Probably too smart for their own good - all super-smart criminals make the fatal mistake of assuming that others are too dumb to catch them. They also do not have access to the combined resources of the NSA, FBI, CIA.
Do you have experience dealing with super-smart criminals other than noticing how they are generally portrayed in movies / tv ?
The thing about super-smart criminals is that you don't hear about them ;)
Or they are called defenders of freedom;]
combined resources of the NSA, FBI, CIA
The problem is that all these combines resources mean less outside of the US. They mean even less in an old eastern bloc country, Russia, or some random 3rd world.