Frank Abagnale Quotes
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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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People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
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The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.
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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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You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.
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Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people.
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I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father.
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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.'
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If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am.
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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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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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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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Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.
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People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.
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I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.
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I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay.
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There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card.
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I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.
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It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.
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Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.
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Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman.
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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.
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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.
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As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.