The underground regional committee operates In the spring of 1755, everything was thought out and ready. Cells of the underground, some powerful, some very weak, dozed, waiting for a signal, on three roads out of four. But life, as always, made adjustments. A month and a half before the term appointed by Batyrsha, May 15, 1755

And start most profitable business. So that the profit is guaranteed to be huge. So that it never stops. So that no one can take it away. To be ethical and Well, and so on. To do this, we turn to business.

The most profitable business, as you understand, different people will understand differently. For someone, "the most profitable" is a million a year. For some, a thousand a year. Is it possible to somehow decide on the most profitable business in such a way as to find the most profitable business for yourself? It is quite likely that it is possible.

Let's start with what profit is. Profit- this is income minus taxes and various expenses such as the cost of the product, wages, etc. Accordingly,

The most profitable business is the one where the income is MUCH more than the expenses.

If you ask people to answer the question, what business will be the most profitable, then you will hear a lot of answers like "rob", "taxes", "politics", "drugs" and so on. How can you summarize all this? Easy and simple - especially in terms of the above rule of the profitable business. So, according to the respondents, the most profitable business is:

• illegal business (because the expense is less due to the absence of taxes);
• business on addiction(because there is a guaranteed demand at any price);
• business very similar to the previous one - business on hopelessness(because you can set any price - and people will not go anywhere) (the main businessman of this type is the state);
• business on the forbidden(because the price rises exponentially compared to the severity of the ban);
• business on deceit(because the price is artificially inflated);
• gambling business: both illegal, and on addiction, and on prohibitions, and on hopelessness, and on deceit.
• business on ignorance- on the stupidity and fears of people (lotto, church and other similar scams).

Accordingly, almost all the "profitable businesses" that people mention in the survey refer to bandits and the state, since only these two structures can do just such a business with almost impunity.

But usually normal people do not want to engage in such adventures. And remains main question, the answer to which millions are looking for:

Is an ethical and highly profitable business possible?

As you can imagine, everything is possible. You just need to think very, very well to find it. Naturally, each person has certain abilities. And only individually you can find just such a business for yourself. And to determine the most profitable business, the main thing to consider when calculating is how much income will be more than expenses.

The procedure for finding the most profitable business in your area and for you is very simple:

1. Generate about a hundred business ideas (or find them on the Internet, and in particular in the "" section of our website.
2. Calculate as accurately as possible the income and expenses from each of them
3. Choose exactly the idea that has the largest difference between expense and income - that is, choose the most profitable business.

Naturally, this is difficult. Naturally, errors are possible. But you can use the main rule of the most profitable business, and you can find the most profitable business for yourself.

In this article I would like to touch on such a topic as illegal business ideas. Of course, this is by no means a guide to action, but information about what types of entrepreneurship should not be engaged in any case.

drug trade

The sale of such a potion, in principle, cannot be legal. And it doesn’t matter if we are talking about heavy synthetic products or “harmless” smoking mixtures. At the same time, everything belongs to the illegal drug business: sale, cultivation, manufacture or transportation.

body trade

Even taking into account the fact that prostitution is one of the oldest professions, you should not set it as an example. Interestingly, in many countries found interesting way fight against body trafficking - the legalization of prostitution. This happened in India, Guatemala, Singapore, Bangladesh and even in Italy, Germany, Canada, Latvia and Belgium.

Production of "fake" documents

Unfortunately, a very common "business" in our country. For money they can do anything: a passport, a diploma, a certificate, a certificate. In Russia, several high-profile cases of such illegal business are revealed every year.

Trade in smuggled caviar

According to supervisory services, the illegal circulation of caviar accounts for 90% of all production. Unfortunately, this leads to the fact that, most likely, our grandchildren will know about black or red caviar only from the stories of their grandparents or parents.

counterfeit

Now every second walks in haute couture clothes

Today most of mobile phones, DVD discs, clothes, shoes and accessories are fakes. Is it possible to buy a Dolce & Gabbana suit for 30,000 rubles or an iPhone for 10,000? Of course not, but I really want to. Therefore, in our country, 90% of all such products are labeled "Made in China".

gambling

Another "drug" of modern humanity

For many people gambling is an important part of their lifestyle. Therefore, as long as there are people who love and want to play (and, interestingly, losing does not stop them), new underground gaming clubs and casinos that spin indecently large sums.

Human trafficking

Or according to scientific "trafficking" is an illegal business activity in any case. These include organ harvesting for donation, forced labor or sexual slavery. There are agencies in Russia that recruit people abroad.

We hope that this TOP-7 illegal business ideas attracted your attention for informational purposes only. It should be understood that all of the above ideas are a direct path to prison, because. each such "business" is strictly punishable by law under the Criminal Code.

Today, there are many opportunities for the implementation of a legitimate business with the possibility of obtaining a stable and high income.

