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There's an unbalanced relationship there, however, in that the criminal only has to be an idiot (or even just "not smart enough") once, to ruin an entire chain of previously smart actions. Law enforcement may only need one thread to unravel an otherwise finely crafted crime.

There's also a lot of time for law enforcement to try and find these threads as well, meaning the perpetrator could well be living in paranoia for as long as the statute of limitations lasts.

People that are capable of getting away with life-changing money type crimes would often be better off being entrepreneurs at the edges of existing regulation. Hello cryptocurrency...