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Quote by Frank Abagnale

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

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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. more

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Frank Abagnale