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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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" 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. "

Frank Abagnale

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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. "

" 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. "

" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "

" The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. "

" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "

" I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side. "

" 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. "

" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "

" It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity. "

" 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. "

" We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern. "

" I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "

" 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. "

" There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card. "

" 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. "

Frank Abagnale

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Time

" If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive. "

" Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life. "

" Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. "

" I make my home in Tulsa. "

Frank Abagnale

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Home

" If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am. "

" Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy. "

" Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.' "

" By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce. "

" 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. "

Frank Abagnale

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" When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. "

" I don't do online banking. "

Frank Abagnale

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Banking