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  • Someone who steals from banks or trains.
    robber
  • Someone who makes false money or documents.
    forger
  • A person who offers money to someone else in order to get some privilegies.
    briber
  • Someone who steals from houses or offices.
    burglar
  • A person who steals from his own company.
    embezzler
  • Somenone who gets money by threatening to disclose personal information.
    blackmailer
  • Someone who seizes aeroplanes taking passengers hostage.
    hijacker
  • A person who brings goods into one country from another illegally.
    smuggler
  • Someone who steals government secrets (usually during a war).
    spy
  • Someone who sets fire to property.
    arsonist
  • A soldier who leaves the armed forces without permission.
    deserter
  • Someone who enters someone else´s land or property without permission.
    trespasser
  • Someone who takes things from a shop without paying.
    shoplifter
  • Someone who betrays their country helping its enemies.
    traitor
  • A person who takes people (often children from rich families) hostage for a ransom.
    kidnapper
  • Someone who kills for political reasons.
    assassin.
  • A person hunting illegally on somebody else´s land
    Poacher
  • A person who pretends to be what he is not in order to get money from them.
    fraud/con man
  • A person who causes damage or disturbance in public places.
    Hooligan
  • Someone who attacks and robs people especially in public places.
    mugger
  • Somenone who steals purses and wallets, especially in a crowd.
    pickpocketer
  • Somenone who marries illegally while being married already.
    bigamist
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