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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. "
Frank Abagnale
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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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" If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. "
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" Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. "
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" Every form of payment has some risk associated with it. "
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" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "
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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 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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" I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "
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" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "
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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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" Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. "
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" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
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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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" Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. "
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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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Step
Fight
Game
" I don't do online banking. "
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Online
Banking
" I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic. "
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FBI
Which
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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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Credit
You
Police
" 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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Information
Me
Go
" 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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Moral
True
You
" 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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Look
People
Think
" 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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Coming
Ethics
Society
" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "
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Today
Defeated
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" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "
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Country
Repay
Greater
" 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 spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "
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Prison
Years
Prisons
" Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. "
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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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" I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks. "
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Work
Time
" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "
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