What do you think of such illegal business ideas? Perhaps you have heard of any other activities that the law opposes? Let's discuss together what types of business can be classified as illegal.

"Profile"

Native land, forever beloved

Moreover, they earn regularly - every evening going to the panel, dressing up as beggars, breaking open someone else's door. For us, all these underground people are exotic. Sometimes even shrouded in a haze of romanticism: for a Russian person with a higher education, any prostitute is, first of all, Sonechka Marmeladova. But, we repeat, for millions of Russians, dubious, from the point of view of law and morality, earnings are not a fun and dangerous adventure, but ordinary work. "Went to work" - this is how these people relate to their craft. And in a certain sense they are right: what is work if not a source of regular income?

"Profile" decided to conduct a study: what craft among these millions of gentlemen and ladies ("either lady, or lyadi", as in the old joke) of luck is considered the most profitable and prestigious? We were interested: for what money do people go into illegal business? And do "anti-professions" really guarantee high earnings? Do you need spiritual inclinations for this, or are people driven only by the thirst for profit?

The list of "professions" (further we will write this word without quotes) turned out to be small: recidivist thieves, thieves in law, counterfeiters, racketeers, killers, prostitutes, beggars, scammers, computer hackers (hackers), plastic thieves. Total ten.

Many of these professions are as old as the world (theft, prostitution, begging, fraud, making counterfeit money). As a rule, here is the most regular income. A professional can do the same thing for years, and his income will depend mainly on diligence. special education not required here. Yes, in fact, no education is needed at all. These professions are related to the operation own body and require purely physical skills. They are not punished by law very severely (with the exception of counterfeiters).

During perestroika, we had killers and racketeers. People do these dangerous things, usually in order to make a fortune and go into less dangerous business.

Other professions, generated by technological progress, have appeared more recently (computer crackers - "hackers" and plastic thieves). These professions require special training, higher education, imagination and ingenuity.

We note right away: in every business there are professionals, beginners and amateurs. Everyone risks the same, but amateurs often fall into the hands of policemen. For example, professional killers, which take 2-3 years to train, are almost elusive. And two Moscow teenagers who killed her husband on the order of a woman for $14 were caught right there.

So, when compiling the anti-rating, we took into account the number of permanently employed, the number of periodically working, income - on average per year and the maximum from one operation, the duration of professional activity, age restrictions, the degree of risk and the maximum terms of punishment. When calculating the points, we separately took into account all the positive factors and separately - the negative ones. The plus went to the annual income ($ 10 thousand - 1 point) and the opportunity to feed on this craft for a long time (1 year - 1 point). In the minus - the maximum terms of punishment (1 year - minus 1 point) and the degree of risk in points according to our experts.

The higher the score, the more stable and secure income the craft provides. The lower - the greater the risk, earning money, the criminal, the more random his earnings.

The editors would like to thank the following departments of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs (GUVD) of Moscow for their help in preparing the material: the Public Relations Center, the Department for Combating Economic Crimes, the Vice Police, the Department for Public Security, the MUR, and the Regional Department for Combating Organized Crime, Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and Chief Editor of the newspaper "Criminal Chronicle" Leonid Sharov.

Minister without Portfolio

1. Kingpin

In any case, it is better to be the boss. It is not surprising that the top ten most antisocial professions are headed by a thief in law, around whom everything revolves in the underworld. Everyone else works for the thief in law: beggars, ordinary thieves, prostitutes, swindlers, counterfeiters, racketeers, killers. (For more on thieving professions, see Criminal Empire). And many, many more - arms and drug dealers, owners of casinos, restaurants, hotels, etc., etc. A thief in law is the head of a huge diversified concern, a minister without a portfolio.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 50 groups are constantly operating in the capital and the Moscow region, led by thieves in law. In total, there are about 300 of them in Russia.

The romantic image of a lone wolf, who opposes himself to society, lives only by theft and celebrates walks to the zone with tattoos, has sunk into oblivion. Today it is possible to become a thief in law without even once having been "in the zone". A thief in law is a respectable businessman. Maybe once he started as a petty crook or bandit, but thanks to luck, and maybe talents, he "grew" to high ranks. Now he is the legal owner of bars, restaurants, hotels, casinos. He invests in oil companies, aluminum plants, banks.

He is friends with high-ranking government officials and famous artists and enters the homes of the political and business elite. He lives in luxurious mansions (not only in the Moscow region, but also in Israel, Switzerland, Florida), drives the most expensive cars.

