords definitely
lead a dangerous life
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and have a pesky habit of
dying in a hail of bullets.
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And that's it.
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