I don't know if this has already been found by anyone yet, but I've found a way to get money (relatively) quickly in skyrim. It's very similar to the "Free house" exploit.
Basically, you need to level up your speech to level 50 initially, (there's loads of instructional videos to do this quickly, Google Skyrim: Speech, and you'll probably find loads) and unlock the perk "Merchant" which allows you to invest in shops. Make sure you have at least 500 gold on you (by selling/looting etc). go to Whiterun, and enter the shop called "Warmaiden's". Situate yourself to the left of the chair in front of the counter. Talk to the shopkeeper and click "I'd like to make an investment in your business". Then click "Let's see what you can do with this. (500 gold). Immediately after this, click "B" to exit out of the dialogue, and quickly move over to the wardrobe to your left. Store all of your gold in the wardrobe before the shopkeeper dialogue has finished, and click out of the deposit screen. wait a second or two, and reclaim your money from the wardrobe. This will not have been depleted at all. the money that was supposed to have been taken from your inventory will now be on the shopkeeper, so crouch behind him and steal this back repeat as many times as desired.
it takes about 30-40 seconds per time, but you might want to save before pickpocketing him, just incase he catches you.
This has been tried on the Xbox version, and works with all new patches released so far.
hope this of help to people near the start of the game who need a bit of finance quickly.
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