QUOTES by Frank Abagnale
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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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"What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime."
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"Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes."
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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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"I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours."
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"Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating."
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"My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent."
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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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"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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"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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"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 I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive."
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"If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame."
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"If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform."
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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 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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"Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them."
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"Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain."
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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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"You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you."
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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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"When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'"
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"I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back."
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"When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21."
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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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"You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to."
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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."
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"We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure."
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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 partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa."
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"Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler."
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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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"My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS."
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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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"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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