Frank Abagnale Quotes
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You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.
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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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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 would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.
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I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful.
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A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.
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Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.
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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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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.
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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.
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You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.
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When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'
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He understood whatever those hidden mechanisms are that convince people to trust you. I kind of watched him and absorbed what I could from him.
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I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught.
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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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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that.
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Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.
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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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If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.
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You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.
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Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
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The Internet can be used to hurt many people.
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There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.