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" Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. "
Frank Abagnale
Touch
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Crime
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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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" The truth is, your identity already has been stolen. "
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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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" 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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" A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. "
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" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "
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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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" Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability. "
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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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" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "
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" I don't do online banking. "
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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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" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "
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" I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti. "
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" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
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" Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. "
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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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" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "
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" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "
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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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" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "
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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. "
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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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