Mostly they are people from 40 to 50 years old. Pavel Zakharov (Pasha Tsirul), who died in the hospital a year ago at the age of 59, can be considered a long-liver. Thieves in law often die in intergroup showdowns. Many were killed during the mafia war of 1993-1996. Some are put behind bars, but even from there they run their empires.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the average income of a kingpin is about $2 million a year. Vyacheslav Ivankov (nicknamed Yaponchik), who was arrested and convicted in the United States, paid his three lawyers a thousand dollars an hour during the trial. Thieves in law open joint ventures abroad and banks in Moscow, control the supply of gasoline and oil ... You can list for a long time.

The cause of Ilyich lives and wins

2. Although by a huge margin, thieves in law are followed by BEGGERS.

Even Kisa Vorobyaninov, with his blatant mediocrity, succeeded in this business when it got hot.

Not a profession is a gold mine. On average, a beggar collects about a thousand rubles for four to six hours of work. You can engage in begging at any age - from a young age (“Our mother died, give me food”) to old age (“Give me, good people, there is nothing to bury my husband with”).

In 1999, about 86,000 beggars were detained in Moscow - the mayor ordered to fight them, but there is no law providing for any kind of punishment for beggars. Yes, and why can you "grab" if people give their money to the poor completely voluntarily.

Of the 86 thousand beggars, 4 thousand are Muscovites, 1 thousand are residents of the Moscow region, 8 thousand came to fish from other cities of Russia. The rest are our former compatriots, mainly from Ukraine (29%), Tajikistan (18%), Moldova (14%), Azerbaijan (12%) and Belarus.

Most of the beggars are men. Their 85%. Half are people of working age, from 31 to 60 years old. Elderly (over 60) about 10%. 50% of female beggars are young - from 18 to 30 years old.

Beggars are "organized" and "unorganized". The first, as a rule, are provincials. Muscovites, on the contrary, prefer to work independently.

The "organized" beggars have an owner. He recruits them (some are lured by deceit, promising a profitable job, others agree to begging voluntarily). In Moscow, they are provided with housing (eight to ten people live in an apartment). They feed. If necessary, they will bring a doctor to the house. The machine is delivered to the place of work and taken home. Passports - whoever has them - are taken away so that they do not run away.

In general, the matter is not new. In the 70s of the last century, a certain Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, a full namesake of the future leader of the revolution, lived in the city of Simbirsk. He built a house in which he gave the beggars who worked for him an overnight stay, fed them, killed the richest and most obstinate, took money, and lowered the corpses through a special chute into the Volga.

Of the daily thousand, the modern owner takes most of it. The tramp is left with 15-20% - about 150 rubles. In a month it turns out from four to five thousand. For the CIS countries, where the beggars came from and where they send money to their loved ones, these are enormous sums.

All intersections in the capital are occupied by "organized" beggars. By tacit agreement between the police and the "owners" beggars work mainly outside the Boulevard Ring. One of the most profitable places, for example, is the crossroads at the Yauza Gates, where "disabled Afghans" or "participants in the Chechen war" work. The other one is at the Rizhsky railway station on Sushchevsky Val, where little ragamuffins walk along long rows of cars standing in a traffic jam. Underpasses and the metro are usually staffed by "children whose mother has died" or women who collect "a child for an operation." Until recently, "refugees" from various "hot spots" of the CIS walked along the subway cars. But now this image, apparently, has become irrelevant and does not generate income.

"Unorganized" beggars, as a rule, are Muscovites. They work alone. Unlike visiting homeless people, they cannot be detained even for violating the passport regime. They have a residence permit, and a house, and a family that they well support. These people do not share with anyone and receive their thousand a day "clean". It is said that a beggar paid for a nanny for his child. However, it becomes more and more difficult for them: they are forced out of profitable places by "organized" beggars, more precisely, by their owners.

It is common knowledge that beggars are good artists and masters of disguise. Eldar Ryazanov in "Promised Heaven" perfectly illustrated this. Almost all of them put on makeup when they go to work. A terrible stump, which is shaken at the crossing, may turn out to be a healthy arm or leg. Although self-mutilation among beggars is in the order of things. In some metropolitan or Moscow region clinics, for one and a half to two million, they can cut off a healthy leg or arm at the request of its owner.

There are real cripples in Moscow - invalids of the Afghan and Chechen wars. These people also live on alms. But you can’t call them professional beggars, if only because they ... don’t ask for anything. They sit in the passage or the subway on their piece of newspaper and do not even look at the people passing by. The fact that this is real grief, you understand right away. That is why they are served much more generously. The owners of "organized" beggars do not touch them. (Also see Begging, Beggars for Export, Who Holds the Parlor, Deaf Mafia, Businessmen in rags, Beggars named after Kutuzov)

Raspberry is over

3. THIVES.

The heirs of Ostap Bender

5. FRAUDERS.

Therefore, there are many more Muscovites among them. Visitors work mainly at stations and with a very simple public. (Although this is not always the case. In 2000, internal affairs officers exposed an organized criminal group of swindlers from Lugansk, "working" in the center of Moscow, whose specialization was "throwing" pensioners. See "Anatomy of a swindle". A. Zakharov)

The statistics of such crimes is not kept - it is almost unthinkable to catch on fraud. We can only say approximately: there are about 150 thousand swindlers in the capital. To catch a fraudster, you need a combination of a number of circumstances that are unfavorable for him (he made a mistake, the victim noticed the deception in time, a police officer was nearby). He is punished with a fine of 20 rubles or with imprisonment for up to 10 years, if this act is committed on an especially large scale and, moreover, by a group.

