Frank Abagnale Quotes
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I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.
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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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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 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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I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will.
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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 always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.
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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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Every form of payment has some risk associated with it.
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Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.
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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 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'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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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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Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes.