Frank Abagnale Quotes
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The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.
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What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
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It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.
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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.
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I didn't like taking money from individuals.
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Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts.
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It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man.
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I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.
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Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.'
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If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.
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Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life.
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In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.
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I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti.
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The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.
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It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.
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If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out.
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People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
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There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.
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The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
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You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.
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The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.
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If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am.
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It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'
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A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'