But, as a rule, the deceived victim is caught when the fraudster is already gone. Our experts assessed the risk of this profession as only 3 points.

Fraud is involved at any age - there are teenagers and old people. But a respectable-looking middle-aged man has more chances, because the main thing in this business is to inspire the client's trust. Either everyone invents the technique of deception, or adopts from older friends or relatives. You can engage in fraud part-time - in your free time from your main job. Fraudsters are often quite respectable inhabitants, with families, cars and cottages. The police believe that the average monthly income of a fraudster is about one and a half thousand dollars.

As a rule, the scammer has a favorite area of ​​​​work - of course, not the one where he lives. The "stranger" may well settle down on the same territory, because he also acts secretly from prying eyes, and the "owner" of the site does not notice the stranger. In any case, disassembly on this basis is extremely rare.

Artists from the words "bad "

6. COUNTERCOUNTERS.

This one of the oldest criminal professions has existed since money appeared.

The state has always severely punished for making fakes. In ancient Russia, molten lead was poured into the throat, arms and legs were cut off, drowned in an ice hole, and exiled to eternal penal servitude.

AT Soviet time and under current Russian law, the manufacture or sale of counterfeit securities carries fifteen years in prison or the death penalty (fortunately for professionals, counterfeiting US dollars gets only two years). For comparison: in the USA 15 years in prison or a fine, in Belgium - from 15 to 20 years, in Japan - life imprisonment.

There are few real professionals who issue large batches of money - no more than 500 people, and they are united in "creative teams". Entire factories of counterfeit rubles operate in Poland, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Iran, China. Counterfeiters fall into the hands of the law very rarely - our experts assessed their professional risk as only 1 point.

The police mainly arrest small fry - couriers, dealers (they are often gypsies, homeless people), as well as lone lovers. In total, 8.7 thousand people were arrested for these crimes in 1996, in 1997, about the same number. Experts believe that this is only a fifth of the people involved in the money counterfeiting business. There are about 44 thousand of them in the capital.

A counterfeiter is a respectable layman. He can have a legal permanent job, a house, a family, and paint bills at night.

The most famous counterfeiter of our time is the Stavropol driver Mikhail Gorbachev. During the day he drove the first secretary of the Stavropol Territory Party Committee, and at night he made money. This man perfectly mastered the art of engraving, and his banknotes surprised experts with the highest quality of printing. The Stavropol Lefty did everything himself, and he himself distributed his money. They were found in 68 cities of the USSR. And he got caught in 1977 in Cherkessk on the collective farm market. During the interrogation, he said exactly how much money he managed to make in two years: 1249 banknotes of 25 rubles and 46 of 50 rubles for a total of 33,545 rubles. In other words, 25 rubles a day, 750 rubles a month. At that time, a lot of money. They gave him 12 years.

In the 1990s, the profession of a counterfeiter became widespread. Now it is enough to study the instructions of the multifunctional copier - and print an unlimited number of bills of any denomination. Counterfeiters entered into a competition with the state for the issuance of paper money. Banknotes of 50 thousand rubles of the 1993 sample were especially easy to counterfeit. Banknotes of various denominations worth 265 million rubles were confiscated from one group of counterfeiters discovered in 1996.

Old-style 100-dollar bills are also forged, but this is usually done by international groups that mine in the USA or countries Latin America special paper for dollars.

Today, the income of professional counterfeiters can be estimated at an average of about 200-300 thousand per year (approximately from $3.5 thousand to $5 thousand per month). On average, this craft is practiced for five years - until they accumulate an amount sufficient for investment in a legal business.

Knife and ax workers

The impetus for racketeering came from the 1987 Law on Cooperation. Money appeared in the country - and, accordingly, the people who control this money.

Racket is qualified by the Criminal Code as extortion. This is the lowest rung of a criminal career - starting with racketeering, you can "rise" to the thief in law. This is pure crime and a very dangerous business: some of the racketeers either die (35%) or fall into the hands of the police (15%). Despite the fact that racketeering is quite a lot of money, it is ultimately unprofitable to engage in it.

Now in Russia there are about 100 thousand racketeers. Racketeer - a strong "jock" from 20 to 27 years. They go into racketeering after serving in the army. Do this for a maximum of 3-4 years. Until they were killed or imprisoned. Or until they save up a large sum to do less dangerous business.

This work does not require special training, skill or developed intellect. Like prostitutes and beggars, racketeers make money with their bodies. For them, the body is a tool for making money.

There are few visitors among the racketeers. "Brothers", as a rule, control the area in which they themselves live.

Among the racketeers there are "amateurs" who just want to earn extra money. But more often it is done by "professionals". Among them are former employees of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The most common type of racket is the well-known "roof". Krysha takes little money, usually 10% of the profit, which is generally not burdensome for a businessman. But often the "roof" introduces its people into the company and receives commercial information, with which the lawyers and economists attracted by the group then work, participating in the commercial or industrial sphere of the company. It is very difficult to prove such extortion, because everything is based on verbal agreements. Racketeers receive money for the whole group. On average, "brother" earns $ 4-5 thousand per month.

Another type of racket is debt collection. The work is irregular - the brother goes to this three or four times a year. One of the most common methods in such a case is kidnapping. However, they are also involved in kidnapping for the sake of obtaining a large ransom.

Previously, we only knew about kidnapping from American films. Since 1989, this type of crime has appeared in our country. I had to create a new department in the MUR, from which the Regional Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (RUOP) later grew.

In the US, kidnapping is punishable by long prison terms. Our laws are more liberal and separate kidnapping for ransom from false imprisonment. The range of punishments is very large - from a fine to 15 years in prison. Moreover, in 1991 Supreme Court The USSR adopted an amendment to Article 206 of the Criminal Code (and it is still in force) that a person who voluntarily released a hostage is not subject to criminal liability if there are no other signs of a crime in his actions. In other words, if you were kidnapped and treated tolerably, and released in case of danger, the kidnapper will go unpunished.

The statistics of kidnappings in Moscow is as follows:

Our experts say that former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, driven to despair, dismissed from service, are engaged in kidnapping.

The income of racketeers is not accountable. Those who manage not only to stay alive, but also to save money, try to do a safer business. They invest the stolen money in the drug trade, the gambling, hotel business, the arms trade, and the oil industry. If the entire shadow economy is estimated at 40% of the country's annual budget, then the share of racketeers in the "shadow" business can be estimated at 4% of the state budget - 9 trillion old rubles.

The amounts demanded as a ransom are up to $2 million. With a successful kidnapping, the money is divided in accordance with the participation: the organizer - the largest share (respectively, the punishment is greater).

your word, Comrade Mauser !

8. KILLER.

You can quite specifically name the date of the appearance of this profession in our country - 1983. Then the department "B" was created in the KGB. Here worked secret officers who had undergone special training and were introduced into criminal groups to shoot the leaders of the drug mafia and the "shadow" economy. They were killed without trial, because corruption ties stretched from them to the party leaders of the regions and union republics.

After the liquidation of the KGB, most of the killers continued their activities unofficially, and now there are about 100 of them. Soviet killers are real "pros", with good technical equipment, perhaps above the world level. They have a variety of weapons in their arsenal, including explosive devices triggered by calling a cell phone.

Today they "serve" the highest stratum of businessmen - owners of commercial banks, large shops, restaurants, casinos, hotels. In this environment, a contract killing costs $50,000. Experts believe that the fees for the murders of Vladislav Listyev, Boris Yakubovich (Inkombank branch manager, 1993) and similar crimes were 2-3 times higher, at the level of world rates. The more famous the "object", the higher the fee.

Killers - pros are almost elusive. In any case, no specific perpetrator has yet been arrested in any high-profile case.

The exception is the well-known killer, former wrestler Alexander Solonik, although he was detained in Moscow in October 1994 not for murder, but for a scandal in the wholesale market. During the search, they found a whole warehouse of weapons. They say that Solonik offered the Murovites $1.5 million to arrange for him to escape from the pre-trial detention center. He nevertheless fled from Matrosskaya Tishina, leaving an empty pack of browning cartridges on the floor of the cell. Solonik was found murdered a year ago in Greece.

For middle-class entrepreneurs - cheaper killers, from former riot police and paratroopers. There are about 500 of them. The services of these killers are estimated at $5,000 to $10,000.

The average killer goes "on business" a maximum of 3-4 times a year. Plus, he has a lot of expenses. Having received an order, he must "drop out" the "object. To do this, you need to organize surveillance, hire paid informers. The killer also purchases weapons at his own expense - the choice depends on the conditions of the action. Plus housing costs: you must have at least two apartments. In one the killer lives before the murder, in the other - after. We need cars with drivers who need to be paid not only for transportation, but also for silence. Assistants - accomplices also do not work for free. In especially difficult cases, the killer needs several people - a support group and a cover group Finally, clothes, make-up, which need to be changed more often.

The killer, unlike representatives of other criminal professions, is an inconspicuous person. Usually he is "legendated", that is, he lives, and possibly works somewhere under false documents. The family, if there was one, does not know where the husband and father are, who sends money from time to time. Most killers are loners. They usually work on the road, almost never in the area where they live.

According to the technology of killings, killers are divided into four categories. "Fighters" (wielding various types weapons and hand-to-hand combat skills) are used when it is possible to shoot the victim point-blank, stab, flash several people with automatic fire. "Sappers" (highly skilled demolition workers and engineers) are involved when it is necessary to build and operate an ingenious device that sends the victim to hell. "Snipers" are used when close contact with the victim or planting an explosive device is not possible due to increased security or for some other reason. "Naturalists" - a small group of specially trained specialists who can "organize" the victim's "natural" death.

There is a division of killers and qualifications. Those who kill with a pistol or machine gun, for example, are divided into "foot soldiers" and "pros". "Footmen" are usually part of criminal gangs. These are non-professionals who are sometimes assigned to remove some small things from the warring faction. Those who prove themselves in the case are transferred to the "pros" cover group. The most distinguished at this stage are taken out of everyday life. criminal life(organize a fictitious funeral) and send for 2-3 years for retraining. There are training bases for "pros" in Transbaikalia and Central Asia.

After the “school”, the killer-professional does not belong to himself - he lives under the control of the “owners” (usually the leaders of large criminal groups, thieves in law), who give him orders, all the information necessary for their fulfillment, advance payments and fees. The killer pro himself, of course, never comes into contact with the customer.

It is believed that professional killers do not live long - no more than five years. On the one hand, money was spent on their education and they must justify it. On the other hand, they are all people with an abnormal psyche, and each is dangerous because he can betray not only himself, but the entire system of organizing contract killings along with its owners. Of course, the most valuable shots are preserved longer.

Today in Russia, any former military man, special forces officer, policeman - anyone who has been trained to use weapons in his service can become a killer. Left without a job, without a livelihood, a person decides to contract a murder. And in principle, he does not go too far from his former profession, because in the service he was also taught to kill.

Explosion expected

9-10. COMPUTER HACKERS AND HACKERS

shared the last two places for the sole reason that there are simply no statistics on them. However, they certainly have a great future.

COMPUTER HACKERS.

Once revered and respected in the criminal world, the profession of a "bear cub" - a ripper of bank safes - is becoming a thing of the past. The new scammers are people with higher education who know how to handle electronic communications. And if in the old Criminal Code the word "computer" was not mentioned at all, then in the new one a whole chapter tells about crimes and punishments in the field of electronic information. It threatens modern "bear cubs" with punishment from two to seven years in prison. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and FAPSI urgently began to train personnel to combat crimes in the field of financial communications. The FSB Academy even opened a special department. But while law enforcement agencies are lagging behind: the damage from computer hackers is estimated at millions of dollars. According to law enforcement officers, such frauds take place with the participation of bank employees.

In 1993, an attempt to "hack" the communications of the Central Bank was suppressed. The perpetrators, who remained unknown, intended to list email 68 billion rubles to correspondent accounts of eight commercial banks.

One of the employees of the Central Bank still managed to draw up an illegal payment order and transferred $ 3.2 million to a previously opened foreign currency account in another bank.

In St. Petersburg in 1995, a gang of 12 people was detained. During the year, they penetrated the electronic cash management system of Citi Bank in New York (through the Russian branch of this bank) more than a hundred times (that is, about twice a week), sent 40 false payment documents and received more than $ 10 million.

In the US, the income of computer criminals is in third place after the profits of arms and drug dealers. An explosion of computer crime is expected in Russia in the near future.

PLASTIC THIEF S.

Russian banks have been issuing plastic credit cards since 1991. But it is already possible to write the history of illicit enrichment with a small piece of plastic.

The crooks began by trying to get money from banks or pay in stores using cards stolen from their owners. Successes were small, because in rare cases, the thief managed to steal the pin code at the same time as the card, and even get to the ATM before the client warned the bank about the theft.

The next step was the production of "white" cards by thieves. The numbers of real accounts and numbers were applied to an ordinary piece of plastic. For some time, using such fakes, it was possible to receive "live" money from ATMs. But banks have stepped up security measures for cards and improved ATMs.

The thieves took the next rather successful step: they mastered the technology of making fake slips (prints from cards on accounting forms). The cards were fake, but the letterheads and imprinters (a device for imprinting cards on paper) were real. Such an operation requires the participation of a cashier or a store accountant, who must be bribed or otherwise forced to work for themselves (that is, exchange fake papers for money in a bank). In Russia, Nikolai Suleymanov, the leader of a Chechen criminal group in Moscow, was the first to master this method. He was arrested for arms trafficking, and along the way it was found out that the cashiers of the Beryozka Moscow stores were involved in his machinations. One of them was killed in the entrance of her own house under unclear circumstances. The amount of money stolen in this way remained unknown.

In 1994, 11 thefts with the help of plastic cards were registered in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But the real plastic boom began in 1996 and continues to this day. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two and a half thousand thefts totaling more than $7 million took place last year. In Moscow alone, one and a half million dollars were stolen, and plastic cards are now available in almost all regional cities.

Only 50 people were detained. Most of them are elegantly dressed, good-looking young people. The scale of their operations is different - from paying for dinner at a restaurant to a major scam that could ensure a comfortable existence abroad for 10 years.

The Criminal Code does not yet have an article on this type of crime. Plastic thieves are tried as for ordinary theft.

Also see the section "Fakes", "Plastic cards", "Financial swindler detained in Moscow".

P.S

Wages are the most impressive. We used to think that people die for metal. And here it turns out that (except for thieves in law and professional killers, who count) the incomes of underground professionals fluctuate in the range of $ 1-1.5 thousand. At Moscow prices, very average earnings. Is it worth the risk for it?

But Muscovites who have a residence permit and some kind of education do not risk it.

This is in Moscow $ 1-1.5 thousand is not very big money. And in Ukraine, in Moldova, in Azerbaijan, and even in the Russian provinces, this is a fortune. People come to Moscow to work, just as Soviet specialists once went abroad, where they ate stew brought from the USSR and saved up for a Zhiguli.

The costs of anti-professions are terrible, from the point of view of normal person, certainly. From an elementary threat to health to a mortal risk. Not to mention legal persecution. O living conditions where the majority of prostitutes, beggars, thieves, killers live, and there is nothing to say. In fact, all this is a payment for the inability to get a normal education and, accordingly, earn the same thousand dollars, but legally...

The most profitable business in the world: 3 determining factors + 3 profitable business lines in Russia + Top 7 ideas from around the world.

Every novice businessman at the start is wondering what is the most profitable business in the world?

We will try to answer it by identifying directions entrepreneurial activity, which are considered the most promising.

By what criteria can a business be called the most profitable?

Before determining the main directions, it is necessary to identify factors that indicate that the business idea will be profitable:

Rapid return on investment.

This fact plays an important role.

A profitable business is a project in which investments pay off in the shortest possible time.

Increased demand.

The success of a business depends on many factors.

It is impossible to name ideas that will give a 100% guarantee of success.

But it is possible to single out such goods or services, the demand for which is initially at a high level.

As a rule, we are talking about essential items.

Minimum investment in raw materials, production.

It is logical that the less finance an entrepreneur needs to invest in a business, the more benefits he will receive.

This is especially important when there is a link to the exchange rate.

If you already have your own business, and it has at least two of these signs, you can rejoice - your business is potentially profitable.

And if you are only taking the first steps and still do not know which direction to go?

An overview of the most profitable ideas in different areas of business.

Small Business: An Overview of Profitable Ideas

It requires a relatively small investment, a modest material base (premises, staff, equipment).

It is easy to register such activities - you can handle it on your own, even without a legal education.

Therefore, it is obvious that we should consider the most profitable ideas from this particular area of ​​​​entrepreneurial activity.

a) Essential goods and services – a profitable business even in times of crisis

Let's recall one of the factors that determine the profitability of a business: .

Directions that are associated with the satisfaction of primary human needs remain relevant even in times of financial crisis.

As you can see, food, clothes and shoes are what people spend their income on in the first place.

It is worth adding that the item of expenditure on medicines is small only because in ordinary family they are acquired relatively infrequently (if there are no members with chronic diseases).

However, pharmaceuticals are also essential goods.

In the event of a need, people are ready to “give away the last”, but buy the right pills and the like.

Conclusion: potentially profitable business– grocery store, pharmacy kiosk, clothing and footwear trade.

b) Auto repair shop - a profitable business idea

Therefore, repair shops can also be attributed to services, the demand for which is initially high.

Thanks to this, you do not need to convince the client that a visit to the auto repair shop is what he needs by listing the benefits for the person.

Enough to stand out from the competition.

A service station can offer a number of basic services:

• cleaning injectors;
• repair and testing of electrical equipment;
• repair of fuel and brake systems;
• replacement of candles;
• headlight adjustment.

And these are just some of the services available.

And if you open a car wash next to the service station, then the business will be doubly profitable.

Among the advantages of the business, it is also worth noting that in addition to a large service station with a large capital investment, you can open a simple mobile tire service.

And such a business will still be profitable and in demand.

Still in doubt? Pay attention to the "age" statistics on cars in Russia:

c) How profitable is the vending business?

On the one hand, it exactly corresponds to one of the factors of a profitable business given at the beginning of the text: an entrepreneur is not required to make a large investment - it is enough to spend money on the purchase and installation of a miracle machine, and only replenish consumables from time to time.

