Young street genius entrepreneurs evolve from selling drugs to stealing identities and printing credit cards.
Hit songs or sold-out shows may not be what they seem, as digital trappers manipulate streaming platforms to turn nobodies into somebodies.
The wave of cannabis legalizations has deepened divides and complicated the marijuana industry; corporate weed is thriving, but the black market for cannabis still looms large.
Black market beauty enhancement has become a game of Russian roulette for people looking to get big, but in the trans community, the black market might be a life saver.
Drinking water is so poorly managed that this basic resource has emerged as a terrifying black market; the stakes are critical, yet it's barely on most people's radar.
In Newark N.J., unemployment and lack of hope turns a tradition of joyriding stolen cars into an international criminal operation.
Fishermen in Hout Bay, South Africa turn to poaching to survive as a result of less of opportunity in the post-apartheid years.
Gunrunners move weapons from American states with loose laws to states with stricter ones, in a never ending flow that law enforcement can't seem to stop.
An illegal gambling underworld flourishes in New York City; the largest losers are sometimes the ones running the games.
Drug addicts in the UK shoplift meat and other everyday items to sell to the impoverished.