I would think that a criminal would not mind committing more crime to cover their tracks, e.g. use stolen credit card numbers.

> ... a smart person has a better concept of consequences and better ways of making money than crime

There are so many examples of smart people disregarding the potential consequences to their actions, I would not know where to start.

Also, are you suggesting that someone with the brains and means to create an app and publish it in an store, will not fathom that their identity must be protected if they were to commit a crime?

Smart criminals are a lot more common than you think. But the smart ones rarely get caught, so we usually don't hear about them.

This is a typical fallacy that fails to explain why a smart person would resort to crime in the first place.

Remember absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

You seem to think that all smart people are automatically successful, well-adjusted, moral people. You also seem to be implying that poverty or a failed life is the only incentive to commit crime, which again, is simply not true.

Intelligence is not a guarantee for success, mental health, or pretty much anything other than intelligence itself.

And motivations for crime include money, power, sex, clout, or just a straight up uncontrollable urge to do something.

And there's plenty of evidence of people who are clearly smart pulling off crime on a huge scale for decades without getting caught. As for evidence of the ones who haven't, well, you're not gonna find that information in public...

See Bernie Madoff, Jeffrey Epstein, several serial killers. Many of these have actually been IQ tested as well.

The only reason Madoff was caught was because of the 2008 financial crisis. Otherwise he could have kept running his ponzi scheme indefinitely. He completely played the SEC whenever they came sniffing.

I wouldn't say poverty or failed life is an incentive to commit crime?

> And motivations for crime include money, power, sex, clout, or just a straight up uncontrollable urge to do something.

A true scotsm... uhhh true smart person knows it's not required to commit crime to achieve success. Unless we are talking about some third countries like China or Russia. Actually for these two soon identity/cc theft may be the only way people can even have a developer account because accepting money from them would/should put Tim Cook in jail.

And sorry but IQ testing is bullshit.

The existence of crime that is not punished is not a fallacy, and is something that your theory fails to explain.

I was replying to claiming the existence of crime that is undetected, not detected and unpunished.