Frank Abagnale Quotes
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If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity.
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You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.
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Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.
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Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media.
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I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will.
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A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.
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I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.
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I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of.
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I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero.
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I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.'
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When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'
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I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope.
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You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'
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I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.
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I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.
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We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.
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I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.
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I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.
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One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it.
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I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.
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If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.
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I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.
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We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
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One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information.