Moreover, if earlier they offered a short list of services, now with their help you can do literally anything:

• sell coffee, tea, other drinks;
• sell food products;
• replenish mobile phone accounts, electronic wallets;
• pay utility bills and much more.

What is the contention that this business is profitable?

Pay attention to the distribution of vending machines across Russia:

As you can see, Moscow and St. Petersburg are open to innovation, the use of automatic machines does not cause rejection among people.

While in other cities, mainly, there is a demand only for payment and coffee machines.

Accordingly, there is high competition in these areas of business.

If you take your place, having successfully chosen the location of the device, it is possible to become the owner of a very profitable business:

Top 7 most profitable business ideas in the world

As already mentioned, it is impossible to determine the most profitable business in the world, which gives a 100% guarantee of success.

However, it is quite possible to conduct a thorough analysis of existing lines of entrepreneurial business in order to be inspired.

That is why we will look at the top 10 business ideas, the implementation of which brought their founders wealth and recognition in the world. Who are these people?

1) Profitable online store "Amazon"

Its capital is 70.3 billion dollars.

This state brought him under the name "Amazon".

A profitable business was based on the sale of books using the Internet.

Interestingly, only $300,000 of initial investment was invested in the idea.

Unexpectedly for Jeffrey himself, after some time, the project began to bring in huge capital.

This opened up the opportunity to expand activities.

Now this online store is known all over the world: https://www.amazon.com/.

2) The sweet kingdom of Michel Ferrero.

According to Forbes, Michel Ferrero's capital is 600 billion rubles.

What brought such success to the businessman?

Ordinary chocolate butter, which in that era became something new and magical for the food industry.

On the this moment under the leadership of Ferrero, products of no less famous brands are produced:

• "Ferrero Rochen";
• "Tic-Tac";
• "Raffaello";
• "Kinder Surprise" and others.

Russians can learn more about the business on the website: https://www.ferrero.ru/

3) Idea on the billion: storage cells.

It's about storing things in a certain place (along freeways) for a certain fee.

Thanks to the company "Public Storage" it became possible to store your belongings in specially designated safe places in more than thirty countries around the world.

If you need services of this nature or are interested in the details of the business, visit the official website of the company: https://www.publicstorage.com/.

4) Can toys be profitable?

American businessman Ty Warner earned his capital of 146 billion rubles thanks to a project that can be safely included in the ideas of the most profitable business in the world.

His fortune is based on making Beanie Babie soft toys.

This product is produced in single copies, and has the status of collectibles, so it is very expensive.

The purchase of one such toy can cost 10,000 - 60,000 rubles, while the cost of creating it does not exceed 600 rubles.

Secret of success?

Exclusivity!

Warner toys are not found in regular stores.

And even more so, you will not find two identical copies.

5) How to become billionaires with one product?

The names of Dietrich Mateschitz and Kaleo Juvidich should be known to nightlife enthusiasts, athletes and young people who like to consume energy drinks from time to time.

The fact is that they are the creators of the world-famous Red Bull energy drink.

The drink has a rather uncomplicated composition:

• water;
• glucose;
• caffeine;
• vitamin b.

But this turned out to be enough for the idea to be awarded the title of one of the most profitable business options in the world and bring recognition and capital of 110 billion rubles to its creators.

6) Another profitable candy business

Brothers Paul and Hans Reigel invented chewable rubber candy various shapes and tastes.

Hans came up with 260 types of these sweets!

Sweets are made almost all over the world.

Each of the founders, thanks to this idea, has a capital of about 1.5 billion dollars.

7) Profitable business on regular coffee

To do this, Schultz opened a line of coffee shops.

At the moment, the Starbucks network consists of 12,000 stores!

The capital earned from this profitable business is $1.1 billion.

Company official website: https://www.starbucks.com/

And to open your own profitable business, use the tips from the video:

How to make your business profitable?

If for some reason the business does not bring the desired income, pay attention to the following ways to make it profitable:

1. Make a graph of expenses and profits - this will allow you to determine which area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe business "steals" the most. Try to shorten it.
2. Constantly improve your own qualifications and the interest of subordinates in the work.
3. Carry out a set of measures to prevent theft at work.
4. Divide the business into segments, and determine your responsible person in each area.
5. Run a PR campaign to attract more customers.
6. Purchase new, better equipment.
7. Raise the wages of workers - this will help provoke a greater return on their part;
8. Secure all enterprise data located in in electronic format. This will save you from financial losses in the future.

Summing up, we can say that the most profitable business in the world is the one in which soul and hard work are invested.

Nothing is given just like that, every case should be worked on.

Remember that there is always room for young entrepreneurs!

Therefore, it is worthwhile to implement your bold ideas for a profitable business without any fear.

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