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Frank Abagnale

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Frank Abagnale, born on April 27, 1948, is a renowned consultant. He became famous for his youthful frauds, where he impersonated pilots, doctors, and lawyers, engaging in complex fraudulent activities. Afterward, he turned his life around and became an anti-fraud expert, providing consulting services to various financial institutions.

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“A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.”

“The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.”

People Ifs Needs Littles Easy Bits Identity Protect Little Bit Police Stealing Educated Consumers Smarter Wiser Skeptical Theft Identity Theft

Author:Frank Abagnale

“I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.”

Ifs Use Information Credit Access Stealing Cards Credit Card Debit Debit Cards

Author:Frank Abagnale

“Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.”

Winning Team Yankees

Author:Frank Abagnale

“Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.”

Remember Adults Awards

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“I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.”

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“If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been "Catch Me In Two Days."”

Ifs Has Beens Two Documents Two Days Catch Me Forgery

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“Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.”

Looks Littles Order Mistake Millions Checks Protected Signatures Liable Processing Liability

Author:Frank Abagnale

“If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.”

Ifs Way Kind Happens Born Information Identity Birth Percent Stealing

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“I always tell people what I did 50 years ago as a teenager is now 4,000 times easier to do today than when I did it. Technology breeds crime - it always has and it always will. There's always going to be people willing to use technology in a negative, self-serving way. So today it's much easier, whether it's forging checks or getting information. People go on Facebook and tell you what car they drive, their mother's name, where you are going on vacation, where you've been on vacation. There's nothing you can't research in a matter of a couple of minutes and find out about someone.”

People Today Technology Car Crime Couple Negative Teenager Vacation

Author:Frank Abagnale

“I look at my life today at 69 and I think about all the things that have happened after all my imprisonment. We truly live in an amazing country, America is where you can do things and pay your debt back to society and literally change your life if you want to.”

Thinking Country Today Changing Your Life Imprisonment

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“I live a much better life without having to worry about people chasing me. I spent five years in prison from 21 to 26, which is probably the best part of my youth behind bars. I was in some very bad prisons overseas as well. It was not a fun life, it was a very lonely life in reality. I was a smart enough kid to know that I was going to get caught. The law sometimes sleeps, but the law never dies. I knew it was just a matter of time. I would be caught and I'd get punished and face the consequences.”

People Sometimes Enough Reality Kids Fun Sleep Worry Youth Smart Consequence Lonely Prison Better Life

Author:Frank Abagnale

“What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.”

Ifs Sin Class Style Crime Involved Faults Bothered

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“It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.”

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“I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.”

World Fine Europe Sensual Fantastic Beach Thread Foxes Luxurious Nickels

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“The former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification."”

Writing Said States Paper Towns Police Checks Chiefs Former Drivers Cash Frank License Toilets Identification Hooked Treasury Houston Hong Kong Confederate Toilet Paper

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“When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to be adults, they are just children. And like all children, they need their mother, and they need their father. All children need their mother and their father. All children are entitled to their mother and their father.”

Needs Years Children Mother Father Quiet Adults Entitled Sixteen Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Frank Abagnale

“What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.”

Today Technology Crime Youth Easier

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“Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.”

Moral Honest Position Believer Obligation Employee Tempted Employers True Believer Moral Obligation

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“Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.”

People Thinking Years Looks Young Prison Teenager Fascinated Opportunist

Author:Frank Abagnale

“I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.”

Opportunity Willing Advantage Right Time Right Place

Author:Frank Abagnale

“Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.”

“Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.”

Men Trying Funny Fear Honest Honesty Dad Dear Criminals Ironic No Fear Honest Man Catch Me

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“If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.”

Ifs Believe Creativity Fool Consideration If You Believe Foolproof

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“The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.”

Giving Enough Fronts Information Identity Stealing Cheques

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“Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.”

Years Important Hours Protect Credit Earning Rating

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“Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.”

Knows Looks Reason Risk Identity Rewards Criminals Checks Jail Theft Arrested Slim Very Popular Forgery Identity Theft

Author:Frank Abagnale

“Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.”

Ends Found Company Cases Masters Involved Sitting Criminals Russia Email Website Involving Hong Kong Beijing Cybercrime

Author:Frank Abagnale

“In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.”

People Men Wells Real Would Be Gone Crime Be Good Miles Looking Good Old Days Miles Away Well Dressed Suave

Author:Frank Abagnale

“My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.”

Moments School Law Imagination My Own Boys Son Finished Backgrounds Agents My Imagination Fbi Law School Proudest Moments Fbi Agents

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“When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.”

People Thinking Looks Matter Asks Ask Me Leonardo

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Born: April 27, 1948
Known for: Consultant
Quotes: 31

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